Reply #25: Tell ya a little story Derby

[canetoad]

Around '97 or '98 the waterside workers (wharfies) in Melbourne had a lengthy strike to protest a large stevedore company replacing them with contract labourers. An old lefty friend and I decided to visit the picket line, show support, donate a little to their strike fund.

When we arrived, as well as the wharfies, every fucking fringe and non-fringe lefty group had set up little stalls for their own particular cause; Greenpeace, Save the Tasmanian Forests, Abortion Rights. You name the cause, they jumped on the bandwagon to get their two cents worth in.

It made me sick to the stomach that instead of showing solidarity with the guys doing the hard yards on the picket line, they were piggybacking on the event and using it - yes, USING, to promote their own particular cause. They were all worthy causes, but it was totally inappropriate for the time and place.

You seem to be doing the same thing; using the well-founded political protest in Iran as a vehicle to push your own pet cause which is the covering of women's heads in Islamic nations. Wake up, focus on the issue at hand and stop trying to lump all things into one protest.