Re: PFPC and cogdem

How is all this to be reconciled with the fact that only 2.4% of the world's 
population has access to the global internet?  Ganesh.

Threehegemons@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/11/2003 5:48:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>prugovecki@laguna.com.mx writes:
> > Perhaps one day the people who have founded these websites > will start > 
>actively interacting and cooperating.
> The world social forum, as well as various far left spinoffs (see for example 
>http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/space/hubesf.htm), would seem to 
>epitomize much of the behavior that both Eduard Prugovecki and Warren Wagar 
>relegate to the land of dreams and hopes.  The left has constructed quite a 
>dense communications structure on the web, putting aside the email lists many 
>of us are on that are probably the main way many local activists communicate 
>with each other at this point.  this is a global process--check out the list 
>of chapters at indymedia.org.  I suppose it is a lot messier than many 
>utopographers might hope for, but if one is actively concerned about changing 
>the world, they are what we have.  As Fidel Castro once commented, "it is not 
>for revolutionaries to sit in the doorways of their houses waiting for the 
>corpse of imperialism to pass by. The role of Job doesn't suit a 
>revolutionary. "
> Steven Sherman