After watching Bush’s speech this PM

Utne Reader last month had a couple of thought provoking articles that I think the Left ought to be tuning into right now.

One details the steady decrease in the importance and impact of demonstrations and public protests as tools for change.

The other (written by an organizer of Food Not Bombs) deals with the myth of the success of non violent protest (yes, including Gandhi) and how violence has actually been the deciding force in most instances of social change where nonviolence is celebrated.

Food for thought, o peaceful ones.