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

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Sun Sep 25 09:32:39 PDT 2005


----- 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



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