Sunday, July 24, 2005
Money makes the grassroots effort go 'round...
The nooges at the Somerville Divestment Project are looking to pay campaigners to go door-to-door to gather signatures. $10/hour -- not bad pay just to visit people on a list of known past supporters. Wonder where the money is coming from for this (and their paid staff). We know it's not the international Zionist Conspiracy.
From Craig's List:
Ideal Candidates will have an engaging personality and a commitment to bringing about justice in Palestine based on international conventions and laws...
And I'm sure that information will be strictly factual. At least they don't mention peace as a goal -- that's honest. And there's that justice word again. I think we can all imagine pretty accurately what kind of outcome the people at the SDP would consider "just."
Seems like a lot of energy and money are going in to an effort -- divestment in a small Massachusetts city -- that even if implemented will have a null effect on the State of Israel in and of itself.
I wonder what the real goal is (he asked rhetorically).
