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WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 09:45 PM Jul 2019

I'm trying to foment a revolution AND

I need help. We have come up with the hashtag #DCSitInSept6 Go Fund Me.com/DCSitInSept6 facebook page is coming up.
This is our moment. They are consolidating power and Marches, while inspiring, don't move the needle. It's time to let them know this is a government BY the People and the only way they can know this if we are in their faces.

The idea is to bring one million people into the Capitol on Labor Day, the people's day to greet Congress on their return from recess on Sept 7. Then in John Lewis fashion we stay. We sit. We lobby. Of course, the crowd would have to rotate to keep it sustained at several hundred thousand for the weeks it might take.

So far I've reached out to AOC, Ted Lieu, Bette Midler, Cher, David Hogg, Morgan Freeman, Maddow and some others I can't remember in the moment. So far, crickets.

We have 6 weeks until Congress returns and time is really of the essence. The UN report states we have 18 months to keep global warming at it's current level, after that; it's the highway to Hell. I researched and here's my column on the results

eureka.news/free-parking-77/

this is the most important take away.

In 1972, MIT programmed a computer model of our then current American lifestyle that has spread around the globe; it predicted the total collapse of planetary civilization by 2040. The model says we are on track; but, physical evidence points to a more rapid decline.

The climate crisis rages worldwide with ever hotter, longer droughts and fires, floods surpassing the 100 year mark time and time again; the world’s population continues to burgeon having doubled since 1970 to our current 7.7 billion people.

A 1960s experiment with overcrowded mice showed two things: one; they stopped reproducing and two; they became cannibals. Without radical change (which doesn’t seem likely) we are dooming our children to very ugly deaths within the next 20 years.


Those of you on twitter, please help trend #DCSitInSept6

So, let me know what you think. Do you care? Am I just being overly something or other? Do we have the will?

Some of the things needed right now are posters for print and social media, social media influencers, organizers, money for permits and all the other things something like this will require. I met a woman who's working on the permits now. We can do this, if we do this.

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I'm trying to foment a revolution AND (Original Post) WhiteTara Jul 2019 OP
A permit for a sit in at the Capitol? jberryhill Jul 2019 #1
Great. Let's just play tiddly winks and write WhiteTara Jul 2019 #2
You said you met a woman who is "working on the permits" jberryhill Jul 2019 #3
F Jerry! I have to go and change this now WhiteTara Jul 2019 #7
. jberryhill Jul 2019 #8
Rut roh. cwydro Jul 2019 #9
Protecting our children from overpopulation is interesting jberryhill Jul 2019 #10
Lol. cwydro Jul 2019 #12
... dweller Jul 2019 #4
I hope you can garner some significant support. Keeps us appraised. triron Jul 2019 #5
I think this HAS cilla4progress Jul 2019 #6
I suggest you plug into some established organizations if you want to go to the Hill StarfishSaver Jul 2019 #11
Looks like it may be cilla4progress Jul 2019 #13
You can stop abortion and homosexuality all you want, LuvNewcastle Jul 2019 #14
Keep us posted! Tipperary Jul 2019 #15
Any updates on this? cwydro Aug 2019 #16
Nothing is happening WhiteTara Aug 2019 #17
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. A permit for a sit in at the Capitol?
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 09:53 PM
Jul 2019

That’s almost as bullshit-laden a proposition as the fairy tale about an MIT computer predicting the future in 1970.

This reminds me of the “Enough is enough” performance art back in 2016.

Anyone remember that horseshit? https://www.democraticunderground.com/1251770162

No, you are not getting a “permit” for an assembly of a million people in the Capitol.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. You said you met a woman who is "working on the permits"
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 10:24 PM
Jul 2019

What experience does she have with that?

“The idea is to bring one million people into the Capitol on Labor Day, the people's day to greet Congress on their return from recess on Sept 7.”

You want to have a sit-in on the 6th, to greet the returning Congress on the 7th, on Labor Day which is the 2nd.

If you are soliciting funds for this, then you might want to answer basic questions, like, how much does a permit for a million person sit-in at the Capitol normally cost. Or, perhaps look at a calendar.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
7. F Jerry! I have to go and change this now
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 10:59 PM
Jul 2019

I read the calendar wrong F F F* okay. Yes, the woman whose name is meaningless to you works in this dept. But the date is the stupid part! Thanks

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. .
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 11:12 PM
Jul 2019


I didn’t ask you her name. I asked you what is her experience, since you just met her.

She doesn’t know when Labor Day is either?
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
10. Protecting our children from overpopulation is interesting
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 11:32 PM
Jul 2019

Seems a little counter-reproductive, though.

triron

(22,007 posts)
5. I hope you can garner some significant support. Keeps us appraised.
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 10:41 PM
Jul 2019

I haven't done my homework on what you say so I can't make a judgement.
But don't give up.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
11. I suggest you plug into some established organizations if you want to go to the Hill
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 11:38 PM
Jul 2019

Organizing a Lobby Day for 30 people is complicated enough. Organizing a million person protest at the Capitol - or anywhere else - is undoable on your own.

Don:t try to do this. Find out who is already organizing protests and join their effort. It will be more effective and much less frustrating and disappointing for you.

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
14. You can stop abortion and homosexuality all you want,
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 01:23 AM
Jul 2019

but you'll have to pry those baby's-back ribs from my cold, dead fingers!

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
17. Nothing is happening
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 10:23 AM
Aug 2019

The interest in DOING is nil. Talk is rampant, action is scarce. We are doomed. I truly believe that.

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