Re: NARAB - My View

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At 02:06 AM 9/22/97 +0000, Pacific Studies Center wrote:
>"NARAB" - My Response

Cut by old jim
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>The problem with national organizations is that they usually attract
>people whose primary interest is in taking them over. Even if genuine
>grassroots activists retain control, they must waste an enormous amount
>of time and energy doing so. That's what happened years ago with SDS.
>More recently, I saw the same pattern with both the National Toxics
>Campaign and MTP. I can recall both groups spending enormous amounts of
>money bringing together people from all over to meetings where the
>primary focus was on internal organization.
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If the NARAB goes national it may become as follows:

The XXXXXXXX movement became institutionalized. It moved from
the countryside to Washington, and from the grass roots to big
institutions, institutions that often cost millions of dollars a year to
run. Too often, "success" became defined as success in funding an
institution instead of success in saving our country. The movement's focus
shifted inward, perhaps inevitably, but also fatally. In the long run,
people won't fund institutions that don't make a difference.

old jim