[Wamvan] One billion rising

Joanna Chiu chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 23:06:44 PST 2013 

Sounds great! We'll promo on our twitter and facebook, too! Thanks again,
Jill!

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jill Goldberg <jygoldberg at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi Joanna and everyone,
>
> It looks like all we need to do to support the organizers of the one
> billion rising event is show up!  One the website, you can actually sign up
> to go, or you can just show up.
>
> It's easy!
>
> Jill
>
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> From: chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:26:41 +0800
> To: wamvan at lists.resist.ca
> Subject: Re: [Wamvan] One billion rising
>
>
> Sounds great! Thanks for looking into it, Jill. Did the organizers say
> there was anything specific else we could do to support them?
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Jill Goldberg <jygoldberg at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I did a little research to see if there are already events planned for
> Feb. 14's One Billion Rising event, and I found one that is planned for 10
> am at Main and Terminal.  The organizers of this one plan to join up with
> the women's memorial march after they're done rising.  I won't be able to
> attend because I'll be at work, but, my thought right now is that perhaps
> rather than replicate their event, we should join them!
>
> Here's the link to the Rising event that's already planned:
> http://onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wlq
>
> What do you all think?
>
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