McGrath,

The issue isn't the money. It could be raised easily and quickly. The point is, the Executive Committee made a choice that isolated them and the organization from their main base of support, by choosing to violate the boycott for purportedly "economic" reasons. And then attempt to justify it by cloaking themselves in "solidarity" with the NCCC.

Experienced organizers know how this "race strategy" works. We've seen it a million times before, and will again.

Essentially, the EC made a decision not to be inconvenienced by the boycott. Now, very few people will be willing to give them any kind of support, financial or otherwise, because it was an idiotic decision to begin with. I think most experienced leftist folkies (at least the ones I've spoken with this week) feel they made their bed, so let them lie in it. I haven't talked to anyone who is willing to cross a NAACP picket line.

As to the younger members of the NA folk community, my kids and their friends, who are high schoolers, active musically and politically, and pretty savvy about this sort of thing, are even more up in arms about it than the older generation of folkies (their parents).

There may be a lackadaisacal attitude among the twenty & 30 thirty something gen-xers (although there isn't among my gen-x friends), but the younger kids seem to be really angry about this--nay, that isn't accurate--TOTALLY appalled (remember, they are teens!)