tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30821890.post1172811178881338584..comments2024-02-28T04:34:26.496-05:00Comments on Mosquito Blog: My Day at the MarchMosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170383022689085622noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30821890.post-34825389940526895852007-01-30T02:44:00.000-05:002007-01-30T02:44:00.000-05:00For some strange reason Star and I have been "conf...For some strange reason Star and I have been "confusing" our accounts and posts....Basically we've been using the same computer lately while I'm changing over my home network and running cables .(which I hope to have finished tomorrow...We haven't been very "watchful" to see which of us is signed in to the mosquito blog as of late...sigh.. Hopefully this "glitch" will clear up when my somputer is back up online.<br /><br />But I can't take credit for this last post...Star wrote it....So I'll leave it to her to reply to some of your questions and comments here. <br /><br />I guess I have a "different" opinion than Ryvr and catsmeow...I love the DIVERSITY of the progressive movement....it takes all kinds. Unfortunately the media system we live in reports so monolithically and shallowly that they want to put everyone into the same box with the same label...For example, the media still wants to label everyone against this war as progressive, liberal, "lefty", rather than report and acknowledge that the MAJORITY of Americans including MIDDEL America...the so called "mainstream" America is now against this IRaq War.<br /><br />IMO, the "march" was made up of AMERICANS...of all stripes and the majority of Americans looked like average families living in surburbia, young, middle aged and elderly, with a good representation from eterans of all ages and then a small percentage of progressives (who were over represented on the stage...since the progressives "organized" the march they are often the speakers....so that's not surprising.<br /><br />So I don't want to minimize or be disrespectful of the anarchist contingent myself....they've been an ally of the progressive movement for some time....<br /><br />:) buzz....buzz....Mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170383022689085622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30821890.post-59382929200466503122007-01-28T21:42:00.000-05:002007-01-28T21:42:00.000-05:00Oh please, disobedience only works when it's being...Oh please, disobedience only works when it's being used against some unfair law like segregated lunch counters and schools. When it comes to CD at lawfully sanctioned and properly permitted rallies it just shows you don't play well with others and believe that disruption is somehow going to get you a hearing which you aren't having any trouble getting without disrupting people. <br /><br />And I'm sure you're all very sincere and all that, but when people my age hear the SDS mentioned it's usually a quick hop to recollections of the Weather Underground and bombings and bank robberies and such. It's really a very unfortunate name. And street blocking? All it does is piss people off and make them block out your message. <br /><br />I spent the whole of the 70s listening to self-styled radicals claim that they could reach people by behaving disruptively. The only people they reached were other anarchists and hippies. Demonstrations didn't really start getting effective until the ordinary folks joined in and marched peacefully instead of acting nutty.Catzmawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09009812244200263064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30821890.post-11133602464623971012007-01-28T21:03:00.000-05:002007-01-28T21:03:00.000-05:00Excellent reporting on the march! Cheers from a co...Excellent reporting on the march! Cheers from a co-marcher from Asheville, NC! <br /><br />I take small issue however with your minimizing of the amazing civil disobedience actions that occurred. There were at least 60 people participating in the quite significant sit-it disobedience, which you characterized as (also) "the young anarchists," by which I presume you mean the great SDS folks who stormed the Capitol steps. The civil disobedience sit-in, chanting, dancing, and blocking the street was at least 60 people and very diverse. More prominently hippie than anarchist, actually. But all kinds, including the amazing new SDS. All good people doing a good thing.<br /><br />Peace -RyvrRyvrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260082900426956928noreply@blogger.com