We should be having massive anti-war protests!

[lupita]

Is anybody aware of any?
We need to bring our kids back home!

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[lupita]

2. I have been a member for 3 years

I am sorry if my name is silly. Maybe, the fact that English is not my native language is partly at fault.
I am the secretary of The Washington County Democrats in Oregon, and I sincerely hope you are not calling me a freeper.
Do you see my little star? I donate every year to this site.


Lupita Maurer

[MadProphetMargin]

3. My apologies. Your thread count threw me for a loop. We've had a

spate of trolls recently.

Consider my insinuation retracted.

[lupita]

6. I don't blame you... My name is kind of silly...

Don't worry about it.
I just feel that there is a lot of unnecessary killing going on.
Specially after I saw picture of dead Iraqi children. These kids were
about the same age as my kids are. I feel like getting out on the street and making enough noise to make Bush quit.

I am just too angry!

Lupita
www.washingtoncountydemocrats.org

[NMDemDist2]

4. Set and match

and i agree.. we need to take to the streets (again)

[MadProphetMargin]

11. Won't do any good. Bush has already said that he doesn't care about

civilian protests, and the media has mastered the art of making us look like loons.

Time to try something else.

[G_j]

23. actually

I think people are aware that we are not 'loons' by now.

[G_j]

5. don't worry

you asked a legitimate and worthy question.
I am planning on getting together with friends, making some signs and standing on a busy street corner this Saturday. Contact your local peace group(s),check with 'veterans for peace'

[lupita]

7. Thanks! I am thinking of doing the same...

Portland OR has been pretty good about anti-war protests. We just seem to be sleeping at the wheel right now....

Lupita

PS MY thread count is low because I never seem to have anything super intelligent to say.

[NMDemDist2]

9. LOL that never stops any of the rest of us n/t

[G_j]

12. well I think

thats one of the most intelligent questions I've heard all day.

[lupita]

15. Thank you! YOU are sweet!

Plus, you are helping me bump my thread count up!
:)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. i agree...and i am a one family protester in my rural community

my house has had anti-war...anti-bush banners strung across the entire front of it for 2 years...and we hang banners over the thruway every chance we get..."NO IRAQI CHILDREN IN OUR GAS TANKS! SAY NO TO BUSH*S WAR!"

[lupita]

13. I Have a "peace is patriotic" bumper sticker

I get a lot of positive comments about it.

[G_j]

14. thank you

thats great. i love to hear things like this.

[Kanary]

10. INterestingly enough

The BEEEG protest was only a few weeks ago.

Not a large turnout. People were already tired of protesting.

Had more people gone out then, I would be more enthusiastic.

I think a different action may be called for now, and I'm not sure what it is.

We need to get creative.

Kanary

[G_j]

16. perhaps some civil disobedience is in order

at the local office of my Congressman. ???

did I say that?

[Kanary]

20. Could be

But, civil disobedience takes community... have we come that far yet?

To sustain it, it can't be done alone.

Kanary

[G_j]

22. I've got the community here

it's the money to pay the fines, I'm lacking. Our lawyers never seem to be able to get the charges dropped. Twelve 'Women in Black' got arrested for crossing a police barricade blocking off the spot where they had been standing for a year and even they had to pay fines. Since the war started there have been perhaps 50 arrests of non-violent peace activists here. (A substantial activist community)

[Kanary]

24. Glad you have the community.

It's not all that common. $$$ is real. :)

I'm not very creative in this way, as I mentioned, however I'm thinking that this is a time to think "outside the box", to use that overworn phrase. What about some of the more unusual relics from the 60's and 70's..... like teachins, die-ins, etc.?

I really wish I was one of those people who could conceptualize things, and figure out highly effective actions. All this is not to say that I see anything wrong with getting together on a street corner with friends.... it's highly commendable. I just have this nagging feeling there's something that could be a real grabber, if I could just think of it.

You're lucky you have a group of people to work with!

It would be great to find a way to mobilize the newly budding suspicions of the centrists.

Kanary, going off humming "If I only had a brain....."

[G_j]

25. one problem is

they 'heard' us all along. Remember the 'virtual march' where thousands of people tied up Congresses phone lines for an entire day?
Over 11 million people in the streets for peace world wide. They hear us, but they ignore us. That is what is so frustrating!!
But of course we can't be silent.

btw, I probably won't go and get arrested :-)
but I AM very upset. Things in Iraq and the world are going to be getting even worse because of the latest US actions. :argh:

[liveoaktx]

18. Why not stand out in public with a sign in your town?

If you can, get some friends to stand with you? I live in a rural community with a highway going through it, and, after calling the state, found I could stand on the side of the highway on a sidewalk by a traffic light. The city also told me I could stand downtown in front of city hall. So I have done that on numerous occasions.

I have also put my opinion regularly in the local paper, even taken out ads that cost.

I went to the anti-war protest in Crawford a few weeks back but honestly felt it was too scattered and not focused enough strictly on Bush's misdeeds. Would have liked one more that was not a hodgepodge of anti-all wars anywhere and including speeches on animal rights, etc, but speeches that educated on the talking points and answers to the baloney.

I live too far away for those *meetups* so I have contacted the Dem chairman in my county to find out if there's any problem with organizing Saturday coffees once a week. I figure if there's interest, maybe some of us can go out and go door to door with a poll and use it as an opportunity to both encourage vote signups and talk up Kerry.

[G_j]

21. that is exactly what we can do,

what I will be doing, and it is effective.
We don't need hundreds, people who have been watching the news understand it's a spur of the moment thing. I predict a positive response.

[Lindsay]

17. Maybe people are saving their money/energy

for the Repug convention in NY?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. LINDSY...I WILL SEE YOU THERE!

[maggrwaggr]

26. we're all too mesmerized by the train wreck

there's an old saying about staying out of the way of a good train wreck.

That's what's happening here. Bushco is going up in flames. Why distract from that?

Unless somebody's actively working on forcing him out of office early, I'm just gonna grab the popcorn and watch.