Another Klamath list ping. Probably should have just pinged this one. Sorry folks.
So, was it a sucess or not?
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2002/10/20/5c.cr.fizzledprotest.1020.html
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October 20, 2002
Oregon activists in convoy find no one to rally
By The Associated Press
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Oregon property rights activists calling themselves the Sawgrass Rebellion wrapped up a cross-country convoy Saturday with a rally at a small Everglades community.
But the final stop fell flat for convoy members when few local residents showed up to protest an Army Corps of Engineers plan to flood much of their community. The leaders who invited them never showed.
Convoy leader Bill Ransom hooked up a 10-foot bucket on his trailer and left Oregon on his cross-country tour after receiving a letter from the Dade County Farm Bureau asking for help in saving farmland from the Everglades restoration project.
"We were five stops into the tour, in Nevada, when they called us up and said the whole thing was off," Ransom said as the convoy organized in a dusty gas station parking lot outside Miami. "But we had no intention of heading home, we don't care if there is only two people, we are coming to see."
When the 50-car convoy reached the farm bureau in Homestead, the building was closed for the weekend.
"These are the people that invited us in the first place, and now there's nobody here," Ransom said.
In the end, there were more convoy members from around the country than there were residents at the scene to join the protest.
"This is not like I imagined this would end," one disappointed convoy member said.
Ransom is also chairman of the Bucket Brigade, a group that fought for irrigation rights in the Klamath Basin in 2001.
Oops, missed the last two paragraphs in the original post.