How many DUers could make it to DC for as long as it takes to stop this madness.

[lonestarnot]

Just pick up and go. We can sleep in the streets if necessary. I am willing to see what dems decide on this but I would like to know if I'm off my rocker or how many are really willing to do such a thing.

[lonestarnot]

1. kick

Not even 1 person. Yeah time to get that passport renewed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I have a bunch of friends going

They are going to Fort Worth this weekend for the republican straw poll (to demonstrate) and then on to DC. Boy I wish I could go with them.

[lonestarnot]

9. I can round up people from here. But we need to fill every street, every fucking street.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. I have 2 kids to feed

can't even go for one day. :(

[lonestarnot]

6. Damn it. In the 60's people didn't starve, everyone fed one another.

Couldn't someone take care of them for a while?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. clarification...

They could probably take care of themselves, but I still have to be able to pay the rent... let alone the cost of getting there from the west coast. It's just not feasable for most people, no matter how badly we want to go.

[lonestarnot]

15. go and stay, staying is the hard part, getting there we can do.

Staying involves paying mortgage or rent when one gets home. 2 jobs for a while, maybe 3.

[Ron Green]

4. I think it'll take about three times as many as are registered on DU

in the streets, 24/7. That would do it.

[lonestarnot]

7. Yes, but how many DUer? Just would like to see. Because if DUers can't or won't

you and I know that we couldn't convince joeblo.

[Mythsaje]

5. If even a fraction of the registered members bought a copy of just ONE of my novels

I'd be able to afford the time off from my day job AND pay for the trip from the West Coast. In that case I'd not only go to DC, but I'd pitch in to make sure as many people as possible had food and water while there.

As things stand now, though, I can't afford the time off work.

[lonestarnot]

8. hmmm. you capitalist. LOL

[Mythsaje]

10. Starving artist is more like it... LOL

Okay, not starving, but definitely struggling. :)

[lonestarnot]

11. Ok book title is?

Where?

[Mythsaje]

12. Sword and Shadow by Saje Williams

available from amazon.com, borders.com, target.com, mybookstoreandmore.com, and my publisher's website samhainpublishing.com.

I can provide direct links if necessary.

:)

[lonestarnot]

14. I will check it out. How much?

[Mythsaje]

16. Depends on where you go...I think Target.com has it for eleven-something...

You could check out my website too, to see what it's all about.

http://www.sajewilliams.com

[lonestarnot]

24. I will do it today.

:toast: :donut:

[lonestarnot]

32. OK so I didn't do it yesterday. Looking now.

[fed-up]

17. I wish I could, but barely making enough w/my flea market book booth to cover food :( nt

[lonestarnot]

29. Damn it! That sucks.

[fed-up]

31. but, if I manage to get out of my toxic hazmat house and * is still in office I will park my *

somewhere with others that are able to protest!

[sanguinivorous]

18. If I had any savings I would...

...but I'm paycheck to paycheck, and I have little enough confidence in my job security as it is.

[lonestarnot]

30. I understand.

[monmouth]

19. I can get there by train (I love the train) from W. Palm Beach to D.C.

I'm itching to do this. Did it in the '60's with two little kids (now in their '40s and think I'm nuts....).

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. Umm...

There are plenty of people sleeping on the streets of DC already.

[lonestarnot]

27. Yes and not by choice.

[ThomWV]

21. I COULD and I WOULD

Its 200 miles from here and I am retired and in good health - not a thing in the world to stop me.

[lonestarnot]

28. Well Thom WV that's only a couple of us so far.

[annabanana]

22. "sleep in the streets "?

Just what do you think the median age of DUers is?

[lonestarnot]

25. Lookie, I'm old, but I can do it.

[H2O Man]

23. I sometimes wonder

about the potential for a tent city, similar to what Martin planned in '68. Of course, that would result in people going to jail. And so I think the question is one of filling the jails, which is also something Martin recognized as sometimes necessary.

How many people would be willing to go to jail? For how long? Would they engage in real hunger strikes, rather than the imitations that a few activists have attempted to substitute in recent years?

[lonestarnot]

26. Whatever it takes.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

33. I would rather fight

than go peaceably into the internment camps set up by this regime.