[Oct. 17 Seattle] Mass work report (08/28)

[Phil West]

I would suggest "The Obama/NATO war plans are escalating this great 
plan." - Phil

iskra at riseup.net wrote:
> Today between 2:00-3:00 I passed out 47 leaflets with adverts for the 
> demonstration on them at the intersection of Broadway and John on 
> Capitol Hill.  Having not done mass work on Capitol Hill for several 
> months, I found the overall reception to be much cooler than in the 
> past.  (However, I think this is the first time I have been on Capitol 
> Hill with literature that put Afghanistan front and center.  The "good 
> war" nonsense carries a lot of weight.)  But, as always, there were 
> numerous people who thanked me heartily and were obviously happy that 
> I was out there.  Afterwards I put up 49 of the half-sheet demo 
> announcements on electrical poles around SCCC, down Pine and then 
> turned over to Pike right before the I-5 bridge.
>
> I didn't have a copy of the half-sheet thingy so I laid one out and am 
> attaching it to this email.  By the way, I noticed the second sentence 
> says "escalation has only escalated," which is kind of strange.  (But 
> it didn't seem strange before, for some reason.)  I thought about 
> changing "escalation" to "surge" but didn't want to do so without 
> running it by the group.
>
> --Edward
>
> P.S.: I was thinking about the sound system earlier and thought our 
> Tacoma friends might have some ideas.  I don't know what they used to 
> power that "funk the war" system last spring but it would certainly 
> work for amplifying speeches.  I think we should try to avoid anything 
> requiring a plugin if we can help it.  Too much hassle.
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