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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:12:57 -0500

From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood (at) panix.com>

Subject: the longest domain name ever

 



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Welcome to the official site of:

Authoritarian Opportunists Who Cozy Up To Genocidal Dictators - for Peace

(International A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.)

 

 

 

Please come to DCon Jan 18 to help stop Bush's unilateral war on Iraq

Every person counts -- make January 18 a massive gathering for peace

BUT FIRSTlearn a little about the group organizing the protest:

International A.N.S.W.E.R. is a post-9/11 creation of the International Action Center, one of many front
groups for the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party:

    » supported the Chinese government's 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre

      www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html

    » supports the "socialist" North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il

      www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0425.php

      www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0509.php

    » and views Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a beacon of anti-imperialist resistance

      www.workers.org/ww/2001/iraq0125.html

 

For these reasons, as well as Workers World's poor track record of relations with other groups, some
people refuse to attend A.N.S.W.E.R. events, including the January 18 anti-war protest.

On the pro side, A.N.S.W.E.R. has proven skill at organizing massive demonstrations. Most who attend the
group's protests know nothing about their actual political leanings and merely wish to express their
opposition to war in Iraq

And many people and groups who are repulsed by A.N.S.W.E.R.'s support for genocidal dictators choose to
attend their anti-war protests anyway, because they feel it is so urgent to stop the Iraq war.

See, for example, Z Magazine's Q&A on the topic (A.N.S.W.E.R. is discussed in #8):

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm)

To help you make up your mind, we've assembled links to a range of writings on the topic - some more
factual, some more polemical, from various points on the political spectrum:

slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl&

Lengthy, detailed expose of International Action Center's politics

www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html

Anarchist critique of Workers World Party

www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php

David Corn critique of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s October 26 D.C. anti-war march

www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/10/16/protest/

Salon reporter's critique of A.N.S.W.E.R. and other far-left anti-war groups

www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/11dominick.cfm

A critical response to Corn and other A.N.S.W.E.R. detractors

www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml

An example of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s relations with other groups

www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/BenShepard/index.html

Why the A.N.S.W.E.R. style of political mobilization is inherently disempowering

 

brought to you by International A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.