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Support in other ways?
What would be nice is if there were a way to support this for those who can't make it to DC. Things like monetary contributions or offering a place to sleep for people taking airlines to DC are two activities many of us could do to help.
They have a donate page
at http://october2011.org/donate and they also need help with local transportation in DC - FAQ - and mostly need LOTS of people to show up!
While I certainly wish them luck
(and I can't see what the video says - no transcript? - but I've read such appeals before) ...it all seems a little unreal.
Maybe this video is different and addresses this, but the reality is if you have a job and don't want to lose it, your house, your family etc, then you wont be going. Professional activists being the exception of course. If you don't have a job it's hard to travel hundreds of miles to Washington DC. In Egypt the did not face this issue. They could literally walk to the protest. So it seems like ........ sigh. I guess I don't know how to organise such things but it all seems like an oddly unrealistic pitch.
A good rally never a waste of time
I enjoy watching these from afar, even though I'd rather be there. David Byron is right in one sense in that only a small percentage of people get to participate in D.C. Rallies, but I do like to watch them fill up that mall! Margaret Flowers is my friend on FB (bragging). She's an Angel on Earth.