Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2006 06:19 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
In addition to the ever-growing boycott on May 1, there will now be a march and rally in L.A.
March & Rally: Monday, May 1, 12 noon
Olympic & Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Protest initiated by March 25 Coalition. More info.
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2006 06:18 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
Full rights for immigrants! No to “SOS” and Minutemen!
This Saturday, April 22, 8 am
Home Depot
1200 S. Flower Street, Burbank, CA
SOS wants to harass immigrant workers at Home Depot yet again. Everytime they come, there’s been way more of us than them. Vastly outnumbered, they leave early. Let’s do it again. More info at ANSWER LA. Map
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2006 06:17 - Category: Anti-war, Socialism ;
Dave Riley, long-time socialist organizer in Australia, left the following as a comment in on our recent post on the Green Party, discussing whether Peter Camejo could make a strong third party run this election year for governor of California.
To my knowledge, in every democracy but the US, if you get 5% of the votes, you get 5% of the seats. This allows for a much broader representation of views in their parliaments than the US has in the winner-takes-all Congress. Also, most other countries have Socialists in their parliaments. It’s only in the US that opposition to socialism is so hysterical (and ignorant, many oppose it when they clearly don’t understand it.)
From Dave’s comments on Camejo running for governor, given the California Green Party is dysfunctional as an organization.
Well, I’m sure Camejo is aware of these factors– the question is whether he can galvanize a campaign which is broader than the Greens. He was at the last conference of the ISO –and spoke at the rally there – so my guess he has an idea of what forces could be grouped together. The reality is that in Europe (Italy, Spain, Holland, Denmark,etc) and Scotland especially, electoral coalitions among groups who do not see eye to eye are proving productive such that they raise the unity threshold. (Even RESPECT in England)
Precisely. That’s what coalitions are. You don’t have to agree on everything, just on whatever you’re coalescing on.
I’ve been involved in many of these here  which included the early Greens until they adopted an exclusionist course. The Socialist Alliance here grew out of such a formation  of left groupuscules  and has stayed the course since (but there-in hangs a story.)
I am not aware of Camejo as directly as I once was (soon after he was driven out of the US SWP)– as he has spent some time here (& we still distribute some of his stuff in new locally produced editions)  but if something could be generated he’s probably the one who could do it. I found his stance at the time leading up to the presidential race there and his tactics at the time when the Greens deferred so outrageously to the Dems to be pretty astute and principled.(By that I mean he hasn’t apparently “sold out”.)
I agree, Camejo hasn’t sold out. His Avocado Declaration, made before the 2004 election, contains a clear explanation of how the Democratic Party functions to defuse and neutralize genuine protest, and why this must be avoided by building strong, principled third parties instead.
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2006 06:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
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