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- From: sherw@ocf.berkeley.edu (Gregory Sherwin)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: A new outlook on activism.
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 19:35:42 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <1992Dec31.184447.23405@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >Would you
- >consider blockading a road to prevent an illegal timber cut to be
- >extremist?
-
- That's a touchy issue. I wouldn't go so far as to call it extremist per
- se, but definitely confrontational. It usually seems that it is the
- confrontational aspects that have the greatest potential for a huge
- media backfire. The fact that the timber cuts are illegal makes a
- confrontation a little more palatable with the public likely, but there
- will always be those who are against such actions altogether - regardless
- of the legality of the cutting. Some people you can't change - but if you
- can win a majority on your side and inform more of them by creating such
- a confrontation then I would consider it a success.
-
- greg
-