Your nearest college campus - great place to recruit voters!

Just back from mine.

Even on the weekend a great place to:

1. Put flyers on car windshields, such as the Draft flyer that rosebud57 has been posting here. I put out about 150 today.

2. Register voters.

3. Hand out Kerry/Edwards bumperstickers and buttons.

4. Hand out signs/bumper stickers etc. for local races.



Easy way to reach a lot of politically minded voters quickly.

http://somnamblst.tripod.com/

Copy and post on college campuses.

this morning.

I will do this again and again every chance I get.

excellent material

gonna send it to my niece in Durango

she has a radio show at Ft. Lewis College, and will be interviewing Amy Goodman soon!

IUPUI is a commuter campus smacked in the middle of downtown Indianapolis. The 20K plus students could not even be motivated to protest parking fees increases that were coupled with a reduction in available parking spaces. If you can't motivate people on issues that impact their pocketbooks at a very personal level, you sure can't motivate them on larger political issues.

Any parking lot will do - plenty of flyers available on DU from rosebud57 or www.bigpath.com

As to whether these newly registered voters will bother to go to the polls, that's debatable. From the ones I have spoken to, they feel that the politicians do not speak about the issues they care about. They all work, but they cannot afford soccer leagues, or NASCAR races, they are too busy trying to keep afloat holding more than one job.

Now, if Kerry were to endorse a Living Wage, and free Universal Health care for all Americans, then we will have two issues that will attract a lot of the dropouts.

We still have 6 weeks left...

weekends to do the same thing?

you doing it in the Region, or where?

Altogether, we registered over 100 new voters in that neighborhood.

You should go up to Green Bay! That's where work is needed in Wisconsin!

PRINT THE PDF: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/draftalert.pdf
HANG THIS FLYER EVERYWHERE

This is a SPECIAL MILITARY DRAFT ALERT. THIS IS NOT THE RANGEL DRAFT BILL, THIS IS NEW! THIS IS BUSH QUIETLY READYING THE COMBAT DRAFT AND HAVING THE SELECTIVE SERVICE CREATE A NEW DRAFT FOR 2005.

In May, the Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article about a document they received through the Freedom of Information Act. It was revealed that the SSS is currently “designing procedures” for the implementation of a “Skills Draft” after holding a top-level meeting on it with Deputy Undersecretaries at the Defense Department. The top-level This draft would change the very mission of the Selective Service and require “virtually every young American”, male and female ages 18-34, to register for the Skills Draft and list all the occupations they are proficient in to fill labor shortages throughout nearly the entire government.

Here, for the first time, is the FOI document itself:

http://blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf

This document is real, having been acknowledged by the DoD and the SSS when they said no action is being taken on it at the present time, as reported:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.html

Although Congress would have to approve new legislation to create a Skills Draft or reinstate the combat draft, Family Circle reported in its July 13 issue that Karl Rove has polled GOP members of Congress in September 2002 to see if they would support the President if he requests reinstatement. The Republicans said they would vote for the draft.

In addition, the SSS itself has said that it is “designing procedures” (Seattle PI, May 1, 2004) to implement the skills draft, meaning designing the compliance cards and the data fields needed to keep track of “virtually every young American” and their skills. Acting Director of the SSS Brodsky has also said the Skills Draft is the “top priority” of the Selective Service for 2004. The Issue Paper options include:

- Allow a non-combat draft for shortages in critical skills, without calling a combat draft.

- Fill labor shortages of all kinds throughout not only DoD but the Dept. of Homeland Security and other agencies, especially high-paying professionals like computer networking specialist or linguist.

- Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young person would be forced to send in a “self-declaration” of all of their critical skills, chosen from a long list of occupations like the Armed Forces Specialty Code. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine would apply to all non-registrants.

In the secret planning meeting document, the next steps strongly recommended by SSS Acting Director Brodsky were:

1. “Promptly” redefine the SSS Mission to draft men and women up to age 34 for skills, and deliver them within 90 days or sooner to the Department of Defense. Program a massive database to be ready to enter millions of names of those registering their critical skills.

2. Expand mission to deliver personnel in skills draft to the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, including FEMA, NSC, Border Patrol, INS, Customs, Corporation for National Service, Public Health Service and other agencies.

3. Form interagency task force to provide Administration with recommendation on this skills draft for the entire government.

4. Obtain White House Statement of Administration Policy on the future of the SSS.

5. Be prepared to market the skills draft, raising the non-combat age to 34 and the drafting of women to the Armed Services and Appropriations Committee.

In contrast to this planning and preparation to create a targeted draft, Kerry plans to spend an additional $7 billion to strengthen the Volunteer Army in what is essentially a “No-Draft Plan”. Moreover, Kerry is strongly opposed to the neo-con plan revealed in Wes Clark’s book Winning Modern Wars, in which Clark was told by a senior Pentagon official that invasions of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Somalia were planned and still to come over the next three years.

DON'T FORGET TO USE THE .PDF NOT THE .GIF FILE.

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

KERRY '04 = PNAC OUT THE DOOR!

We are speaking of people that are very patriotic, and like thousands like them, they will serve if called regardless of how they feel about the war.

BTW, I wouldn't go around using the draft to get people to vote for Kerry. If Kerry does not pull US troops out of Iraq immediately upon taking office, he will be forced to use the draft, or use some creative reallocation of resources to accomplish the same.

President Johnson said on the eve of the 1964 Election that American boys should not be doing the fighting for Asian boys. Johnson drafted a lot of people after the election, and he was hated for having broken his word.

BTW, Israel's Ambassador to the US said today on TV that it is not a big deal if Iraq sinks into civil war and chaos.

their values

I work in a school, have nieces/nephews of that age, and they are NOT going to be happy about a draft, if it involves this war, and getting their asses shot off

I was of age during Vietnam, and you can be CERTAIN, absolutely CERTAIN, that college kids will do what it takes, by a large majority, to get out of going to war

look at our "president," and what he did

it's not the most noble appeal, but it can be very easily couched to avoid such connotations. kids will NOT want to get killed, and if all they have to do is VOTE to mae sure it doesn't happen, that's a pretty damn strong motivation

I don't live in suburbia, that's for sure!

doesn't matter about college

kids that age are SCREWED if he gets in

I just talked to a friend whose son just went off to college; other one isn't going, and I scared the STUFFING out of him.

he hasn't been paying attention, and is calling his son at U of Northern Mich right now to tell him to get ACTIVE on this, cause he doesn't want him KILLED!

so there

Colleges are not all the same, college students are not all the same. Some may be willing to give their lives to protect Halliburton's trucks. Others would not be.

Look at today's recruits. Fahrenheit 911 hit the nail on the head when it showed the Marine recruits going after youth that had no job prospects. What job can you get if you live in one of many economically depressed areas of the country. The GOP economy provides a pool of potential military recruits. Money for college and professional training, not to mention discipline and a sense of purpose, are powerful magnets to young people that are bored and lack little hope of improving themselves.

everything you can to get the word around about Bush reinstating the draft and reversing Roe V Wade.

and Roe was further decimated by parental notification and the so-called late-term abortion ban.

Soviet women had more reproductive rights in 1920 than American women do today!

On another note, why can't women of reproductive age care about the rights of GLBTs to same sex marriage as they want everyone else to care about the right to choose. You cannot pick and choose which rights you want to fight for. You either fight for all of them, or you fight for only those that apply to you, and you alone.

reversal of Roe v Wade would set women's rights back to the 1950's and I don't have a dog in the other fight.

themselves. They will vote first to protect themselves, secondarily to protect others.

oops....it's already here

sorry...should read threads before posting

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www.bigpath.net - check all categories under this bc there is a lot

I just wanted the link

www.awolbush.com

nt

or anywhere else on campus