[Peace-discuss] "No bailout!" rally -- not Thu 9/25 from me, anyway, but soon

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:22:38AM -0500, Stewart Dickson wrote:
> I'll be there -- Neil and University works for me.  -Stewart

After discussing it with Barbara last night, I think we won't
end up doing a No Bailout rally this (Thu) afternoon, after all.
Barbara and Karen were the only other people to respond, and there's
little time to make signs or spread publicity.


As Barbara pointed out, this should be an extremely live issue still
next week -- there was talk on NPR this morning of token changes
being proposed which might mollify enough in Congress that we might
yet see a terrible giveaway bill get passed.  

Questions:

** If we did something early next week, likewise in late afternoon
   of a weekday, who would be interested?

*** Another possibility would be some busy area, like One Main or
    the North Prospect desert, *this weekend*.  A lot of people
    would see us especially on North Prospect.

    If a second-sketch bailout proposal comes out
    of Washington in the next day or two, we might have more to say
    (as in, Tell your congresspeople not to agree to this one either!)


> 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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