A DAY FOR ADOPTEE RIGHTS! CALLING ALL BASTARDS AND FRIENDS...

A DAY FOR ADOPTEE RIGHTS is major adoptee rights/Bastard Nation event.

Join us in New Orleans as we make history ushering in a new era of adoptee rights victories. Help us restore the right of all US and Canadian adoptees to their identity and birth records We still have plenty of hotel rooms in New Orleans for the July 20-22 Day for Adoptee Rights Protest and Teach-in during the National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Make your hotel reservations now. Reservation information for the Country Inn Suites by Carlson is here and on our left sidebar. When you make your reservations be sure to contact Marla Paul at CabnNThWoods@aol.com Marla is BN's liason with the hotel and is keeping track of reservations. We need to close our block of rooms in 2 weeks, so make your reservation now!

GOT YOUR DAY FOR ADOPTEE RIGHTS BADGE YET?
Go here for your blogger/webpage badge and other promotional materials.

WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS!
Security, clean-up and more!
Contact us at bn@bastards.org if you'd like to help

AND WE DEFINITELY NEED MONEY!


We've got the park. We've got the conference space. We've got the hotel.
Costs are mounting. Things like porta-potties, police, permits, program advertising, conference amenities (would you believe we're required rent a table, chairs, and carpet inside the convention center from...the convention center! Well, we are!

If you can't come to NOLA--or even if you can--we poor bastards need a financial boost. To donate go to the Who's Next Fund.

All proceeds for sales from the Bastard Boutique up to July 31, 2008 will go directly to cover the cost of A DAY FOR ADOPTEE RIGHTS
Contact Mccmtmd@aol.com for availability and shipping costs
(There should be some Bastard swag pictures up some here in a of couple days.)

We leave no one behind!

Fill the hotels. Fill Lafayette Park! Fill the streets. Let the leggies know we mean business!

PROTEST VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

A Day for Adoptee Rights organizer Ron Morgan sends this along.

Hi all,

I’m beginning to put together a list of volunteers for the Day for Adoptee Rights event. Please let me know if you can do any of the stuff listed below…

1. Transportation. Anyone driving to NOLA? We’ll need someone with a car or two to help us buying picket materials, bottled water, sunscreen, etc., and then the morning of the protest transporting everything to Lafayette Park.

2. Protest Monitors. Monitors will help with crowd control before and during the protest. Monitors will keep folks marching to the Morial Center from straying from the approved route, and once at the Convention Center will ensure that picketing is done legally. Monitor training and specific duties and instruction will be provided the night before the protest at the picket making party.

3. Clean up crew. I know, this is a shitty duty, but someone had to do it. Mainly making sure that Lafayette Park is clean after we leave. But a lot of it can be done by making sure that protesters dispose of their trash during the protest. House keeping announcements will be made during the protest.

4 Public Relations. Anyone with experience in dealing with the press or other media? Step on up, we can use you!

Ok that’s it for now. You can respond here on the site, by private message, or by email to me at bb_church@adopteerights.net

Thanks!

Ron

A DAY FOR ADOPTEE RIGHTS PROMO MATERIAL

Spread the word!

A Day or Adoptee Rights has designed a number of promotinal materials: flyers, bookmarks, even buttons for your webpage and blogs...and more. Go here and gets yours now! More on on the way!

WE'VE GOT OUR SPACE!

I've gotten very very far behind in posting A Day for Adoptee Rights information. I'll be doing regular updates from now on.

First off--

NCSL lets us in the door!

A Day for Adoptee Rights and Bastard Nation have officially procured exhibitor space inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Booth 246 surrounded by K2 Auto, the Association for Schools of Public Health, and most appropriately for Bastards, Allied Waste and the American Society for Gastroinintestigal Endoscopy

That's the good news!

The bad news is that there's lots of hidden costs here. Like being required to rent carpet and tables from Champion Exposition Services. You can read all about it here. [pdf]

The NCSL meeting is big. More than 10,000 legislators, most of whom kept our records hostage, are expected to attend. Please help us get to them. The leggies AND our records.

In the next few days you'll be reading how you can help us out with covering the cost of this event.

In the meantime, for more information go to the official Day for Adoptees Rights webpage.