All these ideas are very creative.
We are not sure how this relates to the counter-protest we are
organizing. We will be marching with those who oppose global Islamo-
fascist terror and Socialist class warfare.
If anyone is interested, on Wednesday night, during the 6 to 8 pm
block Aleks will be having her second radio appearance with Brian
Sussmann on KSFO 560 AM.
This will be a large event, no matter who's side you are on. The
Russian Jewish Community has put a lot of energy and money to
organize this counter-rally. We will be joined by other groups
betrayed by Islamist terrorism. We firmly believe we are on the side
of Liberty and hope you join us, but we are not going to change the
focus of our efforts.
Aleksandra & Robert Fliegler
Harland,
With the exception of the "well dressed" part, this sounds
like a
terrific idea. (I think work clothes, or the kind of minimal attire
you'd wear to a car wash, would be more comfortable and practical.)
This also presents an opportunity to collaborate with various
ethnic
communities who might wish to hold their own flag-washings in
conjunction with the LP. (I assume you had an American flag in mind
to
be washed). For example, the Free Tibet people might join us to
wash a
Chinese communist flag and recite a list of grievances relating to
human rights abuses and lack of democracy in Tibet. Iranian
dissidents
might do the same thing for the flag of Iran (I've seen them
holding a
well-attended candle-lit protest here in SF). Last year the local
Vietnamese community was up in arms over the Board of Supervisors'
decision to cancel a resolution honoring the South Vietnamese flag.
The
boneheaded supes had inadvertently passed the measure without
realizing
it was the flag of the anti-communist government that fell during
the
Vietnam War. But most local Vietnamese are anti-communist, and
might
enjoy the opportunity to wash the flag of the current government of
Vietnam while reciting its many shortcomings.
I think some advance work to dirty the flags up with mud and
such
would also be in order, so that the activists can be seen to be
making
the flags noticeably cleaner. We could even declare
an "International
Flag-Washing Day" and encourage other groups to engage in similar
actions elsewhere around the world.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
Outreach Director, Libertarian Party of San
Francisco
>> As you all know, the International A.N.S.W.E.R. is having a
rally to
>> commemorate the first anniversary of the war in Iraq. They are
>> running a
>> National wave of rallies titled END COLONIAL OCCUPATION FROM
IRAQ TO
>> PALESTINE.
>
> Would anyone like to organize a "flag washing" under a
Libertarian
> party
> banner on March 20? Last year, a flag washing protest in Lima
Peru
> made
> network news here! The idea is to wash the flag instead of
burning it:
>
> *Well dressed people raise the sponsor's banner, in this case the
LP.
>
> *An announcer begins the narration of what they are doing and why.
>
> *The participants take off their coats and roll up their sleeves.
>
> *The narrator begins to enumerate grievances against the
government,
> the dirt, bloodstains, oil stains, and gunpowder, soiling the
flag,
> (eg the Patriot Act; the monstrous deficit; pre-emptive war; no-
bid
> contracts; duct tape, plastic sheets, and small-pox vaccine,
instead of
> real protection; Information Awareness Office; School of the
Americas;
> US troops protecting Japan; Draconian drug laws; bad schools; etc
etc)
>
> *As the narration continues, the participants bring a large
container
> of water (an old-fashion washtub and washboard would be
wonderful!),
> unfurl a flag, and start scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing. They
take
> turns scrubbing while the list is read over and over again, until
> every camera has gotten a good shot.
>
> *Then the announcer starts to explain how the sponsor's
administration,
> (a Libertarian government) will be so much better. (eg lower
taxes;
> peace; privacy; secure borders; fewer AIDs cases; no
fingerprinting
> to see Carnaval in Rio; etc etc)
>
> *The participants wring out the flag, attach it with clothespins
> to a rope, and stretch out their clothesline. Then they put
their
> coats back on, hand out contact literature, and carry the
clothesline