"BLACK
FRIDAY"
National
Simultaneous Family Rights Movement Event
The general idea is that the day after Thanksgiving, this year being
Friday, November 23rd, is the
biggest holiday and other shopping consumer day of the year. Swarms of people at
the malls and major chain stores, media out and about covering the "opening" day
of the holiday commercial season, and etc... It's called "Black Friday", since
American businesses have a profitable ("in the black") day that day, every year,
obviously.
So, get a handful of your local people, with
movement messages on literature, maybe some costumes, or at least t-shirts,
hats, and/or etc., with our movement organizations' logos on them,
and meet and greet consumers at the shopping malls on this
very public busy-busy day. Take and pass out literature, answer
questions.
The best places are obviously just right *inside*
the entrances to the malls and big chain "anchor" (independent buildings,
freestanding, etc.) stores, and maybe also at the post offices. In your own
local area, you and your people decide who will cover which main doors
at the main area malls and big freestanding stores, and maybe the larger post
offices, if you have enough people, preferably using at least a one man
and one woman team at each main entrance.
Most counties probably have some sort of a mall or
something where people will be doing heavy-duty shopping, so that works, even if
a Wal-Mart store (however, while some Wal-Mart stores will allow our movement
people to gather outside their doors, most do not allow anything inside the
doors)... but, if need be due to enough people involved locally per area, maybe
states with small numbers of people may decide to concentrate on the bigger
particular malls in their own state's major cities, for best possible
effect...
COORDINATE:
Coordinate locally, on the local yahoo group for
your county:
and/or also on the state yahoo group or
directly with state directors:
If you organized locally, let your UCRCoA state
directors know your coverage.
TAKE AND HAND OUT
LITERATURE:
Whatever it is -- pamphlets, business cards,
flyers, etc. -- please DO take plenty, and offer it to anyone and everyone who
looks like they are at least college age, as these are our intended audience and
hopeful new movement supporters. Take plenty of literature to hand out, and hand
it out. That's why you're there!!
WEAR RALLY "COLORS" CLOTHING/GEAR:
Show your support and drive for family rights reform, by wearing your
favorite customized shirts, pants, hats, pins, buttons, and etc., but while
thinking for possible weather conditions if you're going to be just *outside* of
the shopping mall entrance, or whatever if you're going to be able to stand
*inside* of the shopping mall entrance. If you don't yet have anything to
"sport" for such family rights events, here's a few
such websites:
TAKE CELL PHONES PER MAIN ENTRANCE COVERED:
Trust me, you will like to have at least one person stationed at each main
entrance your local team is covering to have a cell phone with them, so that if
quick communications are needed for any reason amongst the different entrances,
then you will have that connection immediately available. Take cell
phones.
LARGE SIGNS / POSTERS:
Optionally take large posters or signs with you. You can download this
great and poster maker (takes your own photos/graphics, and/or you make really
high quality text/etc. with neat special effects even, and prints them out to
X-by-Y pieces of letter sized paper, with cut lines, to put together to make a
large-as-you-want hi-quality posters). You can setup and make 10 large posters,
using this free trial, and so can every one of your friends...:
Fathers4Justice has a collection of pre-made PDF posters available for
download/print here:
Or, just make your own kind of posters or large signs, too.
more info maybe coming here soon.. but start organizing and preparing..
right now.
