[lbo-talk] Marketing Dork & Unemployed Pride

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 2 13:15:37 PST 2004


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Where is the unemployment office located in one's locality? How
>accessible is it to leaflet distribution? How many days would one have
>to leaflet it to reach even a sizeable minority of the unemployed? What
>other methods might work to acquaint them with one another? Articles in
>the Nation or Against the Current, no matter how beautifully clear or
>how wonderful their content, are not going to reach the bulk of the
>unemployed.

Not sure who ever thought they would.

There are about 2.8 million people drawing unemployment benefits in the U.S., with about 330,000 signing up every week (and somewhat more dropping off). There's plenty to work with there. But what's the message of this leaflet?

Doug



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