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- NO TIME TO BE NICE!
O.K., let's just pretend that a nuclear confrontation is
going to happen tomorrow. Let's just pretend that the bombs that
were built over tile years are going to be put to use. All the
world will be destroyed, UNLESS WE ALL DO SOMETHING! Wouldn't you
do all that you could, no matter what it took, to stop this
catastrophe from happening?!
Well, wake up! This all could happen tomorrow. SO NOW IS THE
TIME TO TAKE ACTION AND STOP THIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE...
BUT IT'S JOT THAT EASY...
Since childhood we learn to resign our conscience to someone
or something else. In church, God makes decisions for our lives.
In school, teachers make decisions tor us. At home, parents make
decisions for us. And, of course, we are constantly told that we
should "trust our leaders" and let the government make decisions
for our lives. We are never allowed to live with our own conscience, decisions, authority or commitment to what we feel is right. If we ever saw that the future of our lives lies in our
own hand's, then we would see our responsibility to take the future into our hands and change the path it is taking now!
We wouldn't sit passively by while politicians make decisions for us, we would take action now!!!
BUT YOU'RE ALLOWED TO CHANGE THINGS!
And we're allowed to protest by marching down the street
led by police and with a permit from the' government we're
protesting We'1 feel rea11y good about what we've done and so will the people in power. We have our consciences relieved
("well, at least we tried") and those in power use the protest to
brag about how free we are ("look, we allow protest").
"There is no protest if permission must be sought and rules
abided by. We have allowed the form that our protest takes to be
defined by those we protest against. Thus our protest is
drained of it's power because we do not have the power to make our protest eltect1ve "-Julius Lester
But what if people became truly effective 1n shutting down
some government action (war maneuver, conference, celebration,
etc.) instead of just "symbolically" protesting it? The reaction
of the government would not be pleasant (just check out the
sixties)I Only when protest is kept within certain boundaries is it allowed. We must take our protest out of these boundaries, become more creative, and become truly effective... YOU ALONE CAN DO IT. THERE IS NO AUTHORITY BUT YOURSELF...
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