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Okay, volunteers. Here's the plan.
We've got a permit to hold an informative rally from 8:00am until 5:00pm in Salem Center Park. I've got the materials to set up the booth, I'll need probably two people to go with me to the park around 7 on Saturday to set that up. I went by and picked up our pamphlets and booklets from the printer this morning - I have to take the pamphlets back for a reprint (wrong color scheme - all the photos looked green) but we'll have boxes of them to hand out.
The permit says we can't set up closer than 300 yards to any other rally or demonstration's booths. Hence why we may end up stuck over by the swings and sandbox - but I think that can be turned to our advantage. Because while all the junior brownshirts will be over by the main open area, the parents are usually milling about in the back, and that's who I want to target. We may not be able to change the minds of people who are hard-set on being bigots, but if we can get our message across to people who'll listen, well, two voices are stronger than one and all that.
Having talked to the Professor, he's been adamant about NOT interacting with the FoH folks. So far, I think not a single meeting there has gone well, and I'd like to try and prove that we CAN do this without it degrading into fisticuffs.
Clarice, Catseye - you're the two most visibly different folks that'll be there. Don't do anything to hide that. I want people to look, to ask questions. Be ready to talk to anyone who might ask you the odd questions.
Paige, Doug, Angelo - You're the on-site adults. Professor Xavier's asked me to make sure one of you is at the booth at all times. If people have questions about the school itself, they'll be directed to one of you.
Doug - there's also a local Greek festival over at the Scottish Rite Temple across town (yes, a Greek festival at a Scottish temple. I don't get it either.) We may get some spillover - if we need translation, you may need to hop around a bit.
Dani, Jennie, Terry, Rahne - You four can be probably the best examples that mutants are just like everyone else. Just be friendly, talkative - be yourselves.
If people get argumentative or confrontational, be the one to back down. Most importantly, do not - do not - use any display of powers to try and wow or intimidate people. If someone's legitimately interested in what you can do, tell them - we don't need Catseye or Rahne giving some old lady a heart attack or Terry setting off every car alarm in town by showing off. Not that I think any of you would - but just echoing the Professor's concerns.
If the FoH raises a stink - a little birdie told me there'll actually be journalists from out of town reporting from the crowd. Out of town means that they're not likely to be easily hushed by local influence. If any crap gets started by the FoH, word will get out, and we come out looking like the good guys.
Thanks for volunteering, again. This should be a rousing success. I've got faith in all of you.
JHF
From: [Forge, JH]
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Okay, volunteers. Here's the plan.
We've got a permit to hold an informative rally from 8:00am until 5:00pm in Salem Center Park. I've got the materials to set up the booth, I'll need probably two people to go with me to the park around 7 on Saturday to set that up. I went by and picked up our pamphlets and booklets from the printer this morning - I have to take the pamphlets back for a reprint (wrong color scheme - all the photos looked green) but we'll have boxes of them to hand out.
The permit says we can't set up closer than 300 yards to any other rally or demonstration's booths. Hence why we may end up stuck over by the swings and sandbox - but I think that can be turned to our advantage. Because while all the junior brownshirts will be over by the main open area, the parents are usually milling about in the back, and that's who I want to target. We may not be able to change the minds of people who are hard-set on being bigots, but if we can get our message across to people who'll listen, well, two voices are stronger than one and all that.
Having talked to the Professor, he's been adamant about NOT interacting with the FoH folks. So far, I think not a single meeting there has gone well, and I'd like to try and prove that we CAN do this without it degrading into fisticuffs.
Clarice, Catseye - you're the two most visibly different folks that'll be there. Don't do anything to hide that. I want people to look, to ask questions. Be ready to talk to anyone who might ask you the odd questions.
Paige, Doug, Angelo - You're the on-site adults. Professor Xavier's asked me to make sure one of you is at the booth at all times. If people have questions about the school itself, they'll be directed to one of you.
Doug - there's also a local Greek festival over at the Scottish Rite Temple across town (yes, a Greek festival at a Scottish temple. I don't get it either.) We may get some spillover - if we need translation, you may need to hop around a bit.
Dani, Jennie, Terry, Rahne - You four can be probably the best examples that mutants are just like everyone else. Just be friendly, talkative - be yourselves.
If people get argumentative or confrontational, be the one to back down. Most importantly, do not - do not - use any display of powers to try and wow or intimidate people. If someone's legitimately interested in what you can do, tell them - we don't need Catseye or Rahne giving some old lady a heart attack or Terry setting off every car alarm in town by showing off. Not that I think any of you would - but just echoing the Professor's concerns.
If the FoH raises a stink - a little birdie told me there'll actually be journalists from out of town reporting from the crowd. Out of town means that they're not likely to be easily hushed by local influence. If any crap gets started by the FoH, word will get out, and we come out looking like the good guys.
Thanks for volunteering, again. This should be a rousing success. I've got faith in all of you.
JHF
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Date: 2005-08-25 07:57 pm (UTC)Marie-Ange brought up a good point about me being an EMT - do we want to highlight that despite an obvious mutation we can be beneficial and whatnot or do you just want a Clarice-original outfit. I don't mind either way really, this is your gig and all.
*is so tempted to wear fake pixie wings and see if anyone figures out that they're fake ;) but I won't*
Clarice
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Date: 2005-08-25 08:00 pm (UTC)Re: reply all
Date: 2005-08-25 08:36 pm (UTC)nah, so long as I'm not in uniform (and I'll be damned if I wear those pants when I'm not working - they are uuuugly) it's all good :)
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Date: 2005-08-26 12:22 am (UTC)From: [human decoder ring]
Can do on all accounts. I'm always up for translation duties, and despite my worries about the potential for nastiness from the HJ, it _is_ the right thing to be doing. I just feel a teeny bit sad that I'm so baseline looking.
-Doug
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Date: 2005-08-26 02:54 am (UTC)it's not so great looking abnormal, even if I am no longer loathing myself. It's....like being black in the 50's or something, or close to it. hell, you know how JEALOUS I was when I first got here (and still am sometimes?) but I figure that I have to live with myself and no one else and if I can't even look at myself in the mirror, why bother with it all? And I like living way too much for that crap. just think at how much plaid would sit in fabric stores unloved if I weren't around?
Pixie
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Date: 2005-08-26 06:05 am (UTC)Am secretly pouting that I don't get to go all silver for a crowd, but you didn't hear it from me.
Otherwise, I will put on my reading glasses and look very grown up and all responsible-like.
Oh! Have we thought of a brilliant response to their asking to actually get a demonstration of our mutation? You know how people are... we're like a circus act to some of them. And, "I will explain it to you, not show it." really isn't going to cut it after the third time...
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Date: 2005-08-26 06:28 am (UTC)Re: Reply All: Part Deux
Date: 2005-08-26 01:20 pm (UTC)Why yes, I am occasionally three years old, why do you ask?
...and someone tell me I can't make snarky sock puppet commentary about people I don't like because I'm supposed to be a responsible adult on this trip?
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Date: 2005-08-26 03:23 pm (UTC)...at least, not where they can hear you.
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Date: 2005-08-26 04:23 pm (UTC)Reply all, CC Marie-Ange
Date: 2005-08-26 06:14 pm (UTC)CC: [angie]
Okay, so if we really want to go the puppet demonstration route, it occurs to me that I have a very artistically-inclined girlfriend who could probably whip up puppets for us.
For that matter, as a practical demonstration of _her_ power, she could animate up little cartoons of people.
Forge? Thoughts? I mean, I don't want to turn this into a farce or anything, but it might be a cute idea. Plus, who doesn't love sock puppet theater? :)
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Date: 2005-08-26 06:33 pm (UTC)I can do cartoons of most of us using our powers in fun ways. If we have posterboard we can hang, I could pull images from a small display onto the table to demonstrate.
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Date: 2005-08-26 07:02 pm (UTC)