Upcoming Meetings and help needed

[Ashley Fehr]

Good Morning!

I hope everyone is doing well this morning. We are coming upon one week until the rally and there are a number of things we still need to do.

First and foremost we will be having an everyone meeting on Monday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 14. 6:00pm, VCC Broadway Campus, in the cafeteria. There are a lot of kinks to work out and I think we'd like to get everyone on the same page. Sometimes when people are divided into committees they hardly speak to each other and so are unaware of what's happening in other areas; we'd like to prevent that from happening so we have a super smooth rally on the 17th.

For coming up to the event there are a number of tasks that need to be done. We need

• Placard Painters
• Leafletters
• Community Outreach

I am currently working on securing a location to paint placards tomorrow afternoon and at times next week. Worse comes to worst everyone is welcome to come to my house but I live in Surrey which is why I'm looking for an alternative location. I will provide as much paint as I can as well as cardboard and posterboard. I'll send out another e-mail this afternoon when the space is confirmed. Painting placards is lots of fun, I strongly encourage everyone to come out! 

Leafletters: Paul LeBlanc has fantastically offered to have the handbills made. Once they are made I will happily print them and disperse them. Ideally tomorrow (if it's not unbearably hot) people will go out around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland and talk to people on the street about July 17th's rally and the issues we're standing up for. Further I am volunteering, and I hope others will as well, to spend my evenings next week handbilling. The only evening I'm unavailable is Tuesday. Follow up e-mails will come. But please, if you're able and willing to handbill, drop me an e-mail so I can know who my guaranteed handbillers are.

Community Outreach: We need to put up the posters that Dayla has been so kind as to design. This means on the post things around Vancouver as well as going into stores and restaurants and seeing if they will put up the poster as well. In my experience most businesses are more than happy to post the information. This is a good thing done in the evenings when businesses are less busy. When it comes to the poster cylinder things (oh technical terms) around Vancouver, they are all removed on Tuesdays so we may want to head out after the meeting on Wednesday to post the posters. I'll print posters and bring them to the meetings.

On the day of the event we have a number of tasks that are required, right now we need to know who is available for:

• set up
• Marshalling
• strike

Set up: We ask that you're at the event site by 12:00 on July 17th to get everything ready. We'll need some people at the Library to have the placards ready and make the area look prepped. We'll need the majority of set up people at Victory Square to set up everything there as that is our main speaking location (we'll have to set up the PA system). We'll need some people to remain at Victory Square to help with the flow of people as they arrive.

Marshalling: We need people who are confident in directing our ralliers where to go, to ensure they don't get hit by traffic, to make sure they stay on the side of the road we've been designated. We need at least 15 marshallers. Please e-mail me to let me know if you can marshall or if you if you know anyone who would be willing to be marshaller. It's important that we know who the marshallers are by the Wednesday meeting so we can do a walk through with them either after the meeting on Wednesday or Thursday evening.

Strike: Let's leave our locations looking better than when we arrived. We'll need people to pick up garbage, help take down the PA System, etc etc. You know the drill :) Let's tidy the place up. 

Okay. At this time that is everything I have to update you on. 

Please let me know if you can do any of the above tasks. I apologize for the long e-mail.

I will talk to you via e-mail again in a couple of hours when place and time for placard painting is confirmed :)

Again, meetings for all people involved in organizing this rally (all committees, all volunteers, all interested peoples) on Monday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 14.

With hope,

Ashley Fehr

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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
-John Diefenbaker

[Dayla]

Here are the most recent poster designs. Anything I should change?

[Paul Cech]

Hey Dayla,

These are awesome! The only suggestion that I have is to add the line 'March from the' to the bottom, where it only says 'Central Library to Victory Square' on the coloured poster. You never know, someone may think that the event is supposed to take up the whole area. I think that your choice of two distinctly different colour palettes and moods is a great idea.

Cheers,

Paul C

[Masrour Zoghi]

Thanks for the colour poster: I find it really pleasing to the eye, despite all the pink in there, which usually annoys me. Somehow, I don't mind it as much here.


Masrour.

[Reilly Y.]

this colour poster is beautiful. those of you on facebook - i recommend you make it your profile picture until the rally.

can everyone take a moment to invite friends on facebook?

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132175446816777

the quickest way is to click the "invite friends" link under the picture, then select "filter friends" and pick some vancouver-related groups. then hit "select all." the attached screen shots show you how.

i'll also forward an email invite to the group that we can all then email forward to our contacts. look for that in just a minute or two.

i'll be posting the event to the larger groups today.

really good work everyone!

reilly

[Reilly Y.]

also, can everyone take a moment to invite people to the vancouver group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137204429638339&v=app_2344061033#!/group.php?gid=137204429638339

use the same process outlined and depicted for the event! filter friends and select all - it's faster!

thank you!

r.

[Tim Kennelly]

Apologies for the late notice, but I will not be able to make the meeting this evening, as we have a Stopwar meeting to plan our upcoming summer activities.

I would like to make one comment about future media releases. I don't think it's our job to make a big issue of the black bloc; it's our job to make it clear that we're calling for a federal public inquiry into the Toronto G-20, and standing up for the charter. So if the question of the black bloc comes up again in future media interviews, I would suggest a response along the lines of "We don't support the black bloc, and we have plans to deal with them if they show up at our demo; however our primary goal is to call for a public inquiry into the Toronto G-20, and to stand up for the charter".

Cheers,

Tim

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From: Ashley Fehr <ashle...@gmail.com>
To: capp-vanc...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Fri, July 9, 2010 10:45:57 AM
Subject: Upcoming Meetings and help needed

[Shari Laliberte]

I'm on way back to Van this eve. Am avail to help tomorrow onward...

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