Following on from the two day promotional campaign, my first self appointed role was as a part of the bump in crew. While initially it was just consisted of straight physical labour we started to specialise after most of the chairs, tables and other little tidbits were set up.
I was able to work directly with Morag Tracey and Karen, and was given a radio system and a breifing of the protocols, procedure of communication and physical channels they had it place.
From this point onward I was able to work with security to help set up and secure barricades, and had assumed an observational and mangerial role over some of my fellow volunteers.
It was when the stall workers started arriving that all of my conflict resolution experience really came into play. Either the council stall ordering system was at fault, or some the stall owners thought we wouldn't notice and they pretened to have ordered stalls they didn't pay for ... things were manic.
It goes to show that people are always a radical element, but the council was prepared and had procedures in place. We only ran into problems when trying to find all the materials for the amount of extra stalls.
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