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Re: Not in my name!
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:52:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Note that the LP has evinced some support for the antiwar movement,
including some activists marching in some of the same demonstrations that
this writer has profiled.

(see also: http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=630)

Not sure I agree with the LP stance here. While I oppose the coming war(1)
I'm not sure I want to associate with just anyone random that also does, for
whatever reason.
++Lar

I hear you on this one.  I would have marched in London if I hadn't been put
off by the fact that a lot of the posters and stickers (indiscriminately
illegally stuck onto adverts along escalators on the Underground) often said
'Don't Attack Iraq' and underneath 'Freedom for Palestine' as if the two
things were directly related.  Not the sort of people I want to be seen to
be aligned with thank you very much.  I wonder how many others were
similarly discouraged and if the march organisers realise, understand or care?

Psi



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(...) I wondered about that as well--whom do you "throw your hat in the ring with" when it comes to these amss protestors? When I was hanging out with my 100,000+ friends in Toronto a few weeks back, doing the march for anti-war, I looked around and (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(URL) that the LP has evinced some support for the antiwar movement, including some activists marching in some of the same demonstrations that this writer has profiled. (see also: (URL) sure I agree with the LP stance here. While I oppose the coming (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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