#53: What is the slogan? What is the one-liner?
A very good question. I'm fighting despair today so I hope I have time to figure it out, definitely not at my best right now. And I'm not trying to define the slogan for a movement. Just trying to decide what to write on my sign.
Right now I'm thinking along the lines of:
NO TORTURE - THIS IS AMERICA
DON'T TRASH THE BILL OF RIGHTS
EMERGENCY: SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY
There's some recognizable images of the Bill of Rights and Constitution I might also use. And, I'm going to print up copies of The Bill of Rights and the Preamble of the Constitution to hand out.
Re: making practical, affordable, easy-to-carry protest signs:
Some random howto sites (just found via google): here and here.
World Can't Wait has downloadable posters here. Many other organizations have downloadable graphics and/or posters if you poke around their websites.
My opinion is that the downloadable posters are often not ideal - too much to look at or read. I prefer a few choice clear simple words or symbols.
Pedantic Peasant:
Indeed, after participating in huge marches (SF Bay Area) protesting the Iraq invasion, it was certainly clear that Bush Inc. was not listening and will not listen.
However, I don't think that translates to there being little sense in marching en masse. Marching en masse speaks also to our fellow citizens, hopefully adding more who agree with our cause and helping folks decide not just to agree with us, but to take action.
Right now, "take action" definitely means working to elect new officials, beginning most importantly with the upcoming elections.
Speaking of marching en masse: October 5th nationwide protests are planned: http://worldcantwait.net/
And while I'm delurking, let me just add:
And bowed my head and cried.
I feel that things have already gone last past the point where we might (or should) have been marching in the street en masse daily, demanding change. Generations of [more or less] successful democracy will do this to us, I guess - bring just enough complacency to let it all slip away. We've changed into being a new kind of American left-wing intelligentsia. Scares the shit out of me. I believe many of the basic tenets our country was founded upon are already gone and will be very, very difficult to bring back.
I see that someone mentioned the Electronic Frontier Foundation upstream and want to reiterate that I think they would be very helpful to involve in this.
"Dictionopolis was at war with Digitopolis. Dictionopolis had always been at war with Digitopolis."
Oh my I love that book.
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