SF Demonstration at Senator Dianne Feinstein's Office

what were you protesting? full announcements are much more likely to attract attendees.

They said it was a Tikkun event, didnt they?
That tells you something.

It was sad and also well-intentioned

A very small band of people with signs clustered around speakers at a mic on a corner of Market St. The speakers were excellent - some of the most touching first person accounts and stories I've heard of all the lectures and demos I've been to these past months. But the office cogs walked past with almost no curiosity at all, and certainly no interest in the slick 'Tikkun' pamphlets which were being handed out.

Sadly, no effort was made to get out any real printed info on the mideast that didn't appear to be a religious piece. Personally I don't think that religious songs in Hebrew are helpful - the public tends to want to avoid that.

No calls to media were made, almost no postings at calendars on the net, and no handouts with hard facts. Cogs in downtown won't respond to things in the moment that appear religious. That's why a fact sheet is important - they can read it in their pens and on their MUNI cattle ride home.

I appreciated that they tried, but it was very sad.

Perhaps if you didn't think of them as "cogs" and instead as human beings with a different point of view, your attitude towards "them" might change. I mean, what do you reall know about anyone who walks past you on the street? How do you know they aren't more versed in the subject than you? I hate to tell you this, but it sounds like you're prejudiced.

I wish I knew what this was about