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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
If you mean using the ANSWER banner is a new phenomenon then you're right... but the Workers World Party aren't new.
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Right, but regarding their involvement in having lead roles in organizing the more recent (and large) American protests, this is relatively new....
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While ANSWER might not be the most beloved, their rallies are widely attended, and uniformely supported, even by their critics.
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It has been their critics who have blown open the contradictions in this organization, and yes, much like nations and real human beings often choose strange bed fellows, the protest movement has been no different.
However, the news about ANSWER took time to travel. I went to one of their rallies in DC almost two years ago, and at the time was not very familiar with them. After I had become more aware, I chose not to attend. The last massive rally in NYC deliberately excluded ANSWER to a great extent, primarily because of their background...
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The point being, these organizations have agendas (because that's what organizations do!) and there is no reason that these politically righteous groups should attempt to water down, or hide their true politics if they truly believe their cause is just....really why should they feel the need to dupe or confuse their supporters? The movement is supposed to be made up of socially conscious and informed people, not pawns. This moral question exists with or without a Bush in the world.
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ANSWER isn't merely the Workers World Party with a new name. If you think that, you're wrong. It serves as an umbrella group, involving many who could care less about global socialism, or whatever.
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Seriously, two days after the bombing stops, people without natural resources are marching in a country where un-sanctioned assembly is outlawed, their dictatorship government is still un-accounted for, and in several areas, still under Saddam's control....and just by pure inspired hatred for Bush, thousands found markers, large banners, and carried the ecxact duplicate of signs being used by organized and advertised protests in several nations.... all because the wonder that is the internet?????
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Have any examples??
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Also who are Indymedia backed by? Someone told me and I've actually forgotten.
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I'm refraining from making a snide comment....
IMC spawned from the '99 Seattle protest. It started as a few folks with video recorders and some computer know-how. If you think the internet hasn't been the key catalyst behind these things, or if you think something even more absurd like it's being financed by a collective of some evil Islamic OPEC tycoons, you're nuts (and really quite ironic). I've been active in these rallies, and I've had bit roles in organization here and there. IndyMedia in Austin just had a pot luck dinner to raise finances. IndyMedia back in my home city of Albany have no dough at all. Their Al Quada checks must've gotten lost in the mail. :/