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- Liam76, on 10/10/2007, -71/+467How do you "strike" from hanging out on the internet in your parents basement?
- mbelleghem, on 10/10/2007, -84/+471Fantastic idea. At some point, mainstream, everyday Americans need to find a way to send a message to the rest of the world - something that will be picked up and shown on the nightly news in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Canada and so on. Something that Bush and co will be asked about. Something that will start to reclaim 9/11 from Rudy and his ilk.
Even if you need to call in sick - it costs you very little, but it has the opportunity to make a change. Done properly, it could also set the done for the Presidential race.
Sound far fetched? Look at how protest against the war in Vietnam unfolded. What's going on now is an order of magnitude worse than Vietnam, folks, for not only are you violating a nation full of innocent people - you're also getting collectively violated by your very own government in a manner that makes what Abner Louima got look like a high five in the playground. Seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ
You gotta start somewheres, gang. Start here. - Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -22/+289Oh boy
"I'm not going to school today, I'm on strike."
"Get in the car."
"Ok." - ftblstr2319, on 10/10/2007, -18/+260For the record, I'm not I'm my parents basement...upstairs is my command center
- TalkingBanana, on 10/10/2007, -18/+123No school? I'm in.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -22/+109The majority of the responses here illustrate exactly why the Bush Administration has gotten as far as it has. Congratulations, America.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -35/+122If we work together, we can affect change. If we are isolated, we will be unable to. It's our responsibility to change our government, and this is the best way I can think of to impact something. If anyone is good with graphics, I'd love a flyer I could print out and hand to people.
I don't have a website, I don't have anything to sell, I'm just an American who wants change, and knows I have to do something to get it. Thanks. - hambend, on 10/10/2007, -18/+91All Americans who read this, please help to make this happen. How many times have you watched as your country slips away and said "somebody should do something"? And just how many times have you let the moment pass without taking a stand?
Not this time. You have a little over a month to prepare, to spread the word as far as you can and get as many people to participate as you can. The media will not help you. Law enforcement may even try to stop you. But here, for perhaps the first time, is something you can do that could really turn your nation around.
Tell your friends, and tell them to tell theirs. Print flyers and post them absolutely anywhere and everywhere you can. Get out your soapbox, dust off your megaphone and take to the streets. Shout it from the rooftops. Organize viewings for any films or documentaries you think might motivate people to take part. This isn't going to happen by itself.
And when for the first time in a long time the government is reminded to whom they are ultimately responsible, you will be able to say you were a part of it. - CptCheerios, on 10/10/2007, -19/+86For all of you who say this is stupid, it will never work. You are the reason it won't work. The idea is that saying a small number will work is to get more people to do it.
Think of psychology. The reason why Executive power works is because people like you say oh it will never work. Of course it won't if you wont help. You can count me in, I'm actually a person who believes in mankind and tries to help, not one of the billions of mindless zombies who's most common conversation is "Hey hows it going" "Good You?" "pretty good" end conversation.
How do you think large gatherings of people such as wood stock happened? Because people said Ah it will never be huge why bother, or Hey lets go see this concert it might be good. - spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -7/+54how about a march, rally, or demonstration to go along with the strike instead of doing nothing.
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -3/+46you have GOT to be kidding, the newly elected congress has done JACK ***** the people have asked for.
- krazy9000, on 10/10/2007, -35/+78That has GOT to be the LAZIEST "strike" idea ever.
- fjc8, on 10/10/2007, -97/+139Just for this, I'm going to work overtime, spend lots of time studying, have a nice breakfast lunch and dinner, and buy stuff!
- brundlefly76, on 10/10/2007, -11/+51***** kids these days sitting in their basement on their computers posting anonymous calls for a national day off and playing MP3s of nickelback on their iPhones and pasting Jessica Alba jpgs on their MySpace page. Its like the Ferris Bueller school of social change. I mean, how ***** lazy can you guys get?
Hey I got an idea how about you have one of those 'flash mobs' with your cell phones where you dress up like Zombies and go to an Apple store?! Ohhh...that will show Cheney! A flash mob!
Or maybe you could put a peace sign jpg on your Facebook profile! - Yeah! I'll BLOG about it too.
NO ONE CARES if you take a day off - if you want to have a POLITICAL PROTEST, then have a ***** POLITICAL PROTEST - do you even remember what a ***** REAL political protest is - what a WAR protest is? Go watch some Vietnam-era protests. Do you realize how many of THOSE levels of protest we needed to have to get out of Vietnam? You Iraqi war generation havent even had ONE OF THOSE - NOTHING like that. You had some passaable ones when we originally went to war, but then you kinda lost interest, it was kind of like a fashion - hey we had our protest..
It involves actually putting on shoes and GETTING OUT OF YOUR HOUSE. I know its SCARY and REAL outside and has even been REALLY WARM lately but try not to be afraid.
Grow a pair you Gen Y pussies. - Lylepalooza, on 10/10/2007, -8/+46It isn't just people who offer the services that can cause an effect, it is the people who also use those services. A person on the net in their basement can still make the choice not to order a pizza delivery!
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -5/+41I'll spread the word in Canada, too. We support the troops, but not the war. We support our neighbors, but no their government.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -7/+42This is being organized by Ramsey Clark. They've been running constant advertisements in hundreds of major publications around the country using donated money. Its going to be a major march, with people coming from all around the country on buses and such. If you can't attend, (I can't either), they need donations urgently: http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=O3nkLhIb1oKB2lC9n135kg.
Anyway, we're both being buried, just trying to spread the word of possibly the largest demonstration yet. - addrake, on 10/10/2007, -55/+89Some toolbox on a goddam message board proposes a strike and it's ***** newsworthy? I propose we throw ducks at balloons! Spread the word!
- iliketoprogram, on 10/10/2007, -7/+40yeah, that's what the point is...
wake up. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -12/+45but we'll starve
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+41A strike isn't nearly as meaningful as a million man march on the white house lawn to show our displeasure of the elected officials. Definitely makes a better statement.
- Elephant789, on 10/10/2007, -5/+36For some reason I don't think the American people have it in them. If so things would have changed long ago.
Sure you will see a few people strike here and there but maybe not enough. I do hope I'm wrong but people back in the Vietnam days were a lot different. Nowadays they let the mainstream media think for them. - navitatl, on 10/10/2007, -21/+52We are the true patriots.
- iamscrewed2007, on 10/10/2007, -21/+52Mass US strike 1910... Fat Cats: Oh no, steel mills are shut down, we're screwed. (yes, they said screwed in 1910, it was later replaced by *****)
Mass US strike 2007... Fat Cats: Oh no, who is going to push those billions of papers today? Oh I know, India and China and Mexico and Korea. - lilbowwow, on 10/10/2007, -21/+51>>>>"What's going on now is an order of magnitude worse than Vietnam, folks,"
Vietnam War: US Casualties: ~60,000 dead, 2,000 missing, 300,000 wounded
Iraq War : US Casualties: ~3,500 dead, 4 missing, 27,000 wounded
>>>>not only are you violating a nation full of innocent people -
My Lai massacre
>>>>you're also getting collectively violated by your very own government
Nixon had troops in Cambodia and Laos without the order or knowledge of Congress.
Do you really need to invoke the Abner Louima rape? Give it a rest. I'm anti-Iraq War as anybody but get real man - johnn11238, on 10/10/2007, -64/+94Great idea! Let's all make a political statement by hurting our local businesses!!!
- neuralzen, on 10/10/2007, -42/+70A journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step! Or in this case, a single strike!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+33The rest of the world DOESN'T need to be shown! We already know!
The american people need to have the balls to stand up and be heard, rather than be herded! - UglieJosh, on 10/10/2007, -5/+31We are many, they are few. I have been sitting here, waiting for a time to make a stand. I can only pray to a god, that I don't even believe in, that THIS is the time. We can either be an insignificant group of radicals or it can be the movement that changed the world.
YOUR willingness to participate is what will make the difference.
I'll leave you with the words of Howard Beale (I think his words are more relevant today than they have ever been):
"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
"I'm as mad as hell,
and I'm not going to take this anymore!!" - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+33dude I'm in, where's a good place to buy a duck?
- Crim, on 10/10/2007, -5/+31You underestimate your parents. Don't spring this on them in the 5 minutes before you are meant to leave for school, instead talk to them tomorrow about what you plan to do and why. You will be surprised at how much they will support you and your ideals.
If you present your case well enough you may even convince them to stay home from work and join your protest. Parents are people too. - spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -5/+30works great when they control the voting machines, and don't follow through on what they campaigned on.
- FrankieB078, on 10/10/2007, -21/+46I just hope not only diggers but actual people can be serious about this for just once in our history.
- MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -9/+33Well, the rest of world doesn't just count the american bodies. We count the innocent Iraqi's too. The 150,000+ that are dead now. But hey, you do what you want to do...
- elfuego, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Well, here's the thing as I see it. Don't Buy Gas day doesn't work because you're just going to do it another time, as does Buy Nothing Day and all that stuff. Protest like the Iraq War Marches were ***** because they took place on a weekend, and what else were you going to do? Take a day, tell your boss before he grants amnesty and lets everyone have it off... stand up and make a difference. It's not just the war, and people who say it is are dooming this to a quick death. It's about the war, it's about the trade deficit, it's about the busted health care system, it's about outsourcing jobs, it's about an administration that lies and an opposition congress that gives them a free pass, it's about CEOs making more in a day then most employees make in a year, it's about all the times when your government, business, or both ***** over you, your family, and your friends, because they were so focused on whether or not they could, that they never took a second to ask if they should.
Somewhere along the way, government became something that most of us dislike and oppose, and rather than do something to make our dissent heard, we sit back down because it's easy, and things are good enough. That kind of complacency is what got the world into its current mess. A nation that isn't willing to fight to get its voice heard deserves to be ignored by the higher-ups.
Take a day. Make a difference. Hit the streets. - imgstacke, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Here is a flyer that can be printed to spread the word - 4"x6" @ 300dpi
http://911blogger.com/files/GENERALSTRIKE-9-11-07.jpg - tidu, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28If I saw a million people walking down the street protesting Bush, that would have 100 times a greater affect on me than someone of CNN blathering about *****.
The moment people see others finally losing their complacency and start to do something, even if it's a march, more will join.
Are you mad as hell? - domomike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Who dugg this guy down? It may suck to look at it that way but he's right. Americans don't have it in them. I notice, growing up in California, that there are a bunch of clueless idiots. If there was a draft like Vietnam... Then sure there'd be massive protesting. But the average person is too dumb to understand the slightly more complex effects of this stupid war.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -25/+45Heh heh, you're all whupped. "oh no, I can't strike! Oh no, the small businesses! oh no, they won't care! Oh! Oh!" ***** pussies.
- iliketoprogram, on 10/10/2007, -13/+33if you can mess up your education by doing this,
maybe you need a tutor..
universities were the hotbed of dissent, last time. they made, since then, a concerted effort to keep the kids thinking that they are jaded, and so... unwilling to fight..
oi...
you don't deserve your freedom. - wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -13/+33I got you all beat -- that's everyday for, I, the "stay-at-home college student".
- MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -5/+24"do you just look for ways to belittle other"
Welcome to Digg... - Shirleycakes, on 10/10/2007, -14/+33I am a fan of his platform as well but the Fanboy crap has got to stop. You can't read a single political news post on this site that doesn't have a shameless Ron Paul plug. Cut it out.
- uberkling, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23Translation: Mum's made dinner and you're on your laptop.
- slipgrid, on 10/10/2007, -4/+229/11 was used to justify the attack.
- kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -10/+28Any chance of running multiple simultaneous ones around the country, I would love to attend but unfortunately am not in DC.
- imgstacke, on 10/10/2007, -8/+25It's not just one group of people that are calling for action - this is open to Everyone, every individual, every Anti-War Group, every Impeachment Group, everyone. We are The People.
We have been conditioned to be apathetic, well its time to ignore these defeatists and take action. - pixelguru, on 10/10/2007, -20/+37I'm in.
- RuffRidr, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Um, no that is not what Obama proposed. Obama proposed we invade yet another sovereign country. One which up until that point has been our ally, even if tentatively. One that has nuclear weapons. One that has a not so stable government, that could fall to Islamic Fundamentalism should we decide to invade. You'd have to be a total idiot to invade Pakistan without them knowing. Hell, even Bush isn't that stupid.
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