Announcing A Day of Mass Resistance:

[blindpig]

OCTOBER 5, 2006

BRING THIS TO A HALT!

YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.

YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

YOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.

YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

People look at all this and think of Hitler - and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come.

We must act now; the future is in the balance.

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this. There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight. There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it. And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history. Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop. The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined.

The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

http://www.worldcantwait.org/

Enough is enough. Do something.

[blm]

1. Lift the Gadsden Flag and REALLY SCARE KING GEORGE with its message.

Don't Tread on Me = NO KING GEORGE

Don't Tread on Me = FOCK YOU KING GEORGE

A gift to the new revolutionaries from the late Michael O'Donoghue (and me)

Don't Tread on Me

In some old dusty attic
Undisturbed for many years
There lies a tattered banner
That is stained with blood and tears
By men who knew that freedom
Must be fought for by the free
And died to save a ragged flag
That said Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on Me
I'm a rattlesnake with
Diamonds down my back
When other men retreat
That's just the time that I attack
Because a dream that's worth defending
Is a dream that's bound to be
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Two hundred years of glory
And the glory's just begun
We may have lost some battles
But these colors never run
We drew the line at Valley Forge
We held at Bunker Hill
The cannon smoke is lifting
I can see that banner still

Don't Tread on me
I'm a mountain lion
And courage is my name
I tamed a wild country
But I'm wild just the same
And from that rocky Boston harbor
To the California Sea
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

This nation isn't what we've done
It's what we've got to do
Remember that United States
Can only start with you
We better be recalling
What this country's all about
And rally round that ragged flag
And hear the people shout
Don't Tread on Me
I'm a grizzly bear
That's not afraid to bite
I don't look for trouble
But when trouble comes I fight
Because my daddy taught me freedom
Has no lifetime guarantee
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

The winds of change are blowing
And they're sure to shake this land
We stood all we can take
And now it's time to take a stand
Let's tell the men who make the laws
In Washington D.C.
Unfurl again
That ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on me
I'm an eagle
Who is clawing at the sky
I want that banner waving up
Where eagles dare to fly
And blazing in the sunlight
So that friend and foe can see
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on us
We're Americans
And we were born to lead
Our skin is every color
And our faith is every creed
We are 300 million people
But on one thing we agree
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

[blindpig]

4. Beautiful, thank you! n/t

[meganmonkey]

2. There are already over 100 protests planned

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2418&_event=14

I'll probably be in Detroit (I may try to go to Chicago)

I hope to see EVERYONE there.

:patriot:

[mandyky]

3. Any in Lexington, KY?

If it is on a weekend, I could go!

[meganmonkey]

6. It is on October 5, next Thursday

The whole point is that this is a STRIKE. We need to start to disrupt things to get any coverage and have any impact.

Take the day off work/school, call in sick, whatever you need to do.

Get into the streets.

Nothing in Kentucky listed yet, but the list is getting updated constantly - check the link in my above post for updates. And there is info on how to start planning an event for your community if there isn't one already.

What are waiting for? How bad must it get before we get out of our comfort zones and get into the streets?

:patriot:

[lonestarnot]

19. Thanks Meaganmonkey!

[Maraya1969]

13. I agree with MegaMonkey. Take the day off. It will be history

in the making. We need to mobilize like people in other countries who jam the streets with their numbers.

Or think about it like this: You could be saving a soldier's life.

[A wise Man]

5. I think it is

time for protest with arms. Bush, the congress and senate and the media will pay no attention to words nor complaints of equal and Constitutional rights. It is "TIME FOR A REVOLTUTION ON THOSE IN POWER".

[meganmonkey]

8. I hope it doesn't come to that

it may, someday, but it will have to get much, much worse before it does.

I, for one, would much prefer to try this first - a real general strike - shut everything down - people in the streets, all across teh country.

It won't work if we don't do it.

If we say 'I won't go because it won't work', then we have created a self-fulfilling prophecy, have we not?

Solidarity!

:patriot:

[A wise Man]

10. The problem is a lot

more serious than we all think. This Bill we put all our military in more horrific danger than any of us can imagine. It would give any adversary in war the right to torture without oversite unlimited torture to any captive military personal. This Bill will also give Bush the right to torture without prosecution for war crimes.Our so call congress has ignored the american people long enough. I say it is time to let them know that the first line of the Constitution says "We THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES", not we the congress.

[meganmonkey]

16. I agree that this is absolutely dire

What I meant by 'get much worse' was more a reference to more Americans feeling it personally. More Americans losing loved ones in war, losing their houses, their jobs, etc. Too many are too comfortable. They like the idea of working to stop the travesties being done in our name and with our tax dollars, but they have no connection to the reality of it. It is still abstract.

I expect to be marching next week with a lot of blue-collar working people, a lot of immigrants, a lot of socialists, a lot of the 30% of America who doens't affiliate with a party and doesn't often vote (because for them there is no choice)..I certainly don't expect to be surrounded by Dem party activists, that's for damn sure. But man, would i love to be wrong about that.

:patriot:

[Raffi Ella]

7. K&R

You mad?You feel helpless?THIS is something we can do!Together we can do what the Germans look back and wish they'd done!Before it was too late!





Spread the word. :kick:

[Warren Stupidity]

9. I'm in.

This is all we have left folks. There is no other recourse than resistance in the streets.

[Skelington]

11. Womens rights all over the world to have an abortion ?

Put that on a campaign poster. I can't help but read your post as if in the voice of the Blank Panther soldier from "Forrest Gump".

[Swamp Rat]

24. So, advocating women's rights is tantamount to being a Black Panther?

[Skelington]

27. No,

I didn't say that, I watched "Forrest Gump" the other night, and the manner in which the BLANK PANTHER was informing Gump stuck in my head, and when I read this thread it reminded me of that, it read the same way.

You don't have a comment regarding abortion rights for women on a re-election poster?

Go watch the movie, and you will agree it wasn't an insult, just a comment, and a damn good movie to boot.

[mom cat]

12. And today, Resist the Torture Bill ... Call fax, e-mail Sen Reid and

your own asnwell as Chaffe. Snowe, and Collins. This treasonous legislation must not pass!
Resistance Forever! ... and Today Too!

[blindpig]

14. An appropriate question:

Which Side are You on?

Come all you good workers,
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell.

CHORUS:
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My dady was a miner,
And I'm a miner's son,
And I'll stick with the union
'Til every battle's won.

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there.
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J. H. Blair.

Oh workers can you stand it?
Oh tell me how you can?
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Don't scab for the bosses,
Don't listen to their lies.
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize.

Some may see this as a bit out of context, I hope you get my drift.

[meganmonkey]

15. Anyone who doesn't see the relevance

is part of the problem.

See you in the streets!

:patriot:

[A wise Man]

20. Me again

I agree with you and you agree with me. Yet we at DU and all common sense thinking human beings can see that if this country, "The United States of America" continue on the path of distruction that we are on, will lead us to oblivion just as those prior to the Roman such as Alexander, Genhis Khann,Nepoleon and Hitler.We are and will be at the mercy of these evil self acclaim saviors of a one sided humanitarian icons of all of us. "Sorry to get carried away".

[meganmonkey]

22. Quite frankly

I don't think most people at DU realize how bad it is, otherwise there would be a lot less "Call Your Senator! Vote Dem in November!" posts and a lot more "Resist! Get in the Streets! Occupy Gov't Buildings!" posts.

Which is why I don't post here much anymore (with this event being the current exception - I have posted more today than in the last few weeks combined). I don't expect a lot of DUers will get in the streets next Thursday.
:shrug:

[blindpig]

17. And now, a word from Steppenwolf:

(Monster)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
'Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin'

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster


An oldie but a goodie. Sing it!

[lonestarnot]

18. In K&R

[blindpig]

21. Maybe you'll listen to this guy:

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands now, deserves the thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

It ain't no big stretch, people. Let's not let it get to that point.

[blindpig]

23. How about Samuel Rutherford?

Arg. 3: There is not a stricter obligation moral betwixt king and people than betwixt parents and children, master and servant, patron and clients, husband and wife, the lord and the vassal, between the pilot of a ship and the passengers, the physician and the sick, the doctor and the scholars, but the law granteth, (l. Minime 35, de Relig. et sumpt. funer,) if these betray their trust commited to them, they may be resisted: if the father turn distracted, and arise to kill his sons may violently apprehend him, and bind his hands, and spoil him of his weapons; for in that he is not a father......The servant may resist the master if he attempts unjustly kill him, so may the wife do to the husband; if the pilot should wilfully run the ship on a rock to destroy himself and his passengers, they might violently thrust him from the helm. Every tyrant is a furious man, and is morally distracted, as Althusius said, Polit. c. 28, n. 30, and seq.

[blindpig]

25. This will look a lot better after the torture bill is passed. n/t

[meganmonkey]

26. You'd think

Time will tell.

:hi:

[meganmonkey]

28. Do I have to

kick this again?

YES.

Does EVERYONE need to get out of their comfort zones and call in sick next Thursday for this to be effective?

YES.

If this event fails, it is BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO STILL THINKG EMAILING THEIR SENATORS IS GOING TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY!

Do you all not realize how bad it is yet?

Do you need a tank rolling down your street or a family member locked in indefinite detention with now rights to make you understand?

Or are you going to be like the slow-boiling frog who doesn't realize how hot the water is until it's too late?

GUESS WHAT? IT IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO TOO LATE!

[BelgianMadCow]

30. The time is now! kick

[blindpig]

29. Time's a wastin'!

There Is No Time

This is no time for Celebration
this is no time for Shaking Hands
This is no time for Backslapping
this is no time for Marching Bands

This is no time for Optimism
this is no time for Endless Thought
This is no time for my country Right or Wrong
remember what that brought

There is no time
there is no time
There is no time
there is no time

This is no time for Congratulations
this is no time to Turn Your Back
This is no time for Circumlocution
this is no time for Learned Speech

This is no time to Count Your Blessings
this is no time for Private Gain
This is the time to Put Up or Shut Up
it won't come back this way again

There is no time
there is no time
There is no time
there is no time

This is no time to Swallow Anger
this is no time to Ignore Hate
This is no time to be Acting Frivolous
because the time is getting late

This is no time for Private Vendettas
this is no time to not know who you are
Self knowledge is a dangerous thing
the freedom of who you are

This is no time to Ignore Warnings
this is no time to Clear the Plate
Let's not be sorry after the fact
and let the past become out fate

There is no time
there is no time
There is no time
there is no time

This is no time to turn away and drink
or smoke some vials of crack
This is a time to gather force
and take dead aim and Attack

This is no time for Celebration
this is no time for Saluting Flags
This is no time for Inner Searchings
the future is at hand

This is no time for Phony Rhetoric
this is no time for Political Speech
This is a time for Action
because the future's Within Reach

This is the time
this is the time
This is the time
because there is no time

There is no time
there is no time
There is no time
there is no time

Lou Reed

[Raffi Ella]

31. Now's the time

THE TIME IS NOW.


:kick:

[meganmonkey]

32. Is there some fucking reason

so few of us are even KICKING this fucking thread?

Are you all in total fucking denial?

:cry:

[meganmonkey]

33. I guess so

G'night all.

Peace and solidarity :patriot:

[blindpig]

34. wonderin'

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

Chorus (2x)

Just wonderin' what it's gonna take................
Take it back people, take it back.

[Raffi Ella]

35. !! Kick !!

Democracy is not a spectator Sport y'all...

:kick:

[blindpig]

36. The Animals speak.

Sheep:

What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream.

Pigs:

Hey you, Whitehouse,
Ha ha charade you are.
You house proud town mouse,
Ha ha charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street.
You're nearly a real treat,
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
.....! .....! .....! .....!
You gotta stem the evil tide,
And keep it all on the inside.
Mary you're nearly a treat,
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry.

Dogs:

And when you lose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone.
And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw
around.
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone,
Dragged down by the stone.



just sayin'

[blindpig]

37. Recognise this?

I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes
don't look into mine.
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building
burned.
I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime
turned Slowly into autumn.

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

Borrow from the best, I say.}(

[blindpig]

38. Oh, yes it can

It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times

But I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here

Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere
in Kansas . . .
(Kansas . . . Kansas . . . Kansas . . . Kansas . . . )
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas, la la la)
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas)
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota . .
.
(Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi
Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi . . . )
(Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota,
Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota)
Who could imagine . . .

Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Washington, D.C.
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
(AC/DC do-do-do-dun, AC/DC
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, AC/DC)
But it can't happen here
Oh baby, it can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Oh baby, it can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can't happen here
Everybody's safe and it can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
No freaks for us
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can't happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
(No, no, it won't happen here)
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
I'm telling you it can't
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It won't happen here
Bop-bop-ditty-bop
(I'm not worried at all, I'm not worried at all)
Ditty-bop-bop-bop
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
(No no no)
You're safe, baby
(No no no)
You just cook a tv dinner
(No no no)
And you make it
Bop bop bop
(No no no)
Oh, we're gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
(No no no no no no no!)
Oh, get a tv dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!
(No no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything's cool)

I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool

And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But . . .

Suzy . . .
Yes yes, oh yes-I've always felt that
Yes, I agree man, it really makes it . . . yeah . . .
It's a real THING, man, it really makes it

FZ: Suzy, you just got to town, and we've been . . . we've been
very interested in your development
Suzy: Forget it!

Hmmmmmmmmm
(It can't happen here)

Frank Zappa