I like all of your ideas. A lifelong reader, I sign up for all of them!
1. My idea was a reading circle. We decide on a book or article or online article, everyone reads it and we meet to discuss. In fact we have the book already: Indignez! by a French author. It's cheap and easily available on Amazon. Since it's quite radical (the author wants us all to be outraged by capitalism) we should have a good discussion. I'm willing to have a meeting here at my house. We'll set the date when Miguel gets back in town.
2. I like the Speaker's corner. I was astounded when I saw a man literally standing on a box in Hyde Park and he was yelling his ideas while the audience yelled back, sometimes in agreement and sometimes in disagreement, but always in good humor. Are we up to that kind of free speech?
3. I don't know about Moby Dick but some readings by famous black authors (Langston Hughes, Zora Neal, Richard Wright, etc.) would be great at the restaurant in Parramore.
I'm willing to host the reading circle, and I would love to attend the Harlem Renaissance reading at lunch. Let's see who will get involved with your other good ideas.
Thanks,
Penny,I was thinking about the get-together at your house last week and how much I loved an idea you talked about. If I understand it correctly, you'd have 3 or 4 people at the same time read a book or study a topic then get online to hold a discussion that others can follow while the discussion unfolds. Do I have that right? If you tell me no, that sounds nothing like the idea you have, then I'm stealing the idea as my own and taking full credit for it.Here's an idea I have (if I haven't mentioned it to you yet). The idea I have derives from three sources:Source #1: Speakers Corner; London's Hyde Park-Source #2: Howard Zinn's "The People Speak"-Source #3: 24-hour Reading of Moby Dick; New Bedford, Massachusetts-The idea is to plot out 12 or 20 street corners around Orlando where speakers will recite the words of great civil rights speeches or recite the words from great civil rights writings. The idea can be tweaked to include not just street corners but also indoor places wherever any place is willing to donate space. One of my big successes on this job is I've established a relationship with the owner of a great restaurant in Parramore (I just attached the menu. Her restaurant would be a really good location for some sort of day-long reading - and now that I'm writing to you, I'm thinking of Valencia for a good location or churches or community centers...
I brought this idea up with the FOCUS people and the idea was shot down, so I've decided to go rogue and do this on my own.So I think there's two good ideas just between me and you. I say we run with both of them!I told you on the phone earlier that I was going to e-mail you with upcoming FOCUS activities. I think I already sent you an e-mail with upcoming events. I'll try in this e-mail to give you more detail (that rhymes... e-mail... detail...). But when I was telling you earlier that I was going to tell you about upcoming FOCUS activities, not only was I hoping you and I could work on a few FOCUS activities, but I really wanted to know how you felt about moving forward on your book reading idea and my speech reading/book reading idea.Here's a scattered list of events and activities I'm currently aware of:Tomorrow is a thing that I'm not sure I'll have the energy to attend. Yesterday, on my way to a 4-8pm event, I was riding my Vespa scooter. I stopped at a red light downtown and I fell completely asleep. The light turned green and I woke with people beeping and swearing at me. Here's a link to the flyer for tomorrow's event:Here are the events I sent you a while ago:-
Thursday Aug. 16, 7:00pm
ACTION PLANNING MEETING (to plan the Emancipation Weekend)
In God's Time Tabernacle
436A S. Parramore (between South and Anderson)
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Friday Aug. 24, 7pm
Emancipation Weekend kick-off
Saturday Aug. 25, 9:30am
Emanicipation Weekend continuation
Sunday Aug. 26, 3pm
Emanicipation Weekend, start of ending BBQ and concert-The ACTION PLANNING MEETING sounds less exciting than it really is. To rephrase what I just said... the people who have attended the closed meetings we've have are really fun to be around and on the 16th, each of us is going to bring 5 or 10 people with us, so that means the group should get 5 or 10 X more fun.The Emancipation Weekend is a really big event. It's going to be sort of a "Mardi Gras meets The Montgomery Bus Boycott" type of thing. If I don't get to give you full details, you can learn all about it on the 16th if you can attend the planning meeting.I have one other item to bring up... I'll send it in a separate e-mail in a few minutes.Dave O'Connor
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