[Imc-dc-editorial] "five-day protest forecast"? (semi-satirical)

[Mike Flugennock]

Last spring, during A20, there were, iirc, events of some kind going on somewhere practically every day that week, and there was a joke going around about doing a bit on DCTV that was a parody of the local TV news' "five-day forecast", only featuring an iconic calendar with the percentage of a chance of direct action, followed by how many people were expected, and a series of icons representing conditions ranging from nice, mellow permitted march&rally to your wild-assed, unpermitted, banzai, tear-gas-inducing hardcore direct action (baby strollers, placards on sticks, bandanas, gas masks, helmets). Other than a cheap laff, though, it never got anywhere, but I still thought that properly done, it'd be a highly informative feature -- as well as satirical entertainment.

Or, maybe a parody of Tom Ridge's big old "color code" terror alert chart?

"All over, people changing their roles,
 along with their overcoats;
 if Adolf Hitler flew in today,
 they'd send a limousine anyway!"         --the clash.
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