2005-03-16

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Agenda

What is the vigil?

What is the point of doing candlelight vigils around the country? What are the ideas behind it? What do we want it to accomplish?

• A pre-packaged event for local chapters that are trying to get started.
  • Comes with press release, flyers, graphics, slogans, ideas for the event.
  • Needs to sound interesting and cool to normal people.
  • Needs to attract new people to the club... has to come off really well
  • We can reuse ideas from Save the iPod and Save Betamax
• A press opportunity
  • Media attention both for local chapters and the national movement.
  • Media attention on case
  • An opportunity to capture video for an eventual FreeCulture.org video presentation.
  • Chance to take pictures for local blogs
• A forum for people
  • A chance to express how you feel
  • Opportunity to learn more about the issue

How are we doing it?

What's the gameplan? Who's doing what? This is supposed to help our local chapters, so there's a limit to how much we can ask our local chapters to help us write stuff etc., but on the other hand some chapters are in better condition than others.

• Need to make care package for event
  • Press release, flyers, graphics, slogans
• Need to attract press
  • Local chapters may not be good at handling press yet, hold their hands
  • Call nat'l press
  • Blog it, make sure our contacts in the blogosphere blog it

Is this a good model? http://www.moveon.org/vigil/ Are there other models we can look at?

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