[Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread

Sun Oct 18 14:06:29 EDT 2009

Totaling things up, before the march I think that we passed out about 55 leaflets, and if we assume that maybe half of the various stacks of leaflets that we gave to others throughout the campaign were actually distributed, then I think that it’s safe to add on another 60. This gives a total of 5455, which I’m sure is more pre-event distribution of literature than has occurred in a good number of years.
During the march SAIC distributed maybe 200 leaflets (a wild guess) to the people on the streets.  From my perspective, this contributed to the political impact of the event, but I don’t think this number should be considered part of the O-27 mobe effort.
More summation comments in a while.
Cheers

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From: James Bichler 

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Sent: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:32:03 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread

Last Friday I distributed 37 leaflets before a health care debate at Shoreline CC.  Yah, I'm a little late with reporting that.

Today I passed out a minimum of 300 leaflets on the Ave.

Another 35 minimum at the UD Safeway.

Running total: 5,340

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Eric Gordan <ejrd1993 at hotmail.com> wrote:

Edward and I postered this afternoon, at 4th/5th and Jackson; the ID; around the 12th & Jackson/Boren/South end of Broadway neighborhood; and directly around SCCC.  We put up 150 posters, and handed out 19 leaflets to interested passersby.  We had a number of encouraging comments, for example, in response to our "out now" slogan: "Yes! Now! Not tomorrow! Not the day after tomorrow!  Now!"

Running total: 4968

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:23:17 -0700
From: phil_west at comcast.net

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Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread

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:

  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.

  Running total: 4774

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From: Phil West 

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Sent: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:40:49 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread

Today and yesterday I handed out 26 leaflets at the UW, between

classes.  One older guy took several to hand out to a local Democratic

Party meeting that he goes to(!!).  He said that the people in this

group were pretty mad at what Obama was doing.    Running total 4648.

Phil

Eric Gordan wrote:

  I

went out yesterday to Seattle Central.  I distributed 83 leaflets.

 Several people expressed excitement about the demo.  One man came out

of his way to get it, so he would have the demo details.  A student

said that they're trying to get SAW going again, and that they plan to

be there on Saturday.

Running total (including E's 50): 4622

> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:58:53 -0700

> From: iskra at riseup.net

> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net

> Subject: Re: [Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread

> 

> Today I put up 50 posters along one side of Jackson then across

Rizal 

> bridge, on some of the poles around Amazon, along the other side

of 

> Rizal bridge and down along the other side of Jackson. Most of the

> half-sheet flyers we put up the other week were still up. If

anyone has 

> an extra stapler, please bring it to tomorrow's meeting. Most of

the 

> area around Yesler Terrace and south Capitol Hill is all wooden

poles.

> 

> --Edward

> 

> 

> Phil West wrote:

> > E, & I went to the late show of the Michael Moore

Capitalism movie at 

> > the Metro tonight and handed out around 30 leaflets,

together. We had 

> > one interesting conversation with a young guy who wanted to

understand 

> > how we viewed Obama and his program, from the standpoint of

"social 

> > justice". Running total 4489.

> > 

> > Phil

> > 

> > Phil West wrote:

> >> Add 40 more for me. I gave a leaflet to M. C. and he said

he would be 

> >> there. Running total 4459. - Phil

> >>

> >> chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:

> >>>

> >>> Phil, Anton and I were at the LBGT rally, where I

passed out 110 

> >>> leaflets (including 20 to people on the streets

downtown). Jim (WWP), 

> >>> RCP, and a guy who announced the demonstration at

last night’ 

> >>> Militant Forum (SWP) all took little stacks of the

small flyer to 

> >>> pass around from Phil.

> >>>

> >>> Not /one mention /of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq

at the starting 

> >>> rally. (I missed the ending one.)

> >>>

> >>> I thought that there were at most 600-700 people

there, while Phil 

> >>> thought there could have been 1000. In either case,

this was way 

> >>> below my expectation of many thousands.

> >>>

> >>> Running total: 4419

> >>>

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