:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Thursday, December 04, 2003 ::

"Among the many lessons for the left, one is clear and recently
demonstrated for us by the people of Venezuela and Bolivia: elections are
important but they must not be seen as an endgame, something where you
get the "bad guys out" and then go home, saying "mission
accomplished." Elections should be approached as occasions in the process of
building deep, durable and richly textured movements for justice that
help lift the best possible and least harmful candidates into power but
work just as fiercely to keep officeholders honest and to defend them
whenever necessary against the armies of the perpetual dark
reactionary night."

Paul Street

:: Jim Nichols 12/04/2003 08:06:00 AM [+] ::
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