>>>I have seen some "one shot" protest marches act more as a relief valve, than an agent of change. In those cases people and movements exhausting their activism with the march. IMO, in those cases they did those they oppose a favour. The key is to have an organized, long lasting and strategic initiative, not relying on one action on one day. <<<

Interesting point. It doesn't really apply to this rally. Beck announced a rally it as talk show host, most likely as a power trip and little else and seemed to have built the theme around those celebrities he could get to attended. It went from politics, to "civil rights" to religion. What was said on the podium that day was a typical mish-mash of Beckian pseudo-intelligent mumbo-jumbo. Jon Stewa