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 Sunday spread: 'The interesting significance of Phila. is the sad irony of it' 01/14/01 - Philadelphia Inquirer John Sellers is leader of the Ruckus Society, a group based in California that trains activists in nonviolent civil disobedience. Whether the group joins the inauguration protests "depends on whether we can be supportive of mainstream Americans who feel dishonored and cheated, and locked out of the process. We're not as interested in supporting another protest that looks like the protest in Philadelphia or the protest in L.A. Those protests were marginalized even though a lot of people agreed with the activists. The mass globalizations that we want to support are the ones that our parents will want to be out there. We don't want to be marginalized. We want to be a populist movement.... I think that for me, the interesting significance of Philadelphia is the sad irony of it. I think everyone would have turned away pretty quickly had they charged people with the kind of charges you usually charge people for nonviolent street action. They wanted to grind us into the sand. One of my friends talks about the movement being a skin on the drum... the harder you beat it the louder it becomes. People are questioning the depths to which they stooped to silence free speech." |
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