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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (85770)	3/24/2003 8:35:38 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't really think many of them understand who is behind this and therefore, who they are supporting. A couple of points in reply. First, the demonstrations, my fingers can now type this as they sleep I've said it so many times here, are organized by a large variety of groups, one of which is Answer. So Answer, whatever it may stand for, however it gets its funding, is not a basis to criticize demonstrations the point of which is simply to protest the invasion. Ah, the more I type it, the more my fingers get into the flow. Been there, done that, they keep saying. Second, as Michael Ignatieff wrote, so eloquently, in that NYTimes Magazine piece last weekend, for most of us who demonstrate, it doesn't really matter who we are marching arm and arm with. The point is to make a point to protest the invasion. The demonstrations exist only as demonstrations. They are not a political movement. When and if it gets time to organize one of those, it will be a somewhat, underline somewhat, different issue. Third, to say this another way, these demonstrations are not supporting Answer, they are not supporting the many mainline church organizations that help do the organizing, they are not supporting the many unions that help do the organizing, they are not supporting, I don't know, you name it. Their only point is to protest the invasion.