I agree Rick, this really is a bummer. Especially in light of what this is doing to the membership, and the non-member occasssional and regular conference attendees.

The FA Executive Committee has put people in a really terrible position of having to cross a NAACP picket line to attend the conference. It really is just despicable.

Maybe the "under forty" set, the vast majority of who I'd guess have never walked a picket line or known anyone who has, needs this experience to awaken them to what is at stake beyond their own selfish self-interests.

In fact, that may well be the opportunity in this crisis. To awaken the consciences of a younger generation who have never been confronted with such a blatant case of injustice before, and forced to take a stand one way or the other.