[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Follow up action

[Ajit Bir Singh]

Re: action

I don't have a personal preference on the date. Same position as you,
Saturday ideally but it depends on people's availability.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Caitlin Craven <caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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