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How serendipitous that this request should come at this moment: I'm producing an anti-war play, Lysistrata, that is truly much more powerful a statement than the one time shot-in-the- dark Project Lysistrata of 2003--and I'm doing it openly in China.
As I'm involved up to my ears in this, along comes Shahram from a news site that is, amongst other things, anti-war asking me to write something because of my involvement with mwcnews, pretty much from the very beginning. I take exception to some of the articles that are published--but this is good. MWC News is not narrow, presenting only one outlook. Rosemarie Jackowski, the granny jailed and prosecuted and persecuted in Vermont for parading her anti-war views and wishes that the media would public photos of dead/injured Iraqi children in an attempt to bring the inhumanity of war home to her community, would love mwcnews, for there is little self-censorship involved: if the pictures are not raised up alongside the headlines, there are links to war's reality: hell filled with dead, burnt bodies. The writing at mwcnews is superior to the flatulent rhetoric to be found at other Internet news services, especially the alternative websites which censor, even unto petty personal dislikes: it's the same old same old. There's more to the world than George Bush, Iraq and Afghanistan: let's see it. There's a global happening. The little tidbits, the incidents are but a piece in the greater puzzle. . .except to many alternative websites: for them, the incidents and irising down are important because they are easy and keep us occupied and believing that saying is doing. They fool themselves, as they've been taught, according to Paul Goodman, who maintained as far back as the 1960's (too far back in history for most Americans) that we are growing up absurd. Stephen Pepper noted that any society that marginalizes even one human is a psychotic society. For this alone, mwcnews is worthwhile: it doesn't forget the marginalized. Indeed, mwcnews brings them right up into the limelight.
You know, this was difficult to write: it's difficult not to pat myself on the back, pat mwcnews on the back, as if this were a mutual admiration society. But I get to write to Shahram about the problems or shortcomings; it's inappropriate to air them here. Writing to dissidentvoice or Alternet gets a kindly, "Thank you. We appreciate your interest. . .blah, blah, blah self promotion." Alternet is not so alternate as it seems to buy into the bigger is better. Dissidentvoice is big enough that "news" doesn't often make it online until two days later. MWCnews is small but the news-and-views are right there, right in synch with the technological speed age. But "yesterday's" news is not old news: older articles are dredged up or linked to as the newer writing appears. There is more of a cohesiveness here.
From here, inside the Peoples Republic of China, I am expat
jimsecor
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