"Red Encyclopedia"? Re: Corn transcript

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 11:06 AM -0500 11/19/02, Doug Henwood wrote:
>O'REILLY: ... that this organization has enough members to fill a phone
>booth, how do they get the power to run an organization like ANSWER?
>
>CORN: Well, I may -- this may be hard for people to understand, but you
>don't need a lot of power, you don't need a lot of bodies to put on a
>march or a demonstration in Washington. You need several dozen people, a
>couple score maybe, who do the -- get the permits, get the buses, and
>devote their time and energy 20 hours a day to making this happen.
>
>It doesn't take a lot of people to do this, which is why they're able to
>sort of jump ahead of the more mainstream peace and religious
>organizations and get out in front and do this and get a response.

I wonder just how many organizers and activists each left-wing 
organization can count on.  On another mailing list, I found a 
website called "Red Encyclopedia," on a page of which estimates of 
"cadres" and/or "members" of various left-wing organizations -- 
ranging from the Democratic Socialists of America, the Green Party, 
the Industrial Workers of the World, to the Spartacist League -- are 
listed: <http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/groups.html>.  Do the 
estimates on the page sound about right to you?
-- 
Yoshie

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