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

E. Wayne Johnson ewj at pigs.ag
Sat Aug 22 13:04:45 CDT 2009


I'll be back again soon and can help to fill in where there are open shifts.

Wayne



On 8/22/2009 11:32 AM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> 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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