Black Armbands -- May 1st: Chain Invite
This is a tactic meant to create explosive, exponential growth for the "Black Armbands -- May 1st" project Jerome started. I have no idea if this will work, but I'm trying anyway. There's nothing to lose.
First, the straightforward part.
- you RSVP for the event.
- I make you an admin
- you invite 100+ people
That's when it gets more complicated.
Step 4: you get 5 of your friends to invite at least 100 people. How? Of the people you invited, maybe you directly message or call whoever you think might be most willing (do you know anyone who is A) open-minded? and B) antiwar?). If they’re down, you make them an admin over the group so they can do it more easily. It's your responsibility to make sure they follow through. Speed is important, since the event is happening on Tuesday.
If 10 people volunteer for the first round, that’s 10 + 50 inviters. 60 times 100 is 6,000.
Step 5: Follow up with the 5 people you convinced and see if they can do what you did, maybe not with 5, but at least someone.
It works like a combination of a phone tree and a chain letter; its success depends on speed; how fast are you able to relay the message and get 5 people to help?
The upside is that it takes 2 minutes to invite 100 friends.
The even-more-upside is that combined with Newsfeed, word of mouth, and other outreach tactics we can put in motion, everything we do generates that much more momentum.
This is how we could get 100,000 students to participate on Tuesday.
as of 4 pm on friday
as of 4pm friday, only 5 people replied. As I said in the message, I think it needs 15 volunteers to work.
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
i see. im down. indifference
i see. im down.
indifference is always the friend of the enemy--elie wiesel
black armbands update
here are the stats right now:
we were at about 500 invited before i started this..modest progress, but it's a start. i'm very curious to see if this works.
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
I invited all my friends,
I invited all my friends, got two of them to be admins and carry on the torch, and awaiting a reply from 3 others.
Question on the armbands: Should they say anything? What's the most efficient way to make them?
sweet!
right on!
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
invited
alright... i just invited 114 people. they are all pretty big-minded. hopefully they keep going.
Kalinka, kalinka, kalinka moya! V sadu yagoda malinka, malinka moya - Liz
sweetness
sweetness. yeah, it's all about keeping it going. good thing it's so freakin easy. :)
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
i'm in
I already invited all of my friends to the Black Armbands group, but I'll invite them to the event too and then talk to some about being admins.
Ali
"And we hold these truths to be self-evident: #1 George W. Bush is not president. #2 America is not a true democracy. #3 The media is not fooling me." -Ani DiFranco
asdf
guud luck
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
black armbands update 10:00
black armbands update 10:00
number of admins: 17
number of people invited: 1167
just gotta keep it going.
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
Making the armbands
I just made over 100 armbands in a little over half an hour, so this works really well.
1. Go and get black fabric, about 5 yards makes about a hundred bands.
2. Cut it into 2 ft. strips (I'm doing it by tying the bands on, it's less work that sewing or safety pinning them on. For either of those, you'd want 1 ft - 18 in.
3. Find out how wide the fabric is, mine was 64 in, but most will be narrower. Divide that number in half until you get to somewhere around 2-4 in. that's how wide the bands will be.
4. Fold the fabric in half and cut it.
5. Repeat step four until you reach your desired width. (Note, you can stack the pieces to cut them in bulk, but be careful, my thick fabric started doing odd stuff once it hit 4 layers, some you may get to 8, but that's getting risky)
6. You now have lots of narrow bands, 2 ft long, with a minimum of work.
You can get appropriate scissors at the store where you get the fabric most likely, along with a measuring tape. Those two ought to be about $10 together (I like Fiskars scissors, but that's me, and if you're lefty make sure to get lefties or ambis). You can probably score black fabric for about a dollar a yard, if you're willing to settle for some kinda crappy fabric, which ought to serve your purpose anyway.
Keep in mind the half hour thing is me, and I know my way around scissors and a cutting table, it make take you a bit longer if you're new to fabric, and you may end up wrecking a few of the bands, so buy some extra fabric if you're unsure of your skills.
Have fun,
Peace and love,
Joe!
way to go
that's awesome, hope you find plenty of wearers.
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
may 5th postmortem: this
may 5th postmortem:
this failed because we didn't have enough people, plus not enough followed through. more time would have solved this.
there's no reason to me that we can't make this idea work if we gave it a second try, but took it seriously.
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." ~Bob Dylan
I would really love to
I would really love to receive one of those black arm bands can they be bought?
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Nice Article. Keep it up!
Nice Article. Keep it up!
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