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May 11, 2001
GUEST COLUMNIST COCO GETS FAN
MAIL
From: "S.,
Dominique M."
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 5:21 AM
Subject: Coco
fan mail
Dear Diva,
Please extend
my admiration to Coco for a guest column well done. The Gale
Norton
litterbox-poop analogy was nothing short of brilliant. And to write
it in simple
language with very short words that even a non-elected
pResident could
understand was a politically astute maneuver.
Coco's column
is a fine
example of innate feline
shrewdness. I look forward to future
columns by
Coco.
And as a
soccer-phile, I just wanted to suggest another sports metaphor. I
suspect that
you also want to "find the back of the net" with your speech.
(I have no
doubt you will do so, particularly if you follow the example set
by feline
genius Coco.)
Good luck!
Nikki S.
Chicago, IL
********************
GUEST COLUMNIST BETH ON PAUL
HARVEY
[DIVA NOTE: This was written in
response to a Paul Harvey
'Warm-and-Fuzzy Inboxer' sent to the BBBR YahooGroup
by Resistance Fighter Beverly]
From: Beth
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: [BBBR]
Re: Fwd:The best things in life aren't things!
THE DIVA WROTE:
I absolutely detest Paul Harvey... but that's just me.
I don't know
that much about him, but it really sounded to me like
A) he doesn't
have any idea what kids are up to these days,
B) he bitterly
assumes that it's "no good",
C) we're all
spoiled,
D) the only way
to have a good childhood is to be relentlessly
conformist to a
certain cultural habitus -- his.
I agree that
the best things in life aren't things, (or "are free",
whatever), but
that's not a justification for the number of people
in this country
without health insurance, or the one in five kids
that lives
below the poverty line.
I'd really like for
them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice
cream and leftover
meatloaf sandwiches.
Well, the first
two, I did. We didn't have meatloaf
that often,
but if the
point is the leftover, I got that covered.
I hope you learn
humility by being humiliated and that you learn honesty by
being cheated.
Gee,
thanks! Did you wish for my classmate
to spit in my hair,
too? Was that good for my character?
I hope you learn to
make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And
I really hope
nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
Dude, you don't
have to wish that for people who aren't *rich*.
The cultural
presumptions this article makes are astounding.
It will be good if
at least one time you can see puppies born and your dog
put to sleep.
Does knowing my
dog got put to sleep, and seeing kittens get born,
count?
I hope you get a
black eye fighting for something you believe in.
Well, at least
you didn't hope my parents would beat me...
I hope you have to
share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all
right if you have
to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he
wants to crawl
under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let
him.
I don't have a
younger brother, and anyway, I'm the only girl in
my family. Why are you so relentlessly male-centric in
your advice.
When you want to
see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I
hope you'll let
him.
I almost never
saw movies. Does that make me more or
less morally
upstanding?
I hope you have to
walk uphill to school with your friend and that you live
in a town where you
can do it safely.
You mean when
I'm not getting humiliated or getting a black eye?
On rainy days when
you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your
driver to drop you
two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as
un-cool as your
Mom.
"My
driver"? "My
driver"? I never knew I had a
driver.
I hope you learn to
dig in the dirt and read books.
Okay, while I
liked sandboxes and all, I find it weird that reading
and digging are
on the same level to this guy.
I hope you get
teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a
girl, and when you
talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap
tastes like.
Oh, that's just
wrong. I got teased by my friends for
my first
crush on a
*boy*... whassup, Harvey? You mean
you're *not*
heterocentric? Or do you mean a girl should get ostracized
for
her first crush
on a girl?
May you skin your
knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and
stick your tongue
on a frozen flagpole.
May you be
clumsy and foolish.
I'm all over
the skinned knee thing -- as a child, I had them all
the time -- but
what kind of person *wants* a small child to
stick their
tongue to a flagpole? Put down the tape
of a Christmas
Story, and back
away from the VCR...
I don't care if you
try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a
friend offers you
dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
Yes, your
hierachy of drug evil makes so much sense.
"Dope or a
joint"? Uh-huh.
Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy
Department. Besides, I thought friends should *share*,
right?
I sure hope you
make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing
with your Uncle.
Because if you
live somewhere without porches or ponds, or if your
family isn't
the fishing type, you're not a *real* American.
May you feel sorrow
at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
Gee, and I had
that backwards... why do I need you to tell me
this?
These things I wish
for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and
happiness. To me,
it's the only way to appreciate life.
Translation:
Welfare bad.
Written with a pen.
Sealed with a kiss. Pass this on to all of your friends
who mean the most
to you.
Thank you,
Beverly. I really do appreciate the
sentiment from you,
I just don't
agree with the particulars of what Harvey said.
Beth
By the way, I
*adore* the Coco letter. It makes me
happy. Bad, bad
(p)resident! No bicky!
********************
[DIVA NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From:
"Cynthia C."
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: I'll
be there
Hi Diva,
I am coming to
the protest in SF from Seattle. I have
my sign ready:
BUSH et al:
WE KNOW YOU ARE
CORRUPT
DO YOU?
I love your
website, you help me through the bad days.
Keep up the
good work.
I look forward
to seeing you at the rally!
Cynthia
********************
[DIVA
NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From:
"Mindy F."
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: RSVP
Dear Tammy,
I plan on
showing up for the reception and just wanted to formally RSVP.
Sincerely,
Mindy
********************
[DIVA NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From:
"Cynthia C."
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: I'll
be there
Hi Diva,
I am coming to
the protest in SF from Seattle. I have
my sign ready:
BUSH et al:
WE KNOW YOU ARE
CORRUPT
DO YOU?
I love your
website, you help me through the bad days.
Keep up the
good work.
I look forward
to seeing you at the rally!
Cynthia
********************
KIRSTEN'S RSVP's FOR VOTERWEST
[DIVA
NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From: "Kirsten"
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: Count
me in!
Just give me
the wheres/whats/whens and I'll be there.
If you need some
ideas on places
to meet/things to do here in San Francisco let me know, I'm a
native so I
know ALL the cool stuff!
Kirsten
PS on
Coco:
My best wishes
to Coco on her radiation. My Mom's cat
Poodie was diagnosed
with lymphoma a
little over a month ago and has been in chemo since - he's
doing
wonderfully and they expect him to make a full recovery. They can do
amazing things
for cats these days, and I'm hoping they can do the same for
Coco. I have three cats myself and know what
you're going through.
********************
DAVE C. ON AL GORE IN FLORIDA!
From: "Dave
C."
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 4:47 AM
Subject:
[Voter] Fw: I rallied for The President of the United States, Al Gore!
I got up at 7:20 in the morning (very rare
for a day off from work) and
made the trek
with some of the most loyal Democratic friends anyone could
ever have. My goal, to rally and let the people of the
State of Florida and
the US know
what I know: that Al Gore is the TRUE
President of the United
States of
America. There were lots of media and I
even got to meet someone
who I now look
up to as an activist, Mr. Bob Kunst.
There were lots of
signs, some
pro-Gore, some pro-Gore but with a curiosity as to why he hasn't
spoken up, and
some that were anti-Bushit. I was
interviewed by one woman
from a radio
station in Orlando, though I never heard it.
Otherwise, none
of the other
media actually talked to me, but I got on plenty of cameras. I
was kind of
suprised, considering I was the only one there that *appeared*
to be under 30,
in other words, a young person.
The sign that I held up most of the time
when I wasn't on the bullhorn
said
"Welcome back, Mr. President." On the website of one of the TV
stations
in Orlando
later that evening, they mentioned a sign that said "Welcome
back, Mr.
President." Needless to say, I was enthralled that even though my
picture didn't
make it, my message did! Occasionally,
I would have a turn
on the bull
horn and shout something to the effect of "Welcome back,
President
Gore." My best power trip, so to
say, came when I said "The State
of Florida
welcomes the duly elected President of the United States of
America, Al
Gore!." There was even a plane circling overhead with a banner
reading:
"FLA WELCOMES PRESIDENT GORE! LEGITGOV.ORG." Needless to say, it
got
us all very
excited and I'm sure got some people confused on I-4 and
International
Dr. Unfortunately, within minutes after
leaving is when Gore
left, but we
got the media coverage we wanted.
The next thing we did was decorate our
vehicles with orange fringe and
Oral Majority
signs. I think we got enough people to
notice us.
Occasionally,
due to traffic laws that we didn't want to violate, we were
separated, but
always managed to get back together.
The only bad experience
that we had,
and I personally had, was when two men who were obviously of
Palestinian/Arab
heritage, asked me what we were doing.
When I said
"Protesting
the fact that Bush stole the election," they proceeded to
verbally
assault me by saying "The Democrats lost, the Jews lost." Being
Jewish, that
highly offended me, so I said "Thank you, Hitler" while rolling
up my
window. I flashed my Mogen David (Star
of David) and ignored them. I
was literally
praying that they didn't have a gun or anything. I pulled
ahead when the
light changed to green and the men cut in front of Suni and
proceeded to
attempt to break up our caravan.
However, you can't keep a
good dog down,
and we all caught up with each other thanks to some strategic
red lights.
We met later at a restaurant in the area
for an OM meeting and came up
with some great
strategies for getting more people involved to get this
voter fraud
investigation against Jeb Bushit and Florida's Cruella DeVille,
Katherine
Harris, going. Bob Kunst also suggested
running against Jeb Bushit
in next year's
gubernatorial race when the Democratic Party and the citizens
of the State of
Florida in general, toss the GOP OUT of the governor's seat.
We also put
together a GREAT plan for our nation's 225th birthday, a caravan
down the I-4
corridor re-enacting the American Revolution, this being the
next Revolution
after the rape of our country in it's 225th year. I will
connect with
the Bostonian's I came from and act as Paul Revere (pronounced
Paul Reveah in
the Boston accent). I can't wait!
Democratically
yours,
Dave C.
Tampa, FL
"Friends
Don't Let Friends Vote Republican"
********************
ON THE USA TODAY RECOUNT STORY
From: "Ann
Schneider"
To: sccdcc@svpal.org; CaliforniaDemocrat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 2:31 AM
Subject:
[CADemocrat] Gore Wins If, bush wins if............
This is a report of the
results of one of two newspaper syndicate actual
counts of the
ballots that were never counted in Florida.
The more
detailed actual
count is still being conducted by a University/accounting
firm from
Chicago for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and other major
national papers
(I think Knight Ridder - but then they own the Miami
Herald who was
part of the actual count reported below.)
Keep in mind
that none of these actual counts include the people who were
turned away
from the polls by Florida HWY patrol men who set up blockades
in black
neighborhoods, or people who were incorrectly added to a felony
list (supplied
by a firm in Texas and under contract by the Secretary of
State in
Florida, Katherine Harris) and therefore prevented from voting
(several 1,000
people). And I am not sure if any of
these counts include
ballots from
around Jacksonville that are part of a lawsuit between the
papers and the
Registrar of Voters over access. And
they may not include
ballots from
several counties that had optical scanning voting machines
but the polling
workers turned off the automatic error checking function
(the machine
tells the voter if they have under or overvoted and will not
let the
"transaction" complete until the error is fixed. The locals
turned this
function off to save .23 cents for reballoting. Count there
something like
5400 votes. (San Mateo and San Francisco counties use
optical
scanning machines.)
Florida
legislators recently voted to replace all punch card voting
equipment with
touch screen equipment under one condition.
That no one
running for
Governor next year be allowed to accept campaign donations
from people
outside the state of Florida or risk losing matching state
campaign funds. Gov. bush doesn't use the Florida matching
funds so this
provision won't
hurt him but will limit his less wealthy opponents in
next years
election. And the jury is still out on
touch screen voting
machines that
do not provide any hard copy ballot that would show the
intent of the
voter. MIT and other Universities
recently released a
report
cautioning against the use of touch screen machines because the
are easily
manipulated.
One other
newsflash, San Francisco just voted to allow Instant Run-off
Voting.
Learn more
about election methods and machines and hear some music by
coming to the
West Coast Voter Rights March to Restore Democracy next
Saturday, May
19, 2001 in San Francisco at the Civic Center.
We need
your presence
because our numbers will tell the media and people in power
that we want
true election reform.
Ann Schneider
I Support a
VOTER'S Right To Choose
Co-Chair, Voter
March West
********************
ACTION ALERT! CENTRAL CALIFORNIAN RESISTANCE FIGHTER
NEEDS CARPOOLERS FOR TRIP TO VOTERMARCH WEST
From: thediva@coup2k.com
To: "Everyone"
Cc: "Mr. Evans"
<mhjim@prodigy.net>
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: [BBBR]
VOTER MARCH WEST: Bus Available for 15 Riders coming from Central California
REPLY TO: mhjim@prodigy.net
Voter Marchers:
Anyone needing
a ride to Voter March West in San Francisco on May 19 that
lives in the
Fresno area and points north including Madera, Merced, Turlock,
Modesto,
Manteca, Tracy, Livermore, Pleasanton and other towns/locations in
this vicinity
should contact Mr. Evans (mhjim@prodigy.net)
at (559)294-0111.
Mr. Evans is a
disabled man who would like to come to the Voter Rights March
in San
Francisco on Saturday, May 19th, but needs help with gas expenses.
Mr. Evans has a
mini-bus that carries 15 passengers. r.
Evans says the bus
is running in
tip top condition. Anyone interested in
helping Mr. Evans get
here for the
rally and you are in need of transportation, this might work
for you. Give Mr. Evans a buzz if you need a ride or
you can make a
donation to Mr.
Evans for his gas expenses.
I have included
Mr. Evans email below:
Thanks ---
john vance,
outreach
Voter Rights
March
==============================================
Jim Evans "Freedom Fighter"!!! here.
I'm having trouble getting the
funds necessary
together so that I can get up there for the rally. One very
nice lady
contacted me and let me know that she's willing to send me $50.00
for gas, but
that's only a forth of what I need to
safely get up there, and
back!!!
"Unfortunately I require a minimum of $150.00 for gas because I live
in central CA.,
Clovis CA. Next to Fresno CA.
"If you
hear of anybody coming up from my area, maybe I can connect with
them and we can
all come up together for the rally"???
"My only
transportation is a former mini-passenger bus with a wheelchair
lift that gets
about eight (8) miles per gallon, and I
use this to get
around because
I'm disabled and use this for transportation.
Please let me
know.
My E-mail is:
mhjim@prodigy.net
My phone number
is:
1-559-294-0111
My address is:
361 W. Santa Ana
Ave, #105
Clovis CA, 93612
Thanks, Jim
Evans
"Freedom
Fighter"!!
mhjim@prodigy.net
********************
ACTION ALERT! BUSH IN ST. PAUL, MN
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2001
[DIVA
NOTE: A GREAT WAY TO GET GEARED UP,
NO?]
From:
"Daniel Brown" daniel_p_brown@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject:
Protest in St. Paul next Thursday
Local
newspapers are reporting that ex-Gov. Bush will
be in St. Paul
next Thursday, obviously to groom the
anointed Senate
candidate Norm Coleman.
It's only a
couple days before the big Voter March on
both coasts,
but I was really hoping that some of your
multitudes of
contacts might be interested in a
dry-run in
Saint Paul, or that individuals on their
way to
Washington or the west coast would deviate to
the midwest for
a Thursday protest.
I would hope
that we could be loud, proud and in His
Fraudulency's
face the whole time he was in St. Paul,
or at least
make lots of news telling him he's full of
it.
News accounts
say he is going to be "making an energy
announcement,"
so involving Greenpeace or other
alternative
energy sources would be super cool.
Anyway, if you
could do anything to publicize this,
I'd really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Dan Brown
Saint Paul, MN
State Moderator
Minnesota
Democrat - Connected & Informed in Minnesota
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MinnesotaDemocrat
Part of the USDemocrat Network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USDemocrat
Member
Trust The
People Twin Cities - Taking Resistance to
the Streets
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trustthepeople-twincities
Part of the CounterCoup.org Network
Democrats-Minnesota
- State Chapter of Democrats.com
for MN
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dem-MN
Part of the Democrats.com Network
Democrats.com -
connecting dot com Democrats
Buzzflash.com -
home of the Buzz Flash Report
CounterCoup.org
- Direct action Democracy
********************
ACTION ALERT! BUSH YALE -- NEW HAVEN, CT
MONDAY, MAY 21, 2001
[DIVA
NOTE: A GREAT WAY TO KEEP THINGS GOING!]
From:
"Daniel Brown" daniel_p_brown@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject:
Protest in St. Paul next Thursday
On Monday, May
21st, Yale will be honoring GW Bush.
And we will be
there en masse - alongside students and all those upset with
Yale for
allowing an Election Thief and known opponent of freedom on campus.
It's easy to
get to Yale from most of the East Coast, but particularly New
York (Metro
North... And it's cheap too!), CT, and MA.
If you know anyone
in these areas
make sure to send this pre-announcement to them.
New Yorkers
will want to take the Metro North New Haven Line to the last
stop... We'll
all meet up from there to go to the protest area.
This will be a
great follow up to May 19th and I hope I'll see you all
there. So call in to work sick, because if there's
anywhere you want to be
on May 21st,
it's going to be protesting in New Haven, CT.
If your issue
is choice - you should be there.
If your issue
is the environment - you should be there.
If your issue
is poverty - you should be there.
If your issue
is the Election - you should be there.
If you have an
issue - you should be there.
They used to
Equal Protection Act to discriminate, they deleted the fourth
amendment, and
they're coming for you and your rights next.
More
information to follow... Any questions or if you'd like more
information,
please contact myself at jon@legitgov.org.
Thanks! More information to come soon!
Jon Bexell
********************
URGENT ACTION ALERT, SIGN IDEAS, FROM VOTERWEST
From: aleien@jps.net
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject:
[Voter] HELP! and information.
Readers;
As of
yesterday, Thursday, May 10th, we have:
5,000 full-size
8 1/2" by 11" VOTER MARCH flyers for posting on
bulletin
boards, poles, etc.
7,000 half-size
flyers for handing to folks at the Mumia event and
other events.
14,000
quarter-page flyers for zapping the BART RUSH HOUR commuters.
Total of 26,000
flyers. HELP, please?
If you will be
at the Mumia event and can help out with ANY flyering
there or at
some of the following places in the next 6 days leading
up to the Voter
March event, please approach the table at the Mumia
event with the
anti-bush (shrub) stickers and buttons and there
will be a
volunteer sign up clipboard. PLEASE SIGN-UP. I will call
you - or just
call me.
There will be
literally thousands of VOTER MARCH flyers available at
the Mumia
event. If you can flyer some of the
places listed below at
the requested
times, just let the person know at the
bumpersticker/button
table, take some and get them there and handed
out. Just
please either email me at aleien@jps.net or
call me at
(510) 287-9406
When handing
out the flyer - when you can - just say that the event
is in response
to the stolen election in 2000. IF you
feel
comfortable
with that. I am VERY comfortable with
that.
We really need
a person or persons to volunteer (PLEASE) with a
vehicle or
vehicles that could coordinate the BART RUSH HOUR
flyering -
preferably with a VAN that could carry/pick up/drop
off/pick up
volunteers and drop off/pick up flyers for volunteers.
We should have
good communications - cell phone - etc.
This should
happen every day - morning and evening
NEXT WEEK,
Monday, May
14th thru Friday, May 18th - early morning BART RUSH HOUR
and around
4-6pm evening BART RUSH HOUR.
If we could get
two people at each of the following BART STATIONS
on all of those
days, it would help us tremendously.
Downtown
Oakland BART (14th/Broadway) - actually the west side of the
street at that
location would be IDEAL as well - it's across the
street from a
BART entry - there is a bus stop where tons and tons of
people wait for
the buses and that would be superb for getting out
the flyers in
downtown Oakland. I would recommend not
staying there
too late and
staying ALERT in that area - a little gangster-ridden
area. Would be better if guys flyered this rather
than women - just
for safety
sake. And doing the BART there - NOT in the BART but on
the street by
the entrance - catching people coming in/out.
Berkeley -
Shattuck and Center - catch people going in or coming up
out of that
round brick BART enclosure there.
Probably 2 people
there would be
IDEAL at 7-10am mornings and 4-6pm evenings.
San Francisco -
Powell Street (cable car turnaround) - maybe stand up
on Market
Street with 2 people catching people coming up or going
down the
escalator. 7-10am and 4-6pm
This location
is fairly BUSY, so if you have more time - stay a
little longer.
This location would be a prime spot.
San Francisco -
Castro District just walking up and down the street
or hang near a
corner and get 'em out.
Bus stops along
Market during evening RUSH HOUR would be good for
walking up and
down Market Street to hand out flyers.
Same times
as above.
We also need
volunteers for posting flyers in:
(People would
need tape/staple guns for this - call me at (510) 287-
9406 for any
offers to do any of these flyering tasks)
Mission
district - SF
Haight Street -
SF
Castro District
- SF
Market Street -
SF
Fisherman's
Wharf - SF (lotta tourists from all
over U.S. and the
world - many
will be here on May 19th.)
If anyone could
volunteer to hand out the quarter-sheets
on Market
Street, the
Castro or in the Haight for an hour or two a day every
day until the
event, that would be good, too.
There is still
the issue of a STREET BANNER to march down Market
Street in the
front row of people in the march. I
never walked
Market but i
would say we should be able to get away with a banner
about 30'
across and 4' vertical. My suggestion
for the words on the
banner:
"MARCHING FOR VOTER RIGHTS" in the BIGGEST LETTERS (all upper
case) in maybe
a nice NAVY BLUE. Along the top, it
could read in
smaller letters
but quite readable and all bold (upper/lower case)
FIRE ENGINE RED
letters as well: "Voter Rights March to Restore
Democracy -
WEST COAST"
Along the
bottom edge of the banner - also in FIRE ENGINE RED
upper/lower
case letters we could have our website, main email
address and
contact phone number. "Websites: voterwest.org --
votermarch.org Email: sanfrancisco@voterwest.org Phone number"
Be nice to
apply for an 800 number something like 1-800-VOTERMARCH
We might even
REVERSE the COLOR SCHEME on this banner.
If any of you
have ideas
where we can get the banner material itself, let me know
right
away. As far as the material for a
banner goes, I am looking
for that. We
may have to paint our own banner - so goood artists,
please???
It is an
UNDERSTATEMENT to say it is URGENT that we NEED VOLUNTEERS.
It is also an
UNDERSTATEMENT to EMPHASIZE the URGENT NEED to
concentrate on
FLYERING SAN FRANCISCO EVERY SINGLE MOMENT THAT
VOLUNTEERS, AND
WE, HAVE. i would STRONGLY URGE EVERY
ONE OF US TO
SEND OUT AN
IMMEDIATE EMAIL/PHONE MESSAGE - place it on our website,
this URGENT
NEED to get VOLUNTEERS and the URGENT and MANDATORY NEED
to get SAN
FRANCISCO and as many of the BART STATIONS FLYERED AS
INTENSELY AS
CAN BE DONE.
There is also a
NEED for heavy-duty staple guns with staples.
I have
one T-50 staple
gun so far - so, if anyone can go to a hardware store
and get some
T-50 staples, that would be appreciated.
I believe I am
also getting another staple gun today - I will let
it be known
what size staples it needs as soon as I can - probably
tonight.
ALSO, please be
aware that I am trying to act as a Volunteer
Coordinator AND
trying to be at the Justin Hermann Plaza on the DAY
OF THE EVENT to
be sure protest signs get done BUT I also have to set
up A First
Amendment Center tables at the Civic Center - SO - I am
really going to
have NOT a lot of choice in asking someone to HELP ME
in assuring
that the area where protest signs will be being produced
at the site -
be cleaned up - and that we try and run a smooth, well-
coordinated
operation in getting protest signs made - I am expecting
that Jody's son
and a friend will be picking up protest sign wooden
stakes at my
storage location on Regent Street and Dwight Way soon
AND they will
be cutting these picket signs to necessary lengths for
signs. I have ordered 1,000 BLANK posters (25"
X 19") from the
Inkworks here
in Berkeley and those will have to be picked up on
Tuesday at the
latest. I will hope to talk with Jason about picking
up those as
well, if it is realistic to do so.
I would also
like to encourage everyone that can to make their own
protest signs
as we will plenty of wooden stakes on site that you can
staple your
sign to - or just bring your own "staked" protest sign.
I am going to
include in this email some of the suggested ideas for
protest sign
slogans (at the end of the email) - of course, I would
like to
emphasize asking people that are coming to make their own
signs.
We will have
materials on-site for about 1,000 signs to be made and
would ask that
people arriving early, PLEASE help us in making some
signs for the
march. The earlier peolpe can get
there, the better.
We are also
going to NEED marking pens (wide) (paint might not be a
good idea -
messy - if you have ideas, please let me know) in
assorted colors
to make these hand-made, unique original slogan
signs - slogan
suggestions, by the way - that I believe Jody has
posted in here
in the past - if Jody could bring that list of
suggested
slogans to have that morning - that would be helpful.
I am also
posting them in this email.
Going to need
at least 2 large staple guns at Justin Hermann Plaza
early on day of
event to staple signs to stakes - can people please
get back to me
with concrete offers that YOU WILL BRING ANY ITEMS
THAT WERE
MENTIONED ABOVE OR HERE?
We also have to
be ABSOLUTELY SURE the Justin Hermann site is cleaned
up before we
leave it.
I am also going
to be picking up as many large plastic buckets as I
can get my
hands on from restaurants on Telegraph Avenue - figure we
could use about
50 buckets. And I will be making the
signs to put on
these buckets -
the signs will read VOTER MARCH in large, BOLD letters
with our
voterwest.org website and our email address address will be
on the buckets
listed as: sanfrancisco@voterwest.org
SUGGESTED IDEAS
FOR SLOGANS FOR PROTEST SIGNS
MARCH FOR
DEMOCRACY!
BUSH: SELECTED
NOT ELECTED
GOVERNMENT: OF,
BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE
PEOPLE DO
MATTER!
STOP THE COUP
MARCH AGAINST
THE BUSH AGENDA
THE SUPREME
COURT FIVE: TRAITORS
TAKE OUR
COUNTRY BACK!
WE ARE ANGRY!
WE ARE MARCHING! WE WON'T FORGET!
MARCH FOR THE
FUTURE: DISCARD THE PAST
FIGHTING FOR
THE WORLD'S FUTURE!
MARCHING FOR
THE WORLD'S FUTURE!
CONSIDER THE
FUTURE: BUSH MUST GO!
BUSH IS THE
'VILLAGE IDIOT"* Nancy Reagan
THE BASTARD
PRESIDENCY
PEOPLE BEFORE
PROFITS
PEOPLE BEFORE
CORPORATE INTERESTS
I DO NOT EXIST
TO BE A "CONSUMER"
STAND UP TO THE
BULLIES!
ACT AS IF YOUR
FUTURE DEPENDED ON IT
MARCH UNTIL
PEOPLE MATTER MOST
IF YOU DON'T
ACT, WHO WILL?
MAKE YOUR
VOICES HEARD!
Just some ideas
for signs, etc.
Jody
MARCH-LEARN-ACT
MARCH-LEARN-NETWORK-ACT
MARCH FOR VOTER
REFORM
MARCHING FOR
VOTER'S RIGHTS
MARCHING FOR
VOTER REFORM
NETWORK TO MAKE
A CHANGE
PROTEST THE
BUSH SELECTION AND AGENDA
MARCH FOR
VOTER'S RIGHTS
MARCH FOR THE
ENVIRONMENT
MARCH FOR
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
MARCH FOR LABOR
RIGHTS
MARCH FOR
WORKER PROTECTIONS
MARCH FOR
CHOICE
MARCH FOR JUSTICE
MARCH FOR
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
MARCH FOR
DEMOCRACY
MARCH FOR CIVIL
RIGHTS
MARCH FOR
VOTING REFORM
MARCH FOR A
GOVERNMENT OF-BY-FOR THE PEOPLE
PROTEST THE
SUPREME COURT'S TREASONOUS ACT
PROTEST THE
NATIONWIDE VOTER FRAUD
PROTEST THE
BUSH AGENDA
NO JUDICIAL
APPOINTMENTS
PROTEST THE
MEDIA'S BIASED REPORTING
THE BASTARD
PRESIDENCY
NO JUSTICE, NO
PEACE
GOVERNMENT,
CORPORATIONS,
MEDIA EXIST
TO SERVE THE
PEOPLE,
NOT THE OTHER
WAY AROUND
KEEP YOUR
MORALITY TO YOURSELF
ONE PERSON, ONE
VOTE
VOTING IS THE
FOUNDATION OF A DEMOCRACY
VOTING
REFORM NOW
I WANT MY
COUNTRY BACK
MARCHING TO
TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY
VOTERS MARCHING
TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY
VOTERS MARCHING
FOR DEMOCRACY
AMERICANS
MARCHING FOR DEMOCRACY
EVERY VOTE MUST
COUNT
CONSUMERS
BEFORE CORPORATIONS
GOVERNMENT BY
THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED
GOVERNMENT MUST
BE BY THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED
PROTEST THE
COUP
Also posted by
jody....
I sincerely
hope I have not left anything out here - anyone that can
get back to me
that I may have overlooked something here, please do
so right away
before the Mumia event tomorrow - that way I can
correct it
tonight as want to send this out my newsletter list as well.
no peace
without justice,
john vance
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