Hollow ANSWER?

[Chuck0]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> How many people can they hire on $900,000/yr? Or let's round up and say $1m. They've got to print their paper, pay rent on offices (their 
>> place on 14th St isn't small - 5000 sq ft at low-end rates would be 
>> about $100,000/yr in rent alone, not including electricity and 
>> phones). Even if they paid their organizers $20,000/yr, 100 would cost 
>> $2m. They'd be lucky if they could afford two dozen.
>>
>> Doug
> 
> 
> Surely, liberal NGOs, churches, unions, etc. can pitch in and hire far 
> more than two dozen paid organizers if they wish.  Why can they not 
> out-organize ANSWER?

Who says that they aren't organized? I see anti-war protests happening all 
over the place, sign of an organized and widespread peace and anti-war movements.

Perhaps the difference here is that there goal is to stop war, not organize a 
mass boring spectacle that mostly benefits the sponsoring organization.

Chuck0

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