Save the Beacon Rally!

When: Tuesday, March 28, 6 p.m.,

Where: On High Street. The police will block off the parking meter lane.

Who: Invocation by the Rev. Bob Denton, followed by a slate of local community leaders

Why: To encourage McClatchy to sell us to a new owner who will give priority to the interests of Akron, the Beacon, and its loyal readers.

Questions: Kathy Antoniotti and Kymberli Hagelberg are organizing this effort for us. Thank them for their hard work and quick action in putting this together. We will have signs to distribute. This is NOT a union rally, but a rally for all employees who take pride in this paper and are concerned about its future.

{Note attached to the Guild notice: This event is brought to you by newsroom employees who are willing to risk sounding like the "ridiculous, short-sighted, self-obsessed, arrogant, self-pitying" journalists who are trying to uphold a John S. Knight heritage that is purely "imaginary," as our public editor helpfully explained to our readers on Sunday.}