>>NION,
>>etc. -- were all smaller than Oct. 26; Mobe on Sept. 25-6 was a
>>disappointment.
>
>
> Not in New York- NION was 25,000 people, far larger than anything IAC/WWP
> has organized in the city. Oct 26th was large because it became a national
> date and because a lot of folks decided, because of the urgency of the war,
> to go with that date rather than set up competing actions. But if that
> goodwill is going to be used as an argument for general support for the IAC,
> that's all the reason not to ever support their rallies.
Exactly. ANSWER rode a wave of people who would have come if the IAC hadn't organized buses. And it turns out that this wave could have been bigger, if so many people hadn't stayed home to participate in local protests.
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