I agree, Saturday would have been better except I think the news media doesn’t get out of bed on Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully everyone will bring cameras and take up close (crowded looking) pictures and post them on line. The media that does show up will try to talk it down with sparse pictures of few people, but I don’t think they can ignore it with it happening all across the country. But now we have the web, picture and post!
Absolutely true. Even midday on Friday is taking a chance not to get noticed, but anything that happens Saturday gets ignored until the following Monday. And then it’s old. I’ve seen major disasters get only light coverage until the regulars come back to work on Monday.
Although if only a handful of people show up for these parties, posting photos of that may do more harm than good... shots of two or three dozen people throwing tea bags into a river will just be used as evidence that the attempt to start a “revolutionary” movement is a general bust.
If this was a real crisis, a real revolution, folks would be there whether it was a workday or not. Real revolutions don’t wait on whether the boss will give the revolutionaries the time off.