[Oct. 17 Seattle] Report, one mass-work thread (Plus TOMORROW)

chr2eemail at comcast.net chr2eemail at comcast.net
Fri Sep 11 20:14:50 EDT 2009


5th & Jackson and 23rd & Jackson. Both are good locations at quitting time, and I passed out 36 leaflets even though I was only able to be at them for a few minutes. Also ran into I., who’s loosely around WWP. She now knows what’s up if she didn’t before.
TOMORROW a few of us will be meeting at Westlake at NOON w/ leaflets, signs and a table. Please join us as we become fish in the sea, patiently doing our work.
Cheers.Total to date: 2021.

----- Original Message -----

From: chr2eemail at comcast.net

To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net

Sent: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:49:15 +0000 (UTC)

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






{This aborted the first time I tried, so here it is again.Fk.]

Broadway, Thursday. 31 leaflets in about an hour. Three people wanted an extra one or two, including an SCCC worker who always takes SAIC leaflets.


Total to date: 1,988. (And we’re only starting, comrades!)

----- Original Message -----

From: Phil West 

To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net

Sent: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:22:20 +0000 (UTC)

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









  

  





I went to the King County Labor Council Labor Day picnic at Lower

Woodland and passed out about 24 leaflets, some to Boeing friends of

mine.   I got into several very interesting conversations about events

at Boeing - the 787 project is way behind schedule, largely due to the

business model of outsourcing everything to suppliers who don't have

the experience or staffing to do things right.  Makes you afraid to

fly.  And Boeing has been trying to play hardball with SPEEA units, and

the SPEEA units are beginning to fight back.  It was good to see my

friends.   I got an information leaflet about an action by the UNITE

HERE union to promote organizing hotel workers starting September 13,

in the morning.  It should be interesting to leaflet that event.  





Phil





chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:






  

  


During the day Phil and I passed out about 250 leaflets. Anton

took over for “second shift” around 5:00, and he was already doing very

well when I left. Numerous favorable comments; and I think that four

people told me that they were for sure going to be at the demonstration

. Too many discussions with people to recount. Even had discussions

with a couple of pro-war people whose general line was that “if we

don’t fight them over there we’ll have to fight them over here.” 

  


Palestine Solidarity Network set up at the same place as we, and

they had mobilized more than their usual number. So this gave us a

chance to again encourage them to get behind October 17, plus give

leaflets to those who’d not previously gotten it---all of whom were

happy to get it. J. S. carried around one of our signs for awhile. 

  


Same plan for tomorrow!

  [Total so far:  1733.]


  


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From: iskra at riseup.net


  


To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net


  


Sent: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:19:17 +0000 (UTC)


  


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


  


  


  


Here's how today's healthcare rally went:


  


  


  


I passed out 150 half-sheets in under 1.5 hours.  I was actually 


  


surprised at how many people were extremely supportive of the flyer's 


  


headline.  There was only one sort-of-hostile comment, and only two 


  


others who said they disagreed.  Of course, not everyone wanted a 


  


leaflet, and many of these people may have either been outright 


  


supporters of the Afghanistan war or undecided (or opponents of the war

  


  


who didn't see the point in going to a march).


  


  


  


Some highlights:


  


*A Quaker read the leaflet and came back to say he'd put it up at their

  


  


meeting house in the U District.  I asked if he wanted a few more

flyers 


  


to pass out and he took about 10.


  


*I asked an FSP woman if they were going to be there and she said

"yes," 


  


and I said I'd be sure to email the next meeting information to them. 


  


(Actually, they have been getting it all along.)


  


*A VFP guy said he'd be there and that he had been getting the mailings

  


  


(from Anton or Marty I assume).  He said he had been too busy to make

it 


  


to our meetings so far but I said he'd hear about the next one on 


  


September 16 as soon as we had the location confirmed.  (I hope this is

  


  


in progress.)


  


  


  


--Edward


  


  


  


  


  


chr2eemail at comcast.net wrote:


  


> The protest against torture-Judge Bybee was attended by about

10-12 


  


> people. My main objective was to talk with people---particularly 


  


> groups---about getting behind building for October 17. And this

was easy 


  


> to do in such a small crowd. But WCW, of course, already knew all

about 


  


> it, while the PDA circles were polite but non-committal. An

unconnected 


  


> guy said that he would be at the demonstration. I passed out 15

leaflets.


  


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> 23^rd and Jackson, Sunday, 8-29.


  


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went to 


  


> the youth march which formed up at the same place. (There were

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> 8-10 youths present, the majority of whom wanted leaflets. Of the

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> Foot traffic generally slow.  Rate of interest comparatively low 


  


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> not bad.  Only one negative comment, from someone who identified

himself 


  


> as military, and disputed reasons for the war that I gave.  I gave

one 


  


> to a young man who identified himself as an RCP supporter.  I

recognized 


  


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converse 


  


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comments 


  


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"the 


  


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describing 


  


> the bases for the wars as I understood them, and he agreed with

that, 


  


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talked 


  


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so I 


  


> paused to leaflet.  A young kid, probably 10, who was moderately

fluent 


  


> in English translated for me to his father (?) explaining that the

  


  


> leaflet was opposing the wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  The

kid was 


  


> _very_ excited about the leaflet, and asked first for one, then

for 


  


> four, and then for "a whole bunch", "to give to everyone".  I

stayed 


  


> outside the gathering place, and leafletted people as they left,

and he 


  


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leaflet, 


  


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the all 


  


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good a 


  


> reception on the busses this time as I have other times I tried

it.  I 


  


> think it depends a lot on the route, time of day, day of week, and

how 


  


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> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:07:57 +0000


  


> From: chr2eemail at comcast.net


  


> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net


  


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


  


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> Phil and I passed out about 70 leaflets with advertisements for

O-17. 


  


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leaflet when 


  


> it registered on them what it was about. When intently reading it

as he 


  


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> Phil had 2-3 quite wide-ranging political discussions.


  


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> I talked with an older guy who’s around FSP. He hadn’t heard about

the 


  


> demonstration, and was enthusiastic for it. But he thought that

FSP must 


  


> be part of the Oct.17 Mobilization and just hadn‘t spread the word

yet. 


  


> I explained that it wasn’t, and told him about the meeting, etc.

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> replied: “Yeah, we should be part of that. I’ll talk to Chris.“


  


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> So we’ll see what happens. (FSP and Radical Women people have

received 


  


> all of our e-mailings, by the way.)


  


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> printer kept jamming, but I did finally get 100 SAIC leaflets

printed.  


  


> I still had about 50+ of the coalition


  


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> Garfield “community” event, which was very small, maybe 75 people

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> advertising replacement windows, Pepsi, etc.   There were also a

few 


  


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Payer 


  


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> what does


  


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> this title mean? Isn’t the US removing troops from Afghanistan?

Why is 


  


> the US


  


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> there?  The older man he had been


  


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> talking to when I came up jumped in and explained that it was for 


  


> control of territory,


  


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> no, it wasn’t about helping the Afghan people, etc.  He had some

facts 


  


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> So I circulated through the neighborhood, walking along 23rd,

across


  


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> Cherry, up to Union.  There are a


  


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> number of coffee places along there that cater to cab drivers and

there are


  


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> other small storefronts.  


  


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> There were a moderate number of people out on the streets, and a

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her a 


  


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> is this about.  When I explained


  


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> (there was a little language barrier) she said, “yes, why

not!  The 


  


> soldiers should all get out of


  


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> there”, and she volunteered to put a poster up.  I gave her a

small 


  


> stack of the half-sheet flyers, and she


  


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Afghanistan/Pakistan 


  


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> it served the whole ruling class -- when I said this to him, he

agreed 


  


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> talking about the wars as “Bush’s mess”, that he started the Iraq

War 


  


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> Saddam had tried to kill his father, etc.  He was very mad about

the 


  


> wars.  The conversation was quite


  


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> friendly.  He read the first


  


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> paragraph while I was there, and he argued that it was beside the

point that


  


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> the drone attacks into Pakistan were “cowardly”, what was

important was that


  


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> they were killing civilians.  It


  


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> wouldn’t be any better if it was troops the imperialists were

sending across


  


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the 


  


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there 


  


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> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:59:10 +0000


  


> From: chr2eemail at comcast.net


  


> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net


  


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


  


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> The VFP action (10-15 people) was probably the biggest since

Folklife 


  


> weekend. Three ANSWER people were also there. One person told me

that 


  


> Marty and Anton had gotten the Oct. 17 info into the VFP minutes,

which 


  


> is good; and nearly everyone I talked with about the demonstration

was 


  


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> While there, I passed out 62 more leaflets (most lySAIC). 3-4

pro-war 


  


> comments were a good reminder that the battle for the hearts and

minds 


  


> of the masses continues. Also talked with someone about putting

the 


  


> demonstration info on stickers (he likes to put up political

stickers 


  


> around town), and I’m pretty sure that he'll do it. 


  


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> To: antiwar at lists.hcoop.net


  


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> Sent: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:15:48 +0000 (UTC)


  


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> Passed out 52 leaflets in about 1 hour 20 minutes. One young guy

had 


  


> already gotten it at Hempfest, and said he liked it. Another young

guy 


  


> was very happy to get the leaflet, but very unhappy that he’s

going to 


  


> be in Portland on the 17^th . Wondered if I knew if there was

going to 


  


> be an eighth anniversary demonstration there, but I couldn’t

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> Sent: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:50:57 +0000 (UTC)


  


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> 1) I passed out 60 of some combination of the SAIC and “Mobe”

flyers on 


  


> Broadway this evening. Best response was from a woman my age who

said “I 


  


> agree w/ that TOTALLY” when she saw what the leaflets were about.

She 


  


> was in a rush, but upon returning from her errand she thanked me

some 


  


> more. The only negative comment was from a guy who asked, “What

are you 


  


> going to do when they land at Alki?”


  


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> because we didn’t have a good address, but it turned out that he’d

seen 


  


> the Indymedia announcement. Now also have his phone number.)


  


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anti-war 


  


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demonstration 


  


> and the formation of this mobilizing effort. (Of the people who I

talked 


  


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> --M, originally of IVAW. Another person who expressed enthusiasm

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> 2) Reports of leafleting experiences have begun to be posted here,

which 


  


> I think this is just what we should do. It gives us a concrete

picture 


  


> of what we’re doing, where we might pick up slack, and so on. 


  


> Additionally, I think that news of articles, postings, radio 


  


> announcements, etc., should also be posted here. For example, SDS

Tacoma 


  


> today posted the information from the flyer on its website.

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> SAIC has had experience in trying to keep reports of leafleting, 


  


> postering and so on all in one thread. I think that this is a

convenient 


  


> way of keeping track of this info that seems to work well for us,

and 


  


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