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Wednesday March 15, 2006 19:29 by MichaelY - iawm
Signs of a changing wind As the Israeli Army attacks, the streets are burning in Milan, French Universities are occupied, Paris reminisces of '68 and the US Senate will discuss impeaching Bush. Is Spring on the way? The progressive underworld is abuzz in the US with support for Sen. Russ Feingold's introduction in the Senate of a resolution to censure Bush over his admitted role in illegally ordering the warrantless NSA monitoring of the phones, e-mails, and faxes of Americans, in violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. FISA was passed precisely to prevent abuses of power like this; it is easily and rapidly invoked, and Bush has never given a rational explanation as to why he chose to refuse to honour it. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Interesting (even hilarious) how you draw comparisons to the French occupations and Milan riots, which are primarily anarchist inspired direct actions, with quite a high level of ideological and physical confrontation with the state and police - and the upcoming march on Saturday, which promises to be nothing more than the usual anodyne 1500 or so leftists marching from the regular starting point to the regular finishing point. This has been done so many times by the IAWM, pushing three or four years now, with no change in tactics or methods. Yet the complicity in the War on Terror continues. The Anti-War movement in Ireland is dead and has been for years, and FF/PDs have very little to worry about.
The Dail will be empty this Saturday, as it usually is every Saturday, and this weekend in particular there will be even less people around, considering most politicians and their support staff will be off for their week's holidays for St Patricks Day. So this march is nothing but a walk to an empty building and speeches outside it, as if somehow the building itself was the locus of power and decision making. The bullhorns with their 'faster! faster!' style chants will be echoing around the empty corridors - nobody will give a shit or the slighest bit of notice.
The IAWM have considerable sway in mobilising numbers onto the street. Why dont they have their speeches down in front of Top Oil on Amiens Street - the refuellers of the planes in Shannon - so they get to have their speeches and also shut down the station for an hour or so? It would at least be a small step in the right direction. Yet it seems (and maybe I'm wrong here, but please argue with me) that the speech makers are happy to be outside the Dail because in most cases it ties nicely into their electoral hopes for the upcoming elections, and makes for great PR. Look, here I am at the Dail with a thousand people listening to me.
Said it before but distance = comfort for many leftists in this country. We can support an intifada in Palestine but not pulling down a fence in Shannon. We can support rioting/occupying students in France but not block the entrance to a petrol station in Dublin.