Astroturf Gone Wrong: Fake Protesters Offered $20 To Stand At Anti-Wind Energy Rally

[TruthOut10]

Most Americans like clean energy. So when conservatives wage campaigns against clean energy initiatives, they have typically resorted to fronting astroturf groups and paying fake protesters to generate noise.

Needing 100 anti-wind protesters by next week and apparently unable to find them, a mysterious firm advertised a “quick and easy $20″ on Craigslist. According to the ad, the only thing the “volunteers” would need to do for their pay is “stand next to or behind the speakers and elected officials/celebrities” at a rally against a wind turbine project in the UK.

View the screenshot (the ad was quickly pulled down after Grist made the catch):


Astroturf Gone Wrong: Fake Protesters Offered $20 To Stand At Anti-Wind Energy Rally | ThinkProgress

 

[martybegan]

Most Americans like clean energy. So when conservatives wage campaigns against clean energy initiatives, they have typically resorted to fronting astroturf groups and paying fake protesters to generate noise.

Needing 100 anti-wind protesters by next week and apparently unable to find them, a mysterious firm advertised a “quick and easy $20″ on Craigslist. According to the ad, the only thing the “volunteers” would need to do for their pay is “stand next to or behind the speakers and elected officials/celebrities” at a rally against a wind turbine project in the UK.

View the screenshot (the ad was quickly pulled down after Grist made the catch):


Astroturf Gone Wrong: Fake Protesters Offered $20 To Stand At Anti-Wind Energy Rally | ThinkProgress

It seems the Kennedys do it for free...


US approves first offshore wind farm despite Kennedy opposition - Telegraph

And many democratic protesters are paid too, paid by thier government jobs or government handouts.

 

[there4eyeM]

Most Americans like clean energy. So when conservatives wage campaigns against clean energy initiatives, they have typically resorted to fronting astroturf groups and paying fake protesters to generate noise.

Needing 100 anti-wind protesters by next week and apparently unable to find them, a mysterious firm advertised a “quick and easy $20″ on Craigslist. According to the ad, the only thing the “volunteers” would need to do for their pay is “stand next to or behind the speakers and elected officials/celebrities” at a rally against a wind turbine project in the UK.

View the screenshot (the ad was quickly pulled down after Grist made the catch):


Astroturf Gone Wrong: Fake Protesters Offered $20 To Stand At Anti-Wind Energy Rally | ThinkProgress

That would explain some otherwise strange things.

 

[Bill Angel]

It's a common practice for protesters at building construction sites who are protesting the use of non union labor on the site to be unemployed individuals who were hired just to participate in the protest and have no other connection to the union or to the building trades.

 

[Truthmatters]

Links?

 

[Bill Angel]

Links?

These are the picketers that I had in mind when I made my comment.
Non-union labor at UB?s new law center angers its top donor, Peter Angelos | Baltimore Brew

 

[whitehall]

Most Americans like clean energy. So when conservatives wage campaigns against clean energy initiatives, they have typically resorted to fronting astroturf groups and paying fake protesters to generate noise.

Needing 100 anti-wind protesters by next week and apparently unable to find them, a mysterious firm advertised a “quick and easy $20″ on Craigslist. According to the ad, the only thing the “volunteers” would need to do for their pay is “stand next to or behind the speakers and elected officials/celebrities” at a rally against a wind turbine project in the UK.

View the screenshot (the ad was quickly pulled down after Grist made the catch):


Astroturf Gone Wrong: Fake Protesters Offered $20 To Stand At Anti-Wind Energy Rally | ThinkProgress

It's no secret that Soros left wing tax exempt propaganda networks are powerful well organized and committed dirty tricksters who spy on republican candidates, monitor free speech and employ sleazy private investigators. As soon as Sara Palin was nominated to run the network was in Alaska bribing people for dirt on the V.P. candidate. Who in their right mind would advertise on Craig's list except the dirty tricksters? They know the gullible hate filled left will fall for anything.

 

[Truthmatters]

Links?

These are the picketers that I had in mind when I made my comment.
Non-union labor at UB?s new law center angers its top donor, Peter Angelos | Baltimore Brew

where does it say they were paid to protest?

 

[Bill Angel]

Links?

These are the picketers that I had in mind when I made my comment.
Non-union labor at UB?s new law center angers its top donor, Peter Angelos | Baltimore Brew

where does it say they were paid to protest?

I recognized some of the people who were on the picket line.

 

[Old Rocks]

These are the picketers that I had in mind when I made my comment.
Non-union labor at UB?s new law center angers its top donor, Peter Angelos | Baltimore Brew

where does it say they were paid to protest?

I recognized some of the people who were on the picket line.

What reason have we to believe you?

 

[Stephanie]

Doesn't bother them when the Unions and Ows do it..

 

[Bill Angel]

where does it say they were paid to protest?

I recognized some of the people who were on the picket line.

What reason have we to believe you?

I have done a lot of photography at that work site.
Here is a set of such images
Construction of the New John and Frances Angelos Law Center of the University of Baltimore

But I did not take any pictures of the demonstrators, because people in their situation can be sensitive about being photographed, thinking that it might be for the purpose of causing trouble for them. I also ran into that situation when documenting the Occupy Baltimore activities, when some of the people staging Occupy Baltimore public activities requested that they not be photographed.