[sklyarov-chicago] Letter writing meeting (was Chicago's Protest a Success!)

[Keith Lamont]

The 8th of Sept. is a Saturday, a busy day for restaurants, just 
something we should keep in mind we selecting a location. And it 
should have big tables.

Jeez, Nate, I thought we'd never get together :)

Keith

At 7:28 PM -0500 8/30/01, Nate Riffe wrote:
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>On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
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>>  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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