Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 23:47:22 -0500
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 4 Jan 2000 -- 4:01 (#373)


Paul Kneisel wrote:
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> __________________________________________________________________________
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>             The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 4 January 2000
>                           Vol. 4, Number 1 (#373)
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> CONTENTS
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> Latest Anti-Fascist Readings
> Mumia and "State Department Anarchism" by tallpaul -- 4 Jan 00
> On the self-rightousness of the Mumia posts [Letter to anarchist critics
>    of the Mumia Defense Campaign by Arthur J. Miller -- 25 Dec 99

Dear tallpaul: I guess I should thank you for making my spat with Arthur
Miller public. In a way you've outed my criticism of the Mumia movement,
so I guess I have no choice but to continue with it. I owe everybody a
longer response, which this late hour prevents me from doing.

I should also thank you for proving the baisc point that I was making to
Arthur: that the Mumia movement not only doesn't have any internal
criticism, but that it attacks all those who dare to speak up. This is
not just fair to me, but to anybody else who wants to raise concerns. A
social movement that is unable to engage in internal debate is one
flying with one broken wing. Sooner or later it might make a fatal
mistake.

My argument with Arthur is not about anarchism, as you like to cast it.
My criticisms come as an activist who has been involved in Mumia support
for 5 years. I've also been a social change activist for over 15. I've
been around the block a few times and get tired of seeing the same
mistakes repeated.

It's unfortunate that you further confuse this issue and dilute my
criticism by making irrelevant comparisons to Bob McGlynn and the the
stupid debate over social anrchism versus "lifestyle" anarchism. I fail
to see how that is relevant to my criticisms about how the Mumia
movement cannot tolerate internal criticism.

Arthur sees my criticisms as being from somebody who wants to destroy
something. The question is, if anybody else raised the same criticisms,
would they be labelled the same way? I'm interested in getting Mumia out
of jail. That's why I have web pages on his case. That's why I've
volunteered hundreds of hours over the years and attended dozens of
meetings. It's quite eerie how this attack on my activism by "The
Internet Anti-Fascist" parallels the hatchet job that was done to D.C.
activist Starr Bowie in 1998.

I'm not surprised. Again, this proves my point.

Lastly, you seem to be guilty of the things you charge the Mid-Atlantic
Infoshop with. You fail to even include the post I sent out, to which
Arthur is responding. This is unfair to me and only serves to muddy this
debate.

For the life of me, I can't see why Arthur and I don't get along better.
I have alot of respect for his work as a labor organizer and indigenous
rights supporter. I've chalked this animosity that he has toward me as
miscommunication between us. I don't understand why tallpaul has decided
that the email exhange between Arthur and I merits a broadcast attack on
my character.

I guess I'll just have to take tallpaul's bizarre attack on the
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop with a grian of salt. I will wait to see if my
base charge about the support movement not beign able to deal with
internal criticism is answered or not.

My work speaks for itself.

-- 
Chuck0

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