Comments on: The American Rally for Personal Rights – bit of a damp squib

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:19:41 +0000

Oleg looks like a copy cat of Valentin Mikhaylin.

By: Jimmy Crakcorn

Jimmy Crakcorn — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:38:29 +0000

Sorry your zeolite stand at AutismOne didn’t work out. Better luck next year.

By: David N. Brown

David N. Brown — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:15:37 +0000

ANB,
Vendors not showing up is a more striking development than the small crowds. Turnout is very hard to predict, and it would be understandable for planners to overestimate turnout and/or “overprepare” for numbers beyond serious expectations. But vendors should be a known quantity, and should be willing to see things through (especially if they paid to get in). I can testify from recent experience: A week ago, I had a table for a complete dud of an exhibition at an area comic book store, and I’m pretty sure there were at least as many vendors as customers.

It would seem most likely that a number of vendors signed up for the rally and then punched out,which would be a rather extraordinary measure.

By: AutismNewsBeat

AutismNewsBeat — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:44:38 +0000

Those were vendors’ tables. Maybe 20 total. All but three were empty.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:15:19 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d.....145575804/

The link above is to a panorama of the event. Note the perimeter of the field with the tables. Note the small crowd far from those tables.

I gather that the editors from AoA were busy promoting their own books elsewhere.

By: Kev

Kev — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:26:36 +0000

Curt can.

By: Liz Ditz

Liz Ditz — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:35:57 +0000

Curt Linderman Sr’s view of the rally:

The inaugural American Rally for Personal Rights was a huge success! Everyone involved, from Louise Kuo Habakus to the large number of volunteers that spent months on conference calls and logistics, worked tirelessly to ensure this success. Timed to coincide with the Autism One Conference being held at the Westin Ohare in Rosemont Illinois, The American Rally for Personal Rights was attended by over three hundred individuals and 300 + computers logged on and watched online…...

While some websites run by unscrupulous individuals decided to misinform the public with the low estimates of those attending the mid week rally, numbers were essentially where we had expected them to be and this is apparent when you consider that the Chicago officials would have been riled had we underestimated the number and significantly more had shown up for the event. With more than 300 logins for the web based rally, the number of those viewing via the web should be placed at over 1500 considering that I know of a number of rally parties springing up….worthy numbers for a first time event.

Man. You can’t make this stuff up.

By: Squillo

Squillo — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:42:27 +0000

“Also available for weddings and bar mitvahs.”

ANB wins the internet today.

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