Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Francoise Fielding <mdm2548@yahoo.com>
Subject: Beach Impeach tabling and litterature
opportunity
To: lpsf-activists@yahoo.groups.comHi All:
If you're not participating in this, it's a good
opprtunity for distributing liiterature (Ron Paul?
LPSF?)
Tabling/booths are allowed. See mid-way down.
Francoise--- Brad Newsham <volunteers@volunteerforchange.org>
wrote:> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:01:44 -0400
> From: Brad Newsham
> <volunteers@volunteerforchange.org>
> To: Francoise Fielding <mdm2548@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Ebay Expert Needed / Nuts and Bolts /
> Diatribe
>
> BEACH IMPEACH III -- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1 PM
--
> CRISSY FIELD, SAN FRANCISCO
> -- DETAILS: www.beachimpeach.org
>
>
> Dear Everyone,
>
> I've tried to keep these emails diatribe-free -- I
> would rather tell a STORY or
> hear a story instead of being on either end of a
> diatribe. But when I sat down
> to write this morning (around 6 a.m., in the
> backseat of my cab, while waiting
> for a fare in front of the club Endup at 6th and
> Harrison) I spotted a nice
> juicy diatribe just waiting to be let loose. So I
> loosed it. I've positioned it
> at the bottom of this message, below some
> nuts-and-bolts information about next
> Saturday's Beach Impeach III, which is going to be
> great, by the way. Feel free
> to not read the diatribe. You've got your own
> reasons for being impassioned
> about impeachment, and don't really need mine --
but
> writing down my thoughts
> did help me remember why we're doing this thing. I
> recommend the process of
> writing down your thoughts about impeachment, and
> about why you're participating
> in Beach Impeach. It helped me re-focus.
>
> Here are the nuts-and-bolts topics:
>
>
> EBAY EXPERT NEEDED!
> CROWD SIZE
> GOT MUSIC?
> TABLING / BOOTHS
> POST CARDS
> VOLUNTEERING
> PARKING SPOTS
>
>
> EBAY EXPERT NEEDED!
>
> The ebay idea has not gotten proper traction. I've
> never posted anything on ebay
> - is there an ebay expert reading this who can
hold
> my hand through the process
> of putting the fourth helicopter seat up for bid?
> Please call me (415-305-8294)
> or email. Time is slipping away...
>
>
> CROWD SIZE
>
> This has got me flummoxed. We've got 405 people
> registered right now, but I do
> FEEL like there are a lot more people coming. I'm
> absolutely confident we'll
> have 1,000, and those 1,000 will make for a fine
> event, with lettering 100 feet
> tall and 400 feet long, as at Beach Impeach I. But
> if I KNEW there were 1,500
> people coming, we could expand the image size to a
> more-impressive 150 feet tall
> by 600 feet long. But I don't want to make a big
> image that we can't fill with
> bodies. This image-size call doesn't have to be
made
> until Thursday or Friday.
> If you know people who are coming, but haven't
> registered, please encourage them
> to do so. If we get 1,500 (or more) people, we can
> all squeeze into the 400-foot
> image, but it would be an opportunity missed.
>
>
> GOT MUSIC?
>
> The group Sadza, the Zimbabwean mirimba band that
> added such a nice flavor to
> Beach Impeach II, is otherwise occupied on
Saturday.
> They send their regrets.
> There is no sound system at our event (no
amplified
> music permitted), but if you
> are a musician, and if your music is...
presentable?
> (appropriate and
> family-friendly)... if, say, you've got a nice
> guitar that gently weeps, you
> might consider bringing it and strolling the area
> before and after. The right
> music can be a great addition. But in my mind, the
> silent sounds of the Bay are
> preferable to the wrong music.
>
>
> TABLING / BOOTHS
>
> A couple of groups have asked about setting up
> informational tables or booths.
> Here's the deal. They are allowed. But the Park
> Service is very clear that no
> actual "sales" will be allowed, but "passive"
> donations can definitely be
> accepted. The Park Service has been fantastic ever
> since I started interacting
> with them about a year ago. Their mission is to
> manage the parks to the benefit
> of all, and they take this seriously, and I'm
fully
> behind them, and feel that
> they are fully behind us. Let's just do it the way
> they've asked. They want
> other users of the park that day, people who are
not
> there for Beach Impeach, to
> be able to have a reasonable and pleasurable park
> experience, too. No hawkers,
> please. No aggressive pushing of anything, please.
> Questions, please call me.
>
>
> POST CARDS
>
> Post cards of the previous two events will be
> available at this event, and
> you're welcomed to take one of each (or more if
you
> need them). There will be
> donation buckets, too, should you feel so moved.
>
>
> VOLUNTEERING
>
> -- FLYERING HELP NEEDED. Please consider
> distributing flyers in your own
> neighborhood or work place or other sphere of
> influence. Also, we are trying to
> blanket the Marina District with flyers -- Marina
> residents can easily walk or
> bike to Crissy Field. Already certain parts of the
> Marina have been flyered, but
> we could use more people to take this on. If you
can
> flyer, please call me so
> that we can keep track of the areas we've done,
and
> the areas we still need to
> do.
>
> -- DAY OF EVENT -- I'm going to need volunteers to
> help with image layout
> from about 9 a.m. onward. Also, we'll need letter
> captains, people to hand out
> instructional fliers, people to "work" each letter
> and get everyone (if
> possible) to fill out a postcard to Nancy Pelosi
or
> other representatives.
> Please let me know if you can come early. Lots of
> you have said you could help
> on the day of the event.
>
> -- SIGNAGE -- One day this week I'm going to need
a
> crew of 4 or 5 to help
> create signage for the event.
>
> -- PARKING -- I need someone to be responsible
(this
> should not be terribly
> difficult) for managing the 240 parking spots
we've
> reserved. I am keeping a
> list of people who've requested parking spots --
so
> far only about 90 spoken
> for.
>
>
>
> That's all the nuts-and-bolts for tonight (more to
> follow in next few days). Now
> here's the
>
>
> DIATRIBE
>
> Sometimes, caught up in the frenzy of trying to
pull
> off this event (or the two
> previous Beach Impeach events) I have temporarily
> lost sight of exactly what it
> is we're trying to accomplish here. We definitely
> are NOT trying simply to
> create a cool event or to make some symbolic, even
> artful, show of resistance. I
> like to think Beach Impeach III has a very real
shot
> at providing the spark that
> will inspire people around the country and around
> the globe to demand that our
> leaders TAKE THE ACTION that the facts and the
> situation are screaming out for:
> IMPEACHMENT! It's time for the House of
> Representatives to formally accuse
> Cheney and Bush of the crimes they are widely
> believed to have committed, and
> which have been detailed ad naseum by legal
scholars
> of all political
> persuasions; to to try them in the Senate; and if
> the evidence is found
> compelling, remove them from office. Let someone
> else have a whack at
> unravelling the Iraq nightmare. All else is
> insanity.
>
> I have no idea how we should end our invasion of
> Iraq -- it looks like a big
> mess to me, with potentially disastrous
> repercussions no matter what we do. But
> WE -- you and I and everyone else in this country
> and this world -- are
> absolutely INSANE (insanity: "committing the same
> act repeatedly, each time
> expecting a different result") if we think that
the
> failed, corrupt, dishonest
> liars in the White House are somehow going to
> suddenly change their stripes and
> lead us into some brilliant, rapturous future.
These
> criminals have SIXTEEN
> MONTHS left in office -- 498 days! -- and if we
fall
> any further down this hole
> into which they have pushed us into (with no
> detectable resistance on our part),
> well, we will have ourselves to blame for the loss
> of this country. We haven't
> yet completely lost the country, but Cheney and
Bush
> have already cost us our
> once-great standing in the world.
>
> Consider the email I received this morning from a
> British reader of one of my
> books: "I wish I could be with you Brad - the US
and
> the World needs inspiration
> like (Beach Impeach). Good luck with Sept 15th -
> and get some video footage so
> I (and others) can show it around. It's a
powerful
> tool to enlighten those who
> have buried thier heads up to now. I was due to
> visit LA next year - but, to be
> honest, I can't bring myself to do it until the US
> attitude in general changes.
> Not tarring everyone with the same brush believe
me
> (my best friend is from LA)
> - but just can't do it."
>
> On Friday, a fare of mine from London said: "I
feel
> really sorry for Tony Blair.
> He got suckered by Bush. We really liked Blair,
but
> for some reason he let
> himself be tricked into this mess." (I replied:
"Hey
> -- we know the feeling.)
>
> The world is looking to America for leadership,
for
> the idealism and courage and
> vision that previous generations of Americans have
> been known for. And instead
> we give them these grifters from the oil industry.
> And then we replace them not
> with leaders, but with vote-counters. "We don't
have
> the votes!" cry Nancy
> Pelosi and Harry Reid and John Conyers. Well,
anyone
> who hides behind this
> transparent fig leaf is really trying to cover the
> naked truth: They don't have
> the... guts. They won't even speak their minds.
What
> if Pelosi and Conyers and
> Reid were to start allowing the people around them
> to simply START TALKING about
> impeachment, or allowing an honest DEBATE on
> impeachment? What if they took
> their own muzzles off? Do you think the projected
> vote tallies might change?
>
> On Sept 15 -- the day Petreus reports to Congress,
> the day tens of thousands of
> anti-war protesters will (again) descend on
> Washington, and the day at least
> 1,000 of us will gather for Beach Impeach III --
we
> have a chance to show the
> world where our hearts are. People around the
world
> take a special interest in
> what happens in San Francisco. What we do here
> matters in ways that we don't
> necessarily comprehend. The Crissy Field setting
is
> spilling over with
> potential, and dramatic beauty, and I'm hoping
(and
> working to see that) we get
> some jaw-dropping images. "IMPEACH!... REASON?...
> TREASON!..." With the
> world-famous Bridge looming overhead! The whole
> world is watching America.
> Really. Looking for a sign of life. Of sanity.
Let's
> give them something
> inspiring...
>
>
> THANK YOU FOR REGISTERING!
>
> All the very best,
>
> brad
> newsham@mac.com
> 415-305-8294
>
> Brad Newsham
> 4096 Piedmont Av -- #723
> Oakland, CA 94611
>
>
>
>
>
>
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