[pp.int.general] US Pirate Party Support Tour - Ideas?

[Justus Ršoemeth]

Ahoy

Before the Bundestag (=general) elections in Germany end of September 
there were a few of us touring the country with a trailer, which hosted 
a living room, symbolizing how easy it is for the government and other 
institutions to get information about the citizens/customers, ...
More information (in German) is on the wiki ( 
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Gl%C3%A4sernes_Mobil ), maybe one of the 
guys who helped organizing is reading on this list, otherwise you may be 
able to reach one of the via the wiki. I am sure they'd be willing to 
share informations and ideas (even though you have to keep in midn that 
Germany is much denser populated than the US). The idea was that local 
members of the party would provide flyers and even information counters 
to be set up next to every station
they had on their tour.
As for places to visit, since German city centers have large pedestrian 
zones, and more people, also those with bigger incomes, do use public 
transportation, we were able to just go to the pedestrian zones or main 
train stations, to reach a large number of pedestrians (people in cars 
are way less likely to stop). I guess Campusses in the states have a 
similair high frequency, possibly Malls, and maybe train stations in the 
Eastern cities of the States. Get permission before you set anything up, 
though, of course.

Cheers
Justus

Reinier Bakels wrote:
> Do you know of the "Center for the Study of the Public Domain" at Duke 
> University (prof. James Boyle).
> Seen this? http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
> These people were "prates"long before the PP started.
> reinier
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Ryan Martin <mailto:ryan.martin at pirate-party.us>
>     *To:* Pirate Parties International -- General Talk
>     <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>     *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2009 4:28 PM
>     *Subject:* [pp.int.general] US Pirate Party Support Tour - Ideas?
>
>     All,
>
>     There are currently 4 volunteers of the US Pirate Party travelling
>     the country in a beat up Buick trying to rally up support for the
>     US Pirate Party (and finding the desperately needed volunteers).
>      We have been hopping from city to city for a while talking to
>     people on the streets, at university campuses, land trusts, and
>     just about anywhere else that we think might be a good place.
>
>     I'm interested to hear if anyone on here has any suggestions of
>     places to go and events to attend that might be good 'hits' for
>     us.  Have any of the other parties done this kind of work before?
>      How did it go, in the end?
>
>     -- 
>     Ryan Martin
>     Administrator
>     United States Pirate Party
>
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