[Sdpg] inaugural alternatives

Mon Jan 17 16:14:09 PST 2005

Looking for alternatives to this week's inaugural events?  We offer the
following for your participation.
Peace,
Marcia Boruta

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20

National Anti-War Boycott
Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005
is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.

Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put
the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200+ brave young Americans and (some
estimated) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan
-- a way to come home. Finally a boycott to hit 'em where it hurts! please
pass this on, far and wide!

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to the politicians 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.

It doesn't really matter that everyone will be out spending what they
didn't the next day -- a point or two will have been made: 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 anything for 24 hours.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Walmart, 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.

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.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 4:30P
Counter-Inauguration Protest San  Diego
A People's Festival of Opposition
No to the Bush Agenda!
Rally and March

Don't Mourn, Organize! Speak Out! Say no to the Bush Agenda!
As Bush is re-crowned on January 20th, activists across the country
will take to the streets to tell Bush we will oppose him and
his agenda every inch of the way for the next four years! Join the
people's counter-inauguration protest in San Diego!
Be part of a national day of action to counter the Bush Agenda!

Rally with Speakers addressing the "people's agenda" for the next four
years followed by A March against the Bush agenda

Gather: 4:30p at Corner of 4th and Broadway
(in front of Horton Plaza Park area Downtown SD)
Rally then march

Sponsored by the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice
For any other info send an email to:
j20sandiego at yahoo.com

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CACEROLAZO MASS STREET THEATER
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 5:30 TO 7:30 PM
AT 4TH AND BROADWAY, DOWNTOWN SD
BRING POTS AND PANS AND EARPLUGS!

WE WILL BEAT OUR POTS AND PANS TO SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE AND ONE CLEAR MESSAGE
OF UNITY:
NOT MY PRESIDENT!
THIS IS A TRADITIONAL CACEROLAZO
WITH NO SPEECHES
COME WHEN YOU CAN, LEAVE WHEN YOU MUST.
Questions? Contact gzplayers at aol.com

---JANUARY 19---
Take Reasonable Precautions against the Unexpected: Let's Watch, Discuss
"End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream"
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Introductions 6:45 pm; Show begins 7 pm.
Followed by short discussion and tour of the Eco Center at Pearson Ford
Plus, 4001 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92105
Fundraiser for Cohousing for San Diego! (SUGGESTED DONATION: $5. No one
will be turned away).
For more information please call Alan at (858) 883-7314 or Donee at (619)
640-2210 or e-mail us at <cohousingforsd at cox.net>  Also visit our website:
www.cohousingforsandiego.org

---JANUARY 21---
Activist San Diego presents--

iVIVA Democracy!
The Real People's Inaugural Ball
Fri. Jan 21, 2005,  8-11pm
Balboa Park Club Ballroom

Special Guest:  Donna Frye
Music by Agua Dulce.
Many more surprises!

Admission is $20 in advance or $25 at the door.
Purchase a Table: $160.00 per table (includes nine event tickets and your
organization s name in the program).
Purchase an Information Table: $15.00 for non-profit $45.00 for profit
enterprises.

For more info, please visit www.activistsandiego.org
E-mail: ASDoffice at ActivistSanDiego.org
or call 619-528-8383

Tickets may be purchased online at www.ActivistSanDiego.org/vivademocracy.html
All tickets will be held at Will Call

If not now - when?
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