[Peace-discuss] Update on farmer's market street theatre

[Al Kagan]

Do we really think that the farmers would rather not sell their 
veggies than listen to an anti-war message?  I think is very unlikely.

At 7:51 PM -0400 5/24/02, Clint Popetz wrote:
>As many of you heard at the last meeting, the farmer's market kicked
>street theatre out last week after about 3 sentences, for being "too
>political."  After some work from our friendly councilwomen, it turns
>out to be even more complicated.  The farmers at the market are, it
>seems, angry that we could be vocal and move around while they have to
>sign a contract that forbids them to "hawk their wares" outside of
>their booths.  Some have threatened to withdraw from the market it we
>are allowed to shout about the war, and the people coordinating the
>market have threatened to arrest us for tresspassing (they actually
>lease the parking lot from the city, so this is evidently possible) if
>we do it again.
>
>However, thanks to the efforts of Danielle, an arrangement has been
>worked out where the city will give a booth to street theatre free of
>charge, and we can perform, IF we promise to stay in the booth and not
>be too loud, and perhaps tone down the politics for a week or so until
>feathers are unruffled. 
>
>I'm sending this to AWARE in case they would like to share that booth,
>i.e. have someone handing out flyers about AWARE and upcoming events
>(i.e. the refusenik talk.)  I can't staff that booth, as I'm staffing
>the food coop booth, and just taking a 10 minute break to do street
>theatre.  This seems like a great way for AWARE to do outreach.
>
>				-Clint
>
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