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19 comments:
I love this. So very funny.
Berlin is one of the very finest venues for a protest. I shall never forget my days there in the early 80's, even though, alas, we failed. Or did we?
From the BBC story:
Next to a black and white posed picture, Melanie lists her details from her jeans size to her shoe size and tells potential protest organisers that she is willing to be deployed up to 100km around Berlin.
Six hours of Melanie bearing your banner or shouting your slogan will set you back 145 euros.
I suppose that's worth it, as long as she didn't start singing "Brand New Key."
But if it was "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)," I'd definitely join in.
Does one laugh or cry? Probably both.
Kent State - Bloody Sunday - and now erento.com. Long, strange trip it has been indeed Garcia my old mucker.
Been done before of course. Who was the activist in the Seventies who succeeded in browbeating a particular corporation in submission, by threatening to buy up the first three rows of an opera the corp was sponsoring and packing them with volunteers who had all been fed two cans of baked beans an hour before curtain up?
I'd need to ask Melanie, Dilek et al. whether they'd go 'all the way' before I hired, but sadly my German may not be up to the task:
Wieviel für ein fart Liebling?
Wow. Nice price. Palestinians only get $35 a day.
Trey
Probably does work. I think the Cedar Revolution started the whole Protest Babe phenomenon. Nothing like a young, attractive female to get your cause on TV.
PETA learned that. Except they ruin it by always getting naked, which doesn't make the news.
This is fairly common, isn't it? I remember reading about people hired by labor unions to protest Walmart being paid less than the Walmart employees.
Renting a crowd of protesters is exactly the best way for a shy fellow to get a date with that hot chick who lives in the building across the street.
“He, he. Ho, ho. Aus mit Niklas müssen Sie gehen!”
I walked a picket line in college when I was a Teamster for the afternoon paper. It was a charged & emotional time even for someone like me who was basically working summers and weekends. Then after college I took my place against a different group of Teamsters (Local 500) who were trying to get my union to walk out. I remember our group was outnumbered but could have beaten the crap of the Teamster group. Why, because The Teamster group consisted of a bunch of "de facto rent a protesters" i.e, union hall lackeys and assorted hanger-ons.
I guess someone saw a business opportunity in situations like that and so we have it.
These rent-a-protesters make a mockery of the concept to give up something (your job and paycheck) and taking a stand for something.
"I would like to point out that not all protests will tally with my own point of view and I would like to distance myself from these."
--Demonstrators' disclaimer
I love it. Why is this whole concept vaguely reminiscent of that old episode from Star Trek TOS, where a war between two planets is fought entirely by computer, with computer-determined casualties?
Protesting has been a full-time job since at least the 1980s.
You used to see advertisements in Germany, pinned up in loo walls, saying that for transportation, and a meal, and a few DMs, they'd bus you around to rallies.
In the mid-90s, when I was at Oxford, we had professional recruiters for rallies, who targetted the sleazoids hanging around Deer Park, rather than the faux-intelligentsia (like me) knocking back the Courvoisiers at Freud Cafe.
Anyone who thinks protesters today, are not led by a very organised, very well-funded, very cynical group of people (like Code Pink), is still dreaming of sticking flowers into National Guardsmen's rifles.
Cheers,
Victoria
BTW, can someone get on the horn and rent some protesters for these gals?
Coals to Newcastle, it ain't.
Breasts not Bombs
Cheers,
Victoria
This is fairly common, isn't it? I remember reading about people hired by labor unions to protest Walmart being paid less than the Walmart employees
Yeah, the protesters-for-hire thing is old hat. This is the first I've heard of someone setting up an agency, though -- usually the unions just grab some convenient "undocumented immigrants" and stick signs in their hands.
Anyway -- are they a union outfit? If not, could you hire them to protest against their own company?
Are not people who sell their bodies for temporary use called street walkers or worse.
Here's the real question - what makes it newsworthy just because a few hundred people congregate somewhere and carry signs around until the TV trucks leave?
Isn't the real problem an uncritical media who just use these folks as 'extras'?
Are not people who sell their bodies for temporary use called street walkers or worse
Er, they're generally called "blue collar workers", actually...
You live blog Apprentice and the Golden Globes but not the State of the Union?
Weird.
ADDED: "How'r'ya doin'" our President says, turning to Nancy Pelosi. He begins by taking credit for the new stop of saying "Madam Speaker."
Heh. Poor Ann. The new semester must have tired her.
Unless she's suggesting Nancy Pelosi was hired as a protester by that agency. :)
Cheers,
Victoria
Ann, why aren't you hanging on to Bush's every last word?
It's important to liveblog the SOTU. So much is happening in real-time. If you wait until after it's done to comment on it, you're not doing your solemn duty as a pundit--or a law professor.
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