[lbo-talk] Kos on Marches

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
-CB: Isn't Kos down on all mass marches as obsolete, mean nothing ? Isn't
-Millions More March a mass march and obsolete and meaningless ? MMM sounds
-like a bunch of people  marching in the street with no media impact.
-So,when you look for a better strategy in the MMM for mass marches, do you
-disagree with Kos that mass marches are obsolete and meaningless today ?

Yes, I think mass marches can be useful-- although fewer and more strategic 
would be better.

If you look at the MMM website and other commentary, a lot of folks are 
quite self-critical on the fact that there wasn't enough community building 
and followup out of the first march.  So there is a lot of emphasis on not 
wasting the fact that so many people are coming together for the march and 
using it to deepen institution-building around the MMM goals.

Doug said that despite giving his name to ANSWER, no one had tried to 
recruit him.  Which is the problem; people attending such marches should be 
recruited for followup organizing in their communities in a very systematic 
manner.   The problem is that ANSWER is so oriented to their march and only 
march strategies that they collect all these names, but don't redirect those 
efforts to other local organizing-- since they have no local organizing 
plan.

-- Nathan Newman