"You need to have your physical body out there ... "

WTG Samuel L.



If we're demanding it of the Senate we should be demanding it of ourselves.

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may be I am not able to get out and protest because of health issues ??

younger able folks will be in the streets. We also need folks to document what is happening. There is no reason we can't do both (and some are more able to do one thing or the other).

they want. They wave Jesus and guns under young noses who'll fight to the death for the assholes.

nt.

& claim that there were only a couple thousand. Contrary to the teabagger events, where 80 people show up & the media takes a wide angle of the entire park to lend some credibility to their claim that thousands showed up. We are fucked on so many fronts, I don't know how we take our government back. Electronic voting, gerrymandering, Citizens United, a bought & paid for media, voter apathy, & a Congress that largely cares more about it's own position on the gravy train than the country. Holy shit.

Whoever runs the media, runs the country. If ABC, NBC, CBS and fox don't want us to see the protests or the bodies of the returning soldiers, then it ain't gonna happen. As usual, follow the money. I actually think we may have a better voice on the social media, at least before that becomes another Koch product, teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony. (See what I did there?)

..showed The World that we are not all Blood Thirsty Profiteers,
that support for these WARS was NOT universal in the US,
that millions of Americans reject American Exceptionalism (the NEW "Manifest Destiny&quot ,
that millions of Americans DO care about the lives of Brown People,
and that millions of Americans are willing to STAND UP for what is right.

That is a BIG thing.


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at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
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I meant we did no good as to affecting the policy, which, alas, is true. Given that the country was plunging into a war of aggression, however, it is somewhat better that the widespread dissent from that course be made manifest.

"Do not call for help, for there is no help; but give a signal."

The very visible and very vocal Anti-WAR movement in the US
helped turn Public Opinion against the war much sooner than if we had just kept our mouths shut and gone along with the program like so many "Centrist" "Democrats" chose to do.
The Anti-WAR Movement was the ONLY counter balance for the Pro-WAR propaganda being pushed by the MSM,
and sadly, the Centrist Democrats who chose to go along quietly not just with the illegal WAR, but with all the repressive legislation like the Patriot Act that resulted from the WAR propaganda.

The Anti-WAR sentiment and resultant turning the tide of popular opinion AGAINST the WAR help push Bush-the-Lesser into the SOFA agreement of 2007 which was the treaty that President Obama was obligated to follow for the withdrawal of all American Troops.

There was the mounting death toll, plus the underlying phoniness of the venture becoming more widely known (an awareness prompted only very slightly by demos, more by other causes).

I'm not saying don't demonstrate. I was out there on the street, too. I just don't see it as a very big part of changing what the government does.

And a friend of Stokely Carmichael.

He's also right. Whether its protesting or just getting people to vote, if you believe in change you've got to get out from behind the keyboard.

The cameras turn off until something bad happens, then we're rioting.

and I predict the TPP will be the catalyst. Of course it they are stupid enough to cut social security it could be even faster.

from what is probably a massive mansion behind iron gates.

Shut the fuck up and act in, oh, every movie that comes out, Sam.

He has BEEN in the streets, Tatum; among his greatest hits was helping to take the trustees (including MLK Senior) of Morehouse College hostage to demand changes in the curriculum. He was convicted of unlawful detention and thrown out of Morehouse for that one. He was also an usher at MLK Jr's funeral.

Why in just the last couple of days I have read, right here on DU, all about how very, very valuable and important posting shit on the internet is.

Frankly I don't know how the world even spun 'round before the tubes were invented.

Julie

there will be no meaningful protest or much notice taken by the web surfing masses. Most people do not visit or spend time on current event and news web sites. Candy Crush will not motivate people to take to the streets. You want to get peoples attention? Cut off the internet.

Samuel L says take to the streets. These folks do not visit new sites or blogs, if the protests are against the establishment the mainstream media will not cover it. The internet is the new opium of the masses.

Do you really want to go back the to the 'Red Scare' style of the 1950's, where we were fed what they wanted us to know? And we had no real way to find out otherwise?

So much for keyboard 'activists'.