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Of all the odd ways to make a living, one would think being a professional protester would be odd, odder yet to be the organizer. Meet “Crowds on Demand”.<\/p>\n
Adam Swart, the CEO and founder of Crowds on Demand, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “Right now, what I see with the Israel-Palestine demonstrations is a lot of noise. It\u2019s two sides yelling at each other, but no one\u2019s convincing the people on the fence. No one\u2019s attempting to make an argument to people who don\u2019t really understand the issue \u2026 it\u2019s everybody galvanizing their own side.”<\/p>\n
Swart started Crowds on Demand in 2012 when he was a student in college.<\/p>\n
Back in the day, protest organizers could get thousands of people to show up by simply handing out some fliers and offering some free pizza. But these days, Swart said, you’ve got to do more to motivate people.<\/p>\n
Living in Los Angeles, it was easy to find actors to stand in at protests, he explained, because actors were always looking for gig work. The jobs ranged from things like publicity events to demonstrations.<\/p>\n
But since then, things have changed because Swart said he does not staff protests or events with actors. Instead, he finds people who are enthusiastic about a cause to stand in. If there is a protest about the construction of a cement plant, his company would find environmentalists to take part in the demonstration, and they would then get paid for being there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Swart draws the line: they will not do Israel-Palestine gigs, because the two sides are not talking, they are just yelling at each other, he says. Nor will they help out when he perceives the players are actively anti-American.<\/p>\n
“If we feel that we\u2019re being pitched by a foreign actor that wants to cause harm to the United States, I\u2019m a proud American patriot. I would never work with those people, and we\u2019ve declined to work with those people in the past,” Swart said.<\/p>\n
Despite receiving many requests with high-dollar values attached that Swart said he’d otherwise be eager to accept, he’s content to stay out of the anti-Israel fray.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re just not the ones that I want to take on because they\u2019re not actually constructively addressing the root of the problem,” he said.\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not sure that by enabling and aggrandizing some of these protests that he isn’t undermining his own stated position. How many of these protests are artificially ginned up? How much less attention would be paid if only a few people actually embraced a cause?\u00a0\u00a0 (and in an election year, will this be a very good fiscal year for CoD?)<\/p>\n
Wonder how many Soros and DNC checks he has cashed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"