Sounds like a wholesome family friendly bunch, don't they? /s
Tx-I can't post it in it's own thread. It's a typepad url.
Here's more Curtis and his buddies. I think this is more than enough for us to know where Curtis stands.
The convergence was to call out to artists, educators, and organizers to share ideas and work in building a movement for social change. Events began Friday night at the Tulane Diboll conference center. Talvin Wilks of New World Theatre at UMASS welcomed the participants and explained the purpose of the convergence. Wilks talked the convergence’s history. In October of 2003, artists and organizers met in Flint, Michigan at the Activating Democracy Conference. There Grace Lee Boggs spoke on the need for collaboration of artists, organizers, and educators in movement building. New Orleanians, Curtis Muhammad and John O’Neal who work with The Colorlines project proposed convening in New Orleans in 2004.
Following Wilks, key note speaker Bill Fletcher, Jr., of TransAfrica Forum took the floor on the topic of movement building. Bill Fletcher, who has extensive background in organized labor, now works with TransAfrica Forum. TransAfrica Forum, according to their website, is “a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the general public – particularly African Americans – on the economic, political and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.” Fletcher challenged progressives to participate in the struggle, not just observe it. Progressive organizers, artists, and educators need to address the sexism, racism, and classism in their work, to understand their middle class privileges and social barriers, to be a voice with the struggle and not for it. Fletcher also described the differences and similarities between Clintonian neo-liberal “first among equals” capitalism and Bush and company’s “cowboy”policies. “Cowboy” capitalism, according the Fletcher, can be summed up in four points:
a) US is a capitalist nation, and shall maintain its supremacy having no competition like the USSR during the Cold War.
b) Everyone is to be capitalist, there are to be no other economic systems but capitalism, under the supremacy of the U.S.
c) If you don’t agree, you are a terrorist.
d) The U.S. has the right to declare war on those we deem terrorists.
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