"Muslim spies in Obama's CIA! 55 Double agents exposed!" Last week:"Hillary blackmailed FBI to kill

[mahina]

Corruption probe! GAY SEX STING! Hillary hooked on narcotics!"

The National Enquirer is at checkout lines nationwide. Everybody goes to the grocery store, and this is the garbage that faces me, at eye level, every few days.

I've pulled them off the shelves and gone to customer service and explained patiently and then less patiently that this is garbage, it is false, it is toxic and it is harming our country. That to sell these papers is to profit off of causing real damage and intentionally misinforming people. If the family housekeeping magazine was touting recipients with poison in them, they would pull them off the shelves in a minute. This is poison too, but they are feeding it to us.

Ignoring this stream of propaganda is dangerous too. Dissent without resistance is consent, as Thoreau said.

The clerks are patient with me, being local, they are not inclined to argue. I complain, I say I understand it's not their decision, but whose decision is it?

My small goal is to get this inflammatory bullshit off our checkout lanes.

Any ideas of how to get this particular stream of poison put away?

Ps oh also, WORSE THAN WATERGATE and SEEDY ROMP CAUGHT ON CAMERA...oh God in heaven, patience. Patience and resolve.

[malaise]

1. Why are you posting this crap here

It's fake news

[mahina]

2. I want to know how to get it out of our checkout lanes.

Thought that was clear.

I'll try to be clearer.

This publication is on shelves around the country.

[mahina]

3. I'll take the photos down. They upset me all over again.

I'm not content to just feel upset and shop elsewhere because all the shops have this publication.

[malaise]

5. I agree with attempts to destroy this crap in supermarkets

Maybe we can boycott those who have this crap at check outs

[HassleCat]

4. To point out what is going on.

It bothers me, too. I see this shitty rag in every store where I shop, and I know people buy it and read it, those who can read. I think we need to investigate the ties between the Enquirer and certain politicians, with an eye toward big libel suits, perhaps in all 50 states.

[mahina]

7. I completely agree. Recall something that Eichmann wrote about an agreement between the enquirer

And trump, will dig around.

One thing we could do is bring postits with non-profane and persuasive messages and stick them on the magazines.

[mahina]

8. Enquirer: stick to aliens and Elvis sightings. Your fake news hurts America."

That'll be my first sally forth.

[brush]

15. There's a campaign going to turn negative news checkout mag covers around whenever we see one.

Must have been Daily Kos where I read that.

It's an easy thing to do.

[malaise]

16. This is not negative news

this is fake news.
That said the campaign is a start

[Douglas Kawasaki]

17. The OP said it's crap

Why do you pretend that the OP is promoting the crap?
unlike you, I read the post, and it's anti-crap.
Read, then opine. Do not act on reflex.

[malaise]

18. The OP also deleted the photos

after I asked the question - it is one thing to discuss it - it's another thing to give them free coverage.
Apparently you read it so well you missed the edit.

[dionysus]

19. For crying out loud' its not like anyone here will believe it.

[mahina]

20. I'm happy to add them back if it helps. I just wanted people to understand.

I trust your intention is positive as mine is.

[mahina]

21. Aloha, welcome to DU.

The photos are repulsive so I can see the reflexive action.

Welcome to DU!

[riversedge]

6. I need a goal also--something local that might make a difference-to be part of the #TheResistance

Yes, I do.

I will have to think of one. You have inspired me. Thank you.

[mahina]

10. Oh mahalo. You've inspired me countless times. Have you seen the publications (free or $) & movies

On the Albert Einstein Institution website? http://www.aeinstein.org

"The mission of the Albert Einstein Institution is to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict.

The Institution is committed to:

· defending democratic freedoms and institutions;

· opposing oppression, dictatorship, and genocide; and

· reducing the reliance on violence as an instrument of policy.

This mission is pursued in three ways, by:

· encouraging research and policy studies on the methods of nonviolent action and their past use in diverse conflicts;

· sharing the results of this research with the public through publications, conferences, and the media; and

· consulting with groups in conflict about the strategic potential of nonviolent action."

--
There are great publications including a manual for self liberation, another titled the Anti-Coup,
There Are Realistic Alternatives (to violence) and many others. The films are very good.

We aren't the first to face a despot and they have been defeated.

Aloha no riversedge.

[Ilsa]

9. Cover it with other mags.

If people buy enough of it, they'll keep printing it.

[HassleCat]

12. Some good suggestions here.

Pick it up, pretend to leaf through it, and replace it with the back page facing out.

[Ilsa]

13. Yeah, or open it to a full-page ad and crimp it open and re-rack. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. It's been several years since I've bothered to

leaf through one of those tabloids.

Although one time I was greatly amused to see a cover story about how we were headed immediately to a new ice age, and inside was a lengthy piece about how global warming was going to put NYC underwater within the decade.

You'd think they'd have the editorial sense to put those articles in different issues, but nope.

[femmocrat]

14. I cover them up while waiting in line.

it's a small thing, but if enough of us do it, it will become a movement! I give you credit for going to customer service to complain, but you probably need to go higher up the pecking order.

Those stupid tabloids have been around for as long as I can remember. I wonder if anyone actually buys them, or people just leaf through them in the checkout lines?