Pax-salon Mailing List: national boycott - Not One Dime Day

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This is not ab. the Salon but hope you don't mind me sending you this.
It is something we all can do.  patty

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From: Pat and Laura <bkofmoon [at] discover-net.net>
Date: Tue Jan 11, 2005  10:57:17 AM US/Central
 Subject: national boycott]

From: "Janet Palmer" <palmer_center [at] hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005  8:15:19 PM US/Central
Subject: FW: national boycott

I feel strongly about this as everyone that knows me well knows I am a
pacifist.  I lost my father in WWII and never had the chance to know
him.  My heart goes out to those children who will never know their
fathers now.  Le

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Subject: Not One Dime Day

>From: Bill Moyers

Not One 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, 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.
Now 1,200 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 email with as many people as possible Commercial
speech must not be the only free speech in America!

Bill Moyers