Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:33:57 -0600
From: Shirley_Tung@MSN.com ("Shirley Tung")
Subject: Re: [aapjevents] Minutes from tonight's meeting, next meeting is 6/23 at 3:30
To: aapjevents@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: aapjevents@yahoogroups.com
Kyrsten, Any chance of selling t-shirts at our booth on the 4th of July??
Shirley
----- Original Message -----
From: Kyrsten Sinema
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 10:28 PM
To: AAPJ Events
Subject: [aapjevents] Minutes from tonight's meeting, next meeting is 6/23
at 3:30
The Direct Action (formerly Events) Committee met today, 6/16 at 3:30 at the
AIPER house. Minutes of the meeting are listed below, bolded are action
items that need to be done. Please consider volunteering to take on one or
more of the bolded items, email ksinema@cox.net if you can help.
We will be meeting next Sunday, June 23rd at 3:30 pm at the Friends Meeting
House, 315 W. 15th St. in Tempe to continue planning the July 4th event.
We will also be meeting on Sunday, June 30th at 3:30 pm at the AIPER house,
325 E. Broadway in Tempe to finish preparing for July 4th.
For a summer/fall calendar outline, see the bottom of this email.
Thanks!
Kyrsten
1. Protest debriefing ideas and suggestions
We may want to consider having "shifts" or rotating turns protests or rallies
in the hot weather so people can have turns resting
We should always have community water available at hot protests/vigils/events
media should be called the day of the event and reminded, and called during
the event when none of them show
having a protest/event on a Friday afternoon may impact media attention
Janet Napolitano's press conference at the same time as the protest probably
had a negative impact on coverage
we should consider approaching governmental agencies such as the police and
FBI before these events in groups, not alone, sothere are witnesses to the
conversations
we need non-violence training so that we can respond more assertively in the
future and still be safe
we need to develop some event guidelines that let participants know what our
expectations are, ie. no weapons, no property destruction, respectful language,
respect for diverse cultures, etc. We will work on this in our next
meeting so that we can bring something to the main group for consensus. We
need to have guidelines in place for th July 4th event.
2. July 4th Event
we decided several meetings ago to get a booth at the Tempe festival to celebrate
July 4th at Tempe Beach park. Larry West volunteered to get us the
booth. Stan will follow up with Larry.
at the event, we will have a flyer that "Reclaims Patriotism" by educating
people about the forefathers and mothers of our country who were great and
outspoken dissidents. Their early writings, music, poetry, and actions depict
a great respect for individualism, freedom of speech, and open and honest
dissent. Please send info about early dissenters to ksinema@cox.net for
compilation into a flyer.
We will have volunteers wandering the park in Uncle Sam hats (Mitch is researching
renting/buying/making these hats) with large sandwich boards quoting
early dissenting patriots. Volunteer Uncle/Aunt Sams will be handing out
flyers and talking to people. (Please send quotes from early dissenters to
ksinema@cox.net. Thom and Sherry, are you up for making 6-8 more of the
big signs?) We will need people to help assemble the signs again.
We requested $200 from the organizing committee to pay for copies of the flyer
we create, rental/purchase of Uncle Sam gear, and signs that we make.
Stan, were we granted the money?
3. Direct Action Objectives generated at the strategic planning session
We're holding a non-violence training August 2-4 to help members be prepared
for civil disobedience ( email rscotttoo@hotmail.com to sign up )
We agreed to stage the Shadw Project on August 6 and 9 to remember and mourn
the loss of lives in Hiroshima nuclear attacks (more info to come)
We'll resume weekly vigils in September -- we'll revisit our strategy of whether
to rotate location, keep same place every week, or variations of above.
September 11 we'll have a candlelight vigil to mourn the loss of WTC victims
October 7th we'll stage a major event protesting war on the anniversary of
the first day of bombing of Afghanistan
We'll work on creating pre-emptive and emergency response capability to current
events
4. Impending Invasion of Iraq
We're going to get a pledge of resistance that tells the gov't that we don't
want them to invade Iraq, and if they do, we'll be out in the streets protesting.
Scotty will research and find us a pledge of resistance. We'll offer
it to other groups to get lots of people signing the pledge.
We'll make signs in advance of the Iraq invasion and we're going to set a time
and place to meet automatically the day that the Iraq invasion starts.
We'll post this on the web site so that everyone knows in advance what to
do the day we invade.
AAPJ Direct Action Calendar
Sunday, June 23 3:30-5:00 pm Planning meeting at Friends meeting house in Tempe
Sunday, June 30 3:30-5:00 pm Planning meeting at AIPER house in Tempe
Thursday, July 4 -- "Reclaiming Patriotism" at Tempe Beach Park
Fri., Sat., Sun Aug 2-4 -- Non-violence training to prepare for civil disobedence
Tue. Aug 6 and Fri. Aug 9 -- Shadow Project
September -- weekly vigils resume
Wed. Sep. 11 -- candlelight vigil in remembrance of WTC victims
Mon. Oct 7 -- protest of war on anniversary of bombing of Afghanistan
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