I always say that having known them intimately, I came to loathe them completely. They will abandon this tack the moment anything else even slightly less lame presents itself.
So, uh, are you suggesting that despite how well planned, well financed they are -- they were still caught running on the short-side?
Hey! I remember when Harvey Milk and Mayor Mascone were shot in SF. The leftist brigades were out in the streets of the Financial district nearly immediately with silk screened" arm bands in black.
I always wondered -- how they knew. In advance. Or are they really just that "gifted" in mass production means on the fly. For "oppressed people" who assert to be anti-capitalist, anti-corporation -- I always remember how quick the left had their armbands out on the streets so quickly. My, my.
Maybe they had "iron-on" templates (long before it was available by and for mass means). That's it! From Women with Clothes Lines, they had Women With Irons! Must be it, no?
Note of interest: Those armbands were BEFORE the days of the colored ribbons (pink, aids, etc.)
Been out all day and catching up.
I think they are quite connected in printing, advertising and promotion. And maybe they have drawers full of things like armbands and SHAME signs they can just reuse for appropriate purposes.
I think they see everything as grist for the organizing mill.
Our local Women in Black disappeared until Camp Cindy, when they suddenly were visible again, but in small numbers. After Katrina, they were suddenly not only visible, but had increased their numbers, again. It may just be the ubiquitous phone tree, now morphed to mass emails. They operate in cells. It is difficult to think they have advance knowledge, but they are ever ready to take advantage, almost before anyone realizes it is a *cause*.
They are relentless.
Most seem to me to have no life outside of politics.