Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 4″ – by Al Giordano
by admin on August 29, 2009
Toppling a Coup, Part IV: The Lost Sheep and the Flock
Back in 1986, paper mill workers in the US state of Maine went on strike. A great multitude gathered one night in one of the mill towns to hear then-US presidential candidate Jesse Jackson speak in solidarity with the workers.
In the middle of Jackson’s oration, a commotion could be heard from the bleachers of the school gymnasium where the talk had been held. A chant of “Scab! Scab! Scab!” arose and I saw workers shaking fists and pointing fingers at one scrawny longhaired guy who had apparently crossed the picket line but still wanted to hear Jackson speak. The scab made a beeline through the crowd toward the exit sign, passing right in front of your correspondent. I’ll always remember the look of fear on his face. This was a burly crowd capable of tearing him limb from limb.
“Brothers and sisters,” thundered Jackson from the podium. “Let not one lost sheep lead the whole flock astray!” He may have saved the guy’s life, or at least a limb or two. The strike meeting continued without incident. And the newspapers had no chaotic acts to sensationalize the next morning
The lesson of the lost sheep applies today in Honduras, where the pro-coup media is abuzz with gloating obsession over two acts of property destruction yesterday that happened near an otherwise peaceful protest march in the capital city of Tegucigalpa
Read the rest of this story at the Narcosphere
Also read parts 5 and 6 of this serie:
Toppling a Coup, Part V: The Resistance Cracks the Oligarchy
Toppling a Coup, Part VI: Electoral, Armed, or Something Else
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