[DEBATE] : Bye Jay

[Dennis Brutus]

hi; glad you dismissed jay bulworth. cheers  db

Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:  Jay Bulworth - a mythical character once played in a lovely film by 
Warren Beatty - will be unsubscribed immediately, as we don't have much 
time for silly anonymous folk here, sorry. (And yeah, we konw who sent 
this, for he subbed to debate 3 minutes before just to do so... )

Jay Bulworth wrote:
> Social Movements (Re)united
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> New Social Movements for ZUMA
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> On the eve of the historic ANC Polokwane conference it is incumbent on all
> progressive forces to make their voices heard concerning the vital
> leadership issue that will be decided there. The decision made at Polokwane
> will affect all grassroots communities struggling for shelter, land and jobs
> in our country. It is simply infantile abstentionism and irresponsible
> purism to ignore this material and concrete fact.
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> Struggling communities, whether made up of ANC supporters or not, must make
> their voices heard on this question. We must lend our support to the
> faction that will best advance the cause of the struggling masses.
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> On the one hand we have outgoing President Thabo Mbeki, chief architect of
> GEAR, Aids denialist and authoritarian of note. On the other hand, we have
> Jacob Zuma, son of a migrant worker, friend of the poor and victim of elite
> conspiracies.
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> Comrades the choice is clear.
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> However, our support, although unconditional must not be uncritical. In
> exploratory discussions it has been indicated that an endorsement ahead of
> the conference of comrade Zuma would not go amiss. However, we cannot agree
> to have members of social movements who will announce our support for
> Msholosi at the press conference determined for us. Dale McKinley is a
> member in good standing of our movement and so is Trevor Ngwane. We
> therefore refuse to be dictated to on this principle matter.
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> We do however welcome the idea of a promised 'Ministry of Social Movements
> and Delivery' to be headed by a woman. This we believe will put an end to
> the disturbing practice of NGOs appropriating the 'Voice of the Poors'. We
> also look forward to working with a Zuma presidency on pivotal question
> relating to aids prevention, gay rights and ESKOM load shedding.
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> Since time is of the essence and some organisations will not be able to call
> full general meetings in the time available, we take the liberty of
> attaching your organisations name in the meantime, unless you get back to us
> with instructions otherwise.
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> Yours comradely
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> Jay Bulworth
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> Chairperson (interim)
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> Social Movements For ZUMA
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