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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Yeah but you need to figure out how to do just that.
I'm not trying to be a jerk here - but if you and your colleagues that are organizing this are unable to sum up why you are doing it - that will come across in any media coverage you get.
You need a 10 second answer to the questions "why are you doing this" "what is this protest about" "what do you want to see changed".
Those are 3 questions as a reporter I would be asking for sure. All I'm saying is make sure you have a clear answer.
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If you have listened to many of the protesters on the news they have had very intelligent responses to that. Some of them are in fact what changed my opinion of the whole thing.
But they are often different. They, while having a common theme of alienation from the system, and disparity of wealth in the system, cover a wide range of ideas and issues.
And if I get asked myself, I will have a equally good answers that has to do with me and my life.
As I mentioned once (and I'm not sure if this was before or after your post) I am not organizing this. I am not in contact with others here in Calgary. I have no colleagues in this matter. (I would actually be doing this much differently if I was involved)
I put this out here today because there are many politically minded people on this forum. And I'm inviting whomever may be interested to join. But more importantly I'm just keeping the talk going. As I said, it's pretty much ended up the way I expected, but at least we did 5 pages in a few hours.
I think part of the reason it's largely leaderless is that way it can't be hijacked by a political party or masquerading interests. Does that create some problems? Sure. OBVIOUSLY! But look what happened to the Tea Party. Should it become that instead?
And no, I don't think you are a jerk Jiri.