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- From: onr@netcom.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Into the streets!
- Keywords: Clinton, advisers, resistance to change, controversy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.233846.4054@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:38:46 GMT
- References: <lm0q29INN793@news.bbn.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <lm0q29INN793@news.bbn.com> rrizzo@star-trek.bbn.com (Ron Rizzo) writes:
- >WE MUST AGITATE, beginning now and for months, maybe years, to come. We must
- >take to the streets and the airwaves, to local and national governments, and
- >continually pressure the Clinton administration not only to not renege on or
- >fatally compromise campaign promises but to act soon and effectively.
-
- I think it is important that we keep a steady course, and maintain
- visibility. I think it is important to pressure the media to show balanced
- coverage regarding the lives of Gay citizens.
-
- I agree that we must keep pressure on, but I think that we need to be
- smart about it.
-
- Your tales of the early civil rights struggle show us examples of
- what to expect and what has gone before. I would also add that there
- was another factor which was not uncommon.
- the agent provocateur.
- These are shills in the crowd whose purpose is to push demonstrations
- over the edge and into senseless violence. the aim is to discredit the
- movement.
-
- The way to spot 'em is their shoes BTW :-)
-
- >For example, I don't think lifting the gay&lesbian ban in the military is a
- >sure thing at all. If there isn't a lot of continuing pressure on Clinton
- >himself as well as his advisers, he may try to quietly abandon any change in
- >the status quo.
-
- I think it is , every indication has been that he is firm in his conviction.
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
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