[Peace] AWARE meeting minutes for 6/4/06

[John W.]

At 01:38 AM 6/9/2006, Stuart Levy wrote:


>4th of July Parade
>
>    Float planning meeting, 7:00PM Mon June 5th at Jan & Durl's,
>    2007 George Huff Drive in Urbana.  Like to have as many
>    creative minds as possible -- or if you have ideas and can't
>    attend, send e-mail.
>
>Billboards
>
>    We decided last week to drop the "Silence Gives Consent"/dove billboard,
>    but instead to go for one to promote the advisory referendum:
>
>     [X] Bring Troops Home Now
>     [X] Impeach Bush/Cheney
>     Vote Nov. 7th
>
>    Apparently the billboard business is good -- Adams Outdoor Adv.
>    were too busy to meet with Durl & Jan last Thu or Fri as planned.
>
>    Will try again this week.  Several people expressed interest in
>    attending a meeting at Adams (on north Neil just N of post office) --
>    Durl will send e-mail when there's a meeting time set.
>    [That turned out to be Wed 6/7 at 2PM -- how'd it go?]
>
>    Not clear whether Adams will agree to anything mentioning impeachment --
>    they've already turned it down in one form.  As Bob I. notes,
>    we're victims of one kind of media consolidation, as Adams is now
>    the only billboard game in town.
>
>    A firm No from them might make for better publicity ("Banned in Boston")
>    than the billboard itself would.  And if it came soon, we could put our
>    own billboard on the 4th-of-July float!


This is a superb idea right here....the idea of a billboard on the float, 
that is.

John Wason