Hollow ANSWER?

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Fri Jan 24 03:50:10 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>Don't all well-known liberal NGOs -- the kind in charge of United for
>Peace, Win Without War, etc. -- have larger budgets and more paid
>organizers than WWP, RCP, or any other "sect"?

No on number of organizers - not if WWP has 100 folks working essentially as full time staff, and definitely not available for this kind of organizing. One of the realities and limits of most NGOs is that their funding is dedicated to specific projects, so they can't work for a few months on an organizing campaign, then when the issue leaves the immediate media frenzy, shift all their resources to the next hot issue. They actually commit resources over the long-term to followup and, especially those dependent on foundations, don't have loose cash that can just be thrown at any new issue.

Politically, when you understand that WWP has 100 people working fulltime, that makes them one of the largest organizations obstensibly on the left in the country as far as staffing. Which allows them to combine the lack of accountability to the broader left than foundation-funded NGOs have with their insane politics.

-- Nathan Newman



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