[Peace] AWARE at the Sweet Corn Festival! Can you help...?

[Brussel Morton K.]

I'm OK for Saturday afternoon. --mkb


On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Stuart Levy wrote:

> A little more news on Sweet Corn Festival, next weekend (Fri/Sat Aug  
> 28/29):
>
>  - We still need people!  more below...
>
>  - Where we'll be (roughly): somewhere in front of the courthouse
>
>  - Thanks!  to you (Pamela, Jenifer, Joy, Carl, Ron, Stuart) who are
>    already offering to work a shift or two, during the festival --
>    5pm-11pm on Friday, 11am-11pm on Saturday.
>
>  - We could use two or three more people.  If we do 2-hour shifts  
> (as below),
>    there are eight shifts in all, and it'd be nice if we can get two  
> people
>    for each shift.
>
>    Some open times (several of you have offered to be flexible, but  
> here
> 	   are times that nobody's expressed a specific preference for yet):
>
> 	Friday 9-11pm
> 	Saturday 1-3pm
> 	Saturday 5-7pm
> 	Saturday 9-11pm
>
>  - We'll have a lamp this time, so it won't be completely dark under  
> the canopy.
>
>  - Expect some fun discussions with passersby.
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 07:25:03AM -0500, Stuart Levy wrote:
>> AWARE will have a booth at Urbana's Sweet Corn Festival,
>> Aug. 28 and 29 -- two weeks from now --
>> Friday 5pm-11pm, and Saturday 11am-11pm.
>>
>> This is a cool chance to talk with a broad group of people
>> from around Champaign-Urbana -- there's been more variety
>> of opinions among the Sweet Corn visitors than we get
>> from the weekly Farmer's Market crowd.
>>
>> They're long days, but if we're trying to reach people
>> in this town and convince them that stopping the wars,
>> ending torture, ... matter, and that *they can do
>> something about it*, this is a good way to do that.
>>
>>
>> But, we need to staff the booth for the entire time.
>>
>> Can you help?
>>
>> We could try to go for 2-hour shifts:
>>
>>   8/28 Friday 5-7pm
>>   8/28 Friday 7-9
>>   8/28 Friday 9-11
>>
>>   8/29 Saturday 11am-1pm
>>   8/29 Saturday 1pm-3pm
>>   8/29 Saturday 3pm-5pm
>>   8/29 Saturday 5pm-7pm
>>   8/29 Saturday 7pm-9pm
>>   8/29 Saturday 9pm-11pm
>>
>> If you can help with any of these times, or some fraction of them,
>> please write back (either to peace-discuss or to me,
>> though please don't reply to the peace list).
>>
>> More details:
>>
>>    Setup times:
>> 	Friday: Booth must be set up by 4:00pm
>> 	  (an hour before the shebang begins)
>>
>> 	Saturday: we're to set up between 9:30 and 10:30am
>>
>>    Don't know where exactly we'll be.
>>
>>    We have 11x11-foot space -- almost twice as much as
>>     at the Farmer's Market.   We can use our canopy.
>>
>>    We can try to get some small LED lamps to illuminate
>>     us and our gear.  (Any ideas?)
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