jesse,
I have no fucking idea what you are going to do, but I'm going to have 1,000 people on the streets in Central Oregon next Saturday, and we are all going to be on the same page:
Friends,
There are three events planned for the next two weekends. A peace rally, a documetary film and a conference/teach-in. Details below:
EVENT 1:
"Guernica" Pablo Picasso's powerful anti-war painting
"Guernica" -- Pablo Picasso's powerful anti-war painting
END THE WAR! Bring the Troops Home Now! March for Peace
Saturday, March 19th, 11 AM - 1 PM
Downtown Bend -- We will meet at the corner of Wall St. & Greenwood (the fountain square) and march on the sidewalks to 3rd & Greenwood, returning to Wall & Greenwood.
Please bring signs and musical instruments (drums, etc.) if you care to. (Dogs stay at home, please.)
Help us let Central Oregon know that George Bush's occupation of Iraq is not acceptable policy!
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EVENT 2:
The Yes Men
BEND PREMIERE
Hitchcock Auditorium, Pioneer Hall, COCC Campus, Bend
One Show Only: Saturday, March 19th, 7:00 PM
Sponsored by the Central Oregon Peace Network & the 9/11 Truth Alliance
This hysterically FUNNY satire takes direct aim at some of the sacred cows of "free trade", The Yes Men are not your average pair of criminal impersonators engaging in identity theft. Just the opposite, they are HONEST PEOPLE impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. The Yes Men's targets are leaders and big corporations who put PROFITS ahead of everything else. The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world.
"What is incredible in the film is the lengths to which a trade (association) audience can be pushed without realizing it is the butt of a joke." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
"A PAIR OF MERRY PRANKSTERS" -- Los Angeles Times<>
<>For more information: See the Website: theyesmen.org Or call 318-8169, Rating: R, for language
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EVENT 3:
"COST OF WAR" Conference
Saturday, March 26th -- 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 155 Boyle Education Center, COCC Campus, Bend, OR
Here is the conference program so far:
1:00 - 1:15 Diana Popp: Welcome
1:15 - 1:45 Nick Biddle: History: Vietnam & Iraq Wars
1:45 - 2:15 Ray Duray: Money, Money, Money -- the Economic Costs of War
2:15 - 2:30 Question & Answer session (Biddle & Duray)
2:30 - 2:45 Break - Coffee, tea and pastries
2:45 - 3:15 A representative from Military Families Speak Out
3:15 - 4:00 J. David Kinzie, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University, Torture Treatment Center of Oregon: Psychological Effects of Massive Trauma: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Refugees and Americans (title may change).
4:00 - 4:30 Spiritual Perspectives on War (TBA)
4:30 - 5:00 Question & Answer session (Military Families, Kinzie, Spiritual Community).
5:00 p.m. Closing
Questions about the conference? Please e-mail Diana at dlpopp@bendbroadband.com. Thanks!
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For more info contact Ray Duray at 318-8169 THANKS!
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I don't know what you are going to do, Jesse, but I suggest you get your tired little ass out of a sling and ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE!
And when you need some friends, remember we are are here with you:
e911.com
Rules for Radicals:
A Study Guide
by Saul Alinsky
In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals, an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing. Those who pre-fer cooperative tactics naively describe the book as out-of-date. They are wrong, misguided and far too obse-quious in the age of King George's mad imperialism. This book provides some of the best advice on confron-tational tactics. Alinsky begins this way:
"What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the expe-rience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrass-ment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
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AND IT'S ONE, TWO, THREE WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
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