Bush Blackout

[elare]

http://www.bushblackout.com/

This site provides graphics and suggestions to "black out" your website on Jan 20th to protest the inauguration.

[KaliTracy]

1. Gentle caution -- if you silence yourselves, you are doing what they

want -- even though the graphics -- which are wonderful, and somewhat speak about the problem -- they have the potential to turn off everyday people who have no inkling of the problems that the election had. You have about 10 seconds (or less) to draw a person into your website -- if they don't agree or understand the message, they may never come back. If you have a commerce site -- this could be detrimental to you.

An option is to use the same graphics -- but shrink them down and link them to one of your favorite Information sites so they click for more info if they choose. Or something like this (I created it very quickly, the text could be changed...)
with the image linked to your favorite information site.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. This is great!!!

May I steal it for my site?

[KaliTracy]

7. yep. that's what it's for! *smile*

:)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. Thank you very much

:yourock:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Completely backwards

More noise than even on Thursday. HUGE noise. Screaming masses. Massive protests.

Remember the worldwide protests of our invasion of Iraq?

Like that.

I'm planning to go nuts on my personal website, and I'd encourage everyone else to do the same. Only louder.

[rust1d]

5. I like it - I'm In

Love this picture!

[intheflow]

4. This is totally the wrong approach.

"Your silence will not protect you." -- Audre Lourde



04J20 is a day to blast people with real-time information.

[Pooka Fey]

6. We should dress completely in black on 1/20, A Natl. Day of Mourning.

[KaliTracy]

8. what if you already dress in black the majority of the time *grin*

O8)

[Pooka Fey]

9. You'll blend in that day. WE HOPE. :-)

[mod mom]

12. even my children 7 & 8 will don only black!

[tinonedown]

10. For heavens sakes no!

I will be spending that day on an e-mail campaign, and if it's one thing I need is resources from websites that expose election fraud. Addresses, links, etc. The only websites that would participate in a blackout are the sites I need to use! Maybe I'm being selfish.

[snot]

13. I like the ideas in this thread--esp., using our sites to SPEAK

[Melissa G]

14. kick

[Imagevision]

15. Hey baby! -- it's a flat out Dictatorship now... Bush- Hitler the same.