CALL FOR WRITERS - professional experience not required

[LunaC]

THE WHISPERING CAMPAIGN is coalescing into a group effort and we need your help.....

The Whispering Campaign is an opportunity to become ACTIVELY involved in waking up the American public without drawing attention to yourself. This is a game of Political "Gossip" where the story of our Government's deception and betrayal gets passed from one villager to another until the jungle drums of discontent, rage and fury become a never-ending cacophony in the background that the media can't ignore. Anyone can play. The rules are simple: make ten copies of the ooriginal post and leave it in a public place where someone else will find it and read it. Ideal locations for maximum exposure include book stores, copy shops, libraries and train stations. Buses, taxis, laundromats, and check-out lines at the grocery store. Hair salons, rest rooms, gas stations and convenience stores. Anywhere you happen to be will work just fine. If you do this every week from now until November, we can start the "buzz" that ends the Bush Administration......

We plan on establishing a web site of various topics for distribution. If you've written a piece for DU that deserves a wider audience, if there's an "issue" from our growing list you'd like to develop and write about or if there's a topic you'd like to suggest. please weigh in here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1046433

And if you just want to have some fun with the mischief of "Dropaganda", we want to know you're on board so let us know that too!

If the media won't get the Truth out there, then WE will!

[jokerman93]

1. We'll have a modest web page this week

We'll have a modest web page this week and should start producing flyers by next week. Anyone who has a pet issue, please start thinking about writing a short (under 300 words) fact sheet with sources, quotes, links, even photos if you have them.

I'll be coming up with a simple boilerplate single sheet flyer (3 fold maybe) and then we'll start publishing your copy.

Just to warn you, there will be a copy edit process, but I will respect your work and consult with you on any changes I feel strongly about.

Once I figure out the styles for the flyer, I'll publish some more specific requirements for writing about your pet issues.

I look forward to moving ahead on this. Lots of folks I know are feeling lately like they need to DO something. Well maybe this is a project you can get involved with!

:hi:

[jokerman93]

2. Web Page -- Something to start with

http://home.comcast.net/~mickr24/DUsatellite/whisper.htm

This is temporary. I'll be creating a new account just for Whisper web page soon, so consider this address temporary.

[lapauvre]

3. I will be on board

Will wait until it starts happening. Ha ha. I don't know if I can STOP at 300 words.

[jokerman93]

5. Hi Lupauvre

Nice to meet you. Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I was in a flurry of getting things done triage style. By the way, I like your nick. Does it mean what it looks like it means?

:hi:

[boobooday]

4. This is not a whisper, but the purpose is the same.

It's a FIGHT SONG for progressives, a plea to visualize a world without BUSH.

www.wgoeshome.com

Music for all to share. We need to whisper AND to make noise!

Citizen

[jokerman93]

6. Nice!

When W. Goes Home
Lyrics by Jeanette Castillo
Music by Donald Fagen & Walter Becker
(with all due admiration and apologies)

We’re gonna smack down the corporate looters
When W goes home
We’re gonna whup ass on the polluters
When W goes home to stay
We’ll breathe a sigh of relief
How long can one man fake it?
Shoots off his mouth ‘til we have no friends
How long we gonna take it?
Til W goes home

When W goes home
So cool
Say goodbye to that sorry fool
He’s a damn shame
A big liar
He plays like a cowboy while the world’s on fire

Ask him to help the needy
He’ll always say no, no
Ask him to pay the greedy
He’ll have them all down to stay at Crawford
Sell them your dreams
Sit down, shut up, and take it
Or get out the vote and your rights defend
We might have a chance to make it
If W goes home.

When W goes home
So glad
The worst president we ever had
He’s a damn shame
A big liar
He plays like he’s Jesus while the world’s on fire

When W goes home
So cool
Put an end to his reign of fools
He’s a damn shame
A big liar
He plays like a hero but he’s bout to get fired!

[Sugarbleus]

7. Dropaganda is a FABULOUS idea!

Why didn't I think of that...lol

I've been using my van's bumpers to tell a tale, but leaving written material is WAY BETTER. Brilliant!

[SixShooter]

8. Very good idea

I agree with the previous poster!

[johnny_red]

9. .:.

i think this message is worthy of wider distribution, but i also think it works better in hypertext.

anyway, feel more than free to use it as you will.

[lapauvre]

10. For me, the easiest target

Is Walmart. I am, for economic reasons, required to shop there. The treatment by employees, as well as my personal acquaintance with some Walmart employees, tell me every bad thing they say about them is true.

Sam is spinning in his grave. Sam said, promised, that it would be made in the USA, if it could be found. His heirs are not living up to it..

And I haven't done all the research yet, but I will, to find the sites that indicate validity or invalidity about Walmart taking out life insurance policies on those elderlies they are so "kindly" hiring, about their overworking of their employees, their underpaying of their employees, and last, but not entirely least, their possible interest in the destruction of K-Mart...which, for those of you who might like conspiracy theories, that there woman whose name I can't remember....Martha Stewart?

So, I am going to buy a 500 page packet, from walmart, and a black ribbon for my printer and print out about a hundred pages and leave it all over the place at my local walmart.

And I am going to the hospital I go to and drop off a hundred pages explaining that Medicare and Medicaid people do not receive a dime from taxpayers. The doctors get it all.

And, another one hundred pages are going to the Pharmacies, to explain that drug companies get the money, not the people who get the medicine.

And another hundred to laundromats, under the overpasses, outside of shelters, explaining that the taxpayer's money does not go to the poor but to the landlord.

And what's left, if any (if not, I will buy more from my limited funds) will go to instruct that the walmart shoppers, the Medicare Medicaid patients, those who need drugs, those who are homeless, will get the message.

YOU are NOT the problem. GREED IS THE PROBLEM.

At the bottom of all these, is a FOUR sentence message. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REGISTER AND VOTE. YOUR VOTE WILL MATTER. THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM.

Haven't thought it through about the unemployment office, but maybe one of you bright folks can come up with an idea.

Then, I am going to buy another 500 pages and another ribbon, and I am going for the churches. I am going to go for the right wing controllers who ate the republican party in answer to all of the right wing crap I have saved that they have deposited in my mail, my email, my windshield and up my nose. And 500 pages won't be enough, and I may be arrested, but, they are going to get it back.

It's a great idea. Do this thing. All of you.