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Those are solid points, Martin. It has now been eight or nine years =
since the Internet began clicking out activist posts en masse -- and =
almost that long since grassroots anti-war activity began in earnest. =
For all of this, there seems all too little genuinely enduring =
grassroots organization and the small Left groups in this country are =
now, if anything, even more faction-ridden and smaller -- and frequently =
quite isolated. I've long been concerned about the generally =
supercilious attitudes [if not outright paranoia] of the American Left =
toward the religious organizations and the religious thinking of the =
people. The Southern civil rights movement was much grounded on the =
churches -- and the finest elements in religion. [I spoke in many =
hundreds of churches over a six year period.] And, certainly, elsewhere =
in the country, religion and churches and religious thinking are =
certainly major social foundations. You may recall this from my post on =
social justice organizing and the church: I initially wrote it late in =
2000:

"How any social justice organizer could ever hope to win over grassroots
people while expounding stridently anti-religious views is a Great
Mystery. I can only conclude that those poisonously verbose folks have
never even organized craw-dads in a bathtub."

http://hunterbear.org/rochester.htm

Needed now as never before: fresh vision, oak wood commitment, hard and =
tedious organizing work -- and bona fide respect for those "of the =
fewest alternatives."

Big order -- but it'll have to come to pass and keep going.

And, sooner or later, it will.

Thoughts from others on our List?

Hunter Bear

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
Protected by Na=B4shdo=B4i=B4ba=B4i=B4
and Ohkwari'

Check out our Hunterbear social justice website: www.hunterbear.org
[The site is dedicated to our one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm

And see Outlaw Trail: The Native as Organizer: =
http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm