[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Follow up action

[Caitlin Craven]

Great.  I'm sending the following email out to selected people to see if we
have the bodies to make something happen.  I suggested either Saturday or
Sunday afternoon - Saturday is better because there are more people, but
Blake might be working.  Either way, we'll see which day people are most
available.  Do you have a preference, Ajit?

Thanks!

Caitlin

Hello friends,

We're sending this out as a closed call-out for a tentative follow up to
the Refugees Welcome rally held on Sept 5th.

We'd like to organize a demo during Super Crawl to keep up momentum on this
issue and build an analysis of the relationship between war, colonialism,
displacement, and borders.

Towards this, we're looking for people who would be interested in holding a
small 'die-in' at a location along James St.  We'd hold this during the
daytime and will only go forward with the idea if there are enough bodies
available to make the event safe.  We need at least 5-7 people who can be
on the ground and 10-15 supporters to stand around them.

As such, we're emailing you to find out if you'd be available or interested
in being part of the demo (either as a body on the ground or standing with
signs/candles).  There would be no speeches and no march, just the die-in,
some signs, and maybe a leaflet to pass out.

For now, please keep this within closed circles as we work on planning
whether this is feasible.  If you know someone we missed in this call out
who would like to participate, feel free to pass the email along but don't
disseminate the call widely yet.

Please let us know by *Thursday evening (tomorrow)* if you are interested
and/or available either Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

2015-09-09 6:24 GMT-04:00 Ajit Bir Singh <ajitvir.s at gmail.com>:

> Hey,
>
> I'm not free Sept 9th. I'm interested in doing another action at
> supercrawl. Which day this weekend?
> On Sep 8, 2015 12:48 PM, "Caitlin Craven" <caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Looks like it is Sept 9th (Wed).  I can go if someone wants to join me
>> with a couple signs?  This one looks to be organized by Micah House and
>> they want to keep the signage 'positive' - this might be a question of
>> their funding, but also that they are explicitly a Christian resettlement
>> group.
>>
>> So, do we go anyway with more political signage? Do we focus on
>> organizing something else for supercrawl?
>>
>> If folks want to do the die-in, I can contact some of our supporters to
>> get them on board to participate.  We'd need at least 20 people in total, I
>> think, to do it safely.  If you're available and think it's a good idea,
>> Ajit, I think we can pull it off.  Let me know, and I can start contacting
>> people one-on-one to see if there is enough capacity.
>>
>> Caitlin
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-09-08 10:05 GMT-04:00 Yen Chu <yenbchu at yahoo.ca>:
>>
>>> Sorry, I'm not available this weekend. But there seems to be another
>>> refugee welcome demo on Thursday at Bayfront Park.
>>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/events/418853318323679/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 7, 2015, at 6:34 PM, blake mccall <bwmccall at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Folks,
>>>
>>> It looks like there is going to be another call out for actions in the
>>> coming days. Caitlin and I were thinking it might be possible to do an
>>> action for SuperCrawl (maybe a die in?). How are people feeling about
>>> trying to do another action this week?
>>>
>>> Blake
>>>
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