[Sosfbay-discuss] Why i WILL be going to the protest march on Saturday October 27

[Drew Johnson]

I like your approach Eden.  While it may not accomplish everything
participating in demonstrations IMO is still a very important part of
building a more citizen-based democracy.  I like that you have a
future-focus by asking the question 'what will be our next step?'  I think
its time for us to get creative about new ways of empowering grass roots
democracy.  Many great ideas have been advanced over the years and now its
time for us to move on putting them into place.

Will you be going with the group leaving from the San Jose Peace Center (
http://www.sanjosepeace.org )?

I'm about to post the new GP-US media advisory about the 27th action which
I want everyone to notice, I got our own county party's participation in
the 27th event mentioned.  Our own Merriam Kathaleen has been a key
organizer for putting together the Oct 27th South Bay Coalition that is
organizing rides.  I know other of our Greens have helped publicize it too
including Carol Brouillet, Brian Good, Catherine Curtis, Charlotte Casey,
etc., etc.

Many of us will be there on the 27th. :-)


Green is Future Focused!

Drew


On Wed, October 24, 2007 13:13, eden wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    First, i want to apologize for not following up directly on the
> messages entitled something like "Why i will not go to the next
> protest march". I thought i saved them, for this response, but now i
> can't find them and i also don't know where the archives for this list
> might be.
>
>    I agree that marching on anniversaries or even weekly will not stop
> anything. But, as i recall, the writers of the original messages were
> saying something like "we believe that more direct action (of one form
> or another) will be the only way to stop the war", etc.
>
>    I feel that "demonstrations" demonstrate to other people, the
> people who are not there, that there are "large" numbers of us who
> think and feel the same about the war (among other issues). Some may
> feel that the point has been made, based on polls. But i believe that
> the point needs to be reiterated periodically by body counts - live
> bodies. I don't anticipate a really huge crowd, but a "decent showing"
> will, i believe, have a continuing positive effect. One of those
> important effects, i believe, is to make people realize that the
> demonstrations themselves will not stop the war and that more needs to
> be done. That's at least one method to create new "activists".
>
>    So, i would like to encourage everyone to come out, join us and say
> to everyone you see at the demonstrations "This is great. But what
> will be our next step?"
>
> --
> eden
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social or emotional intelligence that is unfortunately rare in today's
American culture, but can be developed by all.  The Green Parties need to
lead the way in Peaceableness."