Hi Greenbriar:
BIG effort to shut down the economy on Jan. 20 to protest *'s election. The MSM aren't going to cover the protest anyway even if 10 million people show up. So there's a big effort on to have a strike. That site
http://www.black-thursday.com/home.html has some good information and a fabulous poster at
http://www.black-thursday.com/thursdayflyer.pdf. "Not One Damn Dime Day" some are calling it and there are a few sites with that info. I'm really frustrated because DU says I can't post a new thread because I'm a newbie. I have been trying to get this really moving, emailing unions, etc. I had been an sending an email around for over a month. I know these post's aren't supposed to be too long, but I'll put part of it here.
PROTEST THE ILLEGAL INAUGURATION OF DUBYA
For 24 Hours SHUT DOWN THE U.S. ECONOMY
-- If you are an employee, take Thursday, January 20 off. Take a vacation day, a personal day, call in sick. I don't care. Just don't work. (Emergency workers excluded).
-- If you own a business, (and I realize this is a very big request), close down your business on January 20. Put a message on your voicemail letting anyone who calls know why you are closed. Put a sign in your window. Just do it!
-- If you have a website, take it down, and put up a page that says your business is closed because you are mourning the death of your country, the end of democracy and the US as we have known it, the stolen election and the illegal inauguration of bush!
-- If you have friends outside the US, tell them not to buy an american product, an american stock, conduct business with an american firm, nothing!
-- AND NO ONE HERE BUYS A THING! Not a bottle of water, a pay-per-view movie, a candy bar, a gallon of gas, a pack of cigarettes, nothing. Get organized and do it the day before.
While you are sitting home, pick up the phone and call the media and tell them what you are doing. (This is the ONLY thing you are allowed to spend money on.) Call your senators and representatives if you think it will do any good.
They wouldn't listen to us when we called and emailed and filed lawsuits. They thought that they were going to steal our country and our freedom, send us to war, put the profits in their pockets and then rub our faces in it by inaugurating bush? NO WAY!