[Januaryfirst] Mainlander radio tomorrow.

Fri Jan 3 13:11:04 PST 2014

Oops! here's the interview so you don't have to dig around for it:
http://www.coopradio.org/content/mainlander-radio-12

gil

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Gil <zapat3ro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I did manage to go to the show and talk with Daniel and Nathan.
> You can listen to the interview at co-op radio's website and see if I
> talked too much b.s. :-P
>
> We should schedule our next meeting too! Unfortunately, this coming
> Tuesday and Wednesday we have Social Housing Coalition meetings, so
> Alexandra, Dave and I won't be available. Would people be free on Thursday
> instead?
>
> Also, big plug here: tomorrow (Sat. Jan. 4) we have a STAND for social
> housing at the corner of Broadway and Cambie, at 12 noon. If you can come
> help stand and hand out leaflets that'd be awesome :-)
>
> Gil
> On Jan 3, 2014 9:17 AM, "Dave Diewert" <ddiewertt at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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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