 Call organizing meeting - Discuss detailed implementation of each step
- Assign responsibilities
Select date and times - Consider availability of participants and media representatives (an extended lunch hour works well)
- Consider schedule of target activity (no point picketing an empty building)
- Consider staying and return ability of participants (it’s much better to keep coming back for one hour than to come back once for eight hours)
Select location Select precise picket site and assembly and staging site Consider proximity to target activity, safety, availability of parking, access Check on permit requirements (Most jurisdictions do not require a permit for picketing on public property, as long as participants keep moving and do not obstruct pedestrian or vehicular traffic; however, leafletting, use of bullhorns, or signs for sticks may be restricted) Develop program - Consider major objectives of picket (generally to attract favorable coverage)
- Consider availability of local resources and participants
- Potential events: walking a loop pattern with signs, handing out leaflets, chanting, short speeches, street theater (e.g., symbolic animal in cage or butchering act)
Prepare signs and leaflets - Should be dignified, reasonable, defensible before a media representative, and designed to appeal to the general public
- IDA can supply signs and leaflets and brochures
Notify participants - Send notice or activate telephone tree for your own people
- Request support from other organizations (animal, vegetarian, hunger, consumer)
- Put up notices in suitable locations
- Ask participants to be on time at the assembly site and to dress appropriately for the occasion and the weather
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