[Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread
Phil West
phil_west at comcast.net
Thu Oct 15 23:23:17 EDT 2009
Today I leafleted the UW campus and the Ave with James, and I passed out
25 big SAIC leaflets, and had some interesting exchanges; one person
took 5 to spread around to his friends. Several people said that they
were disappointed with Obama and the liberals for the wars that they
have kept the country involved in, and there was a widespread feeling
that Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was a joke. Earlier in the day I ran
into D, of SA/O22 as he was racing to catch a bus, and I walked with him
for a few minutes. He said that the SA chapter had had a meeting at
which they discussed endorsing O17, but decided not to do so because
they thought it would be small and they were discouraged by the
situation on O7 when ANSWER and WCW held competing demonstrations. I
said that this was very sectarian of SA because we weren't part of that
squabble, and he agreed, and said he was disgusted with this decision.
I mentioned that E. had heard from R. K. that he was not aware of O17 in
spite of all the work we had done, and D. said that he thought that R.
K. was certainly lying when he said that, in order to stall for time on
the issue. I asked D. about speaking for O22 on Sat. and he said that
he had heard from Anton and replied that if no one else from O22 would
speak, he would. This exchange confirms my feeling that D. is one of
the least sectarian of the SA people and he was as usual very
friendly. Running total 4799, James will probably weigh in later
with his count.
chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:
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> Today Alex and I passed out 126 leaflets at SCCC, which is surprising
> since we’ve already passed out many, many hundreds there. More, I
> wasn’t even there very long.--Fk.
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> Running total: 4774
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Phil West
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> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net
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> Sent: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:40:49 +0000 (UTC)
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> Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread
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> Today and yesterday I handed out 26 leaflets at the UW, between
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> classes. One older guy took several to hand out to a local Democratic
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> Party meeting that he goes to(!!). He said that the people in this
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> group were pretty mad at what Obama was doing. Running total 4648.
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> Eric Gordan wrote:
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> went out yesterday to Seattle Central. I distributed 83 leaflets.
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> Several people expressed excitement about the demo. One man came out
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> of his way to get it, so he would have the demo details. A student
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> said that they're trying to get SAW going again, and that they plan to
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> be there on Saturday.
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> Running total (including E's 50): 4622
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> > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:58:53 -0700
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> > From: iskra at riseup.net
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> > To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net
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> > Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread
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> > Today I put up 50 posters along one side of Jackson then across
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> Rizal
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> > bridge, on some of the poles around Amazon, along the other side
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> > Rizal bridge and down along the other side of Jackson. Most of the
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> > half-sheet flyers we put up the other week were still up. If
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> anyone has
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> > an extra stapler, please bring it to tomorrow's meeting. Most of
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> > area around Yesler Terrace and south Capitol Hill is all wooden
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> > --Edward
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> > Phil West wrote:
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> > > E, & I went to the late show of the Michael Moore
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> Capitalism movie at
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> > > the Metro tonight and handed out around 30 leaflets,
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> together. We had
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> > > one interesting conversation with a young guy who wanted to
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> understand
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> > > how we viewed Obama and his program, from the standpoint of
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> "social
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> > > justice". Running total 4489.
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> > > Phil
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> > > Phil West wrote:
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> > >> Add 40 more for me. I gave a leaflet to M. C. and he said
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> he would be
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> > >> there. Running total 4459. - Phil
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> > >> chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:
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> > >>> Phil, Anton and I were at the LBGT rally, where I
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> passed out 110
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> > >>> leaflets (including 20 to people on the streets
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> downtown). Jim (WWP),
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> > >>> RCP, and a guy who announced the demonstration at
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> last night’
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> > >>> Militant Forum (SWP) all took little stacks of the
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> small flyer to
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> > >>> pass around from Phil.
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> > >>>
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> > >>> Not /one mention /of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq
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> at the starting
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> > >>> rally. (I missed the ending one.)
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> > >>> I thought that there were at most 600-700 people
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> there, while Phil
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> > >>> thought there could have been 1000. In either case,
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> this was way
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> > >>> below my expectation of many thousands.
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> > >>> Running total: 4419
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