KC: Tell The Uptown to say NO to The Minutemen!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, an anti-immigrant armed vigilantee
group that patrols the U.S./Mexico border, is having their regional
leadership conference in Kansas City on February 1st and 2nd.

Anti-racists and immigrant rights supporters from Kansas City and the
surrounding areas are organizing to stop this meeting from happening!

The Uptown Theater will be hosting the first day of the Minutemen
conference on February 1st, and we're calling on all people concerned with
this conference to contact the Uptown and demand that they cancel their
support for this event!

Starting today, Monday December 10th, and lasting all week, we're calling
on everyone to call, fax, and e-mail the Uptown.. to literally drown them
in condemnation and demands to cancel the meeting at their theater.

These actions literally will take ten minutes out of your day, but when
combined with dozens and dozens of people taking the same action, we feel
that these actions may ultimately force the Uptown to cancel the first day
of the Minutemen's conference.

Phone calls:
Phone: [phone]
Starting today, call the Uptown everyday this week between noon and 1pm
and 3-5pm (these times may be re-evaluated depending on the response from
the Uptown). Call as often as you can... flood them with demands to shut
this meeting down!

E-mails:
[e-mail]
We're calling on people to e-mail the Uptown everyday this week until
15th, and to e-mail as often as possible, demanding they don't host the
meeting.

Use different e-mail accounts, get friends to do so. Flood their inbox!

Faxes:
Fax: [phone]
Everyday this week, flood their fax machine with anti-minutemen faxes, or
black pages, or whatever else.. Flood their faxes, tie up their lines...

This is just Phase 1 of this campaign... but don't wait for Phase 2. ACT
RIGHT NOW!! Call, e-mail and fax the Uptown Theater... demand that they
cancel the hosting of the Minutemen conference.

Some talking points to consider for contacting the Uptown:
1) The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps has well known ties to white
supremacist organizations all across the country.

2) The local Minutemen chapter has been harrassing migrants at their
places of employment, including migrants that are here with documentation.

3) The KC Minutemen specifically target Latinos and people of Middle
Eastern descent in these actions.

4) The Uptown's image and business will suffer unless they cancel the
meeting now!

5) The Uptown has a responsibility to not allow organizations with racist
and xenophobic intents to rent it's space.

6) This has nothing to do with Free Speech. The Minutemen don't just talk,
they act and incite people into actions that are violent and marginalize
already marginalized sections of our population.