Costs of big marches- Re: [lbo-talk] DC

[ravi]

On 25/09/2005 8:19 AM, Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> Which also highlights how costly these marches are in both money and
> time. Assuming Yoshie's bus estimate of $60 roundtrip is more the
> average, a 200,000 DC person march cost $60 per person and probably
> 10 hours of time per person, or at least $12 million and two million
> hours of volunteer time.
> 
> Imagine if that money and time had instead been devoted to staffing a
>  national antiwar organization to coordinate all that volunteer time
> in communities across the country, organizing church and community
> meetings to discuss why the war needed to end, doing door-to-door
> outreach or whatever.
> 
> No question in my mind that such use of funds and volunteer time
> would be infinitely more effective in both reaching the uncommited
> and pressuring the political class than a one-day story in the
> newspaper.
> 

aren't you the guy who was boasting about a "millions more march"?
what's the difference? i am curious...

also, if the million people expected at that march, say 25% with cable
subscription, decided to go without cable for 1 year, thats $50-$100
million. if they decided to not march, that's another say $40 million.
if they make other trivial sacrifices, such as internet connections,
there's probably more money there. maybe another $50 million?

to be honest, i do not understand the logic of such arguments.

	--ravi