[NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice

[Dave Bart]

Sorry for using the reply-to-all thing twice in one day. I promise I'll be
brief.

The problem is not the cost of tickets. Its the absence of the press.

Walking around holding signs and chanting is great fun, I won't deny that.
but if you want to change stuff, more people have to see your protest than
just the protesters. And those cameras aren't going to be at the protest
today-they're going to be focused on JazzFest, the oil slick off the coast,
and the election.

You need those cameras to be looking at you while you're protesting. Else,
the folks at home watching TV news won't see you, which means they won't be
calling their legislators outraged and demanding change, they won't be
boycotting the corporate thugs, and they won't know who you are or where to
go to find out how to join in on the next event. The media, as awful as it
is, if the best tool we have to reach the people who don't just happen to be
walking by at the moment we're doing our thing.


Now if you wanna get creative in a way that might drag them cameras away
from downtown long enough to get you on TV, maybe we can try to somehow
incorporate the major events where the news is already, like that oil slick.
Stage a protest by the port against British Petroleum and compare this to
thee Exxon Valdez, and maybe the cameras will pay attention to the growing
civil unrest created by this disaster. Or somehow incorporate the election
into it, or JF itself-the corporations fiddle while the Louisiana Gulf Coast
burns, that kinda thing. That way its current and relevant to what's
happening right now in new Orleans. The press might decide this is a news
item worth covering.

That said, I do appreciate what the Second Line is doing.

Dave


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:56, howellnow <howellnow at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I had received emails in the past from the srlcwelcoming committee in the
> past.  I did help build the Second Line for Education and Healthcare.
>
>   Yes, I am aware that May Day this year coincides with the last Saturday
> of  Jazz Fest.  Still, I've lived in New Orleans through the past 26 Jazz
> Fests  in New Orleans and I know that many New Orleanians, in fact most,
> won't be going to the festival.  This might have something to do with the
> daily fee, this year its $60, to attend the event. I suspect most, if not
> all, of the homeless people in the vicinity of the New Orleans Mission who
> have expressed support for the May Day action won't be able  to afford the
> entrance fee to the Jazz and Heritage Festival.  It's worth noting that
> those who want to attend both the May Day Action and Jazz Fest will have
> plenty of  time to do both.  The May Day Action on Oretha Castle Haley
> should be finished by 1pm.
>
>       Saturday is the international day of the working class.  It's been
> the international day of the working class for 110 years.  New Orleans is
> one of the cities where workers participated in the original May Day working
> class mobilzation.  And the working class of New Orleans needs to mobilize
> if the rampant class and ethnic cleansing now underway is to be brought to a
> halt.So,  May Day seems to me to be a good day to attempt such a
> mobilization, even on a Jazz Fest Saturday.
>
> Mike Howells, C3/Hands Off Iberville
>
> --- On *Thu, 4/29/10, Courtney Tennie Gullo <cgullo at uno.edu>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Courtney Tennie Gullo <cgullo at uno.edu>
>
> Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs,
> Housing, & Justice
> To: "srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca" <
> srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca>
> Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 11:52 PM
>
>
> exuse me? did i even email you anything? i have no idea who you are
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Lerah Allen [lerahallen at cox.net<http://us.mc1802.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lerahallen@cox.net>
> ]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:40 PM
> To: srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca<http://us.mc1802.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=srlcwelcomingcommittee@lists.resist.ca>
> Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs,
> Housing,  & Justice
>
> I am sorry, but you chose the Last Saturday of the Jazz Fest and an
> election day. Are you nuts?
>
>


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