All Nighter Against Inequality
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
And so it begins, the Campus Alliance Against Inequality overnight fest here on the West Mall as we prepare to storm the voting machine inside the Flawn Academic Center (UGL) at 7 am. I must say that it feels like fall, the temperature has been in the mid-50s so far this night.
The event began at 8 pm with the first of three bands, Mumblebee. What a way to kick off the night as they played a half hour set that got us all energized for the night out. They were followed by another student band, The Pajamas, which sadly, does not have a website yet for me to link to, but nonetheless provided some great music as many of those here started getting interviewed by local media. There are 3 satellite trucks for KVUE (ABC), KXAN (NBC), and KTBC (FOX) local affiliates. CBS is expected later tonight. Be sure to watch the local stations 10 o'clock news as we may be live on some of them. News 8 Austin has been here since 6 pm and will have their story running every hour starting tonight.
Acquired Taste, our third band is on stage right now. I'll be uploading images in just a minute! Watch this thread for move liveblog updates!
Here are some of the pictures.
News Cameras
Our Poster!
The Pajamas band pic
Aquired Taste band pic
Update: We just got finished giving out flyers for the Campus Storm, to paper campus with our vote no on 2 message. They will be going up on kiosks, in dorms, in academic buildings (all in the legal places to my knowledge). We are now setting up our screen for the movies we plan to watch and taking down our mic system, since we are following the City of Austin sound curfew as best as possible.
Update: The Daily Texan has reported on our little event, you can read it here. The Texan has also issued it's endorsements on the Amendments.
1- No
2- No
3- Yes
4- No
5- No
6- Yes
7- Yes
8- No
9- No
I'll try to have mine up in the morning, maybe after I vote, though hopefully before.
Update: It's after 4 am now, and the temperature has dropped, sitting in the high 40s at best. Most of those still here, and there is a dedicated group of 15-20 (which seems to actually grow as the night goes on) have now bundled up and huddled closer to each other as Spiderman 2 and Family Guy roll on the main screen.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at October 23, 2005 09:42 PM
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The ABC news coverage wasn't bad. They started out just talking about the importance of Prop 2, then showed some Dad that just had a kid, talking about how he wanted to protect marriage and other BS (I think his quote was "I'm going to go with the Bible"). Anyways, then they cut to you guys (saw you, K-T, a couple times), and interviewed someone I don't know, but who spoke well. More coverage on your end, for sure...
As a side note, I saw this b/c I flipped the channel after Qualls gave up the grand slam, wanting to escape from the disasters of the Astros bullpen. Thought I'd never be more upset about a dumb pitch, until I was proven wrong by Lidge, again.
Damn, that game hurt. Go 'Stros. And keep warm, you guys.
