Bad timing for the DC peace rally this Saturday

[Poiuyt]

With hurricane looking like it's going to come ashore Friday night or Saturday morning, I'm guessing that most of the news coverage will be focused on the Rita. You know that this time Bush will be front and center personally fighting the evil hurricane. I'll bet the rally doesn't get much more than a brief mention.

[krkaufman]

1. "Look at those silly peaceniks, only concerned about their pet cause..."

"... and ignoring the suffering on the Gulf Coast."

I can hear it now.

[electropop]

4. Crap, I totally hadn't thought of that!

Too late to print topical signage I assume... :-(

[mattclearing]

11. Actually, it's probably not too late.

I think we should do it.

[electropop]

16. Suggestions?

"Bush + Katrina = WMD"
"Culture of Life" - background is a floating body.
"Heck of Job, Brown-nose!" - same background

[theHandpuppet]

25. Someone here suggested "Make Levees, Not War"

There are all sorts of variations a person could make from that.

Any sign stressing that our country's resources (including troops) are going to Iraq rather than right here at home... for instance, a poster of a national guardsman in Iraq with the caption, "Where was she when she was needed here at home"? That sort of thing.

[kentuck]

33. Good one!

We need to tie these disasters together.

[electropop]

34. Excellent!

Short and loaded.

[mattclearing]

26. "Pray for Peace, and for Texas" n/t

[swimboy]

40. Sign--Bush, you're doing a heckuva job.

[htuttle]

31. The war is a 'pet cause'?

[krkaufman]

45. No, "anti-war protesting" is condescendingly framed as a "pet cause"....

... by chickenhawks and their ilk. The previous post was postulating what a wing-nut will say regarding the anti-war protests this weekend in DC, whilst Rita is bitch-slapping the TX/LA coast.

[damntexdem]

41. Yeah, why DID they schedule that rally when a hurricane was going to hit?

After all, they were able to schedule Camp Casey before Katrina hit.

[krkaufman]

43. chuckle. n/t

[Purveyor]

2. Unfortunately true... n/t

[goclark]

3. We should still MARCH on behalf of the VICTIMS in

the Hurricanes and the victims in Iraq.

GWB can not lead in any shape nor form.

Let's MARCH!!

[ClassWarrior]

7. Agreed. This is all about stopping the RW culture of death.

NGU.

[lectrobyte]

5. * front and center, count on it. He'll probably put the cowboy

facade cranked up to 11, too. More reason to kill your TV.

[VolcanoJen]

6. I'm inclined to agree with you.

The rally has been planned for months now, and there was no way to predict the horrible September weather this year.

I don't see the rally, even if it attracts thousands and thousands, getting much attention by the media at all. :-(

[kentuck]

8. Yep...you are probably correct....

They cannot have a rally and not mention the hurricane victims. They need to somehow tie the hurricanes and lack of response to the war in Iraq. Because we have our NG and our troops in a place they should not be, more of our own people are put at risk. They do need to tie the events together.

[VolcanoJen]

13. Yes. Something like this...

A huge sign...



I'm George W. Bush, And I Approved This Message.

[kentuck]

15. Exactly !

I hope the event is not lost on the war only...but the effects and costs of the war also..not just in money but in human costs too

[Atman]

9. In all fairness, they were only going to do break-ins anyway.

between remotes of their idiot reporters standing out in the storm saying "DON'T STAND OUT IN THE STORM! IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!"

God, how I'd love to see one of those dingbats decapitated by a flying sofa cushion or something.

[KansDem]

38. That reminds me of a scene from "The Day after Tomorrow"

God, how I'd love to see one of those dingbats decapitated by a flying sofa cushion or something.

A tornado hits Los Angeles and a FOXNews-type reporter is out on the street reporting on it when a large piece of what looks like heavy sheet metal is blown across the landscape and takes out the reporter like a large hand slapping an insect.

It put an end to the "Oh my God...!"-style of reporting depicted in this movie.

[DancingBear]

10. Gee, I guess I should stay home then

Not.

[katty]

12. bush&co have been getting a free ride from Hurricane 24/7 coverage

[nevergiveup]

14. Look at it this way

Everyone will be following this storm and if they just break away once in while for a 10 second update the numbers that will see it are far more than on a typical week-end. No one watches TV on Sat anyway but everyone will be following Rita. I am trying to look for a silver lining :shrug:

[Vincardog]

17. No the Corporate Controlled Media was going to ignore it anyway

It does not matter if they had to manufacture another run away bride.

[raccoon]

20. I think so too. They MIGHT'VE had some slight mention of

it, but not much. Hurricane or no hurricane.

They'd have thought up something else to focus on if Rita weren't around.

[warrens]

18. Not real good for Austin City Limits festival either

The coverage of the storms is doing just as much damage to the warmongers as heavy coverage of the protest would anyway.

[Skip Intro]

19. I dunno - bush's low approval has been news all thru this - the rally

could serve as a backdrop for the media's reporting on what America thinks lord awol.

possible?

[jillan]

21. I have thought about that, but out of respect for the victims.

Shit - here I am in the middle of the desert, and I am thinking about that too. Rita is suppose to hit Sat. This is bad timing.

Postpone for 1 week?
Impossible at this point.

[kentuck]

22. We need to connect the disasters...

The people dying in the hurricanes is not totally unconnected to our troops being in Iraq..

[jillan]

24. That;s the only way.

Start a new thread on it.
It needs to get discussed.

People can share ideas on new posters.

Sayings like
Why is their democracy more important than ours?

[deutsey]

23. All the money and resources diverted to Iraq has made us weaker at home

[Cha]

29. And IT Does!

There are all kinds of signs that could reflect the Current shit state of the union that the bushwa has propelled on the country and the world.

"MAKE LEEVEES NOT WAR!"

"Give Builders In New Orleans A Fair WAge!"

"PRIVATIZE THIS!"

[deutsey]

30. I like these, especially the "Make Levees, Not War" slogan

:thumbsup:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

36. Cut Back in Iraq

That was the leading choice in an online Newsweek poll today, asking how we should pay for the hurricane cleanup. When I voted, it was at 48%

It makes for a good slogan, too.

[Ganja Ninja]

27. It all depends on the reaction by the DC police and ...

whatever military they have assembled. If things are peaceful, quiet and dignified it will get some positive press. But I expect that Bush will have a few paid thugs try to make it look like things are out of control by vandalizing cars and property. Then they'll set the dogs and water cannons on the protesters. In short I'm betting on violence. Be careful out there please! And if you see someone vandalizing follow them and try to find out who they are. Get pics if possible.

[mattclearing]

28. You haven't been to these things before.

There were several at the start of the Iraq War, with 100,000+ people, and there was no problem. An occasional hovering helicopter, nothing more.

[Cha]

32. I was at the one in NYC on

Feb 15, 2003 and the people were peaceful enough for being herded like cattle until they began to break up the barriars and pass them over the tops of our heads. There were also pictures and reports of demonstrators being pinned by cops on horseback. So I think Sentinel Chicken's advice is Good!

[mattclearing]

35. DC has too much open space though. This thing is happening on the Mall.

The only barriers will be between the bands stage and the audience. It's just not that kind of protest.

Chief Ramsey only cares about Anti-Globalization protests...the anti-war activists are everywhere in DC. They practically live in Dupont Circle. They are considered peaceful and harmless.

[Cha]

42. Good to know..and

we were peaceful and harmless too..but thanks to bloomberg we weren't given a permit and had the Orange freakin' alert out. '

I can't believe New Yorkers are goin' put this Jerk in as mayor again.

On edit~ I'm just thinking the Feds had the Orange alert out and bloomberg just wouldn't give us a permit to march.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. Make it good timing. "Make Levee Not War!"

Investigate Floodgate!

The Ferengi Administration

Jabbar Gibson for Head of FEMA

Too Little Too Late

Leave No Child Behind, except in New Orleans

They Forgot to Color Code Katrina.

New Orleans: the third Gulf War.

Faith Based Disaster Planning

War starts with W

WhiteWash has two W's.

Our soldiers are stationed in the wrong gulf.

[bleedingheart]

44. You are one talented sign idea kinda person!!!

those are great ideas!!!!!

[understandinglife]

39. Respectfully, but totally disagree. Here's why ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4850281&mesg_id=4850500


Peace.

[DrZeeLit]

46. FUCK TV> I'm not marching for a Nielsen rating. I'm marching for PEACE.

I don't have t.v.
And I'm really tired, so tired, of televsion running everything in this country.

I don't give a rat's ass if the march is covered or not.
People will pay attention to what we stand for if they care, and if they'd prefer hurricane coverage and purient, voyeuristic glimpses into death and destruction, then so be it. I know, I know, some are watching because they have a stake in it. But when all is said and done, sitting on a couch watching won't faze mother nature, or change the outcome.

BUT, I am hoping that what we do and say and stand for will change the outcome -- of needless death and destruction that is manmade and CAN be changed.

I'm going. I'm marching.

[brettdale]

47. sure

The Hurricane may get a lot of the coverage, but if hundreds of thousands turn up for the march, and those hundreds and thousands then surround the white house in peaceful demonstrations, then the media will have to report it.