[Januaryfirst] Leaflet

[Dave Diewert]

Thanks, Gil.

I'm out of town for this weekend (til monday), but would be around for a Wednesday meeting and/or leafletting. I will also run off a batch of posters and will poster the Drive (and elsewhere) this coming week as well.

As for speakers, I don't think there is any need to panic. Cease is confirmed, and we have people within our circle who can speak poignantly to the topic (excluding myself). Remember, this is an event where we hope to broaden popular understanding of the issues in preparation for the Jan 1st event and beyond. So it's part of an ongoing movement. 

The key at this point (it seems to me) is to get the word out, and work as much as possible in outreaching for the event. We have the poster and leaflet, so just need to get it out there.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents worth. I'm available for a wednesday meeting & action. Maybe we can meet and then leaflet or leaflet and then meet. Either way, I"m there.

dave


On 2013-11-08, at 11:12 PM, Gil wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I suppose nobody managed to meet last week? Apologies again, but the Social Housing Coalition's meeting was at the same time, and we couldn't miss it.
> 
> Here's a PDF of the handout/leaflet, in case people can handout anything this weekend. We should reorganize another leafleting meting this week tho. Would anyone be up for that this Wednesday?
> 
> Also, we have not found any other speaker! I have checked with people looking for someone in the South just now, and I'm waiting for a response soon. I also took the liberty of emailing Mark Leier just now, in case nobody has done it... I mentioned somebody else may have tho, just in case I jumped the gun! haha
> 
> We should ramp up the promotion (just re-blasted it on FB), so please make sure to email your friends with the invite to make sure as many people as possible get it! (I attahced an easy to copy+paste version below)
> 
> Hope you're all good and see you soon!
> 
> gil
> 
> -----callout-----
> 
> FTAs are so 1990s!
> Almost two decades have past since Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were the hot topic, when the incredible resistance to the World Trade Organization at Seattle covered front pages across the globe, and the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico were on everyone’s minds. Even the powerful music and message of Rage Against the Machine seems like ancient history!
> 
> But two decades have not been enough to normalize the almost-complete destruction of our social safety nets (health care, education, unemployment insurance programs), the impoverished living and working conditions that are constantly getting worse, and the general dispossession that thousands of people across North America and the rest of the world have endured due to these agreements. Two decades of FTAs have also meant two decades of resistance.
> 
> Join this public discussion of how communities have endured these two decades, and be part of the ongoing struggle to recover the lost ground and build anew communities that rely on our collective sense of belonging and friendship, and where our work is put to the benefit of all, not the few.
> 
> when: Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Start at 6PM
> where: YWCA Downtown Meeting Room at 733 Beatty St., corner of Georgia
> 
> Speakers:
> Ceasse Wyss
> + TBA
> 
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