26-11-2012, 02:46 AM
It seems that some assumptions are being made, but I don't know where the original decisions were ever made. I refer to the apparent focus on the DPlaza and its CONTESTATION.
Now I do not here mean to suggest that it not be contested. THe question is how. In many ways they have created a caricature of THEMSELEVES. What we need to do is point out the best strategic way of pointing this out. It really shows the corporate privatization of space, airwave and history. Easy comparisons to Potemkin Russia and the USSR are screaming out for use. We have to use them wisely.
Should we allow the contestation of the narrative to become SOLELY a physical one in Dallas. IMO, that is putting far too many eggs in one basket, building up too much for a performance like atmosphere that could easily by TILTED by people trained to do so.
I think we need to a strategic internet and possible other media campaign to reach mass audiences with the truth about the assassination and also point out the absurdity of the Potemkin village history being written by these Babbit-Historians. It is a 1%, ticketed, finishing school history Let 99 million Plazas bloom?
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On another note I think that BOR could play the role of a good HUB for the 50th. By this I mean a place where not merely organizing is done but either Len or Jim could say "hey this is what we are doing this week to build audience, make links, explain the significance of the assassination to wider audiences, make links to non-FB sites , etc." If the hosts did this AS OPPOSED TO AN OCCASIONAL LETTER WRITER, the idea of momentum and hub building could grow. Internet links could be reinforced with wide numbers.
We are up against all corporate media for the 50th. We need to at least build internet hubs, and a plan.
Now I do not here mean to suggest that it not be contested. THe question is how. In many ways they have created a caricature of THEMSELEVES. What we need to do is point out the best strategic way of pointing this out. It really shows the corporate privatization of space, airwave and history. Easy comparisons to Potemkin Russia and the USSR are screaming out for use. We have to use them wisely.
Should we allow the contestation of the narrative to become SOLELY a physical one in Dallas. IMO, that is putting far too many eggs in one basket, building up too much for a performance like atmosphere that could easily by TILTED by people trained to do so.
I think we need to a strategic internet and possible other media campaign to reach mass audiences with the truth about the assassination and also point out the absurdity of the Potemkin village history being written by these Babbit-Historians. It is a 1%, ticketed, finishing school history Let 99 million Plazas bloom?
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On another note I think that BOR could play the role of a good HUB for the 50th. By this I mean a place where not merely organizing is done but either Len or Jim could say "hey this is what we are doing this week to build audience, make links, explain the significance of the assassination to wider audiences, make links to non-FB sites , etc." If the hosts did this AS OPPOSED TO AN OCCASIONAL LETTER WRITER, the idea of momentum and hub building could grow. Internet links could be reinforced with wide numbers.
We are up against all corporate media for the 50th. We need to at least build internet hubs, and a plan.