Question about United for Peace and Justice

[blueraven95]

What, if any, are the connections between United for Peace and Justice and ANSWER? I've tried searching through the DU, but too many topics come up for me to go through all of them, and most only hint. I've also briefly scanned through UFPJ's website, and I didn't see any mention of the radical politics expressed by ANSWER, so I'm wondering, why did they end up working together? and, does UFPJ come out of ANSWER, is it totally separate, that sort of thing?

[efhmc]

1. Don't know of any. I met many of these ladies in Crawford and they were

mainstream and very much a part of things there. Added(Did not mean to be sexist but only met female members.)

[ClassWarrior]

2. They are totally seperate, and they don't always see eye to eye...

...but some people feel that it's important for them to work together.

NGU.

[blueraven95]

3. does anyone know why people think it is important ...

for them to work together?

I was at the rally on Saturday, and I did hear a lot of the speakers, and I was one of the people who had problems with those speakers. Part of why I'm asking these questions is because I am trying to learn more about the various organizations on the left, because at I realized that I really know very little about any of them and their core values. The other reason I am asking is because I want to know if writing to UFPJ to voice my concerns about some of the positions presented would be worth it, or if it would be a waste of time.

[moddemny]

5. It would be worth it......

write, write, write and then dump ANSWER.

[blueraven95]

7. that's what I'm thinking.

[mcscajun]

4. UFPJ is completely separate from A.N.S.W.E.R.

in fact, I heard they basically had to "sign a truce" for Saturday not to verbally attack each other until the protests were over, there was so much of a dispute before the rally/march.

A.N.S.W.E.R. gets there first with the money, the plan, and the applications for protest sites...they then broker them to other groups like UFPJ.

[LynneSin]

6. UPJ formed from ANSWER

This is what I've read/heard - please correct me if I'm wrong.

UPJ formed when they got tired of ANSWERS extremist push on these protests. UPJ wanted to stay on one focus message which was get the US out of Iraq.

But what I don't get is why UPJ still let's IA be a part of these protests and why this past one they pretty much let IA shut them out of the protest.

UPJ needs to split completely from IA with regards to organizing protests. The UPJ schedule had an hour of speakers and then the start of the rally and yet IA took over and had speakers (many of them radical leftists who had nothing to do with the Anti-War rally) going until 2pm. Personally, I think they somehow convinced CSpan of keeping the cameras on these speakers instead of having C-SPan panning the crowds in march.