Word: rallyã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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HIPJ organizer David Jenkins ’03 said he was “very pleased” with the rally??s turnout...
This timidity may have been a response to the trouble Harvard rallies often have in keeping their causes straight. But the variety of rallygoers’ agendas does not excuse the blurring of vital distinctions that marred the rally??s message. In discussing the Bush administration’s warning to countries suspected of harboring terrorists, one speaker raised the example of domestic militia groups and the Ku Klux Klan. “We harbor those people,” he announced, and we harbored Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh—who, coincidentally, was executed last June...
...that “whenever Big Business, the White House and the military get together,” workers will be victimized—and called on workers to join with others to defend themselves. The class-war rhetoric was manifestly inappropriate for this kind of memorial, and the rally??s confused blend of Marxism and spirituals only further detracted from its effect...
Such rants were secondary to the rally??s true purpose. Many of the messages conveyed were needed contributions to the public debate—especially the importance of peace-building, diplomacy and working as allies with the people of the Middle East who abhor terrorism. But on some of the most vital issues, the rally so restricted its message that it no longer spoke to the actual questions that policymakers—and the American public—are facing. Platitudes about the “cycle of violence” will not tell us how to respond...
...because the rally??s platform ultimately rested on these platitudes, it allowed for and promoted assumptions that would have been made explicit, and likely rejected, in a more substantive agenda. No one could criticize a “respectful dialogue” with Middle Eastern nations. But the unstated assumption of many speakers, that the U.S. will never need to use limited force to prevent future terrorist attacks, was not and could not have been justified. For all our attempts to address the “roots” of terrorism—socioeconomic, political, religious?...