1 Manning Marable Has Died at 60
2 Re: CCDS Statement on Libya -- Cyril Robinson, Ethan Young
3 Re: King, Obama and the Other April 4th -- Zwarich
4 A Forum and Book Party for A Saving Remnant

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Manning Marable, African-American Studies Scholar, Has
Died at 60

By Larry Rohter
New York Times
April 1, 2011
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/manning-marable-african-american-studies-scholar-has-died-at-60/

Manning Marable, the author of a long-awaited new
biography of Malcolm X to be published Monday and
director of the Institute for Research in African
American Studies at Columbia University, died Friday at
the age of 60, his wife, Leith Mullings, has confirmed.

He had been hospitalized with pneumonia last month, and
last summer had a double lung transplant meant to
relieve him of sarcoidosis, a lung disease from which
he had suffered for a quarter century.

A full obituary will appear later.

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From: Cyril Robinson
Re: CCDS Statement on Libya

The statement sets forth no alternative. Negotiations
take two parties. Can you relly on anything Gaddafi
says? 

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From: Ethan Young
Re: CCDS Statement on Libya

I agree with the anti-invasion position CCDS is taking,
but I don't understand the lack of any position on
Qaddafi. If you support him, or have a difference of
opinion about him, be honest and say so.

I also question CCDS saying they "urge that Libyans
resolve their differences without resort to arms."
Since when is it the role of the US left to recommend a
strategy for a resistance movement in another country?
And since when does it make any difference what we
"urge"? Finally, what does this statement have to do
with what is actually taking place in Libya?

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From: Zwarich
Re: King, Obama and the Other April 4th

Bill Fletcher's article, 'King, Obama, and the Other
April 4th', points out the morally reprehensible
travesty of Dr. King's legacy being used as a symbol by
the Tea Party. In memory of Dr. King's true legacy, I'd
like to ask Mr. Fletcher, (and all), to consider the
irony contained within the article itself.

When Mr. Fletcher makes the statement, "I have nothing
but contempt for Glen Beck and his minions", he is not
only making a strategic error that weakens us (as
leftists) in our pursuit of our own purpose, but he is
directly contravening Dr. King's teaching.

We must try to remember that a significant percentage
of the estimated 30-40 million people who are
supporting the Tea Party, (Mr Beck's minions), are good
working people who have been duped into a false
consciousness. These are the very people whose
interests the Left purports to represent. It is self-
defeating, and therefore a grave strategic error, to
hold these people in contempt. Among the many reasons
for the Left's current nadir, this all too common error
in our thinking, and in  our spirit, is a major one. We
exalt 'the workers' in our grand theorizing, but feel
contempt for the real flesh and blood workers of our
times due to their confusions.

There was nothing more central to what Dr. King tried
to teach us than his exhortations that we should "hate
the sin but love the sinner". He taught, for example,
that it is racism that is our enemy, not those whose
hearts have been filled with its spiritual poison,
(racists themselves).

As leftists we all can surely see that Glen Beck is a
certifiable nut case, and that it is one sign (among
many) of the abject insanity of our times that this
raving lunatic is given so much air time to preach his
insane drivel on a major network. It is always a
challenge to meet Dr. King's high moral expectations
when considering such a person, (and those who so
generously afford him the air time). But we are only
harming our own cause when we hold those for whose
interests we purport to care so deeply in contempt.
These 'minions' are the victims here, not the
perpetrators.

All this may seem like a mere 'spiritual nicety', but
if we are to succeed in our aspirations (as leftists),
the spiritual underpinnings of our beliefs must be rock
solid. And just as a practical matter of strategic
comportment, we must remember that we are fighting a
war for hearts and minds, and that it is common to
human nature that few respond well to those who project
contempt toward them.

I hope that Mr. Fletcher will give this some thought.
He is, in my book, one of the 'really good ones'. We
(on the Left) are in dire need of credible leadership,
and Mr. Fletcher is one to whom I look for same. Though
I cannot claim first hand knowledge, I feel certain
that truly great leaders, like Dr. King, are always
trying to learn from those who follow them.

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From: David McReynolds
Subject: A Forum and Book Party for A Saving Remnant

The War Resisters League's Dellinger Lecture on
Nonviolence and the New Press present:

on Tuesday evening, April 26th, 7 p.m.

A Forum and Book Party:
A Saving Remnant by Martin Duberman

The radical lives of Barbara Deming and David
McReynolds and their place in the pacifist, civil
rights, socialist, and gay and lesbian and feminist
movements

With Mandy Carter, Pam McAllister, David McReynolds,
and Martin Duberman

Followed by book signing

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
co-sponsored by Judson Memorial Church

Admission free - donations accepted

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