Subject: Updated COOP Into (READ THIS!) From: fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Oceanstar) Date: 1991-03-01, 06:27 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks THE LATEST NEWS REGARDING COOP -- CITIZENS OPPOSING THE OFFING OF PEAKS Date: March 1, 1991 First of all, Mike Caputo (at national COOP headquarters) sends the following messages back to alt.tv.twin-peaks and others on the net: --"Thanks for the *hundreds* of phone calls from net-readers requesting COOP stationery and T-shirts! What a GREAT response!" --"Apologies for not answering your messages more quickly. We'll get to you ASAP." Caputo and his co-COOPer, Keith Poston, are apparently overwhelmed by the volume of people they have to respond to, and are only just now beginning to recruit volunteers to handle the phone calls and fill orders. They're also (he insists on my telling you this) going rapidly into debt over this thing, spending hundreds of their own bucks on long- distance phone calls and printing costs and stuff. All of which is not to say that you should stop calling--by no means!--but rather that he needs help, in the form of T-shirt orders. He decided to up the price of the T-shirts from the $10- break-even level to $12-, so if you order a T-shirt *now*, you'll be making a much-needed $2- contribution to the cause. T-SHIRTS! T-SHIRTS! T-SHIRTS! This is what the shirts look like: printed in white letters on a black shirt are Front -- COOP logo with Double Donuts for the O's Back -- "All we are saying, is give Peaks a chance" Lynch and Frost are apparently tickled to death about the shirts, and they held one up during their recent press conference. The only size is extra-large. To order them, send your name and address to: COOP Headquarters The Great Northern 4532 19th St. North Arlington, Va. 22207 and enclose a check written out to Mike Caputo, for $12-. Again, it's more than just a nifty shirt--it's support for all those phone calls to ABC sponsors, etc. UPDATE ON LOCAL COOP CHAPTERS Since my last COOP posting--at which time the only COOP chapter was in Washington, DC--new chapters have sprung up in New York City, Baltimore, Greensboro (NC), Miami, Iowa City, and Los Angeles. They all need folks to volunteer their services for party-planning, fax-ing, phone-calling, etc. The Baltimore chapter will have a meeting/party on Tuesday night (7-9 PM) at a club called the Tell-Tale Heart. HOW TO FORM YOUR *OWN* LOCAL COOP CHAPTER 1) Write Keith or Mike for a "starter kit"--which at this point will include letterhead stationery, guidelines, a list of nationally based reporters in the entertainment field, and mailing list of those companies who've bought advertising during "Twin Peaks." Also call them with any ideas you have for spreading the word-- especially computer-net stuff, which they know little about. (But *don't* call them if all you want is a T-shirt and stationery--send a letter for that.) Keith Poston, Washington-area COOP President 202-342-7247 Mike Caputo, Washington-area COOP Chairman 202-289-2834 2) Name yourself some officers. President -- the spokesperson, person who talks to media Director -- the workhorse and organizer, person who does lots of faxes and keeps the info flowing 3) If you live in the listening area of one of the radio stations listed below, call the contact person and tell them about your chapter, making your President available for interviews, etc.` 4) If you have another station to propose for Mike's list, either call them directly to test out the idea, or call Mike for advice. He suggests that each area have just one official COOP station--which should be the one most likely to have Peaks fans as listeners--e.g., the one that plays Cruise and Badalamenti music. College stations are a good choice in university towns, for example. 5) Throw a fax-writing party. Get the word out to ABC and everyone else who needs to hear it. Have meetings, etc. Call local TV and newspaper reporters, and invite them to your party. Whatever else you can think of! 6) And (I don't need to tell y'all this one) post the info on your chapter (with local distribution) to the net. RADIO STATIONS TO CALL/FAX AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO JOIN COOP Mike Caputo tells me he's contacted several stations nationwide, on the principle that the DJ's of "progressive" stations will be interested in, and effective at, getting out the news about COOP. The following list is the people at these stations to call/fax and tell them that you want to see them become the local info center for COOP. (They haven't decided if they're going to do it, yet, so your calls and faxes will make a difference--write to all of them, but if you're in their listening area, tell them so.) KBCO (Boulder, CO) Dennis Constantine 303-444-5600 (voice) 303-449-0357 (fax) XTRA (San Diego, CA) Kevin Stapleford 619-291-9191 (voice) 619-294-2916 (fax) KITS (San Francisco, CA) Richard Sands 415-626-1053 (voice) 415-552-3146 (fax) KTCZ (Minneapolis, MN) Lin Brehmer 612-339-0000 (voice) 612-333-2997 (fax) WFNX (Boston, MA) "Mad Max" 617-595-6200 (voice) 617-595-3810 (fax) WXRT (Chicago, IL) Norm Weiner 312-777-1700 (voice) 312-777-5031 (fax) CURRENT COOP PLAN/MANIFESTO/WHATEVER All of this is of course open to suggestions and emendations from local COOP chapters, but this is the current plan: 1) National write-in campaign to Bob Iger and ABC where (according to Mike) "every single Peaks fan will sing from the same sheet of music, so that we come together as a choir, instead of being a lot of isolated shouting voices." Part of the plan for doing this is to obtain the official COOP logo and letterhead from Keith or Mike, so you can copy it a zillion times and send all your mailings out with that letterhead. The other part is to ask, in your letter, for the following (as outlined by Lynch himself): a) bring the show back as soon as possible, and b) move the show to Wednesday night. 2) National write-in campaign to the sponsors of "Twin Peaks," in which people will say they buy their products and include (I'm not kidding--Caputo says to do this) a proof of purchase. Where do you get the list of sponsors? By writing to COOP HQ. 3) Everyone who writes in will be sent a survey for a nationwide demographic study of Peaks viewers. This is apparently being conducted by a reputable crew of experts in Miami, who will compile their survey results and send them to all the bigwigs at ABC, etc. 4) The timing for all of this is crucial: around the first week of May, ABC will make its final decision, and so we need to have everything geared up by then. In the last week of April, just to make a real impact, Caputo suggests we all mail our letters *again* to Iger and ABC. 5) If all of that doesn't work, then we'll shift our efforts to another network. BOB IGER AT ABC Here's the info one more time! But write to COOP and get your letterhead *before* you send your letter, or if you've already sent your letter, write for the letterhead and copy it out again. ABC - (Los Angeles) - (213) 557-7777 (New York) - (212) 456-7777 or (212) 456-7477 Robert Iger - ABC Entertainment President 2040 Avenue of the Stars Century City, CA 90067 Last but not least: Bob Iger's Fax Number: 213-557-7160 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Order your T! Form your COOP chapter! Throw that fax-writing party! **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More news as I get it. Please send me any corrections (COOP chapters I don't know about, etc.) to this info. If you don't read the newsgroup very often, and you want to be put on my personal mailing list for COOP news, drop me a line. --Fiona Oceanstar fi@grebyn.com