Re: [pf] Multinationals take aim at protesters

by Jill Taylor Bussiere

19 December 2000 01:42 UTC

Priscilla,
    Do you have any ideas?  Can you tell more what you mean by "begin our
work in an organized way"?
                Jill

> In a message dated 12/17/00 3:12:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> twbounds@pop.mail.rcn.net writes:
>
> > In These Times
> >
> >  December 25, 2000
> >
> >  THE WATCHERS
> >  Multinationals take aim at protesters
> >  By Bill Berkowitz
> >
> >  http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2501/berkowitz2501.html
> >
>         [snip article text]
>
>
> This is like COINTELPRO but much more sophisticated.  COINTELPRO
effectively
> shut down the civil rights movement and prevented effective linkages
between
> that movement, the antiwar movement, and the feminist movement from
happening.
>
> It scares me that corporations are taking the lead on this. What prevented
> COINTELPRO from being even more deady was its bumbling and sometimes
almost
> laughable errors. This was largely played out through the FBI.  Over the
> decades, right wing conservatives have been working quietly and steadily
to
> quash anything that the left might come up with. We have not paid much
> attention, and the tactics they are using scare me a lot.
>
> It is time for groups on the left to put aside our more petty interests
and
> take these threats seriously and find our own, hopefully nonviolent, ways
to
> work against this.  We have lost decades, but that doesn't mean that we
must
> necessarily lose out in the end.
>
> I know that I sound like a crazed loon sometimes, but I was involved
deeply
> in the civiil rights movement and *know* what happened there.  And I know
how
> hard many conservatives have worked over the years to keep the upper hand.
> What Tom shared is part of the fruits of their long-haul labor.
>
>  I'd be interested to see what strategies we could discuss to begin our
work
> in an organized way. I'm thinking more and more that, as we focus on our
> lifestyle issues that we are missing the big picture. I guess I'm turning
> more radical again, but complacency isn't hacking it any more. I see these
> issues as deadly serious.
>
> Blessings, Priscilla