[Imc] July 4th March

[Sarah Kanouse]

Last year the "coalition for better communities" (registered at the address for the School for Designing a Society) put on a huge progressive coalition segment of the parade. This area included mainstream labor unions, the geo, the food co-op, the socialist forum, alliance for welfare with justice, and so many more i couldn't possibly list them all.  We had two big floats--one a flatbed truck with a house under construction and lots of plants and the other the monopoly man with sweatshop child labor in his coat.  A "let's have this and not THIS" message.  There have been noises about making such a coalition again, and i was at the imc last week when someone made noises that a registration form was awaiting us at the school house.  last year's march took loads of planning (much by peter, danielle, and tim gibbs)and we may not have the time to bank out connections into something that ambitious again.  however, perhaps something can be scraped together.  

I just want to make sure we don't have several folks registering with the parade people.  Has anyone re-registered the coalition?


--sarah
 
--

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:23:21    nancy dietrich wrote:
>I have a feeling they'll stick us behind the horses with that flag:-)
>
>Responding to both Mike's & Paul's emails:
>Not that it's a big deal, but, no, it wasn't me at the FTAA meeting.  And
>I keep forgetting about the non-profit status of the Imc (heck, I keep
>forgetting that the Prairie Green Party is a political party- I tend to
>think of it as a social action group), so you're right, Paul, it makes
>sense not to combine the 2.  
>
>I'm not 100% sure the Green Party will be able to secure a spot in the
>parade due to time constraints.  Mike, if you're planning on getting a
>spot for the IMC, perhaps we could talk later about  those of us from the
>Greens marching as members of the IMC (several of us are members of the
>IMC, anyway).  If not, hopefully I'll get the flag and we can do
>something later. 
>
>On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:08:29 -0500 Mike Perry <mikepery at fscked.org>
>writes:
>> Thus spake nancy dietrich (nancydietrich at juno.com):
>> 
>> > I must be out of the loop- what was the IMC planning on doing for 
>> the 4th
>> > of July parade?  The Green Party was discussing this last night as 
>> well,
>> > about doing the same type of thing.  We're attempting to get ahold 
>> of the
>> > corporate flag.  Perhaps we could co-ordinate if you'all are doin
>> > something similar?
>> Oh yeah, I just wanna wave that flag around like we're going to war 
>> ;)
>> 
>> 
>> I dunno about any plans, it was brought up at the FTAA meeting (by a
>> Nancy I thought..  Was that you?), and that was the last I heard of 
>> it.
>> I also wanted to see if any plans had been made. I have no problems
>> combining with the Green Party, and if I recall, I was only one of 
>> like 
>> two or three people who signed that list.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mike Perry
>> Hacker in Chief
>> fscked.org enterprises, inc
>> 
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