I think members should be given the opportunity to express their disagreement with FA leadership on the FA website, atthe very least.

This was a highly presumptuous move on the leadership's part--shows they aren't very connected to the membership. You'd think they would have at least polled the membership to see what kind of backing they had for such a controversial decision before making this announcement.

Good God, the pickets only started over the weekend, and FA already had press releases at the ready on Monday morning?

That tells me they always intended to go on with the conference, regardless of what ANYONE said, did, etc.