A Koscadia meet up at a food truck pod
You are cordially invited to come to a meet up on Sunday, August 24, at 12:30pm. The venue is à la carts Food Pavilion on SE 50th, just below Division, in Portland. See a list of the food trucks here -- there is a bit of everything here, including but not limited to Native American fry bread, burgers, fish and chips, Thai, Vietnamese, crepes, and fried ravioli! Parking is on the street on SE 50th.
We are planning an activity - stamping money! Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream has started a movement called the Stamp Stampede to combat the terrible effect the Citizens United decision has had on our elections and to elicit grassroots support for a Constitutional amendment to put this right. More below the fold...
There are five different messages available - buy stamps here. I have bought two, "Stamp Money Out of Politics" and "Corporations are Not People" which I will be happy to share at the meet up. If others would like to purchase different stamps, we can have a good mix. PLUS, since we will be at a food truck pod, perhaps the vendors will let us change money with them and we can stamp even more bills than those we bring in our wallets!
Why stamp money? As Ben Cohen says:
Every dollar you stamp will reach 875 people, if you stamp 5 dollars a day for a year, that's over a million. Together, we can create a stampede that Congress can't ignore.
In other words, it is a clever way to get a simple message out to a whole lot of people!
So, bring your stamps and ink pads, clip boards to stamp on, tin foil for party hats, and I'll bring some baby wipes for cleaning inky fingers. Please RSVP in the comments below and hope to see you there!
Attending
1. Sara R (2 stamps)
2. winglion
3. llbear
4. rexymeteorite (1 stamp)
5. James Allen
6. Damnit Janet
7. Wesley
8. loggersbrat
9. Angie in WA State (birthday girl!)
10. 6412093
11. ozsea1 (1 stamp)
Will try to make it!
1. watercarrier4diogenes
2. Danni