[Peace-discuss] AWARE @ Farmer's Market; police militarization; Salaita, Kilgore and Dolinar on World Labor Hour; indoor market dates?

[Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss]

Hey all,

AWARE will be back at the Farmer's Market this weekend.

Re the militarization-of-police statement, I'm hearing that the CUCPJ 
people who drafted it would prefer to gather a number of groups who 
agree with it, and then hold some sort of meeting in the next few weeks 
so that all the supportive groups can decide how to go forward.   Of 
course that doesn't mean we shouldn't speak out against militarizing 
police, but we can do it with our own materials for now - maybe the 
flyer Carl drafted a few months ago?   Or, there have been some good 
articles on Ferguson and the organization of popular resistance, too.

Given Dave Johnson's lineup for the 11AM World Labor Hour on WEFT-FM - 
Steven Salaita during the first half hour, and James Kilgore and Brian 
Dolinar on the second half, talking about police militarization - I'm 
tempted to bring a radio and actually encourage people to come close and 
listen to it!   (It wouldn't be cranked so loud that it would disturb 
the neighboring booths.)

Question, especially for people who work at the Market: we can sign up 
for the indoor market, 8am-1pm, as we have the last few years.
Dates: 11/8, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29,
            12/6, 12/13, 12/20
I'm game to be there for up to say four weeks.   Does this seem 
worthwhile?   (If we were there for four weeks, it'd cost $140, but 
human time is the bigger cost.)   Who would be willing to work some 
times?   Do you have any preference on dates which are important for us 
to be there (e.g. right after the election, right after Thanksgiving, 
...)?   Thanksgiving is 11/27.


I'm sorry to have missed the last couple of AWARE meetings - we haven't 
given up!   Last Sunday Karen and I went on a two-hour hike that turned 
out to take four hours - a pretty afternoon but we couldn't get back to 
town until after the meeting was done.