Post-election protest.

• Author: Schuler, Marc
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor

Toward the end of "To Catch a Thief" (October issue), Barbara Ehrenreich quotes scholar Frances Fox Piven, who "recommends nationwide protests that are both 'nonviolent and disruptive,' possibly on Inauguration Day."

Inauguration Day would be far too late for this. After Florida 2000, we all now have a good idea of the timing involved here. The results will be announced and certified within days, maybe a week or two after the election. This is when we need to be actively mobilized.

This is also the time and the place we should be organizing protest actions at local election boards. In the places where the results...