[Peace-discuss] Boycott Tires Plus?

[Alfred Kagan]

I agree.  Furthermore, does anyone think it was a coincidence that 
the person who was blocked was an African?

At 8:37 AM -0600 2/17/03, Lisa Chason wrote:
>Do folks think it would be right to start publicizing what Tires Plus has
>been doing? I've generally told people to "park in Lowe's, not at the tire
>place because they may have you towed." Not wanting to name the business
>because maybe it was just some of the people who worked there that were
>hostile. Now with what Jim has described and what Ricky said at last night's
>AWARE mtg -- that he's seen the truck there that tried to mow us down back
>in the early days -- perhaps we should explicitly state in our flyers: Do
>not park at Tires Plus
>and put a little piece in the Public I suggesting that people not patronize
>that business?
>Could of course make them even more hostile and we are rather vulnerable,
>standing between them and the traffic.
>Would like to hear what others think.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Buell" <jbuell at prairienet.org>
>To: "John Fettig" <jfettig at students.uiuc.edu>
>Cc: "peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.groogroo.com>
>Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] today
>
>
>>  It was an alls-well-that-ends-well situation. A P4P participant (someone
>>  told me he's a prof in Vet Med) who evidently hadn't been to the event
>>  before had parked his van in the Tires Plus lot because he hadn't heard
>>  that the jerks there tow. The manager came out, started shouting "who owns
>>  this van?" and people nearby tried to spread the word, but nobody knew
>>  right off. Someone told me he then threatened to call a tow truck (as if
>>  those were available in conditions like yesterday's :)), then he (or
>>  somebody from the shop) parked a small station wagon so its back end was
>>  just behind the van, blocking it in. The van driver showed up and didn't
>>  know what to do. I think a passenger from his van went in and tried to
>talk
>>  with the manager, but eventually he came out - no idea what was said, but
>>  the station wagon didn't get moved. Then, brilliance! One of our number
>>  realized that since the van was sitting on ice, a dozen hardy souls could
>>  simply push its rear end sideways to get it out from behind the station
>>  wagon. A little heave-ho, and the deed was done. I doubt the Tires Plus
>guy
>>  ever figured out how it got done. I do indeed have film of a good bit of
>>  this little episode (and can pull stills from that) - figured it would be
>>  good to document in case the going got rough for any reason, though
>happily
>>  it didn't.
>>
>>  All in all, a karmic moment. As, by the way, was the fact that Channel 15
>>  had a long shot on its 10 pm news last night showing several of P4P'ers
>>  helping push a small white pickup truck that was spinning its wheels going
>>  southbound toward the overpass on Prospect. Now viewers know we're a
>>  regular bunch a' boy scouts :).
>>
>>  peace,
>>  Jim
>>
>>  At 11:15 PM 2/15/2003 -0600, John Fettig wrote:
>>  >* Jim Buell <jbuell at prairienet.org>:
>>  > > P4P was fantastic - something like 160-170 people were there according
>>  > > to Ricky's count, despite near-blizzard conditions. So sorry to hear
>>  > > about your getting stuck. All 3 tv stations had video of us on their 6
>>  > > pm news, too - I'm guessing we'll be there at 10 as well. I just
>>  > > noticed that Ben Grosser has a lot of superb pics online - some at
>>  > > www.ucimc.org, the rest at his own website linked from there. I won't
>>  > > bother grabbing stills off my video - his are much nicer!
>>  >
>>  >Speaking of video, I noticed you were filming the on-goings down by
>>  >Tires Plus.  Mind posting an account of what was going on down there?
>>  >It appeared that they had boxed the beige van in with that station
>>  >wagon...
>>  >
>>  >There was an altercation further up the line, I have posted an account
>>  >and one (sorry no action shots) picture on www.ucimc.org.
>>  >
>>  >John
>>
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