Paid Protesters Protest not getting Paid

[Belsnickel]

(05-21-2015, 06:58 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Matt, If you decide to look at the stories in these links, scroll down and look at the comments.  It is very apparent that many of these folks though they were going to get paid to protest.  Now, how in the world would they get that idea?  

http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=9598

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/05/326169-protests-ferguson-last-year-didnt-pay-off-people/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morning_newsletter
http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/052015-753642-ferguson-protesters-complain-about-not-getting-paid.htm


If you ask me, it's bad enough to cry about a guy that got shot for trying to take an officer's gun.  And even worse to cry about not getting paid for crying about it..

The articles provided nothing new and the comments were primarily people deriding the protesters. I'm not sure what I was supposed to be seeing. Admittedly, I didn't go through all of the comments because, well, comments.

(05-21-2015, 08:26 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It is of no use. As I have said folks see what they want to see and close their eyes to the things they do not. Even though the very homepage of Millennial Activists United contains a letter that questions the way the funds were distributed to fund the protest:

http://millennialau.tumblr.com/

There will be those that suggest this is not enough evidence to prove that individuals were compensated/ promised compensation to protest. Apparently many just received "grants".

Because it is not. We've seen that from the beginning, it's not new. You're saying about only seeing what you want to is very ironic because you keep making assumptions not supported by the documents.

I get that there is a lot of shady stuff going on here, but the claim that these folks were promised compensation for protesting has not had any support to it from a hard source. Just claims. Paying for travel expenses, bailing people out, etc., that isn't compensation. As I said, this is nothing different than any other activist organization from either side of the aisle.