[Imc] Should the UC-IMC have a table at Rolling Thunder?
Peter Miller
peterm at shout.net
Sun May 12 19:37:39 UTC 2002
The volunteers' page includes a section for people/groups that want to do
some tabling. Perhaps we could set up alongside the Chicago IMC...
Is anyone interested in this?
-Peter
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>http://www.rollingthundertour.org/events/chicago.cfm
>
>ROLLING THUNDER - DOWN HOME DEMOCRACY TOUR
>Chicago, Illinois - June 15, 2002
>VOLUNTEERS - Sign Up Online! »
>
>Yo unionizers and wage earners, hipsters and farmers, activists and
>artists, stargazers and soccer moms, high-schoolers and life scholars,
>welders and body-builders, and all the rest of you. mark your calendars
>now for a festival of democracy coming to Chicago June 15th that you won't
>wanna miss.
>
>The Chicago Rolling Thunder Festival featuring heroes of word, deed and
>music such as Erykah Badu, Jesse Jackson Jr., Jim Hightower, Patch Adams,
>spoken word performance impresarios Kuumba Lynx, the soon-to-be-famous
>Union of Industrial Textile Employees (UNITE) gospel choir and many many
>others, is coming to Chicago to raise the rafters and some hell and we
>think you should join us.
>
>The day-long festival will not only showcase the considerable talents
>noted above, but will have hard-hitting workshops on issues ranging from
>genetically modified food to youth decriminalization along with hands-on
>trainings about how to mobilize a grassroots campaign, how to access and
>use the media and many other power-building activities.
>
>There'll be free organic pepper jack grilled cheese sandwiches from the
>Organic Valley Magic Farm Friends bus, carnival games like
>Dunk-A-Lobbyist, free Ben and Jerry's ice cream, the Mother Jones Magazine
>Hellraiser's Tent for writing to elected officials and corporate schmucks,
>a vision quest by Patch Adams, a solar-powered sound stage supplied by
>Greenpeace, and more.
>
>This is no froo froo festival, we're serious about our fun and we're
>serious about making a difference in the world.
>SOO, get your behinds to Union Park, Saturday June 15th and be ready to
>agitate your booty and your mind.
>
>See you on the 15th!!
>
>Do you want to be a volunteer?
>
>We're serious about needing your help to make this event a success - we
>need all y'all to volunteer some time to help create and post flyers, call
>media contacts, alert your lists, phone bank, do graphic design, submit a
>proposal to do a workshop, sell tickets, etc. (check the volunteer listing
>of subcommittees for more details on ways in which you can lend a hand!)
>
>So get your behinds to THE BIG OLE VOLUNTEER MEETING - Thursday May 16th -
>7pm (there'll be pizza..) at the headquarters of UNITE at 333 S. Ashland
>at the Eisenhower Expressway. Tell all your friends, acquaintances and
>even those people you don't really like but talk to anyway.
>
>If you'd like to volunteer but can't make the meeting or want to help from
>out of town, please contact Lily Jimenez, 312-738-6143, education16 at juno.com
>
>For more information
>
>Contact:
>Darci Andresen
>312-738-6123
>darci at rollingthundertour.org
>
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