OpRA (pronounced Oprah) Operation: RED ALERT!

[juliagoolia]

It worked for Thomas Paine. It works on the internet. Its news posted to community locations. On the intenet, we call it a community blogs or yahoo/google groups. In the community where people that are not online, and who are not news hounds and political junkies we call it the local bulletin board where ever it may be.

The people we are trying to reach are the ones that vote for someone because the name has a nice ring to it. Or they are GOP because so n so is, or because thats all they hear on the radio. We are taking the BLOG to them so we can take back RED COUNTIES

We call it grocery store blogging.

Welcome to Operation Red Alert a News bulletin that is brief and punchy that will be put together weekly for people who have printers, thumbtacks and "gumption" to post in your local areas. Americans for Common Sense is putting these out. We are a newly forming group that has the single purpose of taking important messages to the public in a manner in which those that do not always catch the news, or pay much attention to political news will see some of it.
Sign up here
http://aethern.blogspot.com/2004/11/operation-red-alert.html

Brief messages like this that come in nice pdf or rtf FLYERS:
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Three Years and Two Wars no intelligence reform

Three years after 9/11 some senators said Sunday that it is doubtful congress will pass the intelligence reform bill when members return for two days in December. Other sentators indicated the progress of the bill would more likely be determined by the importance President Bush and Vice President Cheney place on it by lobbying for its passage. The reform was recommended by the now famous 9/11 commission which was promoted by survivors of the tragedy.

--Americans for Common Sense--

No End in Sight for War Weary soldiers

Soldiers are only supposed to be deployed once every four years, but almost a third of US military called to war in Afghanistan and Iraq have served multiple extended tours. The Army National Guard has seen a 30 percent decrease in people signing up. Many soldiers are talking of leaving instead of re-enlisting. Weekend soldiers from the guard and reserve who left jobs and family are deployed more often than full time soldiers.

--Americans for Common Sense--

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Each week you will get a new FLYER in either PDF or Regular RTF text format to print out and post. All you have to do is sign up to get them. Sounds easy? YUP.. it is.

I posted some in three locations in RURAL TX. east of austin. Two of them are on market bulletin boards and one is in teeny tiny webberville in the laundromat.. That was 10 DAYS AGO. They are still there. The idea was born and its spreading. Now I will get news items to post weekly. My audience will start to expect my little news alerts. Sometimes this is about as much news as some folks want or have time for.

You can participate in the creation of the messages as well. Please read how these messages are being selected here.

http://www.dailykos.com/user/Aethern If this continues to grow it could eventually move to another location. It was started a week ago and we have about 150 members signed up that are going to be positng in RED RURAL counties! YIPEE>>>> Where can you post news?

[stevedeshazer]

1. I "signed" up

:kick:

I think it's a great idea!