I am very in favor of protesting the Olympics and raising awareness that a once 'non professional' contest of amateurs has turned into a capitalist folly. Of course I am also in favor of covering Chicago and San Diego Democrat and Repub. These are places where the Food Not Bombs message needs to be seen. Republican Convention is August 15-19th. The Earth Firsters get together each year at a rendezvous and towards the end they pick a site for the next year.
Locals persuade the group by stating how prepared they are to deal with the event.
There was no such process in our case. Perhaps we are to young of an organization to do this, but I think we can. In the meantime I would love to hear that we are IN FACT consenting to meet in Atlanta. When he got here he sort of hung out the office wondering what to do. It was totally wierd.