ALL RIDERS TO DC
FESTIVAL:
I would suggest everyone use this road map,
and a listing or something from the following information, onto the
dcfestival2008.com website, and also use for their own logistical plans for
attending the DC Festival 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 Festival... 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 DCFestival 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.
TIMETABLES /
MINI-EVENTS OVERVIEW:
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; Sumter, 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 FESTIVAL HOTELS
AREA
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!!
