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[coppelia142]

Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not-One-Damn-Dime-Day" in America. On Not-One-Damn-Dime-Day those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can "speak up" through a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending. During Not-One-Damn-Dime-Day please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn

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Oy Vey

[uberspock]

So I posted "Not One Damn Dime Day" to the Harvard Dems list (I'm involved as you know) and boy did it create a ruckus. Essentially, people are really afraid of it turning into one of those "Why don't those liberals just shut up for once and stop whining" deals; but furthermore, people explained how it wouldn't work, because it's everyone protesting against everything. Here's some food for thought, in the form of an Email from our prez on the topic (I don't think I'm participating in it anymore, BUT I think that BLACK THURSDAY, aka wearing ALL BLACK, is much better

HERE'S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ON INAUGURATION DAY!

[anonymous]

GO TO: http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/

You'll find information there. Please send this to all of your friends and fellow students! We can make a difference.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[dithyramble]

woohoo! you bet. can I spend euros, though? i need to buy, like, food and stuff. and oranginas. when they fight a war to control the orangina reserves i promise i will forgo it.