Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:58:25 -0800
From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: AUT: A query...


(This discussion has been in a lull for too long. We need to get back on track.
I sent this out to comrades and friends locally, now I'm sending it out as a
kickstarter for the discussion lists. What use are these lists if they don't
serve practice? Glorified navel gazing... but anonymously.---Macdonald)


Dear comrades and friends: the bombers of Afghanistan, according to "popular"
media, used their most severe bombing run yet in the "War On Terror°" Yesterday.
This heaviest bombing was followed by the first real casualty toll revealed by
the Pentagon. Perhaps we should consider calling a meeting to discuss what is to
be our reaction to these developments. The government may have fallen, but the
bombings (and therefore civilian casualties) increase...

...and the death toll will now include body bags coming back home to North
America, it appears, on a larger scale than seen since Vietnam.

We would be foolish to neglect the potentially large impact on organising for
this new reality. Are there other voices that wish to begin a discussion of
MAWAR responses?

To put it mildly, we cannot afford to sit quietly while Imperialism slaughters
these people. So what do people want to do?


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Macdonald Stainsby
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"They are all Enron, we are all Argentina"
    --WEF protesters.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
                                     --Bertholt Brecht




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