Purpose: Public. Building bigger coalitions of
multiple family rights organizations and activists at all local levels. Also, to
take advantage of existing public events, and of any media that will
already be at those same events. By established custom of U.S.
Presidential Proclamations, and etc., the week of Dec 10-15 this year is
"Human Rights Week", and Dec 15, itself, is
"Bill of Rights Day"...
Locations: Nationwide, in any and every USA county
and independent city that has a Team Leader listed on the UCRCoA Local Groups
webpage. The overall goal is to have one rally happen in at least each of these
259 cities sometime during the targeted timeframe, and even more
places as other Team Leaders out there become ready.
Preferred rally locations are
(a) a local patriotic or similar publicly-visible
landmark (b) your local federal
courthouse (c) your local county courthouse
(d) any other good and publicly-visible spot.
Dates/Times: The listed Team Leader
selects exact dates/times for best local event within Dec 10-15
timeframe, and exact local meeting place and rally location, along with any
input from their own local county/city Yahoo Group members. Final
location/dates/times ToBeDetermined on the local Yahoo county/city
Group. If you cannot find information first at the county level, check
with your State Board
Directors.
Messages: Each rally is intended to represent
a good cross-section of family rights organizations and activists, including the
plights of noncustodial parents, child protection
services victims, paternity fraud victims, and the children of
any of those government systems. As such, all normal family rights messages are
encouraged, in order to make the most out of the public and media available at
your local event. Our other message is a showing of unity, that "this" rally is
happening along with many others just like it, all across the
country.
Miscellaneous:
If you would like to make up to 10 free
hi-quality posters or large signs, this
Poster 7.9w software is just the ticket for you and your friends to show up
in style. Combines graphics with text and special effects, if desired, to make
posters/signs just about as big as you ever wanted... max 100 feet x 100 feet!
(automatically prints out all the separate 8.5x11 pages with cut lines, to make
the whole image on paper, super-sized). Free trial allows up to 10 total
printings, or finished posters/signs, before wanting a
registration.
Whenever possible, please carpool to the event, and
try to arrange some carpooling via the local county Yahoo
Group. Please also consider if you can DRESS UP your car, truck, or minivan, so that the
PUBLIC also SEES your message(s) while you're on your way to the event.
Credit to Lary Holland for ensuring we don't forget to leverage this
marketing aspect, and let's add some more ideas to the
kitty:
(1) use the soap/paint markers/crayons to hand
write your FAMILY RIGHTS message(s) on the outside panels and/or on the windows
of your minivan or maxivan. Watch the vehicle paint... windows are
best!
(2) use Avery's 8.5x11 magnet printer sheets --
print your color design on one or more letter sized magnet sheets (cut
out designs with regular scissors if needed), and simply stick it to the metal
of your vehicle. Product description is http://tinyurl.com/3a33zd and they are
actually available at Wal-Mart for about $8 for a 5-sheet package.
(3) use Avery's 8.5x11 window sticker printer
sheets to do the same thing (on your windows only). Product description is http://tinyurl.com/2g7mxn and they are
actually available at Wal-Mart for about $5 for a 3-sheet
package.
And, last, but certainly not
least, always spread the word!
