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TIMETABLE, 2008
Overnight, Aug
11/12 -- Gold cities -- Bismarck, ND;
Pierre, SD; North Platte, NE; Shamrock, TX; Houston, TX
Overnight, Aug
12/13 -- Pink cities -- Tomah, WI; Iowa
City, IA; Columbia, MO; Little Rock, AR; Hattiesburg, MI; Mobile,
AL; Tallahassee, FL; Tampa, FL; Miami, FL
Lunchtime, Aug
13th -- Red cities -- Chicago, IL;
Effingham, IL; Jackson, TN; Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA;
Jacksonville, FL
Overnight,
Aug 13/14 -- Green cities --
Boston, MA; Albany, NY; Syracuse, NY; Buffalo, NY; Toledo, OH;
Dayton, OH; Lexington, KY; Knoxville, TN; Greenville, SC; St.
George, SC
Lunchtime, Aug
14th -- Red cities -- New York, NY;
Wheeling/Pittsburgh; Charleston, WV; Roanoke, VA; Raleigh, NC
Late Aft/Early
Eve, Aug 14th == ALL/MOST CARAVANS ARRIVE @ DC RALLY HOTELS AREA
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I would suggest
everyone use the attached road map, and a listing or something from
the following information, onto the dcrally2008.com website, and
also use for their own logistical plans for attending the DC Rally
event. This is also a suggested overall
"super event" plan, with mini-events tied in along the ways, during
the 2-3 days before the main event, as people are where
they already are going to be, naturally, on their ways
(plural) to DC... I am also cc'ing several motivated and thoughtful
activists, and a few familiar Y!Groups, for public domain use by
anyone interested in planning ahead, right now... While people from
the West Coast would most likely fly in, those in the Eastern half
will largely be driving there, and can bring it all together, bigger
and better, by using the attached information.
The attached image is a
color keyed USA road map, showing all expected major routes being
taken by people driving to Washington, DC, for the DC Rally... at
approx 7.5-8.5 hours of driving per day,
you can kinda see "rings" of three different colors, i.e.,
Green,
Pink, and Gold,
representing each day's worth of travel, further out from DC,
respectively... there are also five (5) suggested lunchtime-enroute
media/etc events, for Wednesday and Thursday, marked in
Red spots... A complete
breakdown of dates, etc., for the two dozen cities involved, is
provided at the bottom, and assumes/plans on destination arrival at
the DCRally hotels on that Thursday late afternoon/evening, just in
time for the big meet-n-greet, and potential DC media ready with us
that night for the many arrivals, if we plan this out towards
leveraging it all together...
The general idea is to
support ALL of the following, ALL at the same time:
(A)
planned "mini-events" along the routes, at the various colored
spots/cities [for both: {1} increasing
all of the following items in this list below, and
{2} increasing media potential]...
(B)
facilitating all ridesharing, duh... for best savings + most
attendees, most efficient is {1}
use minivans @ 6 persons/per, next is
{2} use econo cars @ 4 persons/per, next is
{3} rent 12/15 passenger full size vans
and sharecost, next is {4} use the big
buses and sharecost...
(C)
facilitating the distribution of various literature, biz cards,
stickers, and etc., by our movement traveling en masse throughout
the entire populated Eastern half of the country...
(D)
facilitating the collection and transport, to DC, of the stuffed
animals (obviously can be some of the "mini-events" at nightly
gathering stops - the three main city colors on the attached map)...
people who can't come to DC can still meet the caravans at
the lunch&nighttime (Red,
Green, Pink,
Gold) gathering/stopping points, plus
maybe at brief/timed pit-stops in ALL
major cities along the ways, or wherever along the ways...
(E)
etc.
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Of course, there is
no way for just a couple/few people to administer all of this.
Listing an approximate timetable is one thing, but we will have to
rely upon people in their own states/counties to do the actual local
travel logistics planning, by starting to talk to each other....
now... the sooner, the better...
Soooo, in order to
DO all of the above, in a natural unfolding order across the United
States, we simply need every activist out there to be joined onto
their respective/appropriate Yahoo Groups of UCRCoA, i.e., join
their respective State
&
County online groups, since they are all tied together already,
and more people are out there waiting, geographically based now.
Any and every
"national" event necessarily needs, and must have,
geographical support and networking on a "national" scale. Let's use
it, since we already have it... Please send everyone you know, and
more, directly to their own
State &
County online groups, so that we DO this!!
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