Just the other day (23/9/05 4:01 pm), Charles Brown opined:
> Since the anti-war groups are doing such a bad job, why don't some of the
> expert organizers on this list organize a better anti-war movement
> ,instead
> of sitting around declaring that the Sept. 24 demo is just a bunch of sour
> grapes ?
Or because I wasted a lot of time a couple of years ago supporting such organizing, only to see meetings sabotogued by ANSWER-allied groups and watched other folks fold and ally with those same groups-- and watched the results in low turnouts.
The problem is not actually ANSWER. It's the choice of the rest of the democratic left putting up with them. Once the latter happened, it's not really likely that any other efforts get critical mass so why bother?
Then again, I've never thought rallies were particularly effectiveness to begin with, so it's not where I'd put my effort in any case.
Nathan Newman