[CIMC-work] Re: Fundraiser Cancellation- base on whether there's rally or not--third option

[Ian Bicking]

Alright -- I think we have consensus that if war starts on Friday (or
late Thursday) then we need to cancel the fundraiser.  If war doesn't
start tonight, it will be hard to know if it will start Thursday or
Friday -- though Friday somehow seems unlikely.

Chris needs to buy the beer tomorrow morning, so we should decide before
then.  To be practical, I think to we need to decide by like 10pm
tonight.

If war starts tonight, after 5, then I expect something will still
happen tonight at Federal Plaza, but some rally will also happen on
Friday, even if that means three rallies.  We chould still be a nice
place for people to wind down, but I think our own attention will not be
on organizing this -- we have other things we need to focus on.

So I'm leaning towards cancelling it now.  To summarize, I believe Emily
supports cancelling, and I think Rita supports cancelling as well.  I
just talked with Chris, and she was all vague, because I can't even
remember what she really wanted to do (she wants to do both)... none of
us *wants* to cancel after doing all these preparations, but we also all
want to cancel so we can focus on more pressing matters.

I think we have consensus on cancelling, even if none of us are happy
with it.  I won't update the website yet, but without feedback to the
contrary I will do so late tonight.



On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:16, Garth Liebhaber wrote:
> Well, it the war erupts and people are in the streets, I'll need to be out 
> in the streets and we want people to be out in the streets. On the other 
> hand, if it's not happening it would be great to have a place for people to 
> go.  sigh, It's tough too because we don't have clear criteria as to what 
> the beginning of the war is.  I'm assuming it will be when Bush makes a 
> speech saying so.  Perhaps we can make a decision based on tonight's 8pm 
> speech.  Of course he will say we are invading, we want to know when.  My 
> assumption is he would do it promptly if it weren't for the sandstorm.
>     Of course we want to let people know asap, so I say this.  We declare 
> that if there is a rally going on in Federal Plaza, we will not have the 
> fundraiser.  That is the criteria.  If there is no rally, come to our 
> fundraiser.  The error to this plan would be if there is mass confusion as 
> to whether the war started or not in which case we won't be able to decide 
> anyway.
>     This is my logical progression.  So, Wordy Garth says yes to your third 
> option, Ian.   g
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com>
> >To: CIMC Working <imc-chicago-working@lists.indymedia.org>
> >Subject: [CIMC-work] Canceling Screening?
> >Date: 18 Mar 2003 22:19:28 -0600
> >
> >We really need to decide if we're cancelling the screening, and by what
> >criteria.  We need feedback from people, even if it's feedback like
> >"whatever you all think".
> >
> >Options:
> >* no cancellation
> >* cancel if war starts Friday
> >* cancel if war starts Thursday or Friday (which means there's a very
> >   good chance we'll cancel)
> >
> >If there's a chance we'll cancel we need to put that in the event
> >description.  I also want to know if there's a point I should stop
> >working on this stuff.
> >
> >   Ian
> >
> >
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