I thought, in the interests of inclusiveness among at least DU members that I would...

[Solon]

Link to a fascinating post from the GLBT forum from readmoreoften:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x69070

Read the entire post, and the links, I implore you. Its a fascinating read, and is about an organization and movement in a socially conservative country, the Zaptistas in Mexico. They bucks trends in ways that even I wasn't aware of and I keep up with this stuff, usually. With that I'll quote from their spokesperson, excerpted from the post linked above:

“To those of you who are wondering if Marcos is homosexual: Marcos is a gay person in San Francisco, a black person in South Africa, an Asian person in Europe, a Chicano in San Isidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Jew in Nazi Germany, an indigenous person in the streets of San Cristóbal… He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak, their way to speak. Everything that makes Power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable – this is Marcos."

I think there is something key here that we can learn from our neighbors to the south about not only organization but rhetoric. If we want to win the hearts and minds of even so called Middle Americans, perhaps the best way to do that is to show them that oppression knows no color, sexual orientation, sex, or religion, that it doesn't matter how we are oppressed, just the fact that we are should be enough to come together to fight those who seek to divide us. The only way our fight for civil rights, Corporate accountability, democracy, and our resistance against this class warfare waged against us from above can fail is through acrimonious division.