SPECIAL JOINT MESSAGE FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF --
Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association
Bloomfield Press
Brassroots, Inc.
Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Deer Tribe Gun Club
Friends of the NRA
Grassroots of North Carolina
Gun Owners Action League
Gun Owners of America
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
KeepAndBearArms.com
LegacyOfGunControl.com
Libertarian Party (Arizona)
Maricopa County Libertarian Party
Mothers Arms
National Rifle Association
Second Amendment Is For Everyone
Second Amendment Sisters
Single Action Shooting Society
Tyranny Response Team
NOTICE OF COMBINED GUN RIGHTS MEETING
NOTICE OF COMBINED GUN RIGHTS MEETING
NOTICE OF COMBINED GUN RIGHTS MEETING
---Group leaders---
***Please be sure to notify your members***
The next meeting of “The Umbrella Group” (TUG):
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
6 p.m. to 7 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. meeting
COUNTRY HARVEST BUFFET RESTAURANT
7720 S. Priest Dr., Tempe, AZ
SW corner of Elliot and Priest, just east of I-10
Private meeting room holds 125
Unlimited buffet, under $10 incl. tax and tip
Separate checks
PLEASE RSVP TO TIM WEAVER
tim@brassroots.org
Come early to ensure yourself a seat.
TUG meetings are tentatively set for
the third Wednesday of each month.
Location may change depending on
the size of the crowd.
BACKGROUND:
At a dinner meeting on August 29, 2000, members of the above groups
decided to hold a massive pow wow of gun-rights activists.
Representatives and members of those and related groups were invited to
attend.
The plan started as an idea from Rick DeStephens and Tim Weaver of
Brassroots, Inc., along with Angel Shamaya of KeepAndBearArms.com and
Alan Korwin of Bloomfield Press.
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together Arizona's gun rights
groups into a loose coalition that we anticipate will benefit each
activist group. Think of it as a pro-freedom get-together where no group
loses its autonomy but instead may be able to learn from and lean upon
the people and resources of other groups.
This meeting, which has been playfully dubbed, "TUG," or "The Umbrella
Group," serves no other purpose than to satisfy the needs of real,
shoe-leather activists. TUG has no leaders, no 501(C)(3) status, no
board of directors, no veto power. It evaporates as soon as the meeting
ends, and re-forms when the next meeting starts. What it does is
provide a forum for activist groups to present a plan of activism to
those who show up ready and willing to fight for freedom.
This is to be a working group, not just a coffee klatch for
entertainment, or for gossip and complaints about the day's news. We're
expecting to set in motion both single-event and long-term action plans
that will help preserve our constantly attacked and frequently
jeopardized liberties. It will also be an enormously educational forum.
Leaders of the individual groups will have time to stand up and talk
about plans of action. Their presentations will hopefully have been
well-thought out, complete with handouts and sign-up sheets if they
wish. They will cover what their group is, what their plans are, and
what they need from you for their projects to succeed. If a presenter's
plan tickles your activist soul then you can get together in a breakout
session or after the meeting, talk over the details and swap contact
information. If it doesn't suit your style or your politics you can sit
back and wait for a presentation that does.
When possible, floor time may be available for attendees to present
action plans themselves. It doesn't have to be about gun rights, but
ought to and probably will be for the first few meetings. Ultimately,
the fundamental focus is freedom, and the goal is activism. Long-winded
speeches and "preaching to the choir" should be discouraged, because we
generally know the issues already -- what we want are plans and
recommendations for actions that attendees can follow. Anyone being
counterproductive will be booed out of attendance by everyone else.
The idea is to focus on issues that concern us as free people, and
actions we can take to help preserve and strengthen our precious
rights. Some of us will probably hang out yakking in the parking lot
till dawn.
Does this sound like something we have long needed? Does this sound
like something for which you could invest some time? Do you have a
friend or two who would also like to attend?
If your answer is YES! then you need to show up and start TUGging.
Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association
Bloomfield Press
Brassroots, Inc.
Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Deer Tribe Gun Club
Friends of the NRA
Grassroots of North Carolina
Gun Owners Action League
Gun Owners of America
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
KeepAndBearArms.com
LegacyOfGunControl.com
Libertarian Party (Arizona)
Maricopa County Libertarian Party
Mothers Arms
National Rifle Association
Second Amendment Is For Everyone
Second Amendment Sisters
Single Action Shooting Society
Tyranny Response Team
NOTICE OF COMBINED GUN RIGHTS MEETING
NOTICE OF COMBINED GUN RIGHTS MEETING
NOTICE OF COMBINED GUN RIGHTS MEETING
---Group leaders---
***Please be sure to notify your members***
The next meeting of “The Umbrella Group” (TUG):
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
6 p.m. to 7 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. meeting
COUNTRY HARVEST BUFFET RESTAURANT
7720 S. Priest Dr., Tempe, AZ
SW corner of Elliot and Priest, just east of I-10
Private meeting room holds 125
Unlimited buffet, under $10 incl. tax and tip
Separate checks
PLEASE RSVP TO TIM WEAVER
tim@brassroots.org
Come early to ensure yourself a seat.
TUG meetings are tentatively set for
the third Wednesday of each month.
Location may change depending on
the size of the crowd.
BACKGROUND:
At a dinner meeting on August 29, 2000, members of the above groups
decided to hold a massive pow wow of gun-rights activists.
Representatives and members of those and related groups were invited to
attend.
The plan started as an idea from Rick DeStephens and Tim Weaver of
Brassroots, Inc., along with Angel Shamaya of KeepAndBearArms.com and
Alan Korwin of Bloomfield Press.
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together Arizona's gun rights
groups into a loose coalition that we anticipate will benefit each
activist group. Think of it as a pro-freedom get-together where no group
loses its autonomy but instead may be able to learn from and lean upon
the people and resources of other groups.
This meeting, which has been playfully dubbed, "TUG," or "The Umbrella
Group," serves no other purpose than to satisfy the needs of real,
shoe-leather activists. TUG has no leaders, no 501(C)(3) status, no
board of directors, no veto power. It evaporates as soon as the meeting
ends, and re-forms when the next meeting starts. What it does is
provide a forum for activist groups to present a plan of activism to
those who show up ready and willing to fight for freedom.
This is to be a working group, not just a coffee klatch for
entertainment, or for gossip and complaints about the day's news. We're
expecting to set in motion both single-event and long-term action plans
that will help preserve our constantly attacked and frequently
jeopardized liberties. It will also be an enormously educational forum.
Leaders of the individual groups will have time to stand up and talk
about plans of action. Their presentations will hopefully have been
well-thought out, complete with handouts and sign-up sheets if they
wish. They will cover what their group is, what their plans are, and
what they need from you for their projects to succeed. If a presenter's
plan tickles your activist soul then you can get together in a breakout
session or after the meeting, talk over the details and swap contact
information. If it doesn't suit your style or your politics you can sit
back and wait for a presentation that does.
When possible, floor time may be available for attendees to present
action plans themselves. It doesn't have to be about gun rights, but
ought to and probably will be for the first few meetings. Ultimately,
the fundamental focus is freedom, and the goal is activism. Long-winded
speeches and "preaching to the choir" should be discouraged, because we
generally know the issues already -- what we want are plans and
recommendations for actions that attendees can follow. Anyone being
counterproductive will be booed out of attendance by everyone else.
The idea is to focus on issues that concern us as free people, and
actions we can take to help preserve and strengthen our precious
rights. Some of us will probably hang out yakking in the parking lot
till dawn.
Does this sound like something we have long needed? Does this sound
like something for which you could invest some time? Do you have a
friend or two who would also like to attend?
If your answer is YES! then you need to show up and start TUGging.