AUPE has posted a public invitation on their website for a Canada Day BBQ, advertising music, dancing and free Fat Franks hot dogs, to be held AT OUR HOME!
One of the steps we can take to protest this invasion of our lives is to boycott Fat Franks, the franchise providing the free hot dogs at this event.
Please get as many people as you can to contact Fat Franks, tell them what AUPE has been doing to us, and request that they withdraw from supporting this event. Tell them, politely, yet firmly, that until they do, we will be boycotting Fat Franks.
This is their contact information.
Corporate Sponsorship/General Business: lornemerrick@fatfranks.ca
Call for appointment please.
Phone: 780-413-0278 – We only take calls past 12 noon, so please leave a message and we will return it.
Fax: 780-433-7997
Canada day is just around the corner, so it's essential that as many people contact Fat Franks as quickly as possible, letting them know what is really happening at Artspace.
Thank you.
Admin
Update: Since this post has gone up and word has gotten out, this event has been confirmed by the person organising it, in a most condescending way. This person even had the gall to "invite" Artspace members to join them - and they might even give us some free hot dogs.
Apparently, it's "normal" to have BBQs on picket lines. That may be true, but it's not normal to do so at people's homes, while sending out blanket invitations to any and all to come out for freebies
Fat Franks has been contacted and does NOT have a kiosk booked for this event, yet they (AUPE) continue to advertise that they will be giving out free Fat Franks hot dogs.
Note that while the organiser has said this is going to be done on the picket line - which is the sidewalk in front of our homes - we are on a small, closed and private street. Given the very public way they are advertising this, if people start showing up looking for free Fat Franks, it would have the effect of shutting down our street. With the ads being so public, with invitations to any and all, even if they pulled the ads right now, they would have no control over whether or not people show up at our address, looking for free Fat Franks.
Update2: It seems the above update was posted too soon. Different members are being told different things. One member has recieved this email from Fat Franks.
Yes we are hired and paid to be there.It is not our position to judge events nor take sides in public opinions of them.Thank you for your comments
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