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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:27 PM
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Poll question: Do you think we need to have a general strike if Bush invades Iran?
So since our protests don't seem to get their attention, what if we brought the nation to a halt with a general strike if Bush goes into Iran? Of course that means that Congress has given him the go ahead.
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misternormal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:29 PM
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1. I think there should be a general strike but...
... It would still be like herding cats (Great analogy by the way)
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:32 PM
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2. yes, long overdue IMO
How do we go about doing it? It can't be rocket science.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:34 PM
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3. European nations, like the French and Poles seem to be
able to do it. Maybe we should study how they organize their people.
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KAT119 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:05 PM
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12. Just stay home! Do not work, purchase/trade-Do not pay taxes/bills-do not
move-Take about 2 - 3 weeks & do not participate in the corporate/gov't criminality at all.

At the end of 2-3 weeks the whole paper tiger will collapse & crumble.

Think about what the power of the complete Boycott can accomplish.

Visualize this world-wide.

Boycotts have been extremely successful and Very EasyTo Do!!!

Just keep your hands in your pocket or on your keyboard!!

We only need 10-15 million Americans out of our 300 million!!
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brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:35 PM
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4. While I think a general strike is in order...
I concur it'd be like herding cats. I have no great faith in the populace. My experience has been that they don't act until it's their ox being gored. (Often, their ox is bloody and beyond resusitation before they even notice).
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:36 PM
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5. I'm afraid that's the way it's been brook. n/t
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:46 PM
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6. No one will be able to tell the people who are on strike from
those who are staying home because they can't get gas for their cars.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 04:25 PM
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9. Would it matter?
The idea is to bring the nation to a standstill so that they notice the people are upset.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 04:27 PM
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10. Forgot the little:
:sarcasm: thingie.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 03:57 PM
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7. It will be like herding cats, but we still need to do it.
my family uses that phrase also, funny to hear my teen come home from the local peace group meeting ranting about herding cats. Anyways, yes, strike.
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 04:04 PM
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8. Strike, boycott, march etc. BTW, herding cats: Trent Lott's book title
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics by Trent Lott.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 05:23 PM
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11. Hell yeah.
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Ufomammut Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:09 PM
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13. YES! The average person has no idea of the true POWER they have!
Provided they're willing to exercise it.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:11 PM
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14. Absolutely, Cleita - I thought it was appropriate after Alito confirmation
because Alito was put in place to further the fascist agenda, I thought it would send a message to the corporate powers that WE will stop buying anything but what's absolutely necessary until there was SOME balance for the working man.
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Marie26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:13 PM
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15. I don't think so nt
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:15 PM
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16. Why Just For Iran? Why Not Already? Because There Isn't Nearly Enough
people to join in to make it effective at all is why. If there were, since lord knows bushco's already destroyed our country enough to warrant a general strike, there would already be one that was being effective. Since there isn't one, I am hard pressed to believe if we attack Iran there would be enough additional people to sign on to then have one arise that was effective.

Not being a pessimist, just saying that there's already more then enough reasons for one yet one doesn't exist. I don't think going into Iran is going to change that, unfortunately.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:19 PM
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17. How about if they reinstate the draft in order to have enough
boots for an Iranian invasion. Would that be enough to wake the people up? Unfortunately, I think the invasion of Iran is going to be done with nukes and very few troops. There are rumors out there. I think the threat of nuclear war might do the trick. Don't you?
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 06:25 PM
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18. Nope.
By the time things there perpetuated enough to the extent that other nations with the capability of actually reaching us with nuclear arms joined the war against us things would be so far gone already that I doubt a general strike would mean a thing any more.
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