PERFECT opportunity to fight back. In follow up to my featured journal post. let's fight back

[beforeyoureyes]

Just two days ago, I wrote a long post about how we need to fight the corporations instead of playing the endless game of corporate one party ping pong and lo and behold.

Here comes the PERFECT opportunity to fight back....

As we all know by now, Keith Olberman was suspended indefinitely without pay from MSNBC, for a made up reason, in an effort to silence one of the few voices of truth in the corporate MSM. Keith is not perfect but he is a decent man and he has done an amazing job of providing real news coverage of many important issues, especially considering the corporate system in which he is employed.

Michael Moore was immediately on it with a petition for everyone to shut off MSNBC, if Olberman isn't immediately restored to his position.

Thank you Michael, but this does not go nearly far enough.

You want to fight back against the corporate mainstream media, you need to do more then demand they return one of the few token voices of sanity on the air to his post.

No. This is WAR people. And, the ONLY ONLY ONLY thing that the corporate thugs understand is impact to their profit supply which is their god and ruler.

So, let's hit them with an organized campaign to hit them where it hurts.

Let's start a campaign to cancel our cable tv and satellite subscriptions and stop paying the fuckers to LIE to us and manipulate us and CONTROL us.

And, let's make the reason CRYSTAL CLEAR.

Fuck the Corporate Media Campaign. Fuck the Corporate Propaganda Machine. I am sure we can all think of a very catchy title.

How much profit loss will they experience if we can get 100,000....500,000....1,000,0000 people to stop paying money to support the mega-conglomerations in profiting off our addiction to the tube.

This is a TINY sacrifice folks, in the scheme of things. It is nothing when we think of the sacrifices of the great leaders and peace makers in American history.

Really, what would it take to throw up a website and unite here and on Daily Kos and on firedog and on the Amy Goodman show and michaelmoore.com? What would it take to have a few hundred...few thousand of us do home videos to feature on the site and use this campaign as an opening shot to the corporations to let them know ENOUGH is ENOUGH? The fight is here and this is small potatoes to what the PEOPLE will do to stop the madness of the corporate rule that is destroying our country, our globe, our lives, our childrens' futures.....

Every chance...every opportunity...every way shape and form...

take their money away...take their power away...

Don't think it can be done. I think it can. I think people desperately NEED a outlet that provides structured leadership to fight back against the criminal corporate rule....

So let's start.

I am putting this post out to you, and I will do what I can with the limited resources I have to find a way to get it rolling if I see the support to join in and fight...

I am ready. This is just a first tiny step. But, it is a place to start. It is a place to deny them money and control, and if we can get every true progressive on board, we could have the numbers to make a real impact.

We be many and they be few. Let's show them the power of numbers.

My original post can be read here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9469996

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. MSNBC and the big corps have just disturbed a hornets nest

yes we sting!

[beforeyoureyes]

2. Sting them incessantly and consistently...

[beforeyoureyes]

3. Really? This thread is going to drop into nothingness?

Is giving up television that big of a deal?

If we can't do this, we might as well just call it a day!

[Poboy]

9. Patience grasshopper. It is appreciated, but give it a bit.

We will be here.

[Greyhound]

4. K&R, but I cut off the satellite years ago. n/t

[hfojvt]

5. I think it is a good idea, but too easy for me

I already don't have cable. The danger is that you may not even get 500 people to give up cable, any more than you can get people to stop funding the tobacco companies.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. The M$M is the monster that needs to be destroyed...nt

[Doremus]

7. K&R

[Poboy]

8. The Power of the Boycott - Max Keiser on Economics 101

The Power of the Boycott - Max Keiser on Economics 101

Max Keiser joins us to talk about Karmabanque, a way to use the leverage of the hedge funds to turn Wall Street against the multinationals. We discuss the Coke boycott and the power of strategic activism.

VIDEO-
http://vodpod.com/watch/4026038-the-power-of-the-boycott-max-keiser-on-economics-101

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He explains it simply and how effective this strategy might be. The powers are too big to fight head-on, so this is a financial jujitsu of sorts.

Here is a direct link to the site itself that he talks about in the video-
http://www.karmabanque.com /

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Background/past as example-


Boycott Coca Cola

The campaign tried to help activists, environmentalists, etc. expand the public domain by first cleaning up the toxic slick in financial markets. The right wing tried to shut this campaign down, of course, by smearing it in the press; falsely accusing us of instigating market manipulation. But they ended up with egg on their face as their crony legal friends over at Washington Legal foundation, after looking at Karmabanque wrote an opinion that basically gave the green light to combining boycotts with short selling to pressure companies to amend their public domain threatening ways.

We had outsmarted them using bastard capitalism- financialism - to undo the damage wrought by the bankers and brokers operating behind their unregulated financial curtains. Unfortunately the activist community never jumped on this opportunity for reasons I have discussed many times, mainly, they thought that any strategy that utilized markets was somehow a net gain for the corporations even though the clear purpose of the campaign was to pressure a net loss in the form of a dropping stock price.

The charge of instigating market manipulation got me interested in exposing real market manipulation so we made some documentaries for Al Jazeera, including “Rigged Markets,” a film that exposed how the SEC was doing nothing to stop naked short selling, a technique of counterfeiting stock to drive down the price in such a way that the film posited was creating systemic risk similar to what we saw in 1929. Within a couple of years both Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were destroyed by hedge funds manipulating and colluding using naked short selling – as we explained in our film – to wipe out these companies and set the stage for the global financial meltdown we are all familiar with.

http://maxkeiser.com/2009/04/19/max-keiser-blog-revisiting-boycott-hedge-fund-campaign-against-coke /



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(Since this was so popular in replies, I'll piggyback on this one too)

[beforeyoureyes]

10. Thanks for the links