Student Demonstration
09/21/2007 10am - 12 Noon & 1pm - 4pm
Diablo Valley College Quad, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill, CA US Sponsored by Demonstration PermaLink: http://iraqmoratorium.org/events/listings/2/23.html Reports, Updates, Comments
As soon as set up the table in the Quad at Diablo Valley College, 4 people came over to look at the materials. All of them put down their contact info, and one of them even said he wanted to help us organize future events at DVC. We handed out a few hundred of those over the course of the day, and around 30 people put their names down to be contacted for the next Moratorium event, including 2 teachers.
About an hour before we were planning to pack up and leave, 2 army recruiters walked by us, then did a double take and came back to talk to us. Surprisingly (to me), their main question for us is whether or not we supported the actual American troops in Iraq as people, and not why we were against the war in general. Both of them had been in Iraq themselves, but not in combat zones. About an hour later, we packed up.
Overall, I think it went quite well. I think that next time we should definitely do more of an event, and maybe try to get some speakers and live music for it. I think that would draw a lot of people, especially if we got out the fliers relatively soon and got an article in the college newspaper.
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