John's Blog

The Election Is Over. The Fight Is Not
"On January 20th, 2005, we're calling for a new kind of action. The Bush administration has been successful at keeping protesters away from major events in the last few years by closing off areas around events and using questionable legal strategies to outlaw public dissent. We can use these obstacles to develop new tactics. On Inauguration day, we don't need banners, we don't need signs, we don't need puppets, we just need people.

We're calling on people to attend inauguration without protest signs, shirts or stickers. Once through security and at the procession, at a given signal, we'll all turn our backs on Bush's motorcade and continue through his speech and swearing in. A simple, clear and coherent message."

Or you can visit this site: "Support Subversion" desisigned by Chris Habib. He accurately points out that all the stupid magnetic ribbons that have become all the rage do nothing to support the troops. He also sees the irony in these pseudo expressions of patriotism attached to large fuel-inefficient SUVs which are in there own way anti-American.

"These ribbons simply make some wholesale merchant wealthy off of the guilt of a population while perpetuating a state of non-debate with respect to the hegemonic interests of america. There is so little sincere discussion of american policy in mainstream media that it's only logical that the gag-rule on debate should also infect advertising. More logical still is that the non-debate has become so ubiquitous that any advertising serving to perpetuate it should be financed by those engaging in the delivery of the message. These ribbons are the wet dream of any merchant of war. If Karl Rove himself did not commission the first batch, I'd suggest he connect with a head-hunter post-haste and add his resignation to the stack."

He offers some great alternative ribbons, along with instructions on how to print them out and install them. And you could visit another previously mentioned site AntiMagnet.com if you don't want to make your own.