Shutting down New York

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Port Huron met the Yippies (Godzilla vs. Rodan?) at the Democrat(ic)
National convention, in Chicago, 1968- an event which is rather
noticeably absent from VL, but which was probably more significant,
in terms of mobilizing the average American of college age, than
either Berkelely or Columbia. The '68 DNC doesn't really fit in with
VL's focus on the Nixon-Reagan-Bush progression, but we are in
a situation more akin to that now, with the incumbent party, the
party most invested in the current war, meeting to nominate their
candidate. The big difference, of course, is that there is virtually
no serious voices of dissent within the Republicans regarding the
prosecution of the war, although it's still early. The absence of
WMD's, the growing number of casualties and the whole question
of the manipulation of intelligence in order to justify unilateral
intervention is beginning to chafe.

respectfully  

In a message dated 2/1/04 6:49:50 PM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:

<< I posted a few paragraphs from Tom Hayden's Port Huron Statement, a
Manifesto of the Left. It's brilliant. And the movement, a democratic
organization with a democratic method, and democratic goals, should be
studied and should be admired for what it accomplished and how it did
its work. GR looks very favorably on this kind of youth movement, but
Pynchon is a satirist and so he aims his arrows at the 1968 fiasco (at
violence and the dance of death) and at communism. 

NY has been shut down enough recently. The Black Out, 9-11, we're
hurting pretty bad with no job opportunities and all sorts of bad shit
in the air. How about a a little peace. How about shutting up and
putting up NY for a change? >>