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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:07 PM
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How do you think the Anti-Choice RW'ers would respond if WE made a 'truth truck'?
If you don't know what a 'truth truck' is, here goes. Anti-Choicers get in trucks that have big images of aborted fetuses on the sides of them, a crude way to deliver their message.

How do you think they would respond if we made a truth truck with images of children with limbs that had to be amputated because they were gravely injured because of the Iraq War?

I bet $5 they would call up the police and complain saying that it is not decent or something.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:12 PM
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1. Not a bad idea.
It might help crack denial. Or it might make us antiwar people look as as wacko the anti-choice crowd, for whom the term "batshit crazy" was invented. I suggest we test market the truck idea in a few places before committing to it.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:17 PM
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2. How about images of our injured soldiers? Destroyed cities?
Children crying over their dead parents? Returning coffins of the dead American soldiers?
The horrifying images are too numerous to itemize.
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:17 PM
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3. The possibilities for images are endless
I picked the first thing that came to mind.
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:19 PM
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4. Don't forget to add graphic photos of children mangled and bloody from gun
shot wounds and explosions. Head wounds are the best for that, a gaping hole where the face was as well as brain matter splattered all over the place, or leaking out onto the mother or father holding the child's body. Or the decaying bodies of 3 year olds that were found days after a American helicopter attack.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:25 PM
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5. Truth trucks or message trucks would be good.
Before American Idol ever started I can remember seeing a truck in the mall's parking lot with video on it promoting the program.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:44 PM
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7. SHARK uses what they call the TIger Truck in their protests.
They drive it to the site of protests and show videos of the abuse they are protesting.


MORE INFO AND PICS

All around the country, they're talking about SHARK's Tiger Video Truck!

It's called "The Tiger" because it's on the prowl for animal abuse, and sends its prey scurrying for cover from coast to coast.

There isn't anything subtle about this monster. The high-mounted, one hundred inch video screens see to that. The programmable LED signs aren't shy either. The cries of animal victims are inescapable as the Tiger exposes issues of animal abuse. Rodeos, bullfighting, furs, circuses, Korean dog torture and many other issues are being put before public in a straightforward way, unfiltered by the media. The Tiger can operate as well on the move as it can when parked.

The Tiger has four video screens - one in the front, one in the back, and one on each side. The images are horrible, and there's no escaping them, because the Tiger gets you coming and going. That's just the way SHARK likes it.

The images and sounds of the SHARK's Tiger Video Truck are hitting people on the streets of North American cities like a compassionate sledgehammer! This is an aggressive way to nonviolently push animal issues. Best of all, the Tiger is generating support for animals because people see the evidence for themselves, and make their own decision!

http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000398
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:54 PM
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8. Yeah, the American Idol truck was like that.
It does get the attention of people who might not ordinarily see or get the message. In this case the hard RWers won't care, but it might open the eyes of many in the middle.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:56 PM
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9. Here is a link to see the truck in action.
http://s147271628.onlinehome.us/TigerTruck.wmv


There are some pretty graphic videos being shown as the truck rides around.
It HAS to have an effect on those who see it.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-19-07 10:32 PM
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6. It should show a woman holding a birth control pill being hauled off in handcuffs.
Edited on Sat May-19-07 10:32 PM by impeachdubya
That's the real endgame for these folks- criminalization of all contraception and eventually, all non-procreative fucking outside the confines of a Christ-Centric heterosexual marriage.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 12:40 AM
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10. Great idea! n/t
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 12:44 AM
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11. I'm alllll for it. And I don't really care how the far right will respond.
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