A call to Aids rethinkers

  Are you
  Prepared
  to counterpunch?
 

          by Fintan Dunne
                   29th Sept 2000

It doesnt take a genuis to see that the political pressure is intensifying in the South African Aids issue. Mandelas' reported rebuking of Thabo Mbeki may be a savvy political ringfencing of the ANC. If Mbeki is determined to take the heat then he may as well take some heat off the ANC too. But mostly Mbeki needs the time for the Aids Panel to produce concrete results- his opponents want to scupper the whole process now.

 Attacks on Mbeki from newspapers have intensified. Meanwhile, ACT-UP San francisco find themselves on the recieving end of a mooted boycott. The Aids industry has realized that every day the controversy continues induces the open-minded to examine the issue for themselves. They are making a determined last ditch attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.

  So now is the time for dissidents to counterpunch. Sitting still is not an option. The outcome of all this will be largely determined over the next three months. A Internet team is being formed to collaborate with leading dissidents, to engage in strategic interventions and campaigns- over the Internet, and pursue special internet-based projects.

 Rather than discuss this further publicly, plans will be co-orodinated by means of a private forum. If you want to spend your online time more productively for the dissident cause; if you want to join us to lend your practical support then please email to mail@aidsmyth.com with "Counterpunch" in the subject title for details.

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