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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:29 AM Original message |
How do the DU Chicanos feel about Obama using 'Si se Puede' as a slogan? |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. . Forget it, I won't even bother. |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. Obama stole the AFL/CIO union slogan = it is a good slogan |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. more specifically I belive it was Chavez and the Farm Workers slogan |
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Purveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. Translate 'Si se Puedes' for the rest of us dolts and perhaps we can comment. |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yes we can |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. "Yes, we can." I think Howard Dean also used it in 2004. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
7. Does anyone use the term "Chicano" anymore? |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:50 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. yep, in the barrios Although the Pasty-faced ones forget things don't change once |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 02:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
25. That's what I was going to ask....Seems like it would be |
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knowledgeispwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
9. Actually... |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Back in the '70s it was the slogan of Chavez' Farm Workers Union. |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Farm Workers own it, just as FDR owns 'New Deal' |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 12:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. According to this Wiki article, it's the intellectual property of UFW |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. thats what I have been hinting at...it is now STOLEN! |
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knowledgeispwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Well, if that's the case... |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:44 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. see msg#18 below UFW sued and won...don't take up that legal career jsut yet. |
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knowledgeispwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:49 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I saw message #18... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Pass the man (or woman) a cigar |
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judaspriestess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
14. why can't he have just one universal slogan |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:24 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. tnx for the hdsup, jitter finger, 's' removed from can. |
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sgifford (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. The United Farm Workers used this slogan |
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judaspriestess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 02:08 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Hi sgifford |
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sgifford (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Don't take the solicitations personally |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
17. ! |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Obama probably ought to obtain a legal release to use this, UFW sued and won this case... |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:50 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. They didn't sue Howard Dean to my knowledge. |
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knowledgeispwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 01:52 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Probably because Dean didn't try to trademark the phrase |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-12-08 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
28. UFW is part of "Change to Win," which also includes the Commercial Food Workers |
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