Protests, Hammers, Banners, Brochures
and 2045 Seattle Goes Legit
We went legit? We’ll get to that in a second.
Many protests are coming and our first is on Tuesday at around 4 pm downtown. It’ll run as long as we feel it needs to. It’ll be a good time to catch people walking home from work and let them know that the Mayor isn’t a leader. He’s just a politician. Full details will be posted tomorrow on the protest, but if you can make it to downtown between 4 and 6ish on Tuesday, drop us an email.
We are doing a number of protests over the weeks ahead and each will focus on a specific issue that is important. In the weeks ahead, we’ll challenge Mayor Gridlock, find out just how bad a commute can be, show how great clean elevated transit really is and remind us all how important this is to our city.
This may be our last chance in a generation for rapid transit in Seattle. Here’s hoping we’ll be heard.
Volunteer to Hold Banners Over Highways
We’re looking for people in the Woodland Park area to help hold banners on highway overpasses between 3:30 and 6 pm on weekdays. The roads are packed at that time and it’s a good time to remind people that their vote can make our city better. A group of dedicated folks up there is already working hard and looking for some volunteers. If you live in the area and can give some time, drop us an email. Also, if you know of a good overpass in your are where you can hold a banner during rush hour, let us know and we’ll get you a banner.
2045 Seattle Goes Legit
The big news is that in the last week we’ve been doing all the leg work to make 2045 Seattle a legitimate organization. State paperwork, federal paperwork and bank paperwork have all been filled and filed and we are now official.
Why would we bother with such a thing? An unexpected thing happened on the way to the monorail. Someone offered us money. $5000 to be exact. Yeah, we think they’re a little nuts too.
We immediately had two questions when we got the offer.
1. Who are you?
2. What strings are attached?
Here are the answers we received, in writing of course.
- Lea+Elliott, Inc. - A transportation consulting firm that is currently a contractor to the SMP. Their website is www.leaelliott.com. Take a look.
- There are no strings. The success of the project could have direct and indirect benefits to the Company, but it is not looking for any commitment in exchange for the contribution.
Much discussion ensued, but the thought we kept coming back to was this: If we could cause this much trouble with just a few bucks and a website, what kind of trouble could we cause with $5000? It makes us giggle just to think of the fun we’ll have in the weeks ahead.
The money should be available starting Tuesday or Wednesday, at which point we’ll be able to get a ton of things we need including staple hammers, basic supplies like paper and ink, and some seemingly strange items too that will pop up in our various protests. I warned Lea+Elliott that if they wrote a check, they shouldn’t be surprised if we spend it on monkey costumes and balloon animals. They didn’t seem concerned and we thank them for the vote of confidence.
If you are among those who can give money, but not time, we can now legally accept donations. Here’s our mailing address.
2045 Seattle
PMB 1007
1122 East Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98122-3934
Update on Supplies
Staple hammers, nice brochures, posters and other materials will be available later this week once the money becomes available. We’ll have a gathering to hand them out as soon as we can.
