Kevin: hay
\nnesson: hi
\nKevin: tried callling rubin not home at the moment
\nnesson: ok
\nKevin: will try him later
\nnesson: ok
\nKevin: i have not heard from c&w about the machine
\nKevin: or anything else for that matter
\nnesson: they certainly don’t seem very eager to help
\nKevin: we don’t seem to be c&w top priority
\nKevin: are you there
\nnesson: yes, thinking
\nnesson: you are right
\nnesson: what does it take for them to see us as a priority?
\nnesson: it has to be a story that has some media muscle
\nnesson: so far we haven’t done an event that will bring us to notice
\nKevin: we should organize a conference that takes place in the prison
\nnesson: you’ve done the event, the radio transcript of jah cure. you could announce that you will use your Unchained program to play it out in serial, with commentary.
\nKevin: that they would sponsor?????
\nnesson: and do a press conference to announce it, with rubin
\nnesson: get the attention first
\nKevin: that could work
\nnesson: once you have the audience the sponsors come
\nKevin: yes
\nKevin: i agree
\nKevin: we need to do something that has not been done
\nKevin: dialogue between men and women behind bars would work
\nnesson: start playing rubin’s book in serial as well
\nKevin: that sounds good
\nKevin: however there will be a lot of beeps
\nnesson: yes, but bleeps are great
\nnesson: they make radio exciting and stimulate interest in hearing the original, which you have to offer
\nKevin: ah
\nnesson: we could also start talking about specific post prison employment projects that we want to start up, like the landscape business, which we could get going with a pledgebank of prospective customers who say they would use the landscape\/lawn service when SET sets it up
\nKevin: that would definitely work
\nnesson: we could do the same thing with the plan to invite AFRIKA UNITED and employ SET in setting up the tour, which could be linked with the work you will be doing in partnership with Bert.
\nKevin: yes
\nnesson: The pledgebank is an idea you can really use. You have access to a potentially huge radio audience twice a week. You can be the guy who is urging Jamaica to go broadband, extolling its virtues with demonstration of how it can help a grass roots inmate driven program like SET, and help a nation. Make yourself irresistible to C&W as a spokesperson for broadband, and if not to them then to one of their competitors.
\nKevin: that sounds good
\nKevin: if they see something that looks to have national appeal then perhaps they will get excited about it
\nnesson: Yes, and it would surely be a great thing for Jamaica if the island and its Diaspora connected with broadband. This could be the primary goal of the Diaspora effort Douglas Orane is chairing.
\nKevin: i think however that if we get a conversation with the ministry of national security to meet with the men of set and have discussions on crime and violence that will have the kind of national and international appeal tha will gram the nations attention
\nnesson: you have the invitational power to call that meeting and put it on the air
\nKevin: it was only yesterday we discussed it with the men at SET
\nnesson: gotta go
\nKevin: cool
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