[Peace-discuss] Boycott Tires Plus?

[Jim Buell]

Actually, I do think that was probably a coincidence. From what I could 
see, the manager had no idea who the driver of the van might have been. He 
was just complaining about a demonstrator's vehicle being in his lot. 
(Can't be sure, though - I suppose he could have seen the driver leave the 
van to walk up to the sidewalk and join us.)

jb

At 09:07 AM 2/17/2003 -0600, Alfred Kagan wrote:
>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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