Comments on: A Small group of committed chocoholics

By: aleta

aleta — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:02:56 +0000

I found the website for that school, it’s called Los Angeles Leadership Academy: http://laleadership.org/index.html

By: aleta

aleta — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:55:44 +0000

I imagine that the fact that it was in the middle of the day prevented a lot of supporters from coming because of work/school. If you’d like for students to come, I suggest that you work some teachers so they can make it a field trip. I once heard of a Social Justice program at a high school in LA, I’m not sure if it’s still going but that would be an ideal place to start.

By: Roger, Gone Green

Roger, Gone Green — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:21:45 +0000

Good job raising awareness; even a handful of chocolate covered activists will likely get some play and make people aware, but a court — and especially a federal court — will never cave to that kind of pressure, or even take notice of it. Really. Judges are contrary that way.

And in fact, sometimes more is gained from a dismisal. One lawsuit goes forward and loses on substantive grounds and nothing is gained. The same lawsuit is dismissed early, is appealed, and establishes the binding precedent that such lawsuits are OK.

So, was there a ruling?

By: Maya

Maya — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:43:12 +0000

Siel, good luck with bridging the gaps between these organizations that have similar goals. I think that would help greatly in bringing activists together for common causes. I used to work for a non-profit in SF, and one of the toughest issues I had to deal with was always those same gaps…non-profits don’t ‘talk’ with each other…even sometimes competing for some ‘grants’ people are ‘over-worked’ have too many cases they personally have to handle, under-staffed, no time for thinking outside the box, etc. etc. I had and always wished that a lot of information had been shared across non-profits and the people would support each other…it would’ve been much more efficient and helpful. So I hear you, and I’d like to support you on your next goal :-) Keep up the good work…

By: Siel

Siel — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:59:30 +0000

Cybele — I believe the point was to 1. raise awareness about this issue, and 2. pressure the courts not to throw out the case (Nestle, et al, filed a motion to dismiss the suit, which is what the hearing today was about).

Interestingly, we had a good number of press peeps come by. Just not that many activists…

Good idea re: targeting Target — Though I think, right now, I wanna step back more and think about how we can get a mass mobilization to happen –