10/07/2004 4:27:16 PM PDT
· 21 of 23 Ex-XO
to agarrett
No, Lauren Schmitt originally organized it, but she broke her foot. I'm just getting the word out.
If you want to make your own sign with a specific sentiment, you're welcome. We generally have extra flags and signs on hand.
There are several parking lots handy; the best one is probably the one behind the pharmacy.
Dress casually; it's getting darker early now so figure on the temperature being in the low 70's upper 60's by 8 p.m. Also, you wight want to think about bring a flashlight or clip-on light for your sign.
The Studio City rally starts at 6 and is usually over by 8. Feel free to turn up at any time.
10/07/2004 3:07:05 PM PDT
· 18 of 23 Ex-XO
to RonDog
I also make a point of getting over to the SW corner; this lets us placard traffic going all four ways. If they take this corner away from us, a lot of the passing traffic will never know we're there.
I know folks refer to SC as The People's Republic of Studio City, but there is a lot of positive response to our presence there and we need to maintain a presence.
two major incidents: in one, a fourteen year old girl was punched from behind as she tried to take down a sign the antiwar bunch had illegally attached to city property: this resulted in the restraining order. In the second, the pending assault case, a man sucker-punched Lauren in the middle of our group. He was absolutely indignant when the cops took him away: the quote: "I can't believe you're arresting me for this!"
The rest of it is penny-ante stuff, like the brave fighter for freedom who put his little girl (two, maybe three years old) on his shoulders and followed me around throwing Nazi salutes. The problem is they've been threatening to try to crowd us off our corners by weight of numbers. Whenever they try it on me I just charge over to their corners and become their new best friend until they decide to pull their people back, but it's a nuisance. The other thing the brave ones like to do is when one of our female members get there ahead of the rest of our group, Stevie brings a few of his herd over to crowd around her and scream slogans in her face. I started coming to the rallies a little early when I heard about that one, but oddly they're a lot braver around women and children (or wearing them).