Event Report: Thursday, November 15 — The Boston, MA appearance of the Bill McKibben Do The Math roadshow. 2500 people almost completely filled Boston's Orpheum Theater.
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My wife, daughter and I got there a little late as the video finished playing, and got some seats way up in the nosebleed section. We're in the upper right corner, an unresolvable blur.
Massachusetts has its own chapter of 350.org, called 350 Massachusetts. Massachusetts Kossacks, please give them some love.
Here's how they set up the event:
(Incidentally, at 0:47 in the above video, I am visible sitting next to the projector table. End of self-advertisement.)
Facing a packed Orpheum Theater, McKibben told the crowd that the old concert hall held special memories for him from 1979, when he heard The Ramones perform there. Big laugh.
Well, I had memories of the Orpheum, too...my high school days included trips into Boston for plenty of rock concerts, although by the time the Ramones were making it big I'd moved on to develop a love of jazz.
But the vibe this Thursday was a long way from a jackhammer rendition of "I Wanna Be Sedated," and the message from Bill, co-host Naomi Klein (and a plethora of visiting voices on video) was anything but soporific. In fact, the Do The Math tour could just as correctly be called the Wake The Fuck Up tour, if Bill wasn't basically such a polite person.
Here are some short bumper sticker versions of the Do The Math show:
We've got one chance left. Let's not blow it.
Fossil fuel corporations are civilizational criminals.
To hit them where it counts, cut off their money supply.
We're All In This Together.
