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

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ravi" <listmail at kreise.org>
-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?

Except the antiwar movement didn't encourage activists to buy a cable 
subscription.

The antiwar leaders did encourage them to spend $60 on a bus ticket and a 
day of their time going to DC.

Seriously, I hear lefties complaining about how the rightwing wins because 
they have more money, and then they casually dismiss the concern that the 
antiwar movement blew $12 million on a one-day media event.

Was that the best use of $12 million?

For the same money, you could just about fund the salaries for one year of a 
community organizer in every single Congressional district, who could spend 
their time organizing local activists to do outreach, local demos or help 
build support for primary campaigns against incumbents-- whatever was needed 
to put pressure on Congress.

So $12 million spent on one day versus a year of local organizing in every 
Congressional district.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Nathan