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rodmant Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-04 10:47 PM
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engulf mega-phone-goons w/positive Kerry backers on Sunday
Edited on Fri Aug-20-04 10:52 PM by rodmant
Suggest we organize a group of calm level headed Kerry
supporters to help buffer the Bush mega-phone people.
The calm part is absolutely critical, and not easy, bring
a very thick skin; if you can not keep cool you need to
walk away - it's not worth it if *anyone* is hurt.

Ideas:

o it's a public place, they can photograph us, we can video
and photograph them, it's intimidating to both sides and
tests your commitment

o we're decideds, we don't have to focus on the Edwards
speech, we can calmly face down the Bush protesters to diminish
their effectiveness

o the more we can engage them in calm discussion, the more
the will be distracted from there goal of distrupting the
event

o come up with some signs that we could carry to counter
them. If you have any great ideas I will print some large
signs at Kinkos, I have lathe wood for the handles.
Here's a silly example we planned to use at
Port Washington fish days (it's 22"x14").



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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-04 11:01 PM
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1. Great idea Tom!
I'm going to be inside volunteering, but I'll be out there with you in spirit. (Plus, I'm not sure I could carry off the "calm" thing.)


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