>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> It's a great idea, but the timing stinks - weeks before an election
>> that most likely participants care about, some very intensely. What
>> were they thinking?
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>The timing is superb. Demonstrations give us a count of our potential
>strength. This demo lets us know how many people still take politics
>seriously even during the quadrennial celebration of passivity. Someone,
>sneering at it, predicted "only 10,000." That's 10k of people who will
>go back home and work instead of merely reading the poll figures like
>baseball fans read the batting stats.
Are you delusional, or just in love with your marginality? You call a demo the "Million Worker March" and celebrate when 1% of your announced target show up? If that's "a count of our potential strength," we're doomed. Fortunately, I'm more optimistic about potential strength than you.
Doug