[Januaryfirst] Mainlander radio tomorrow.

Fri Jan 3 19:53:50 PST 2014

Hi Dave and Letizia, I know you are not in Facebook so in case you have not
read this yet, here it goes:

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/4611-the-ezln-a-look-at-its-history-part-1-the-guerrilla-nucleus

Enjoy it!

Alexandra

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Dave Diewert <ddiewertt at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Democracy Now has a broadcast on the 20 years of NAFTA and 20 years of the
> Zapatista resistance.
>
> www.democracynow.org
>
> dave
>
> On 2014-01-03, at 1:11 PM, Gil wrote:
>
> 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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