[Januaryfirst] Plan for Jan. 1st

[Gil]

Hi everyone,

Here are the notes I took from tonight's material-making party. We're
pretty much all good to go for Jan. 1st, and it'll be a great event for
sure! :-)

See ya Wednesday!

gil

-----notes-----
To do:
Dave: Get chalk, bring materials to waterfront
Teresa: Make hot chocolate, call Murray from Media Coop
Gil: Contact Tamara to take photos, make sign-up sheet and leaflet & send
to Harjap, get markers
Harjap: print leaflets

Logistics:
-We will meet at 1:30 at Waterfront station and get ready
-We'll only use a megaphone to talk to the crowd
-We'll march silently, but have a few words and chants at each stop
-We'll stop at the US & Mexican Consulates, corner of Georgia & Burrard
(for "Canada") and finish at Art Gallery
-We'll have a leaflet to hand out to random people, and a small one with
the march's "theme song" for people to learn the words
-We made the big corn puppet to be carried by 3 people (one "driving" and
one for each arm)
-The banner has an area for people to write/draw messages of resistance or
things they stand for with white markers at the beginning



Route
1. Waterfront station - 2 PM
Harjap, Cease and (Gil?) will open the space with a greeting, brief
explanation of the event (that people should "finish" the banner, explain
the route, that we're marching silently but shouting chants/things at
stops, that we'll finish with a hot chocolate, and who/what is the Jan. 1st
Collective).
*We requested a greeting from the Zapatistas, but sent it SUPER late, so
they may not have enough time to send us a message to read... maybe we'll
get it and post it by email, etc. later.

2. US Consulate - 2:20 PM
Harjap/?/Gil will say a few words about the US (NAFTA, TPP, etc) then lead
the chant:

hey hey
USA
Take your Free Trade
and go away!

Theme song (to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall"):
We don't need no corporations
We don't want your trade agreements
Hey! Listen! Leave the land alone!

3. Mexican Consulate - 2:30 PM
Gi will say a few words about NAFTA, zapatistas, then lead the chant:

Zapata vive!
La lucha sigue!

Zapata vive vive!
La lucha sigue sigue!

Zapata vive vive vive!
La lucha sigue sigue sigue!

Theme song (to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall"):
We don't need no corporations
We don't want your trade agreements
Hey! Listen! Leave the land alone!

4. Georgia at Burrard - 2:40 PM
Indigenous person from crowd/Tamara/Harjap? will say a few words about
mining, colonization then lead the chant:

Gas and coal, Gold and oil
Leave them all
in the soil!

Stop stealing
native lands
No more blood
on our hands!

Theme song (to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall"):
We don't need no corporations
We don't want your trade agreements
Hey! Listen! Leave the land alone!

5. Art gallery - 2:50 PM
? will lead the theme song:

We don't need no corporations
We don't want your trade agreements
Hey! Listen! Leave the land alone!

Hot chocolate!

Fin
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