[Marxism] Historic Peace Rally in Syracuse, NY

[Steffie Brooks]

A quick plug for the NY Green Party, which endorsed the Syracuse demo
and mobilized its members. It was a broad united front initiated by
Ft. Drum Iraqi war veterans, supported by over a dozen regional
groups, and boosted by the fine Green Party candidate for US Senate in
2006, Howie Hawkins, who still loads trucks for a living and has built
an activist Green Party chapter in Syracuse, with his comrades.

Props.

Steffie Brooks
NYC

On 9/30/07, Jon Flanders <jonflanders at jflan.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 22:42 -0400, Jon Flanders wrote:
> > So we had more people out in Syracuse, in upstate NY,  than in San
> > Francisco! This is what comes of not paying attention to the "national
> > anti-war coalitions" we are stuck with for the moment, I guess.
>
> Further investigation indicates we had more people out in Syracuse than
> in Washington DC, San Francisco and  Los Angeles combined.
>
> To blame the low turnouts elsewhere on "apathy" as someone did in the
> article about the Washington protest is disingenous.
>
> The problem is factionalism and sectarianism.
>
> Jon Flanders
>