From: Ryan-AT-bitstream.mpls.mn.us
Subject: Re: Cockburn?
Date: 07 Mar 1996 15:45:33 GMT


>Louis: Actually, the whole cyberseminar was initiated on account of a 
>Cockburn column that appeared in the Nation magazine in which he likened 
>the militias to the Zapatistas in Mexico! The very next week Adolph Reed 
>appeared on on Doug Henwood's radio show in NY and made the case that the 
>militias were fascist.

Thanks Louis, and God bless you too. As a matter of fact, there are links to
organizations such as Exiles for Democracy on militia organization Web pages.
I have seen them refer to the Zapatistas as a branch of the worldwide militia
movement. It is also not rare to find links to and support of such as
organizations as the ACLU, Amnesty International and Greenpeace along with
the NRA, FIJA and the John Birch Society. It is a complex movement not
reducable to vague generalities, but certainly not currently fascist by our
defintion.

Sally Ryan




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