Bernie Sanders

nashville_brook

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5. yep, that's where i started in the 80s

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 04:11 PM

Aug 2015

i was doing publishing to promote my "pet" interests which were biodiversity and latin america (during and after Iran-Contra). where i lived in TN there was a surge in clear cutting that was starting to impact our water sheds. replanting was almost always with white pine which eventually succumbed to disease...jeez, not 10 years later.

the group i started at my college split in two, with one becoming more radical than the other. i did my best to keep the two acting on concert, but eventually had to let them go their own ways. thankfully no one in our more radical group ever got mixed up with infiltrators, but i'll bet you that's b/c it was just small of a community for anyone to get away with masquerading among us. but i know folks from larger areas where that did happen. and we should never forget Judi Bari.

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I've supported BLM since the beginning, and I support Bernie now. Here's some thoughts... [View all] nashville_brook Aug 2015 OP

Factionalization is the goal of the elites, and they achieve it with seemingly little effort villager Aug 2015 #1

those of us who've been doing this awhile recognize the signs of manipulation nashville_brook Aug 2015 #2

Saw the same thing(s) in eco-organizing in the 80's villager Aug 2015 #3

yep, that's where i started in the 80s nashville_brook Aug 2015 #5

Don't forget Judi, indeed villager Aug 2015 #14

even before the internet - or maybe b/c it was before it -- the activist community nashville_brook Aug 2015 #15

exactly right on all counts, NB villager Aug 2015 #16

Thank you, sister. n/t Admiral Loinpresser Aug 2015 #4

very nice post tk2kewl Aug 2015 #6

i can't help but think we're going to see fewer white allies at BLM actions nashville_brook Aug 2015 #7

yeah, that does suck tk2kewl Aug 2015 #8

some conversations give me great hope. others not so much...but nashville_brook Aug 2015 #11

We need each other. No one group azmom Aug 2015 #9

solidarity is the only way we'll win nashville_brook Aug 2015 #10

It's hard enough during peace time, but azmom Aug 2015 #12

wow! amen! nashville_brook Aug 2015 #13