[sklyarov-chicago] July 30th Protest

[Michael Cannon]

Has anybody thought of another way to do this:

the protests are cool and we should also be thinking
about co-ordinating smaller-scale leafletting and
viral marketing (free dmitry URLs in every mail
message anyone sends, that link to the site) but:

how about we put on a show, gang?  or a charity
dance...say a 'Surrender Your Freedom Ball' or a
'Bread and Circuses Anti-DMCA Cotillion' or a street
party?  I'm sure people in this list and others know
some DJs and Mixmasters/club guys/gals that could do
the music (maybe even some bands...GOD, if we could
get Billy Corgan, or James Iha who've expressed some
sympathy for the movement...but I'm fantasizing...)
anyway, there HAVE to be SOME bands/DJs who support us
rather than the Korps...anyone up to help me organize?
 Say, all profits to the 'Dmitry Defense Fund' or the
EFF or EPIC?

Mike
--- "Peter A. Peterson II" <pedro@tastytronic.net>
wrote:
> Quoting Steve Stearns:
> > Might I suggest a petition as a more useful way to
> do this?  If you give
> > people a letter to send in they might forget about
> it and get lazy.  If
> > you just have them sign their names and give their
> address, then you can
> > send that to a congressman or senator and have a
> far greater impact.
> 
> This is an excellent idea. I've been muellering over
> (ha ha) the last
> two protests, and I have a few ideas for the next
> time around.
> 
> FIrst of all, we're going to wait at least two weeks
> -- skip the next
> Monday at the very least, but not more than 3 weeks.
> We want to stay
> current if possible. This will give more people a
> chance to get time
> off, or get psyched up to protest again.
> 
> Secondly, I'd like to have more of a coherent
> demonstration along with
> the flyer passing out -- by that I mean having
> everyone with nice,
> readable, similar-looking signs. This grabs people's
> attention. These
> people are say, marching back and forth IN FRONT of
> the federal
> building. THen there are people just inside from
> them, with stacks of
> the papers, or moving up and down the sidewalk
> distributing flyers.
> Maybe they have a flyer taped to their shirt, or a
> large-font text on a
> piece of paper taped to the shirt, like some have
> done already. THese
> people are just disseminating information. THen, we
> have two people,
> maybe at either end, with a clipboard and a sign
> saying PETITION or
> something like that, inviting people to sign the
> petition, which we can
> then deliver to Dick Durbin or whomever.
> 
> Someone mentioned having a bullhorn or some kind of
> mini pa. This
> requires a particular kind of permit, but I'm
> willing to look into that
> for the sake of higher visibility. This might not
> get as many flyers
> handed out, but people will see a more cohesive
> unit, in FRONT of the
> federal building. (Which is actually around the
> corner from the Calder
> statue). 
> 
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> It would also be very important that we had a great
> turnout -- the more
> the better. And this kind of organized protest would
> garner more media
> attention than random people on the street.
> 
> THe other idea I had was to put people on opposite
> corners all through
> the loop, for maximum, regular corner coverage -- so
> that people walking
> through the loop would constantly be greeted by
> another person with a
> sign. You could do this like so:
> 
>   [].'[].'[].'[]. [] 
>   [].'[].'[].'[].'[]  
>   [].'[].'[].'[].'[]
> 
> Where the points are right on the corners of the
> curbs -- and they can
> rotate and face the pedestrians from the direction
> they're coming from.
> It could be a cool thing for people to witness
> though, mobilization on a
> broad scale.
> 
> Anyway, both of these ideas, particularly the picket
> line-petition thing
> are more of a media-friendly thing than what we have
> been doing. And the
> couple of weeks ahead will make it easier to try and
> mobilize that
> media.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> pedro
> 
> 
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