{"article":{"id":20471,"heading":"Day of Non-Participation","author":"Nick","created":"2002-10-23 00:51:16","modified":"2002-10-24 00:38:52","last_modified":"Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:38:52","article":"<p>Activists in Columbia, MO are planning a Day of Non-Participation to occur the day after the war breaks out.  <br>  <br> We are encouraging workers to skip work, students to skip class, professors to cancel classes, businesses to shut down, consumers to not shop...  <br><br> It would be great if this were a nationwide action!  <br><br> There are tons of actions that can be done alongside the non-participation...demonstrations...marches...you could do a reverse strike and serve Food Not Bombs all day or some other sort of proactive community service thingy...if your local representative\/senator voted for the war do a sit-in in her\/his office...whatever you want  <br><br> feel free to email me with thoughts or to coordinate  <br><br> Nick  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"nicktaylor@planet-save.com","link":"","address":"Columbia MO","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The day after the war starts...strike!","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/10\/20471.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":20501,"heading":"Great Idea! Pass it around","article":"Did you post this on the global IMC site? This is a great idea that should definitely happen. If we could actually convince people all over the country to get in on it, that would really make a statement.\r\nI live in NYC, and to have 9 million people stop their daily routines....\r\nCool.\r\nYou should contact Critical Moment about this, too.","author":"determined to do SOMETHING","parent_id":20471,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-10-23 15:51:44","modified":"2002-10-23 15:51:44","fileurl":""},{"id":20515,"heading":"Hell Yeah!!","article":"I was just talking about this same idea with my friends last week.  We thought it would be cool if everyone planted a tree that day ... but whatever positive thing someone wanted to do would be cool!  We were gonna call it &quot;National Walk-Out Day&quot; and schedule a day to do it, but I like the idea of doing it the day after (if\/when) we strike an attack -- still hoping not though ...\r\n\r\nLet's start passing the idea around!!!!!!","author":"Cheri","parent_id":20471,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-10-24 00:19:10","modified":"2002-10-24 00:19:10","fileurl":""},{"id":20517,"heading":"Great American Walk-Out","article":"Ok, I remember wrong   ... We called it \r\n&quot;The Great American Walk-Out&quot;\r\n\r\n(I like that better) ... ;)","author":"Cheri","parent_id":20471,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-10-24 00:38:52","modified":"2002-10-24 00:38:52","fileurl":""}]}