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Another Tommy reference-- from the early 1980s. Morty the Dog with his creator:

............Not.

Farnsworth, a diligent local blogger over on One Pissed Off Veteran keeps a weekly "Bush Twins in Uniform" watch. Other offspring of other presidents have served, why not Jenna and Barbara?

I went out walking at lunch today distributing the picketing and demonstration flyers to the folks out on the street and I immediately recognize a problem.

The picket sign that could be used to prevent citation is too wordy for much of the street population.   Some folks handed it back to me, said, hey, I can't read.  So I read it to them and then some of them said, oh, give me a copy.

But the bottom line is that the picket sign designed to prevent a person on the street from being hassled needs to be much simpler in design and execution. 

Since I have a bunch of pink paper and I have been printing the flyers on the pink paper, I am thinking that I will set up a simpler handout that folks can use to assert their right to the free speech exemption in the homeless harassment ordinance, aka the pedestrian interference ordinance.

I am thinking that this simple picket sign should say:

I AM PICKETING.   I AM IN THE PINK.   LEAVE ME ALONE.

THE PINK ZONE IS RESERVED FOR PROTESTING ORDINANCE 9.16.180

 
Lots of the folks I spoke with said, the ordinance is bullshit, but it's politics and I hate politics.   Others said, hey, I am on probation.  If I get cited I go to jail.  


So, I would love to have some feedback from other folks about the IN THE PINK campaign to support the poor and homeless.  What do you think?

Also, I am planning to invite the City Council persons to come walking with me to meet and greet the folks who are likely to be most impacted by the ordinance.  I think the folks who passed this ordinance should find a few minutes to go out strolling to talk with the poor people who sometimes get so tired that they need to sit down on lie down on the sidewalk.  I think the council people need to engage in a little notice to the population that is going to be impacted.

The streets are empty and the lights are out and all the Olympians are tucked away in their beds. What they don't know is that this makes the worm very angry, and the worm will only stand being angry for so many days.

Food Not Bombs will be serving Thursday FEB 1st at noon in front of the Manium (large black building) on 4th Ave in solidarity with the direct action protest against the divisive sidewalk ordinance and in support of the Poor Peoples union.  We will be cooking at Media Island starting at 9am (everybody is welcome to volunteer).  Please come downtown with instruments for merrymaking and signs that make a statement about Oly's positive diversity and unity, oh and also large appetites for delicious FREE FOOD!!!. After FEB 1st Food NOt bombs will be serving regularly at the Manium SUNDAY evenings at 7pm with cooking starting at 4:30-5pm at Media Island..........STAND UP RESIST, shake a carrot and RAISE YOUR FIST!

SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!