So, what can the movement do to avert a war?

Bush is annoyed by protests but will keep going. It is only when
mainstream America opposes this war more and more, that costs might
get high enough. Protests and marches can be a great way to energize,
educate oneself, make contacts, and get inspired. 

They get distorted coverage (if any) from the corporate
media for a soundbite or two, or at most a few minutes in
the "Best" cases, in mainstream corporate TV and newspapers..

All that work, to receive that little coverage, and
that's assuming the message isn't distorted, which it often is..

How does the
movement reach out to the rest of America? Door-to-door?  "Town hall"
style local meetings? Something like that is needed to reach the rest.

Think of the number of hours (150,000 protesters, each
having spent 6 hours at a protest, plus two-way travel, is
900,000 hours...close to 1,000,000 hours.

Between and after protests, could some of that time be used in going
door-to-door, holding local events, local town meetings, Town Hall
style debates, teach-ins, etc, that will reach out to the rest of
America?

We offer these thoughts in the hope of critical and strategic
thinking (you can bet that Bush and Corporate America
are always analyzing, playing mental chess, thinking about strategies
and tactics that will make them more effective -- we need to do the
same) -- how can we be most effective with what time we have?


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Other ideas and other resources:
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To practice intellectual self-defense against the flood of lies:

Keep updated on Iraq:
http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Iraq/IraqCrisis.htm

And daily news: http://www.democracynow.org

If you have a fast internet connection: video:
http://www.freespeech.org
(has audio too)

Sign the petition: http://www.noiraqattack.org
See also http://www.peacepledge.org/


10 Things You can do to stop a war on Iraq:

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/iraq/tenthings.html

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