Now is the time. I just feel it in me bones.
http://www.youth-liberation.com/ is getting an ad. I just worked out some of the details w/ Che. I guess the YLF blog is the defacto news letter, so that's a done deal. Soon we'll have Psy's DVD. He promised me a nice jazzy trailer, too. It's not really all that hard to get a demonstration going here and there every so often almost forever. They're fun, all it costs is poster board and marker ink and whatever it costs to carry your shaggy ass to the spot.
Deprogrammed, NCL and some friends just did Pathway Family Center (fka Kids Helping Kids, fka Straight, Inc.) in Milford, Oh and got local ABC affiliate news coverage again. This is the second one in a couple of years. I'm posting pictures and documentary @
http://fornits.com/anonanon/KHK_Protest_11-07/ and DP has some other sites where she's covering it. Check her out.
Let's just make sure we well document and cross promote these events and stay in touch with each other so we can compare notes and tweak our strategies.
Then what? Well, we might be able to raise enough money and awareness (ew!) to crank it up a notch. If I had a rack mounted server right now, we could have done live streaming video on both gigs.
As far as documenting abuse vs getting it on tape, I think it's a good idea to get as much info as practical ahead of time. You have to know what you're demonstrating about, after all, and be sure you believe what you're saying. But Gook's right, a picture tells a thousand words. Just having what passes for a normal conversation with these people tells a whole lot about what's going on, plus it's lots of fun.
Now, as to a next target, I'm thinking we should go after the big McTherapy chains like Teen Challenge. For one thing
they're conveniently located to just about anybody who wants to party like this. For another they're largely publicly funded, which constitutes a vested interest on the part of the entire public. They're big! Ask around and see if anybody you know has been through it.
BTW, If anybody does a raid by Christmas, please carry this sign "Your family misses you, they're just not allowed to say so!"