Found this great article while scanning the 51capitalmarch.com forum. Thought you all would appriciate reading it, too:

The Reborn Civil Rights
Movement is 'In the House'

BreakForNews.com, 7th Jan, 2005 22:00ET
by Fintan Dunne, Editor EXCLUSIVE

A New Political Movement is Finding
Identity, Remaking Political Activism

For two months, America had teetered on the brink of a silent slide into a morass of corporate fascism beyond redemption. Now a broad-based and resurgent civil rights movement has just won a major victory. But don't try tell them that, yet.

These people set their political sights high. They wanted rid of George W. Bush. They wanted to see the back of racist voter suppression. They wanted shut of voting machine gerrymandering. They wanted to take back voting from corporate profiteers who could care less about the bedrock of all civil rights: one man or woman, one free and fairly counted vote.

Yesterday, they drew a line in the political sand. Yesterday, they entered a political chamber now turned lions den of small-minded Republicanism, and called the darkness blind. And it was blind.

Yesterday, a motley crew of political activists, journalists, lawyers, career politicians and "conspiracy theorists" took their fight to the U.S. Houses of Congress and considerably advanced almost all of their objectives bar one: They did not unseat the pretender to the presidency of the United States of America -in one fell swoop.

For them, that's a defeat. And it is good that they see it that way. The desperately flawed politics of America is drawing out the best in its principled people. Further high achievements won't come without their continued aim at lofty goals.

For them, the stacked deck of Republican cards meant that defeat was a certainty. They knew that. They just wanted to win anyway. That's impressive. No wonder they feel a little disconsolate.

But for America, and by extension for free people around the world, yesterday's events were a resounding victory.

SLEEPWALKING INTO FASCISM

Since the early hours of November 3rd, 2004 the United States had been in danger of sleepwalking into irredeemable Fascism. The minority who backed Bush were asleep anyway, lost in dreams of empire, crusade and thinly-veiled military revenge.

The ABB(Anybody But Bush) majority who had backed Kerry were in some
kind of group catatonia. They just couldn't square the clear popular sentiment with the election outcome. The corporate media had counted the votes; had declared the corporate candidate the winner; had invented a media-mythical, fundamentalist horde of new Bush voters; and had invited the intelligentsia to flee to Canada. Or go to hell. Or anywhere.

It all seemed unreal. Like a political 9/11.

And so, the zeitgeist shuddered. The social psyche hit a wall of disassociation. The sleepwalking somnolence set in.

But not on the Internet...

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