Second Meeting... Failure?

No one else from the first meeting showed up. Our only other attendee was a wonderful person I happened upon, and who seems genuinely interested, though they left after a cup of coffee, and we decided to postpone the meeting until a later date.
A deep, depressing resignation and frustration set in. Where were all the people who just last week sounded so dedicated and interested? (It was Taco Tuesday and our friend's birthday at the Boone Saloon). They are the most radical, creative, motivated people I know in Boone, and somehow they all found a reason not to come.
Is our approach wrong... are we going about this the wrong way? We want to operate on consensus, and the consensus of the others in the group was not to meet.
Perhaps I am over reacting, and it was just a fluke that no one else showed up. It is hard to not get frustrated, but we never thought this would be easy.
I understand that it is easy to forget that the majority of the world is somewhere else starving to death and watching as their own children die unnecesarily after leading a short and desperate life. That happens other places, what do we have to do with that?

Just because we "do no harm" does not cleanse our hands of the blood of the millions who die so that we can afford to simply do no harm.

Does it take desperation for peple to come together and act? How bad will it have to get before Americans will realize that their liberation is necessarily tied up in the liberation of the "other"?

I don't want to see it get any worse, but I am sure it will. We are hurdling fast into uncertain and desperate times. I just hope we have enough tools and know-how by then to survive and create another world where we can truly count on one another.