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Frustrated Mess
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posted 10 April 2006 10:43 PM

After my experience shivering on a picket line, once, in the dead of February, I have managed to collect just one piece of very important information: A strike is only effective if you withdraw something be it labour or a service or your patronage.

See, imagine autoworkers talking about a strike all the while bolting cars together for sale by one of the big three. You can picture how their demands would not be met, yes?

So, with all these babblers babbling about a strike, all the while babbling, you can imagine wy the management committee is probably sleeping well tonight, yes?

The problem is you are all addicted and can't stop.

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spatrioter
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posted 10 April 2006 10:46 PM

Direct Action: Those who believe that conventional methods to achieve social and political change are slow and inadequate often rely on direct action, a political tactic of confrontation and sometimes illegal disruption intended to attract and arouse public awareness and action. Goldman used the tactic of direct action, for example, when she risked arrest by speaking on birth control before a public gathering. A more recent example of the use of direct action is the civil rights movement in the South in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, for example, African Americans refused to ride buses for over a year in Montgomery, Alabama, in a successful effort to have the seating desegregated. And in numerous southern towns and cities African-American college students staged successful "sit ins" to desegregate lunch counters where previously they had been refused service.

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Bacchus
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posted 10 April 2006 11:24 PM

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Frustrated Mess
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Babbler # 8312

posted 10 April 2006 11:36 PM

"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"
--Henry David Thoreau

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Kevin_Laddle
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posted 10 April 2006 11:39 PM

Here is a site where babblers can reside while on strike:
http://babblestrike.lbprojects.com/

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Bookish Agrarian
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Babbler # 7538

posted 10 April 2006 11:39 PM

"If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope."
-Henny Youngman

Since we're throwing quotes around I thought I'd add my own. Sort of sums up my experience working for so-called progressive organizations.

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