When I set up an informal poll of visitors to Irregular Times yesterday, asking what they had planned for October 5, two people responded that they would not be participating in protest “because there is no protest nearby.”
Unless these folks live outside the country, this situation is decreasingly likely to be true.
There are only two days left until October 5, when the 5 Day of Mass Resistance erupts, and here are all the places where protests are planned, as of right now (click here for logistical details on these events):
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
DC Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Iowa
Idaho
Illinois
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Indiana
Kansas
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
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Nebraska
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
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Chances are large that you are within striking distance of one of these demonstrations. If you are, click here to find information about the protest event. If on the off chance you aren’t within shooting distance of a demonstration, click here to register an demonstration where you live. Just call a place and time, put some fliers up around town, and be surprised to see how many people come.
What can you do to spread the word?
- Put up fliers. I’ve modified the original fliers, taking out superfluous material and putting in a space where you can put in your local demonstration’s details. Go to a copier, make a hundred copies, and stick them up around town. Call it your exercise for the day. Here they are: flier 1 and flier 2.
- Make your own smaller 1/8 page sized announcements with “Oct. 5,” “Drive Out the Bush Regime,” and demonstration details for your local event. Put them on every table of a cafeteria, every table of a coffee house. Hand them out to people hopping on the local bus.
- Print those smaller announcements on the kind sticker paper you can put through an inkjet or laserjet printer (via OfficeMax) and… well, you know those lampposts around town?
- Call a radio station and tell ‘em on the air
- Got a blog? Spread the message with your own post.
- Temporary tattoo — right on your forehead.
- Call ten friends, if you have ten friends. If you don’t have ten friends, call ten enemies and get them upset so they’ll spread the word and get people talking. Even negative publicity is good publicity.
Just two days. Spread the word, then be there.
