Not One Damn Dime Day

Those of us who were dismayed at the upcoming $50 million coronation of Emperor Dyslexicus I (aka God's Own President) are starting to get serious about finding new ways of expressing ourselves. After all, we're all but shut out of Official Media, there is only One Party left, and it's been made clear that God hates those of us who don't belong to the GOP and to the One True Church. Meanwhile, our debt is soaring, Social Security is about to be eviscerated, (something the GOP has been wanting to do for sixty years!) and we're going to have another tax cut for the super-wealthy! Oh, and did I mention the war? The "War On Terror" is a lie and a scam, and the war in Iraq is only a part of the "War on Terror" in the sense that it is enabled by the same set of overarching lies. Yet a slim majority (or something close to that) of voting Americans bought the lies. What can we Progressives do?

I think we're going to just have to go back to Square One. We're at a stage of learning where our power lies and how to use it. Therefore, a lot of ideas will be generated, including such ideas as The Buy Blue Movement (covered in a previous post). A related idea, which just came across my email queue, is Not One Damn Dime Day, set for January 20th. I'll let the man speak for himself:

Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005

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 for nothing for 24 hours.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target. 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 1,300 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 with as many people as possible.

I support Not One Damn Dime Day wholeheartedly. Money is definitely a language the Republicans understand. I doubt our Great and Dear Leader will notice, or care, even if a lot of people join in NODDD. But as we grope for new ways to have a voice, we will have to try out a lot of different things. Maybe this will work, maybe it won't. But the alternative is meek acquiescence as our country is destroyed by a pack of radical fanatics.