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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:08 AM Original message |
what would it take to get YOU in the street protesting and demanding immediate change? |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. That, Yurbud, would seem to be the question of the age. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. I was thinking of protesting outside the local comcast office |
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Urban Prairie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. The passers-by just might think that I am a lone teabagger. |
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Iwillnevergiveup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. 8,000 people in L.A. were too busy |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. perfect issue to organize around. perfect opportunity to recruit, educate, protest. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:03 AM Response to Original message |
5. contrary to popular belief, it pretty much takes a big shock -- like extravagantly rising food |
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True_Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 06:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. We would definitely need to organize |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. Very frustrated , but it is a fact that limited funds and physically |
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True_Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:13 PM Response to Reply #33 |
46. They're heartless bastards |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
48. yes, most people can't go to washington. thus the need for local organizing. |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:11 AM Response to Original message |
7. A sense that my being "in the street" would make the slightest difference. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. It does something if you make it impossible for business to be conducted somewhere |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. The old Act-Up model.Well , yeah... but even that's 25 years old. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Tunisia ~ look what just happened there. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. here's one: |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:04 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Love the concept, actually. So far, can't find a link to NYC. n/t |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
49. ask them about like-minded contacts in nyc. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
30. You want tactics? ................. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
39. In Venezuela, Bolivia, most of Europe, and now Tunisia |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
53. another link |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 08:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
60. Like withdrawing economic support? A national strike? |
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Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Sure made a difference when there were 50,000 of us in the streets of Seattle during the WTO. I |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:39 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Kudos to the brave souls who took to the Seattle streets. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:38 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. what made the difference at wto was that there were several entities, with funding, actively |
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True_Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
58. And unions use to have power |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 03:36 AM Response to Original message |
11. It'd have to be pretty extreme. I mean it'd have to be a fight or die situation. |
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Scruffy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
14. What makes you think I've stopped? |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Hey Scruffy, what do you think about my post ............ |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:23 AM Response to Original message |
15. Same thing it's taken for the last 40 years. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:33 AM Response to Original message |
16. better health sadly |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
19. recommend |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
21. It's got to warm up first. |
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Scruffy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 07:19 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Been doing it in the cold too. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 07:20 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Nobody cares here. We could walk around naked and not get in the newspaper. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 07:28 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I'm in MI |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
25. Well, let's see: I protested in 1969. Marched twice, NYC 2003. Now I'm 61. Where are the young? |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. There are some young people marching |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. It's good to hear this, because they need to be VERY concerned. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
28. Sunday and more people concerned enough to do it. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
29. Some protest only when Republicans are in office. |
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Kip Humphrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
32. stealing our elections. And, it has already happened and I already have, do, and will continue to. |
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IcyPeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
34. france went on strike and took to the streets... (with lots of pix) |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Europeans had their lands conquered by force. They won't take politicians' crap any more. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. that's what we should be doing here. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
37. Only as long as the protests don't look like they could turn violent..I do it. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. any protest can turn violent with provocateurs planted in the crowd. You have to shut |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 06:08 PM Response to Reply #37 |
57. Any serious protest here would become violent. See: 1968. A POLICE RIOT. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
38. One person to organize it. It's that simple. |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. Yes. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
42. but...but...but...I thought staying at home or voting third party was the answer |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
43. If the CIA knows how to incite coups and revolutions in other countries, could they also |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
44. Company |
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jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. Taking away social security or cutting healthcare for my disabled daughter. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
50. Take away my Judge Judy and I will gather the tar and feathers |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
51. Many people associate demonstrations |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
52. Proposition 8. |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
54. If you start something, I'll join. |
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itsallhappening (578 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
55. If they turned my power off for no good reason. |
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AmandaMae (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
56. some people to join me. |
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True_Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 08:14 PM Response to Reply #56 |
59. That's a big one |
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