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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:26:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm all for the freedom to speak
> > my mind, and enjoy hearing the results of others doing the same... but
> > garsh, have you seen all the "stay home sick when war starts"
> > pamphlets?? What's up with that, do people just need an excuse to cut
> > out on their daily routines or what?
>
> Nope, it's known as a general strike. The idea is to refuse to produce
> and consume, instead spending your time causing mucho trouble,
> preferrably by refusing to cooperate with all instruments of
> "legitimate" authority and create your own instead. In 1919, folks in
> Seattle actually did this (see:
> http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/) and were doing pretty
> well until the bosses brought the troops in. You can also check out
> what's been going on in Venezuala, and to some degree, Argentina,
> recently. If you're real interested in this you can also look at what
> happened in Paris in 1968.
Not the most eloquent piece of writing I've transcribed from paper,
however I offer this transcribed word for word from a flyer I was given:
PUBLIC HEARING ON
SENATE BILL 742
MONDAY MARCH 24 at 8 a.m.
at the Capitol Building in Salem.
Please be there to protect our rights
to freedom of speech and assembly!
ROOM HR 343 STATE CAPITOL
Senate Bill 742 would make it a _crime of terrorism_
to disrupt commerce or transportation (boycott, sit-in,
demonstration without a permit, or other acts of civil
disobedience) or to disrupt educational or legislative
processes (student strike or walkout, or demonstration in our
legislative sessions). This new crime of terrorism would be
punishable by _LIFE IN PRISON_.
SB 742 would also repeal our 181 laws, which are our
protections from police spying on our religious and political
groups, and our protections from local police acting as
Federal Immigration agents, intimidating non-citizens who
are not suspected of criminal activity.
Oregon is unique in the nation as a state sworn to protect its
residents from this kind of abuse. We must stand up for our
rights, or they will be taken from us! Please join us in a
massive display of
WE, THE PEOPLE DEFENDING OUR LIBERTIES
on Monday, March 24 at 8 a.m. at the State Capitol. Room
HR 343.
For more information: http://www.efn.org/~lcbordc
http://www.aclu-or.org
I'm feeling a WHOLE LOT LESS pacifist right about now.
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Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCO must cease to exist!
<knghtbrd> of course, I sometimes don't go to bed till sun-up
<Jaeger> A vampire!
<knghtbrd> I am NOT a vampire
<knghtbrd> I haven't bitten anyone in years
<knghtbrd> And that was different - she liked that sort of thing ...
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