The 1960s-1970s way of protest is no longer effective with politicians not elected by regular Joes and Janes on the street, but by large corporations.

Protests today must hit politicians where it hurts: in their pocketbooks.

To effectively protest the inevitable war in Iraq, we must effectively sabotage the American capitalistic system.

A day or even a weekend of not shopping at businesses whose shares are traded on Wall Street will hurt the president’s war plans much more than 50,000 people marching the streets of Washington, D.C.

And to make this type of protest even more effective, don’t buy gas ever again at Shell, Chevron, Union 76, Arco or any other major gas station. These are the companies that will benefit from a war in Iraq. Buy gas at a small independent station. Although the gasoline comes from the same place, the major oil companies will see their bottom lines shrink.

Let’s set a date for either late March or early April and see if we can gain our democratic voices back.

Contact me: ragwriter1978@yahoo.com

this is gonna sound like an argument. boycotts get a message across, but they'll just print more money...what you are talking about is some of the energy that longterm change will be about, as people begin totally finding substitutes to corporate supply they will find themselves waking up. maybe the ide could be for a boycott that doesn't ever end, and gets progressively more extreme.

like -- economics in america is slavery. for people to start rejecting that in large numbers, to noticable effect, consciousness and awareness of the systems methods must bne spread...here at indymedia there is atechnology bap and lots of americans are still lacking easy acess to computers and thus the truths we have to share...people are approaching that in various ways...i think boycotts are kind of tired, the corporations have gotten thick skinned and it really has to dig deep or else they'll just ignore it.