Wear red on Fridays -m

[gollygee]

I apologize if this has been posted before. I don't know if the story is true, but I think it would be cool if this caught on. I hope I'm not breaking any board etiquitte by posting something I got in a forwarded email?

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My name is Nadia Jensen and I have an idea for a quiet revolution. Please take 5 minutes to read my email and then help me if you can: Here's some history behind this idea: When Norway was occupied by Germany in 1940, Norwegian women began to knit RED caps for children as a way of letting everyone know that they did not like what was happening in their country, that they didn't like having their freedom taken away by the Nazis. My great aunt, Karin Knudson Myrstad, was one of the women who knit red caps for her children and others. Similarly, in Denmark, women knit red-white-and blue caps (colors of the Allies) for the very same reason. The result was that whenever Norwegians and Danes left their homes --to go to the store, to work, etc, they could see that THE MAJORITY opposed what was going on in their country. As you know, both countries organized effective Resistance efforts and changed history -- everything that happened began simply by wearing red!!!! (or the colors of the Allies, in Denmark).

I believe, as many of us do, that at the very heart of our democracy is our right to oppose certain policies of our government. Increasingly, our Government is redefining "freedom" in ways that make too many Americans perceive that it is risky to oppose his policies -- and, in particular, current inroads about individual freedoms and policies in the U.S. and abroad. However, many of us DO oppose what our government is doing to individual rights--and I have an idea that will allow all of us to recognize each other very easily so we can see that WE ARE THE MAJORITY.

SO... I have been thinking that it's time to take action in a way that is effective and easy for all of us to do: Just wear red every Friday between now and election day. Wear a little or a lot-- just be sure that when you leave your house to go about your day -- to work, to school, to the store, to the gas station, wherever you go in your daily routine -- that everyone who sees you will see that you are wearing red because you believe in freedom and you don't agree with our current administration's policies at home and abroad.

I'm really certain that we'll see that lots of us wearing red for freedom -- because WE ARE THE MAJORITY. We just need a way to show each other who we are!!!

[gollygee]

1. OK so my husband just told me he thinks -m

this could be a plot by Republicans to get Democrats wearing red . . . Has anyone else heard this story and know the source of this?

[SoFlaJet]

3. how bout

adding some whit and blue with that?Maybe if it IS a a RW tactic(to portray us as Commie liberals)we turn it on them.They ain't as smart as they think they are and we ain't as dumb either(excuse the ain't)

[stellanoir]

2. any color but RED. . .

Repukes have stolen that color a la "red states".

My personal preference would be purple (an amalgam) to suggest the end of divisiveness of red versus blue states but that would never fly and has other inferences.

Black to mourn our democracy might be best.