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

[old school]

hmmm.
please try out the color code one.
people don't like their demos made fun of, or not yet
anyway...





--- Mike Flugennock <flugennock@sinkers.org> wrote:
> 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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