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» , ...This Wav for Black Empowerment
By Dr. L*nor* Futanl
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'm*- : Coalitions
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Left/right coalitions are a touch}
subject in U.S. politics these days.
p«vhen they are a subject at all. The
J foHjbt’ IV.^wrty presidential
J candidates, aware that Americans
1 are ted up with partisan
* conservatism and partisan
S liberalism, have been persuaded
jjj by their pollsters to head for the
»a4cdrrter”tte^fi as the “center” gets
narrower). The trick,
Ji1iovWvfe¥,,'ta to become a centrist
J*¥hriii&6 ^/m)»olic messages, so
* you cahTtfll hold onto the right
! and the left respectively (the
* ^o^^’s!?m>st consistent voters)
jj ^nd (lpna^e‘ sure they don’t do
J anything’ ilhexpected, like get
together and go independent.
The major parties are adept at
this kind of cultural symbolism.
,|lSmW goes to Little Rock,
Arkansas to inaugurate a next
frontier for civil rights. The
symbolic imessage is that the
Republican Party has accepted that
Lincoln freed the slaves and truly
believes racism is a bad thing.
A1 Gore comes out for keeping
- Elian Gonzales in Florida. Here
* the message is that the Democratic
Party is sorry it muddled the Bay
of Pigs and truly believes that
socialism is a bad thing.
Bush..and Gore are cultivating
their images as centnsts — i.e. not
„ too right nor too left —while
S jftj^jng, jo hold onto their core
(*CQq$i(u£pcies on the right and on
Ofth^lftfti Tjbus, it is to be expected
that efforts to bring together the
right and the left outside of the two
yjpnrty'; framework are met witft
disagree on so much, we couldn’t
possibly be working together fbr
anything other than opportunistic
reasons.
Very few in the media today
understand, for example, that my
support for Buchanan is based on
our mutual interest in changing the
process of American politics so
that our citizens - and not the
special interests - may demo-
cratically rule the country which
belongs to us. Buchanan spelled
out this common ground in
considerable detail on C-SPAN’s
Washington Journal last week,
emphasizing his support for my
political reform agenda, including
same day voter registration,
campaign finance reform and term
limits. He also underlined our
shared concern over the Beltway’s
pro-war policies and the need for a
non-interventionist approach to
foreign affairs.
This last issue was the topic of a
conference sponsored by
Antiwar.com two weeks ago -
Beyond Left and Right: The New
Face of the Antiwar Movement —
at which Buchanan and I both
spoke. At the gathering, the
common agenda of left and right
for ending U.S. imperialism could
be distinctly seen. ,*
What creates the common
ground between left and right? It’s
the opposition to empire building
and to the two parties that support
it. We saw that left/right
opposition to globalism in the
streets of Seattle. And we also see
the close connection between
opposition to globalism and
StsubstWteh resistance, • Jfcmr t^e0 ,p, democracy reform. Putting
Pffrip<uti^irtW»wersith^t of ,^/poliUcaicontrol in the hands of the
.mhe Jeft/right, coalitions,
—- Wtpah©'ones enrffliicCQttiKw
with Reform Party presidential
"Dhopirffuiaikt :tii*oh?»h»v^! promote,
the notion that since left and right
popple rather than in the hands of
• t^e,,.special interests, i.e., the
multinational corporations, and
',4l\eir‘ unelected WTO’s, is key to
halting globalism and war.
Some people have asked me
whether Buchanan’s campaign
serves as a bridge between the left
and the right. In my opinion, his
candidacy is at this point closer to
a plank than a bridge. Building
bridges that can carry the weight of
many travelers takes time. Still, at
the conference one could see the
beginnings of people from
different traditions speaking their
respective political languages
while finding some common
language at the same time. An
example of this can be seen in
attitudes toward nationalism.
The right is comfortable with the
language of nationalism. The left -
including myself - has some
difficulty with it as it is too often
associated with ethnic and racial
rivalries and violence. Yet, I have
no difficulty with asserting the
democratic rights of a people
within nation states. I can stand up
with nationalists on that. But l am
not a nationalist. I am an
internationalist looking for ways to
link up all the people of the world
to enable their development.
Buchanan and I have some
differences on this issue and one of
the policy areas in which this
surfaces is in the area of
immigration. I come at the
immigration issue — as do most
people on the left — from a pro-
people of color, open policy
orientation. That said, I appreciate
the issue that conservatives like
Buchanan raise when they raise the
question of how we integrate the
immigrant populations that have
already come here. What does it
take to bring culturally diverse
people together? How do we
integrate multiple cultures — not
simply to “Americanize”
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Mostly sunny
and very hot.
Thu. night
Friday
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Partly sunny
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Partly sunny
and warm.
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Clouds and
sun; breezy.
88/64
Tuesday
Partly sunny
and very hot.
90/66
Wednesday
Sunny and
warm.
90/68
will dominate
st add Rockies. Storm
systems will spread clouds, rain
and mountain snow across the
Northwest and northern Rockies.
Cooler air will follow the storms
across the Northwest. Meanwhile,
warm air will spread northward
across the eastern two-thirds of
the nation. High pressure will keep
the Southeast dry.
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Chicago
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Cleveland
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Denver
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Des Moines
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Detroit
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Houston
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Indianapolis
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Cairo
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Jerusalem
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London
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Mexico City
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Moscow
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Seoul
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Sydney
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Toronto
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Winnipeg
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Zurich
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everyone, but to be constantly
recreating and reshaping the
American culture as new
populations join us.
But how to do that, circa 2000, is
a complicated question in the
context of globalism, in the
context of U.S. jobs being shipped
across the border to Mexico and
overseas to Asia. How do we
integrate new people eager to
come to the United States amidst a
declining standard of living for
many American families?
This question has not been taken
on successfully by establishment
liberals or conservatives. The
powers that be don’t particularly
want it discussed. They want to
talk about numbers, quotas, and
definitions of family structures.
But we can’t talk seriously about
immigration policy until we have a
way to develop the culture that we
live in and that immigrants are
becoming a part of.
It is from people’s differences
that the social fabric of the country
has always been woven and
rewoven. This requires an active
and dynamic democracy. With all
of its flaws, we have continuously
developed our democracy for over
nature's wrath,
can slop the
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High winds, heavy rams
and lightning can wreak
havoc on any electric system. .
causing widespread outages
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200 years. But during the last
several decades democracy’s
development ha$ stopped, largely
because the special interests need
to stifle it in order to proceed
“efficiently” along the path to
globalization.
That’s one reason left/right
coalitions bother the establishment
so deeply. When opposing
constituencies join together
reexamine economic, foreign an I
immigration policy from th
vantage point of process ami
political reform, the two party
monolith begins to look
vulnerable. And that’s something
the Beltway crowd doesn’t like
one bit.
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