If you be in or around Washingtron on Sunday, June 19, join Dan McCarthy, Ralph Nader, Kelley Vlahos, Kevin Zeese, and Marc Steiner to discuss how patriots of left, right, center, and place might cooperate in dismantling the profoundly un- and anti-American Empire. Details below:
Come Home America!
Can Americans of varied political
persuasions unify to end war and empire?
Join us to explore the potential
of a broad-based anti-war movement linking right and left, libertarian and
liberal, progressive and conservatives.
Featuring:
Daniel McCarthy, the editor of the
American Conservative
Ralph Nader, consumer
advocate
Kelley Vlahos, writer for antiwar.com,
FOX News
Kevin Zeese, Come Home America
Moderator, Marc Steiner, WEAA radio and Free Speech
TV.
June 19, 2011
7:30 PM
Bus Boys
and Poets,
14th and V Streets, NW
10 comments
Carl Eric Scott
Mr. Kauffman, fair warning, I’m comin’ after you (sort of) over at Postmodern Conservative http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2011/07/01/carl%E2%80%99s-rock-songbook-9-marilynne-robinson-%E2%80%9Ci-miss-civilization%E2%80%9D/ , against your general stance, and specifically against your old “Fighting Bobs” piece. It has to do with rock, Dylan’s “Masters of War,” and a your anti-empire stance.
Love the Jefferson Airplane ref…you’ll see why.
Tim H
Glad to hear this! We should welcome all signs of hope that we can break out of the left-right death march. There’s no progress without conserving and no conserving without progress.
Bill Kauffman
Peter-Yes, the organizers are recording the session and may even have it transcribed. Please contact Dan McCarthy(dmccarthy@amconmag.com) and/or Kevin Zeese (kbzeese@gmail.com) for details.
Peter Kadzis
Dear Bill:
Will anyone be recording the session? I’d be interested in publishing an edited — or perhaps I should say streamlined, as in scrubbed of um’s and oh’s — of transcript.
— Peter Kadzis
Executive Editor
The Boston Phoenix
Rob G
Yes, at certain vital points the decentralist Right has more in common with the decentralist Left than it does with mainstream pro-corporate conservatism.
AML
My freshman year I had a roommate who was a radical, atheist, Chomsky loving son of a gun, while I was (am) a traditional, conservative, Roman Catholic, so we definitely had our differences. It was uncanny, though, how often we agreed with each other on things like war, empire and the evils of consumerism.
Rob G
So what you’re saying is that there really is no difference between, say, Pat Buchanan and Noam Chomsky or between Thomas Fleming and Ralph Nader? That the fact that they are anti-empire and noninterventionist obliterates their other differences, or somehow puts the lie to them?
Pauli
Can Americans of varied political persuasions unify to end war and empire?
What I’ve discovered about these groups is that the members don’t really have varied political persuasions. They are all pretty much liberal, as practically defined.
Bill Kauffman
Clark, I was thinking of this remake of the Temple-Murphy song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYwv-k5MWM.
Clark
Alas, both George and Shirley would later be Vietnam hawks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A
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