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Category: EVENTS
By: Marsha
Date: Aug 29 2002
Time: 12:14:
From experience, in volunteer situations such as this, there are going to be "no shows". All of us in the Steering Committee have agreed to "pinch hit" where necessary to fill time gaps. We are going to have some speakers who cannot stay for the entire 4 hours of the Rally-- they will show up, give their part and stay for whatever length of time they can, then they must leave.
The suggestion was made to establish a 2-hour program with very reliable "sure to show" speakers, then simply repeat the same program from 12 noon to 2-- the advantage being that the different public crowd there between noon and 2 will get to hear what they missed because they weren't there from 10 to noon.
Does anyone, who has not yet been contacted, want to be allowed to speak? You may speak for as little as 5 minutes, or as long as 15 minutes, YOUR choice. If you want to tell your personal horror story of how the system abused you because of a bad lawyer and the Bar wouldn't right the wrong, WE WANT YOU TO SPEAK, PLEASE!!!! We need a few personal stories mixed with the other powerful speakers we will have, to help us reach the crowd.