from world can’t wait student organizers in Chicago
6:30am (yes, AM)- Wake up, put on your Resist or Die Shirt, brush your teeth, get some OJ and a bagel and OUT THE DOOR
7am- Arrive at a high school (a different one each day). Meet up with the crew of 5 people (or usually many of you’ve all come together because you’re all crashing at each other’s places anyway.) One person gets on the bullhorn doing agitation, two collecting contacts, and two handing out flyers. Getting out stickers. Calling for leaders to step forward in a movement that won’t stop till Bush crew is driven out. Specifically, vision of Nov. 2- as this happens all over the country, asking who will lead a walkout at this school that will join with thousands downtown at noon on November 2? Asking what time are you walking out? How will you get downtown? What other schools might you march by or through, pulling out other students? Calling for a meeting right after school at a fast food joint across the street. (A flyer for the meeting is made from a template the night before, where we just write in the specifics for that high school and run off about 100 copies.) We send in s! tacks of flyers, including the flyer for the meeting, and stickers.
8am- Banner drop over the expressway.
9am- Arrive at a college. Bold actions- busting into classrooms, someone dressed up like an Abu Ghraib torture victim, etc. Agitation in the quad in a similar fashion to the high school model, but usually there’s more time for talking and struggling with people on the spot around ‘what time it is in world history’ and what’s really called for to bring into being a different future than the Bush regime’s.
Noon- Busting into the cafeterias, making announcements. Some people in the crew don’t have WCW t-shirts so when we get kicked out, they might be able to stay under the radar and get down with people, bringing forward some organizers.
2:30pm- After school meeting at the high school.to solidify the vision of November 2 and make some concrete plans of how we’re going to do this. Who’s talking to what student group? Who’s going to the school newspaper? Where can we leave flyers for people to pick up? How do we get the specifics for the campus on that flyer? (Note: one high school decided specifically to spread the details by word of mouth to avert repression.) How will we stay in contact?
5pm- Meeting on college campus. Similar model to high schools but more complexities, scale to deal with.
6pm- Making pitches at student organization meetings around the city to take up WCW. Also, hooking up at the same apartment every night (so we can plug in others) to follow up with contacts, see how things are going at different campuses, make plans, etc. Dinner.
8:30pm- Going out on the town. Picking different parts of the city each night (sometimes strategically linked to where we’re going the next day) and getting out posters, stickers, flyers.
2am- Pass out- until the next high school!
This is the approach we’re fighting for. If we aren’t fighting like hell for November 2, it ain’t gonna happen. Now that doesn’t mean every single person is doing every single thing every single day. And in between all this we’re doing all kinds of stuff like emailing and calling people, meeting with individuals, etc. But this is the basic schedule and we think it’s the only thing that measures up to what’s needed at this time. We are far behind where we need to be and can be right now but there is tremendous basis to turn things up right away. We’re trying to turn the fact that we only have three weeks into a real positive- it brings November 2nd and the need to step up right away into reality. We’re honest with people about being behind in our efforts and put it in their hands that we need to be on other campuses, they need to take this up here right away. And people are really responding and stepping forward. More on that to come.