[free-sklyarov] courses of action

[Karsten M. Self]

on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:59:59AM -0400, Declan McCullagh (declan at well.com) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:01:59PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > The Adobe protests weren't going to do anything either.  So...why was it
> > that I found myself walking backwards leading a group of some sixty
> > protesters back to their HQ in San Jose this July, after we got a phone
> > call from inside "Hey, psst, bring 'em back here, that's really
> > helping".
> 
> Unfortunately 60 people marching on Capitol Hill won't even get you
> noticed. (Capitol Hill is actually a pretty big place, perhaps 10
> blocks by 10 blocks for the portions we care about.) If you get 6,000
> people, the Washington Post may run a story buried inside the Metro
> Section. Get 60,000, and it's the front page of the Metro
> section. 600,000 and it's on the front page of the A section.

Congress keeps its till well away from the front steps to boot.  And
yeah, I finally made it to DC this summer, I've got a feel for the lay
of the land.

But I really wasn't talking about political protests, I'm talking about
corporate ones.  Companies, and consumers, are far more risk averse than
legislators (at least at the national level).  A protest in front of
Disney, timed in the last few weeks of November and December, will make
headlines, and impact profits.  Particularly in a dry year.

Cheers.

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