Who’s Trying to Silence Cindy Sheehan? | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Oct. 2, 2015
Activism often makes for strange bedfellows. The arduous work of coalition-building involves strategic compromises and trade-offs. Most importantly, solidarity necessitates an agreement to disagree
with minimal malice.
Being an ally, accomplice, or fellow traveler requires a fundamental understanding that disagreement is not the same as oppression or violence. If a particular activist contingent will tolerate nothing less than marching in lockstep, well, thats not solidarity or ally-ship. Its thought policing.
Which brings me to a situation involving my friend and comrade, Cindy Sheehan -- someone who has connected with an astonishing array of dissident individuals and groups.
I have worked with groups from the spectrum of revolutionary communists to free-market capitalist libertarians, explains Cindy. There are some groups I have worked with that I only affiliate with on very narrow parameters because they have proven to be there more to support Democrats than oppose U.S. imperialism. We anti-imperialists are fewer in number, so it's weird that the far-right and far-left are meeting better on what I consider to be bedrock issues than with other groups I have worked with.
I last interviewed Cindy in 2010 and was planning to do so again soon. When I recently learned she was being targeted by a new disinformation campaign, I knew the time was right.
Our conversation went a little something like this
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