Sheehan & AIM

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By the way, Meyer Levin's excellent book Compulsion begins with the observation that "Nothing ever ends." I'm starting to get that feeling, too. Among the people whom Sheehan thanked in her "last post" were Dennis Banks and Russell Means of the American Indian Movement; Banks came to see her in Crawford wearing a ceremonial Indian headdress. Our younger readers may not be aware of AIM's murderous history, and news organizations certainly didn't disturb the mood by mentioning it; the Associated Press discreetly described Banks as an "Anishinabi elder."

I never thought, more than thirty years ago, that Means and Banks would still be on the scene in 2005, being treated by the media like Indian versions of Al Sharpton. What's next, another occupation of Alcatraz? [Link mine] Which was, if you didn't know, Jane Fonda's first radical adventure. And Fonda is planning a "peace tour" on a bus to protest the Iraq war next spring. So we have come full circle, I guess. I'm OK with the fact that old radicals never die, but can't they please fade away?