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Nixon is especially fond of the study-commission tactic. He has appointed nearly 50 of them; the annual cost of this presidential predilection is about $10 million. He even named two on oil imports. The first one urged the lifting of restrictions against imports, so he appointed a second that suggested no changes - the result he wanted all along...
...possible tactics, even Weatherman tactics, are only propaganda and organizing tools. None of them in itself impedes the war machine. They make the war too costly, and thus the war may end. but the war machine will remain intact. The criterion for judging an action should be, therefore, in terms of building a movement that will be able to destroy the machine itself. The criterion must be dependent upon how many of who never you want to see, to hear and to agree become catalyzed to move to the level of consciousness that the particular tactic embodies...
Some Radcliffe students objected that 'the women are defending the action on a completely emotional basis." And one Radcliffe House resident said. "Most people here have enough doubts about one aspect of it or another-either gay relationships or the tactic, or the question of whether Harvard should provide a center-so that not many people can support it completely...
...course the Lexington sit-in seems mild in comparison to May day in Washington. But significantly, both demonstrations claim to belong to the class of nonviolent actions, the tactic which Gene Sharp discusses in Exploring Nonviolent Alternatives. The book is a starting-point for a systematic study of the possibilities for nonviolence in political conflicts. Although not terribly well-written, it is a provocative monograph, presenting some interesting ideas which might easily be developed and applied by activist groups in this country...
Alinsky now plans to start using his energies to organize the middle class rather than concentrating only on the poor minorities who, even united into a single movement, would still be a minority in this country. His tactic, one he discovered in his battle with the paternalistic Kodak Corporation in Rochester, will be a nationwide coalition of middle-class stockholders who will use their stock proxies collectively for corporate and (indirectly) government responsibility on political and social-issues. (It's similar to Ralph Nader's "Campaign GM," but on the scale of a mass-movement.) As a revolutionary tactic...