Greetings, all family
rights. This is an open
call for recruiting volunteer leadership of the several
required committees as designated below to complete the goals of this year's
Parents Day enhanced DC Festival 2009, as well as the prior
Rally and in-between activities. To summarize the basics, there are THREE (3)
"Phases" of this entire NINE (9) DAY affair:
Phase 1 - Sat/Sun, July 18/19, DC Rally 2009:
speakers, live entertainment, and etc., at the Lincoln
Memorial steps, same place as 2007. See this link [ http://tinyurl.com/d3uqsx ] for photos and memories of that great success in
2007.
Phase 2 - Mon/Tue/Wed, July 20/21/22, locals and
activists in town for both weekends (Rally+Festival), or arriving early for
Festival, or staying after Rally, etc., to do concentrated, busy lobbying
activities with Congress on various family rights issues, as well as blitzing
local city, state and federal officials in the area for issuance of their own Parents Day
Proclamations. There are currently *no plans* for any kind of
"Rally"/"Festival" speakers, music, or etc., during these three days, Mon
through Wed, but we are focusing on actual grass roots efforts (i.e., "shoes
hitting the pavement") to produce significant political successes in large
measure, with the various lobbying, getting bunches of Proclamations, and making
other similar types of local DC area church & government & nonprofit
connections initiated and/or established, in person.
Phase 3 - Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun, July 23/24/25/26, DC
Festival 2009: speakers, live entertainment, seminars, and various fun
activities, including the Parents March, commence from Upper
Senate Park and nearby hotels, with mini-events happening in the
surrounding area. See this link [ http://tinyurl.com/d85akc ] for photos and
memories of that great success in 2008.
ALSO, however, on the exact same weekend as the Festival, there are
expected to be local-government-paid "activities" happening all over the Nation
for celebration of Parents Day, since that
is the essence of the clear and simple federal
statute. This means that there will be numerous local events
happening everywhere, and
we will arrange "simulcast" video feeds in between DC and other major event
locations, so there will also be unity in Spirit across the country that
weekend.
Committees / Teams /
Squads:
Again, there are three distinct Phases to this
nine-day affair, and the majority of the following committees/teams/squads are
planned specifically for doing the Festival on the longer Parents Day weekend,
while certain of them can be, and are also expected to be, 'multi-phase'
groups, helping on things that will be shared as "overhead" to this entire
"Parentstock" event.. Most of the needed links to various resources
were already identified and brought together on this main collections page
last year [ http://unitedcivilrights.org/DCFestival2008.html ],
a couple of other links collections pages are already available, too, and most
of the Committees below need only to take the portions of information
that are relevant to their objectives, and run with it, by reviewing and
updating if needed, so as to present fellow leadership and the general public
with true information that is helpful and actually
distributed and used, increasing the participation and results,
and thereby accomplishing their goals. Other teams will be intelligently blazing
some new grounds to achieve their own successes.
Awards
Committee -- This entire thing is volunteerism based, and
therefore, the activists and organizations that do the most work, pull off the
biggest successes, and etc., should be well rewarded for the merits they have
earned, and in public grand style. To do that, this team will keep watch of the
movement at large, and take notes of who is doing what the best out there, not
only for building the DC event, but in various other important successes around
the country. While a simple budget for merely printing fancy color certificates
should be a snap, we will certainly plan for much nicer awards this time,
including multiple signatures affixed, probably like at least also laminating,
maybe some of them framed, and possibly trophies as we can afford it. This
team will strive to be the watchful eyes and ears of the entire family rights
movement, in order to give good credit where credit is due. Include
nice awards for corporate sponsorships.
Also, include several "State" awards for most this/that/per-State, etc.. Most of
the various awards will be publicly presented on Parents Day during
the designated ceremony for all, while a select few might be
presented upon earlier occasions.
Hot Rod
Squad -- There are certain known people that have custom-painted
vehicles regarding family rights. While the beautiful CRISPE Bus is the most
notable example, Ken K out of Connecticut has a great-looking Jeep all dressed
up for getting the word out on the streets, I have seen a few simple examples of
"stencil" painting across pickup truck sidewalls and stepvan panels, plus F4J
and others have used those mobile advertising units at some events,
etc... This Squad will strive to (1) locate all such known
vehicles having custom painting for family rights, (2) pull
together resources to help able others get their own vehicles painted similarly
in time, (3) help connect different event hosters and these
vehicles together, by leapfrogging per-event fundraisings to get those
vehicular attractions around to our events better, and (4)
making sure that all these vehicles make it to the DC extravaganza in late July,
for street parading and whatever else. Also, this Squad will connect
with the DC Fire Department Chief (who was VERY anxious to help last year, with
TWO trucks!) in early July, to make the necessary arrangements, and will
look for other DC-local custom vehicles to recruit and come join our
fun.
Books & Movies
Club -- This team of people handles recruitment of
professionals/experts within the family rights world that have produced
friendly movies or have authored friendly books, to come this year
(again?). See last year's Master Schedule [ http://www.editgrid.com/user/indianacrc/DCFestival2008 ]
for several great examples of both types of needs. This Club will seek to
recruit more of the same kind of *motivated* notable people to come present
their media this year, plus remind them to also bring plenty of copies to sell
to the general public, since we cannot provide expenses or fees, nor allow any
charging of admission to hear them speak on their subjects, or, in the case of
movies, to view the movies, etc. As a reminder, there are several excellent
family-rights-friendly movies made over the years, that could be used as needed
for filler, since the plan again includes a generous allotment of
conference room time for having movies and book signings.
Lobbying
Committee -- See "Phase 2 - Mon/Tue/Wed, July 20/21/22", at the top,
for full details of this goal's need for strong leadership and excellent
coordination skills, as the Committee in overall charge of these
intense human efforts.
Grievances
Committee -- On the Friday of the Festival weekend, we want
to file some sort of formal public complaints with and at each: The United
States Supreme Court; The U.S. Department of Justice; and, The U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. These represent,
respectively: (1) the loss of parental rights and failure
to uphold them; (2) the outright fraud and other crimes being
perpetrated by family courts, cps agencies, and related units; and,
(3) the absolutely failed policies, total mismanagement,
reckless financial waste, etc., of the government in regards to preserving the
traditional American nuclear Family unit. The individual "submissions" of each
of these three complaints (although they could actually also be
structured as one larger legal complaint, etc.), are to each have its
own timeslot and supporting rally of people for whatever presentation of
"serving" the three can be determined and leveraged for video recording and so
forth.
Sleepover
Squad -- Handling the hotels, motels, hostels, campgrounds,
stay with local residents, weekly rental houses, and etc. in the DC local area
for all incoming activists to sleepover at.. Most of these kinds of
different links are already gathered and available for immediate use. Plan on
using something online to manage groups/sharings/nights... As part of
hotels, this Squad will also negotiate with the five (5) hotels nearest Upper
Senate Park for the best overall deal with a large block of guest rooms plus
four (4) conference rooms, larger than those used last year, using open
competition between the hotels as needed, since the hotel offering the best
overall deal will automatically become "headquarters", and so most of our
incoming visitors will want to be at that same hotel,
too... Squad should eventually designate 2-3 of 'our' known
visitors staying at each of the different "main hotels", both at the
adjacent five and also others around town, as 'communications officers', in
order to relay important news out to groups of our own guests staying at the
different hotels, at the campgrounds, etc., including posting each
morning's update on all DC activities status. This Squad may work
with the members of Team America on DC-regional sleepover stays,
as they can. To keep it fair all around, no one should expect to get free hotel
room nights just for working on this Squad and being part of the direct
hotel negotiations, please.. Instead, let the best deal "margin" go totally
into achieving the largest possible four conference rooms,
as the priority. Hint: with a big enough block of total
"room-nights" reserved/agreed, conference rooms become greatly discounted, or
even free.
Team
America -- Using something like this color-coded US
interstate map as a starting point, this Team will help DC
Rally/Festival/Parentstock visitors from all over the U.S. coordinate their
ridesharings/caravans, also matching up residential activists for sleepovers of
travelers coming through their way, as much as possible. As if not enough
challenge, consideration must be given to the fact that there are literally two
(2) waves of travelers coming and going during the entire Parentstock event of
nine days, with to/from regarding both weekends, and the additional fact that
some people will want to come for the Rally, but not return until after the
Festival. This still equates to four (4) "ranges" of main traveling, surrounding
each of the two weekends. Finding the right technology will be KEY to
fundamental attendance sizes at this year's DC events, since large audiences
simply cannot be humanly/manually handled. "Have seat"/"Need seat" must be
combined with "To/From" and the relevant departure/arrival dates desired, to
bring together a fully automatic system capable of handling large numbers of
people successfully. Also, don't forget what "The Call" did to bring many
thousands to DC last year a few blocks away from us, and look into other systems
that organizations have used to handle large numbers of people, too. There are
three main goals of this Team: (1) dramatically assisting the
coordination of sharing/cutting traveling costs; (2) collecting
stuffed animals [new in the box/bag, only, must be sterile/new] for
public-ceremony donation in DC to the nearby Children's Hospital; and,
(3) leveraging our numbers of people coming through plus the
appeal of requesting stuffed animals for donation to children, to create
mini-events in the twenty-plus major cities that are the best-by-far "stopover"
points for caravans coming thru (colored city dots on map above), further
inviting each local city media, ahead of time, to put out the word for
stuffed animal donations collection at that stopover point. It
does work.. Remember - there will be TWO major "waves" of people coming through
each major city on the way to DC, for each of the two weekends of activities at
our overall Parentstock. So, each local media gets two main/big chances
to help us on the way thru. lol.
Parents
March -- Even bolder than the famous "Justice
March" last year, F4J will lead all other orgs and activists on a new march
route this year that also takes us through the busy shops and people!
While not technically one of the overall Festival's 'committees',
please contact F4J
directly for further info on this coming wake-up call for the DC
newscast area.
Midnight
Bright -- At approx 11:55pm on Saturday night, July 25th,
we want to "ring in" the arrival of Parents Day, by lighting candles in
celebration and memory, perhaps some quiet speakings and/or readings, and keep
those lights burning until at least 5 mins after the hour. Exact downtown DC
location to be determined yet. Indeed, the same thing should be planned as
part of other such Parents Day events locally held around the country. For
DC, though, we need to plan on using those battery operated candles, since most
of the grounds locations within downtown DC are a 'no-no' for open flame of any
sort... This team will also help coordinate a uniform theme being used at all
such candlelight events, nationwide.
Food Committee -- Believe it or not, our
visitors would very much appreciate local food information all summarized and
mapped, so as to know what and where to get some quick eats during all
of these Parentstock activities. In addition, this team may well be able to
arrange little lunch and dinner group food events, so as to get good per-person
discounts, too. Remember, this year the Festival will still have simultaneous
tracks of activities, but we are uniformly
pausing all of those activity tracks, so as to provide designated
lunch and dinner break-stop time periods, for all to mingle and share
better.
Live
Entertainment Committee -- You know, the singers, bands,
and other performers, whether coming from out of town, or recruited from there
in the DC local area. Many online resources/links are already available from
last year. This team will also handle putting together the actual stage, itself,
plus microphones, sound and other public address equipment, and also making sure
we have plenty of audio power this year to rock out downtown DC, including
portable generators and such if needed, if there isn't enough built-in power
already near the edge of the grass/sidewalk on the "front" side of the
fountain at Upper
Senate Park - i.e., we will be facing Constitution Avenue and the White
House this year. We are looking to fill 30 min and 45 min slots of
variously-different live entertainment, especially slanted towards recognizing
The Family as possible, with totals per day at: Thu-23rd (~1.5 hrs), Fri-24th
(~2 hrs), Sat-25th (~3 hrs), and Sun-26th (~1.5 hrs). The Live Entertainment
Committee may work with Main Grounds on setting up any special effects outside
the stage, or etc.
Main
Grounds -- This team will handle getting the permit(s), as
more than one may be required this year, and coordinating and managing all other
things "main grounds", such as booths-tables-chairs for organizations, providing
folding chairs and such other for the general audience in the main grounds
around the outdoor stage, maybe some decorations around the grounds area, for
certain a few "info center" printed billboards on poles or something in a few
corners of the Park, etc., as well as also arranging any facepainters, mimes,
balloons for kids, and such things to be happening in the Park for the appeal to
the general public, and for general enjoyment by all. Make it fun, please,
because it's for the kids, too. This team should plan on touching bases with
Live Entertainment and the Hot Rod Squad from time to time.
Corporate
Relations -- Not that "we" are acting corporate,
but that this leadership team will focus on gaining sponsorship, endorsements,
and things like that, specifically from the largest corporate entities
out there. Creative examples include seeking supporting displays on the
semi-truck trailers of top interstate carriers around the country, our messages
used as temporary "filler" on "vacant" billboards along the highways, and etc..
The members of this group will work often with the Multimedia Moguls, and
must also be highly skilled in writing, and very
professional in verbal communications, appearance, negotiations, and all
relevant etc.
Multimedia
Moguls -- This is one of the most fun and creative groups,
i.e., the Journalism type people, who will all be the geniuses behind teamwork
production of both individual and "themed" sets of multimedia distributions
regarding the DC events -- making the appealing flyers in PDF and other
formats for distribution, the mesmerizing videos on YouTube and in other ways to
spead the word visually, brilliant "grab your attention" graphic images, and
creating catchy single-line blurbs. Try to always remember about Time Zones,
when and where appropriate for event messaging detail, if the flyer, video,
image, or etc. will be distributed online across the entire Nation... This
creative team will use writing, graphics, audio and video to inspire America to
participate in our supporting events, especially focusing on the coming
DC extravaganza and for Parents Day, also using press releases, creating
short radio/audio promos, or any other useful media device to quickly
capture a reader's attention and follow through. The goal is to produce and
release newly-enhanced sets of their various multimedia messages by the end of each month leading up to the DC events,
which can then be distributed out by the Shout Out Squad to activists all over
cyberspace, and by activists making local public connections, thru
rallies, or etc.
Shout Out
Squad -- Already rather established as "ECOMM" on various
networks, this team of people is unlike most of the other teams, in that it
should keep growing as many numerous members as it can, and there
really is but a single, large task - simply spreading the Multimedia Moguls'
various messaging products all over creation, by
plastering across every conceivable angle on the big social networks (Facebook,
MySpace, Ning, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Tagged, Twitter, etc., etc., etc.), by adding
"comments" on all relevant big newspaper articles online, by posting on the
messaging boards for all the biggest sports collections online (i.e., in the
Nascar Network public boards, in MLB's same, etc.), and all sorts of ways to
broadcast bigger and bigger, faster and faster. The actual leadership of this
team should essentially coordinate the various many "saturation" efforts of
the different types of ways to broadcast our messages out to the public
everywhere.
Celebrity
Crew -- Just like it sounds, the mission of this team is
purposefully to break through the various kinds of communications hurdles to get
through to celebrities directly, or at least their managers/agencies, to try and
recruit as many as we can get to come to the DC events.. call it "Parentstock"
and these negotiations might get an easier boost.. We would certainly, of
course, love to have a few or even several true-blue public celebrities come and
celebrate the Parents Day weekend with us. The more the merrier, by using fan
sites, the performers' own sites, and anything else.
Ambassador
Club -- Having already received more than one overseas
inquiry about coming to DC to attend the Festival, I am confident we should now
actively recruit "ambassadors" from around the world to come join our historic
occasion, and even invite them to speak briefly on the status of things
regarding government and family in their own countries. I would personally
appreciate the members of this team in achieving at least several
recruitment/attendance successes coming from several different English-speaking
countries overseas, as well as from Canada and Mexico, etc. We can also
setup one of the conference rooms for an "International" event, sometime on
either/both that Saturday and/or Sunday.
Ground Zero
Gang -- A forerunner to some of the
things happening as part of "Phase 2" (see top), this team will
strive to know about every other event occurring in the downtown DC area at the
same time as our nine days, especially the two weekends, and will make inquiries
with the relevant other event organizers on maybe sharing/trading/etc., and
stuff like that. Also, this team will make initial connections with all sorts of
church, nonprofit, and local/state/fed government in the nearby area, to help
setup for Phase 2 later on, and also including invitations for their
speaking at our major event, and/or to give friendly-relevant seminars or
presentations in one of our conference rooms, and other ways to connect "us"
together with "them" for activity, endorsement, etc., long prior to the DC
events eventually happening in late July of this year.
Festival
Scheduling -- Some of the committees/teams/squads above
will have need to sporadically coordinate with overall scheduling of the
designated activities happening everywhere on the long Festival weekend.
Frankly, I personally handled that entire role last year, apparently did
well enough with the best such tool to be featured online, and
I will take care that a nice, flowing multi-track schedule develops again, so
that people with different "family rights" interests may focus on particular
"tracks" while at the Festival, if they want, or switch tracks, etc.
However, this year, I will provide editing access to individual leaders of
certain committees/teams/squads that will facilitate the overall scheduling.
This will be done on a case-by-case basis, to ensure the highest security and a
continually-congenial work environment.
Speakers &
Seminars -- Just like it sounds, but not as easy as it sounds, I
can promise you that. One of the busiest teams, by sheer amount of
communications, this leadership group will arrange and coordinate requests and
invitations for individuals and other entities to either speak on the main stage
in Upper Senate Park, and/or to hold seminars or other kinds of family friendly
presentations within one of the available conference rooms. Because the
overall event *must* be balanced regarding our different plights and issues
of the modern American Family, the leaders here, who will work often with
(and may also be dual-time as) Festival Scheduling,
will likewise be confirmed on an individual case-by-case
basis.
Conference Calls & General
Notes:
If you are interested in volunteering
your leadership for this truly historic event,
please ensure that you are joined into one of the supporting monthly event
"Causes" on Facebook, Ning, MySpace and/or Yahoo! -- all of which are listed and
linked on this page together [ http://unitedcivilrights.org/conquest09.html
] -- where you will obtain the further details including conference
call information and such, or you may also simply indicate one to three of
the above committees that you would like to help lead in teamwork, by
emailing me directly at indianacrc@earthlink.net with those
selections listed, and I will then direct you onward to the right
place(s).
Last year, we quickly
organized the Festival, starting from scratch nothing, with only 3 core leaders plus a dozen
or more main floating task assistants, in only roughly 60 days..
This year, the plan includes the above 20 committees, teams, squads, and clubs,
each with its own group of perhaps 5-10 activists working together, with
pretty much all of the needed information already available from
last year, and with still 135+ days left to go until 'show
time'...
PLEASE DO NOT CONSIDER ENTERING YOURSELF AS
LEADERSHIP IN MORE THAN A MAXIMUM OF THREE (3) DIFFERENT
COMMITTEES, TEAMS, SQUADS, ETC., DUE TO THE PHYSICAL TIME
REQUIREMENTS FOR CREATING HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS, ACTUALLY DELIVERED, ON
TIME.. THANK YOU FOR STAYING TRUE.
And, thanks yet again, for your
excitement in building up the world's largest "block party" for
Parents.
It is with YOUR true help, that we shall
succeed this coming July, big-time, like never before
seen.
Sincerest Regards,
------------------------------------------
Mr. Torm L. Howse
Co-Founder, National Board Director, Instructor,
United Civil Rights
Councils of America
http://unitedcivilrights.org
Co-Founder,
National Board Director, Trustee,
Parental Alienation Awareness Organization
- US
http://paao-us.com
Founder, Owner,
President,
The FIDO Network
http://fidonetwork.com
General
Contact:
P.O. Box 68665
Indianapolis, Indiana 46268
(317)
286-2538 office (888) 738-4643 fax
indianacrc@earthlink.net