[Januaryfirst] Mainlander radio tomorrow.

[Dave Diewert]

Gil or Alexandra or Karin,

Can you take this on?

dave

On 2014-01-01, at 8:04 PM, aaron spires wrote:

> Hey everyone.
> 
> Nate Crompton just asked if I would like to speak on the radio tomorrow at 1pm re: the event today and the 20th anniversary. As I was not able to attend the march, and am working tomorrow, I was hoping that someone here would he able to do it.
> 
> If you can, please get a hold of Nate at crompton.n at gmail.com
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Jan 1, 2014 10:03 AM, "aaron spires" <aaronspires at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks.
> 
> Happy new year from Vancouver Island!
> 
> Just wanted to say thank you all for your work leading up to today's event. I hope that it goes off wonderfully, and that it provides a jumping off point for future organizing.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Jan 1, 2014 9:50 AM, "Dave Diewert" <ddiewertt at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Locations of the consulates:
> 
> US Consulate
> 1075 West Pender St (between Burrard and Thurlow)
> 
> Mexican Consulate
> 1177 West Hastings St (between Thurlow and Bute)
> 
> I've made small maps of the route for those guiding the march. Going to the US consulate first then the Mexican consulate will involved some 'snaking' of the march, but that's probably a good thing.
> 
> Get a visual here.
> 
> https://maps.google.ca/maps?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&ie=UTF8&cid=6596741310579997906&q=Consulate+General+Of+Mexico&iwloc=A&gl=CA&hl=en
> 
> see you later ... dave
> 
> 
> On 2013-12-30, at 10:41 PM, Gil wrote:
> 
> > 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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