[Peace-discuss] AWARE Farmer's Market prospects

[Stuart Levy]

Something we should decide really soon: what is the future of AWARE at 
the Farmer's Market?

We have one more indoor-market date coming: April 20th, already booked.

For the outdoor market, if we book for every week as we have been doing, 
it's 27 Saturdays - from May 4th through November 2nd.

But the number of people actively working the Farmer's Market has been 
really small - basically four regulars, Karen, Ron, Carl and I have been 
there most weeks, along with quite a few others who've worked many times 
when we needed you - thank to you, Rohn, Peggy, David, and others!

Still it's a pretty heavy burden on the regulars.   For my part, I don't 
want to have to be there nearly every Saturday from May to November.  I 
don't know whether others would want to take this on - if so, then 
perhaps we could continue running every week.

But it certainly still seems valuable to me, and I think to others of us 
as well, to have a public presence where we can have extended 
conversations with people.   This fall we'll be coming on 12 years of 
Global War on Terror, and it shows no sign of coming to an end. I 
wouldn't want to give up on the Farmer's Market.

What I'd like to propose is that we switch to every other week - say the 
second and fourth Saturdays of each month (that would be convenient for 
me), or possibly the first and last Saturdays so that we could speak to 
people in the hours before our monthly demonstrations, or some such 
pattern which amounts to about two weekends per month. (I'd personally 
like to not have the third Sat. committed.)

Anyway, that's my proposal.   I heard from Karen that she'd suggested 
something similar at tonight's meeting.  What do others think?

It's best if we decide by this Friday, April 5th (saves 10% on the 
cost).  If we continue with a double booth, it'd be $234 for the season 
if we were there for 13 weeks, or $450 if we did it every week (which I 
don't want to do, unless many new people really want to run the market 
regularly).