Oh Gosh, was it Billy Brammer or Willie Morris who said of Ronnie Dugger’s Texas Observer that it wasn’t the quantity, but the quality of the readers that mattered most? (Happy 50th, Dugger & crew!)
Likewise with distribution of the Bankrolled article below, I was very pleased that Sam Hamod posted the thing in a heartbeat at his website, todaysalternativenews. I have a lot of respect for Sam’s aiming eye when it comes to targets in mid-East affairs, so his support means a lot when I write about Falluja. He sez via email: “shirley has a lot of courage; your article says so much. the psyops people are going to be the death of america. no one in this world ever gives up to such cruelty, instead, it endgenders more hatred of america that will never be forgotten (see also anwaar hussain’s article on my site of today, from fallujah, it’s in the international column; i put yours in the national column).” Thank you, Sam.
Then Simon Harak at the War Resisters League national office circulated the article to his personal list with a blurb: “very powerful, practical and persuasive piece on war tax resistance.” That was cool enough, but then I traced the link where he got the article, and that was cooler still. A website registered in Rome (yes, the city in Italy) called UrukNet had picked up the article from Sam’s site.
Charlie Jackson of Texans for Peace asked to post it at his website. And Danny Yeager at the Touchstone zine in College Station (my homeplace of dissent) also asked to run it there. Thanks guys.
Finally, I heard back from the ACOMT folks that they were pretty pleased with the work. So it’s on to the next article in the series. Please stay tuned.
Dec. 9 update. We got CounterPunched! Cheers to Cockburn and St. Clair.
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