[Chicago] Honoring Aaron Swartz

[sheila miguez]

I am not going to go unless people with experience handling with
handling this type of thing call for help.  Someone please post here
if it turns out that people are needed to help create a buffer to keep
the WBC people far away.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll go as well.  And I'd be happy to counter protest the WBC.  Kumar is
> right, don't link to them, don't give them oxygen.  At the funeral for the
> victims of Newton the counter WBC protest simply kept them at bay, hundreds
> of feet from the actual funeral.
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Ian Lunderskov <ilunderskov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> While I did not know Aaron, a good friend was close to him, and my friend
>>> just passed on a note that the WBC is planning on protesting his funeral
>>> (https://twitter.com/WBCSays).
>>
>>
>> In case it's not obvious, I'd advise against retweeting or publicizing
>> WBC's stance. They are idiots. They are bottom feeders that thrive on
>> negative attention so rather than add to their cheap fame IMHO it's more
>> effective to ignore them.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I do not have the connections to this group to effectively organize, but
>>> as many of you seemed to respect him greatly, I was hoping this is something
>>> that ChiPy might consider doing a counter-protest of, and block them from
>>> getting near the bereaved.
>>>
>>> Just a thought.
>>>
>>> Ian Lunderskov
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