Editing Not in Our Name (section)

==Controversies==

===Role in the anti-war movement===
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A partial parallel for the founding of '''Not in Our Name''' (NION) is the founding of the anti-war coalition [[ANSWER]]. ANSWER was founded on 14 September 2001, on the eve of the [[United States invasion of Afghanistan|U.S. invasion of Afghanistan]], largely by members of the [[Workers World Party]] (WWP). NION was founded on 23 March 2002, largely by members of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party (USA)|Revolutionary Communist Party]] (RCP), which continues to be prominent among its leadership. (In 2005, four years after its founding, the [[Party for Socialism and Liberation]], an offshoot of WWP, became a more prominent influence than the WWP in the leadership of ANSWER.)

Nonetheless, in contrast to ANSWER, NION has a broad set of endorsers and is generally regarded as a cooperative participant in the broader [[anti-war movement]]. An October 2002 article by [[Michael Albert]] and [[Stephen R. Shalom]] in [[Z Magazine|''Z'']] magazine is typical among expressions by anti-war critics of the RCP that, despite its origins, NION is a cooperative participant in the movement. After excoriating the RCP for holding various positions that Albert and Shalom find abhorrent, they then write, "Despite these views, however, RCP does not push its specific positions on NION to the degree that [[International Action Center|IAC]] does on ANSWER. For example, while the ANSWER website offers such things as ... [an] IAC backgrounder on Afghanistan ..., the NION website and its public positions have no connection to the sometimes bizarre views of the RCP."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2527 |title=ZNet &#124;Anti War &#124; Ten Q&A; on Antiwar Organizing |accessdate=2008-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311064711/http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2527 |archivedate=2008-03-11 }}</ref> This is reflected in the wide range of signatories to their [[#"Statement of Conscience"|"Statement of Conscience"]].

Also, NION is itself now a member of a broader coalition [[United for Peace and Justice]], founded in October 2002 (a year after ANSWER) by individuals and groups seeking to curb ANSWER's influence in the [[anti-war movement]].

An example of NION's willingness to cooperate came when they postponed their national moratorium against the war to coincide with the March 5, 2003 "Books Not Bombs" student strike called by the [[National Youth and Student Peace Coalition]].

===Donation from Larry Flynt===
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In 2004, Robert Corsini, an organizer for Not in Our Name publicized [[Hardcore pornography|Hardcore pornographer]] [[Larry Flynt]]'s support for one of their campaigns. [[Aura Bogado]], a [[feminist]] radio producer and news anchor for KPFK, objected privately in e-mail and asked to be removed from the organization's mailing list. Corsini forwarded his response to Bogado (including a copy of the original private e-mail) to NION national organizers, her employers at [[KPFK]], and to Bruce David at Larry Flynt Publishing. Bogado replied to Corisini in detail on NION's public e-mail list, and participated in a sharp debate over the e-mail list that followed. After ''Hustler'' published a series of articles and sexual caricatures attacking Bogado, she made her criticism public in [http://www.hustlingtheleft.com/bogado1.html "Hustling the Left"], published on [[ZNet]] in June 2005. Bogado charged that Leftist leaders were tacitly supporting [[racism]] and [[misogyny]] by aligning themselves with Flynt, and specifically criticized [[Greg Palast]], [[Amy Goodman]], [[Susie Bright]], and [[Amy Alkon]]. The discussion of her article inspired similar criticism of Leftist leaders cooperating with Flynt by feminists such as [[Nikki Craft]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hustlingtheleft.com/|title=Hustling The Left|website=www.hustlingtheleft.com}}</ref> and pro-feminist Leftists such as [[Stan Goff]] (<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://stangoff.com/?p=163#comment-1760 |title=Feral Scholar » HUSTLING THE LEFT WEBSITE OPENING |access-date=2007-11-24 |archive-date=2007-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814051249/http://stangoff.com/?p=163#comment-1760 |url-status=dead }}</ref>). Shortly after the publication of her article, the Not in Our Name Steering Committee issued a [http://www.notinourname.net/archive/apology-16jun05.htm public apology to Bogado] and objected to the treatment of Bogado in ''Hustler''.