Friday 30 October 2009
Friday 30th Oct
I had a good day today in town with my planet on top of a pole. I bump into old friends from Birmingham Children's Hospital and elsewhere. Met about ten old friend today I would say including two who remembered my 1986 fast on a cage for 46 days for the imprisoned Christian Russian poetess Irina Ratushinskaya who was released some months lated when Reagan and Gorbachev met in Iceland. (I am never quite sure how to spell Reykjavik!) I was pleased with myself today because I was on site outside the exit of Snow Hill Station Birmingham at 7.30am and had distributed 1600 leaflets by 3.10 pm. I have 50,000 in all to give out so it will take some time! i am hoping that people will start taking some for friends. I met all sorts of interesting people including one possible parliamentary candidate for the Common Good party. The applied psychology of handing out leaflets in interesting. I like the place outside the SH station as people can see me for about 50 yards before getting to me. When there's a whoosh of people lots go by without really engaging. There are too many to catch the eye of all. Nevertheless I reckon that lots of people see me and eventually they might tumble to what I am saying if they see it on the web or on TV or in the press.
Thursday 29 October 2009
In the street with my globe of the world
Man with globe of world.
Since 16th October I have been out and about in the street in the centre of Birmingham with a globe on my head .... or more exactly it was a 60cm diameter polycotton globe over a framework of nattily assembled 3mm diam fibreglass rods atop a tough bamboo mast attached to a plywood sheet on my back, strapped to me as you do with a rucsac. And below it I had a placard with the wording "The World needs us" and some flashing bicycle lights attached thereto!
Why??? My purpose was to attract attention (favourably I had hoped) to my distribution of leaflets detailing my political vision.
The leaflet itself can be seen at the website of the Common Good party of which I am the founder and leader. It is a small party.... well actually three of us! BUT we have an important political message - that we are needed in the world. Britain is needed in this needy world and getting stuck into the huge job of making the world a better place will cheer us up as a nation and give us a sense of purpose and unity that is otherwise sadly lacking at present.
I am a fairly shy sort of person even if it might not appear so from the above. Rejection hurts and of course lots of people walk on by. Comments include:
I'm OK thanks. ( I try to avoid replying that not everyone is OK and that's why we should get stuck in).
Some say, not today thanks.
I say: Sir/Madam, may I give you a leaflet? Some reply, Yes of course. Some say, No. Some: No you may not. etc.
Generally there's enough take up to stop me feeling too miserable. 1700 on the first day, 1000 on some others. 500 on a poor day or when I knock off with discouragement. Some teenagers tore up my leaflet and scattered it on the gorund. I stooped down and picked up the bits in front of them. It's hard work, but it beats doing nothing which seems to me a worse option.
There is certainly a lot to do in the world and at home to make a just and humane society. I am completely sold on the idea that we should be immersed in the job of making the world a better place and in doing so that we'll become a happier, more purposeful more motivated, more untied people. That way we can earn our living in the world.
I am looking for soul-mates in the sense of people who will see that there is a point worth making here.
This is politics from street level up. Have a look at the website and let me know if you'd like to help get things organised, or stand for parliament in the general election or help someone else to do so or take up some issue like saving the NHS from commercialism and making sure it covers the needs of old people who are the ones who need it most or renationalising the trains and getting them running at modest fares and with it all as a single organisation which can take investment of public funds without the benefits leaking out to private commercial interests. There's lots more on the Common Good party website at http://www.thecommongood.info/
Hope to hear from you.
Dick
Since 16th October I have been out and about in the street in the centre of Birmingham with a globe on my head .... or more exactly it was a 60cm diameter polycotton globe over a framework of nattily assembled 3mm diam fibreglass rods atop a tough bamboo mast attached to a plywood sheet on my back, strapped to me as you do with a rucsac. And below it I had a placard with the wording "The World needs us" and some flashing bicycle lights attached thereto!
Why??? My purpose was to attract attention (favourably I had hoped) to my distribution of leaflets detailing my political vision.
The leaflet itself can be seen at the website of the Common Good party of which I am the founder and leader. It is a small party.... well actually three of us! BUT we have an important political message - that we are needed in the world. Britain is needed in this needy world and getting stuck into the huge job of making the world a better place will cheer us up as a nation and give us a sense of purpose and unity that is otherwise sadly lacking at present.
I am a fairly shy sort of person even if it might not appear so from the above. Rejection hurts and of course lots of people walk on by. Comments include:
I'm OK thanks. ( I try to avoid replying that not everyone is OK and that's why we should get stuck in).
Some say, not today thanks.
I say: Sir/Madam, may I give you a leaflet? Some reply, Yes of course. Some say, No. Some: No you may not. etc.
Generally there's enough take up to stop me feeling too miserable. 1700 on the first day, 1000 on some others. 500 on a poor day or when I knock off with discouragement. Some teenagers tore up my leaflet and scattered it on the gorund. I stooped down and picked up the bits in front of them. It's hard work, but it beats doing nothing which seems to me a worse option.
There is certainly a lot to do in the world and at home to make a just and humane society. I am completely sold on the idea that we should be immersed in the job of making the world a better place and in doing so that we'll become a happier, more purposeful more motivated, more untied people. That way we can earn our living in the world.
I am looking for soul-mates in the sense of people who will see that there is a point worth making here.
This is politics from street level up. Have a look at the website and let me know if you'd like to help get things organised, or stand for parliament in the general election or help someone else to do so or take up some issue like saving the NHS from commercialism and making sure it covers the needs of old people who are the ones who need it most or renationalising the trains and getting them running at modest fares and with it all as a single organisation which can take investment of public funds without the benefits leaking out to private commercial interests. There's lots more on the Common Good party website at http://www.thecommongood.info/
Hope to hear from you.
Dick
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