Civil Rights Celebration report; gathering at UI Commons everyday from 11 to 1

["Muscovites for Equal Rights" <idahomer@hotmail.com>]

First, our weekly meeting still is every Wednesday at 7pm at Mikey's Gyros.
Second, we will be tabling on campus in front of the UI Commons everyday 
until 9/24 from 11 to 1.  We also will be gathering signatures at the Latah 
County Fair this Thursday to Saturday (9/12-9/14).  Anyone wishing to help 
out here, please respond.
We have about 1200 signatures out of 2300 total needed.

Civil Rights Celebration Report:

A big "Thank You!" to everyone who helped put Moscow's First Annual Civil 
Rights Celebration together.  Remembering we only had 2 weeks to plan the 
event, we consider our intention, to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy and 
promote freedoms for those repressed, a success.

We have planted a seed that we hope to nurture into a yearly flowering 
event.  We want Moscow to be known for its commitment to civil rights, so 
have decided that we will make this an annual celebration.  We plan on 
bringing in civil rights activists from around the world, having workshops 
and basically having this celebration become known internationally, such as 
the Lentil Festival, the Jazz Festival and the Borah Symposium.
This is a big dream, but we have to start somewhere, so be it known that 
those who wish to be a part of this celebration, we have a year to plan the 
next event.

The Sauce opened the event with their funk/jazz tunes, during which the 
Friends of the Clearwater's beautiful Wild Thang dragon danced into the 
park, leading folks from the Farmers' Market.
Speeches were few, but to the point: we live in an awesome country and have 
many freedoms to appreciate, but we still have a while to go before all 
citizens are granted equality under the law.
Lisa Simpson crooned us with her beautiful voice and guitar, followed by 
Mark Rounds, cheering us with celtic folk tunes.
Models then took the stage to show off newly "illegal" clothing that 
Moscow's nudity ordinance now bans.  None of the clothing looked extreme, 
but the sides of breasts were visible on some, some were semi-transparent 
and the most graphic example, a red sweater, became see-through in the 
"wrong" light.  Since clothing over the breasts must be opaque, this sweater 
could land a women in jail if nothing else were worn underneath.
Galactic Tofu Farmers closed the event with their mostly original groove 
food.

Participants included Radio Free Moscow, Pullman's YWCA, The Palouse 
Practical Shooters, the Breast Bag toss (a take off from a bean-bag toss) 
where contenders attempted to toss a bean bag designed like a breast into 
holes where the breasts would be on a cut-out of a woman's torso.  Cookies 
were the prize.  We also had a raffle of gifts donated by individuals and 
Book People.

We decided against having a public debate because no one was willing to take 
our debate challenge.  We decided against having a mock-debate because, 
well, we could think of no reasonable counter to any of our arguments.  We 
are still willing to debate this seriously if anyone is interested in 
debating with us.

We were reported on KXLY from Spokane and KLEW from Lewiston.  The Argonaut 
ran a story today.
http://www.argonaut.uidaho.edu/091002/news2.html

For Freedom,
Garrett Clevenger

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