[WAsummit] a limited and realistic strategy for collective action?

[Larry Yates]

Sorry folks, to have dropped a somewhat large message and then  
disappeared. I was dealing with a combination of work and health  
issues, and just had to put this "volunteer" email list to the back of  
the line.

I very much appreciated Tema Okun's input that Highlander is taking  
some action somewhat similar to what we discussed. Former Pres Jimmy  
Carter's words have also changed the discussion substantially. And  
someone had a contact with Color of Change, I believe.

I guess at this point my gut feeling is that we aren't going to  
organize something on this email list -- I counted 3-4 responses with  
a desire to be active, and I don't think it's enough -- but that this  
can be a good place for us to check in with each other about what is  
being done and what we ourselves try to stimlulate.

I have heard that one Virginia group is considering assembling various  
white groups to speak up on the racism ex and implicit in teabagging.  
Joe Wilson's outburst is one catalyst. When there is more to say on  
that, I will share it.

I am grateful to have this place to discuss these matters, though we  
are not an organization.





Larry Yates
PO Box 245
Maurertown VA
540 436 3432
llyates at shentel.net
www.user.shentel.net/llyates
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"Better, I thought, for me in my rough being
to force makeshift connections,
patches, encounters, rows
better to swim in trouble like a muddy river rising
than to become at last all thesis,
correct, consistent but hollow
the finished ghost
of my own struggle."

from "The Homely War"
in the book of poems Living in the Open
by Marge PIercy

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