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ATTENTION, ATTENTION PLEASE!
This is a call out to young adults/teens for peaceful action. This Thursday, 01/20/05, President George W. Bush’s inauguration will take place. This is a man who cut healthcare benefits for war veterans, cut funding for both the Violence Against Women Act and 375,000 low income college students, lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction (the search for WMD in Iraq ended last week with no weapons or evidence whatsoever) and much more. If you are against Bush and his administration then please take a peaceful stand this Thursday. The plan is to have as many high school and college students drop whatever they are doing and simply walkout of class at 11:00am. Peacefully walkout and go to the main quad area. When asked why you are doing this, respond with your feelings of how complicated the world has gotten since Bush has taken office in 2000. The amount of time you spend peacefully protesting in your main quad area is up to you. This peaceful demonstration will make a difference. It will show people of both political and civilian status that the young of America care about their Country and are concerned for its future. On November 3, 2004 a political annalist said on national television that The kids were to busy playing X-box to go out and make a difference. Make politicians start to care what you think! You have a right to protest what you think is wrong in the world, so do not give in to intimidation from anyone. With Bush in office for another four years this means the future possibilities of a (war) draft and lack of money for your education (because it’s all being spent on
Bush’s wars) will affect you. Stand up for your right to protest what you believe is wrong. Be an individual and stand up for yourself. It is your future. The Vietnam war would not have ended without the help of peaceful protestors such as Martin Luther King Jr. and many other people protesting what they knew was an unjust war.
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there ‘is’ such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is the time for vigorous and positive action.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
Make protest signs on notebook paper, chant slogans, but whatever you do for the walkout at 11:00am, do it peacefully. Let us not stoop down to Bush’s level and fight fire with fire.
Also, if you can protest Bush’s inauguration by not buying anything on Thursday. This is a more silent form of protest, but still a protest. Do not buy food, gas, hygiene needs, or anything else. Buy all your needs on Wednesday the nineteenth. Pack a lunch, get some frozen diners for the
Thursday, just do not buy anything on the twentieth. If you can do both of these protests that would be great.
Bush’s inauguration is going to be a sad day for many people, such as the parents who lost a son or daughter in Bush’s wars, the soldiers overseas who put their trust in Bush’s hands, and many more people who lost someone close to them because of Bush and his administration. Thursday is not a day of celebration. It is a day that marks four more years for many more tears, so do what you feel is right. Call in sick for work if you feel it is right because this is a day of mourning.
Peacefully protest Bush, show the world that you are not a part of “Generation X-box.”
This past Monday on Martin Luther King Jr’s. birthday, George W. Bush gave a speech were he commented on how great a man King was for seeing the injustice in America and doing something to fix it. King (along with fighting for equal civil rights) was against the Vietnam war because he saw it was a war built on lies. This current war in Iraq is also built on lies and King would have not been for this war either. Let us use Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideology of non-
violent protest and try to fix the injustice we see here today in America.
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