[sklyarov-chicago] Chicago's Protest a Success!

[Nate Riffe]

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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:

> Quoting sklyarov-chicago@lystra.org:
> > What exactly are we doing? Is everyone just going to get together and
> > write a letter (something we could do at home but I guess meeting will
> > force everyone to do it)? I figured we'd throw out some ideas, jot
> > them down in email with a few samples, send the result to the mailing
> > list, then everyone would go their separate ways taking the ideas and
> > composing their own letter.
>
> Yeah. I mean, I think you're dead-on that it would be good to get
> ideas written out on the list, but the idea of getting together is
> exactly as you said it -- it forces people to do it, except that they
> have a good time. I know that it's hard for me to stop my freight
> train life* and write letters, but this kind of an event can motivate
> people, help them have a good time, AND get letters written and
> mailed. It seems like a win, win, win to me.

I concur.

>
> But there's nothing magical about making it an event, I mean, you
> could just as well write letters at home. But there's no solidarity in
> that.

Right.  There's a two-fold advantage of having an actual letter-writing
meeting.  First of all, if we're all composing our letters at once, then
we can have some commonality in the ways certain points are presented and
in that way have a unified voice.  Secondly, at the end of such a meeting
we should hopefully have a bunch of signed, sealed, and stamped envelopes
that we can all immediately go dump into a mailbox.  Then of course, there
is the third, auxiliary advantage of just getting together and having a
good time of it, which is bound to happen.

- -Nate (whose life is probably more analougous to a fire engine than a
feight train; good brakes, but would rather not stop)

>
> pedro
>
> * My life may not be totally analogous to that of a freight train.
>
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