Not One Damn Dime Day
>Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan. 20, 2005.
>
>THE ANTI-INAUGURATION
>
>Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the
>war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the
>moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday,
>January 20th, 2005 is Not One Damn Dime Day in America.
>
>On Not One Damn Dime Day those who oppose what is happening
>in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national
>boycott of all forms of consumer spending.
>
>During Not One Damn Dime Day please don't spend money. Not
>one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for
>necessities or for impulse purchases.
>
>Not One Damn Dime Day for anything for 24 hours.
>
>On Not One Damn Dime Day please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart,
>Curves, Coca Cola, and Pepsico (Kentucky Fried Chicken,
>Taco Bell, & Pepsi products).
>
>Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store.
>Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for
>that matter)
>
>For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail
>economy down.
>
>The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the
>war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are
>responsible for starting it and that it is their
>responsibility to stop it.
>
>Not One Damn Dime Day is to remind them, too, that they
>work for the people of the United States of America, not
>for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists
>who represent the corporations and funnel cash into
>American politics.
>
>Not One Damn Dime Day is about supporting the troops. The
>politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now over 1,200
>brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis
>have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way
>to come home.
>
>There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or
>right wing agenda to rant about.
>
>On Not One Damn Dime Day you take action by doing nothing.
>You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.
>
>For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, Not One Damn Dime to
>remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their
>moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give
>America back to the people.
>
>Please share this email with as many people as possible.
Dear friends,
I say Not One Damn Dime Day is about telling the administration that
democracy can not be bought, despite the appearances. Consider the
following news clipping, taken from Democracy Now
(www.democracynow.org):
"Corporate America Spends Millions on Bush Inauguration (12-23-04)
With President Bush's Inauguration less than a month away, the White
House is busy raising tens of millions of dollars to conduct what is
expected to be the most expensive Inauguration in history. Major
donors include Exxon Mobil, military contractor Northrup Grunman, the
Nuclear Energy Institute, Occidental Petroleum and United
Technologies, tobacco giant Philip Morris and Richard Kinder the
former president of Enron."
I'm not doing this to protest the war -- the war is a symptom of the
larger problem -- I'm doing this because of Billy Tauzin and all the
rest who have traded their loyalties for the promise of cushy jobs
(read "thinly veiled payoffs", or "the new American bribery"). I'm
doing this because the corporations are spending OUR MONEY on Bush's
inauguration, and I don't see that they deserve to recoup those
losses.
I believe a dollar is as loud as a vote. Please, tell everyone you
can about this opportunity to make ourselves heard.
-Will Kaufman
>
>THE ANTI-INAUGURATION
>
>Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the
>war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the
>moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday,
>January 20th, 2005 is Not One Damn Dime Day in America.
>
>On Not One Damn Dime Day those who oppose what is happening
>in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national
>boycott of all forms of consumer spending.
>
>During Not One Damn Dime Day please don't spend money. Not
>one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for
>necessities or for impulse purchases.
>
>Not One Damn Dime Day for anything for 24 hours.
>
>On Not One Damn Dime Day please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart,
>Curves, Coca Cola, and Pepsico (Kentucky Fried Chicken,
>Taco Bell, & Pepsi products).
>
>Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store.
>Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for
>that matter)
>
>For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail
>economy down.
>
>The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the
>war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are
>responsible for starting it and that it is their
>responsibility to stop it.
>
>Not One Damn Dime Day is to remind them, too, that they
>work for the people of the United States of America, not
>for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists
>who represent the corporations and funnel cash into
>American politics.
>
>Not One Damn Dime Day is about supporting the troops. The
>politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now over 1,200
>brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis
>have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way
>to come home.
>
>There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or
>right wing agenda to rant about.
>
>On Not One Damn Dime Day you take action by doing nothing.
>You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.
>
>For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, Not One Damn Dime to
>remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their
>moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give
>America back to the people.
>
>Please share this email with as many people as possible.
Dear friends,
I say Not One Damn Dime Day is about telling the administration that
democracy can not be bought, despite the appearances. Consider the
following news clipping, taken from Democracy Now
(www.democracynow.org):
"Corporate America Spends Millions on Bush Inauguration (12-23-04)
With President Bush's Inauguration less than a month away, the White
House is busy raising tens of millions of dollars to conduct what is
expected to be the most expensive Inauguration in history. Major
donors include Exxon Mobil, military contractor Northrup Grunman, the
Nuclear Energy Institute, Occidental Petroleum and United
Technologies, tobacco giant Philip Morris and Richard Kinder the
former president of Enron."
I'm not doing this to protest the war -- the war is a symptom of the
larger problem -- I'm doing this because of Billy Tauzin and all the
rest who have traded their loyalties for the promise of cushy jobs
(read "thinly veiled payoffs", or "the new American bribery"). I'm
doing this because the corporations are spending OUR MONEY on Bush's
inauguration, and I don't see that they deserve to recoup those
losses.
I believe a dollar is as loud as a vote. Please, tell everyone you
can about this opportunity to make ourselves heard.
-Will Kaufman