In thinking about and expanding on the 6 Essentials on the youth page here are some key things that could kick up our efforts for Nov.2nd.
Campus Anti War Network Nationally Endorses & Mobilizing Student Groups
Over
the weekend Campus Anti War Network C.A.N nationally endorsed The World
Can’t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime and mobilizations on the 2nd. This
is a very positive development and is part of bringing in a myriad of
voices around Nov.2nd. We need to involve C.A.N and all of the other
groups that have endorsed the 2nd more closely. Contact local groups
like CAN chapters and strategize on how they can mobilize for the 2nd.
They should send a email through their mailing list announcing the local convergence spots and calling on people to take part on the 2nd,
different student groups should bring their own Banners on the day of
the 2nd along with contacting all the student groups on campus to have
a speaker at the rally. We are not asking for help, we are calling on
people to taking history into their hands.
– Mark James from the
National Steering Committee of World Can’t Wait wrote a very strong
letter to the LGBT Community that can be utilized in approaching all of
the LGBT student groups on campus.
Read LGTB Letter Here
-Also we urgently need to be meeting with more professors, asking them to endorse the call, send out an email throughout their department and announcing the 2nd in class.
Reading the WCW Call at L.A Vigil to mark 2,000th US Death
In thinking about and expanding on the 6 Essentials on the youth page here are some key things that could kick up our efforts for Nov.2nd.
Saturate The Airwaves
-We need to be making a bigger deal about the Howard Zinn message to the youth; both playing it with people we are meeting, but also beaming it out on the airwaves at local College radio stations.
-There are also BRAND NEW P.S.A’s
by Boots from The Coup and Culture Clash. There needs to be a special
emphasis on this; you can check out more on these P.S.A’s at:
Student Plan for P.S.A’s
HALLOWEEN
-HALLOWEEN
needs to a list minute push. Make a call for all the youth to gather
and march in any Halloween festivities planned in your cities. This
will give us sneak peek for the 2nd and good experience for people
leading a march, calling on people to JOIN US.
-The morning of
Halloween (Monday) we should make a special effort to be at the High
Schools when they let out with rolls and rolls of stickers and World
Can’t Wait calls.
Plaster and Popularize the 2nd on Campus
–
In the last few days before an event you have a different dynamic in
outreach. The 2nd is right around the corner and should be on people’s
minds. Get into all the dorms, stuff flyers in all the lockers, leave
Calls in the Teachers’ mailboxes and have a schedule for tabling that
could include street theatre and agitators.
-Drawing on the lessons
from this summer if there are any concerts that draw massive crowds of
youth we need be there in full effect making a scene and challenging
the crowd to rewrite history and be part of Driving out this Regime
Nov.2nd.
– get together all of your contacts for a last minute email blast and phone banking session
Orientation Going Into the 2nd
“We
are in a countdown ( as I told everyone everywhere I’ve been: how
should the people in Germany in 1939 have acted? Multiply that times
ten, and get out there without the slightest bit of defensiveness or
hesitation. The future of the world is riding on it!”
– Sunsara Taylor
Allen Lang
National Student and Youth Organizer
youth_students@worldcantwait.org
New Radio P.S.A’s Saturate The Airwaves
NEW World Can’t Wait
P.S.A’s
SATURATE THE AIRWAVES ABOUT NOV 2ND
Boots Riley of The Coup
is featured on a brand new World Can’t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime
P.S.A, that sharply lays out the stakes the world is facing and calling
for massive resistance centered around Driving Out this Regime to
manifest on Nov.2nd. There are also with local
Culture Clash,
the country’s leading Chicano/Latino theater and comedy troupe have
recorded an announcement bringing their creativity to publicizing
Nov.2nd.
We
need to have these P.S.A’s beeming out over the airwaves on dozens and
dozens of college radio stations today and over the weekend. The fact that artists
who are in the spotlight and looked to by a multitude of people are
calling on people to come out on Nov.2nd is very significant, but we
really need to have this reach hundreds of thousands of people.
* Head over to the local college radio stations and have DJs and programmers play the P.S.A’s back to back at peak times. There
is a huge basis to have these P.S.A’s played on the college stations,
who are not as limited by advertising schedules or clear channel. The Air America ads kicked us up to another level and it powerfully spoke to people. In
the 5 days we have until Nov.2nd these P.S.A’s are one of the key
things we need to be pushing on to take a leap going into the 2nd.
*Text message
people announcing the new P.S.A’s, include
http://www.worldcantwait.org/media/ and tell them to text message it to
five other people they know.
*Send out an email with the P.S.A attatchement
to all of your contacts, including the link to the the mp3 downloads.
Play it in school! Give it out to fellow students! Play it on the
loudspeaker, on stereos outside school.
posted by drive out bush regime @ 9:02 AM