[Peace-discuss] "No bailout!" rally tomorrow? Truemajority coordinating nationwide rallies Thu 9/25 ~5pm, should we hold one?

[Stewart Dickson]

I'll be there -- Neil and University works for me.  -Stewart

Barbara kessel wrote:
> I think we should do it from 5 to 6, with the object of the most cars 
> seeing us, and not worrying about the size of our demonstration. Big 
> signs would make up for fewer people. What about the four corners of 
> Neil and University - big traffic convergence and double stop light? 
>       From what I gather from the news and the Internet, people are 
> really manifesting their dissatisfaction and it is having an effect. 
> Not on our leader, however. He is putting the pressure on Congress and 
> the public as I write. "Tell our Elected Officials" - "Vote No on the 
> Bailout." 
>
>       Just another thought, but please put your two cents in as to 
> time and place and then volunteer to come and/or make signs close 
> beforehand. sign-making IMC in the late afternoon? Barbara Kessel
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:10:02PM -0500, Karen Medina wrote:
>     > Stuart wrote something to the effect of:
>     > > **ATTEND AN EMERGENCY RALLY AGAINST THE BAILOUT*
>     > >     Where would be a good place?
>     > >     We'd probably get more people at 6.
>     >
>     > Barbara wrote:
>     > > with signs at 6:00 PM. Great idea.
>     >
>     > A 6pm rally would push up close to the "Divided We Fall"
>     documentary and discussion:
>
>     Good point.  Maybe a 5:30-6:30 rally then?
>
>
>
>     > Thursday, September 25 (Thursday)
>     > 7:15PM,
>     > Channing-Murray Foundation,
>     > 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana
>     > Documentary:  "Divided We Fall"
>     > -- explores the question: who counts as American?
>     > -- Prof. Robert McKim, chair of the Program for the Study of
>     Religion at UIUC, will moderate a discussion following the
>     > screening.
>
>     (and, the Divided We Fall film is listed on the Channing-Murray
>     calendar,
>        http://www.channingmurray.org/calendar.html
>     as "7pm" -- are we sure it's 7:15?)
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