[GPSCC-chat] Protest Leon Panetta, We, Th, &/or Fr

[rainbeaufriend at riseup.net]

There is an effort (described below) to get a peaceful nonconfrontational
protest of Leon Panetta @ the Flint Center, next to the De Anza Community
College Campus (though no longer owned by the college) going this
Wednesday the 19, Thursday the 20th and Friday the 21st. Leon Pannetta the
former Secretary of State who was in charge of expanding the U.S. murder
by drone program.  A student at De Anza named Brennan Robbins of Students
for Justice (SfJ) came up with the idea and has been organizing it. 
Another student Steven (don't know his last name) is going to be on site
at the Flint Center to coordinate it.  The Students for Justice campus
club only are prepared for a peaceful nonconfrontational, more educational
style of protest, so if you wish to join you're welcome as long as you
respect their wishes as the host for the protest.  See more details
below...

Green is GO!

Drew


Hi people,

Please put in any ideas you may have or what times you could be available
for the Panetta demonstration. (It won't be effective if only a few people
show up.) I'm also attaching the links again for convenience.


 Panetta Factsheet
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UZE3UmizSMEwTOENNMNixJ5fh4vFmyDCJlWWNLCu270/edit?usp=drive_web>

 Panetta planning spreadsheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AorbMRdqSv9odDlLNlF3UTBqM0FWbkZjS2s4eTVvNmc&usp=drive_web>

Also, I'm forwarding this to two people (Adrien Hythier and Iqra Shaikh)
who I talked to about this at Wellstone (I forgot to put them in the first
one.)

Come to SFJ tomorrow with ideas!

In solidarity,
Brennan Robins(SFJ)


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Brennan Robins <
californiapoppyesq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Apologies for getting this out so late, it should have been done yesterday.
>
> In case any of you don't know(I suppose that would only apply to some of
> the Green Party folks), Leon Panetta, former CIA director and Defense
> Secretary, is coming to De Anza next week to speak as a part of the
> "Celebrity Forum Series" at Flint Center. This will be on Wednesday Feb.
> 19, Thursday Feb. 20, and Friday Feb. 21, from 8pm to 9:30pm.
>
> Because of his role in the US policy of unmanned drone strikes, SFJ may
> organize a small action surrounding the event in partnership with the Green
> Party and possibly the Student Rights & Services committee of the student
> senate. I don't know what you guys are going to do, but we had planned a
> non confrontational approach with a table and students talking to people
> waiting in line to get their tickets.There may be more, depending on the
> number of people we can get; Steven suggested having a few people lay on
> the ground to represent drone victims, and I've heard a few other
> suggestions.
>
> I have written out a fact sheet for this issue. It's quite moderate for
> the purpose of convincing moderate Democrats and centrists--convincing
> liberals should be easier. Most of it is answers to questions that people
> may ask.
>
> The goal of this would be to actually change attendees' minds on this
> issue, raise awareness of drones in the De Anza community, and raise
> visibility of the participating organizations(SFJ, Greens, SRS, senate,
> etc.) Some of the ticket holders are Democratic donors and they have some
> leverage over local Democratic officeholders(money talks); there are
> several local members of Congress that have not taken a position one way or
> the other about this.
>
> What we would ask you to do is to forward this to groups that you know
> that could help with this(especially SRS), contribute any ideas you may
> have, and most importantly, think about your schedule and see if you can be
> at De Anza one of these evenings; if we only get a few people it won't be
> very effective, and I don't have the time to be there all three evenings.
> We will need people to mainly walk up and down the line and talk to ticket
> holders. If anyone is already planning something different we can integrate
> the plans together.
>
> Please think about this and contribute what you can.
>
> Thanks,
> Brennan Robins(SFJ)
>
>
>  Panetta
Factsheet<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UZE3UmizSMEwTOENNMNixJ5fh4vFmyDCJlWWNLCu270/edit?usp=drive_web>
>
>  Panetta planning
spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AorbMRdqSv9odDlLNlF3UTBqM0FWbkZjS2s4eTVvNmc&usp=drive_web>
>
>
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