Grocery Store Silent Activism

[AmandaRuth]

The next time anyone is in a line at the grocery store, casually pick up a copy of the globe and after a minute put it back with the backside out, or put another mag right on top of it. It may seem juvenile, but they deserve it with the crap they print about Kerry. Plus it feels good and gives others like us a sign that we exist and we are pissed. It is OK to fight back even in small baby steps.

[Earth_First]

1. Im more of the vocal activist

BUSH/CHENEY SWEATSHIRT! WHICH SWEATSHOP WAS THAT MANUFACTURED IN? BURMA?!

not really, but sometimes...

[gyopsy]

2. I've seen some of that crap

I can't belive some of this garbage. They talk mostly about "past love affairs" that never happened!

[Lindsey]

3. I do it almost at every opportunity...

very discreetly I put something over them (I loved it that Mel Gibson was slammed on one of the covers). I also rearrange books at books stores. Once again...just doin' my part!

[Kool Kitty]

4. I do that bookstore thing, too.

It's easier now that most of the books are anti-Bush. I know it may be childish, but it makes me feel good.

[Lindsey]

5. It's not childish at all..

I've actually replaced entire displays and then stood by and watched. People saw the anti-* books and were buying them. Visibility is VERY important and buying the anti-* books, increasing our visibility, etc. can make a difference. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." Margaret Mead

[Deja Q]

7. Spot-on!

Visibility is the key.

Surreptitiously putting a liberal book, to the left, of the repuke book on the Top 10 Bestseller list helps too...

[Az]

8. Creativity is even more important

The idea is to take the message being forced into our society, rework it, and jam it back into the stream of consciousness. Creativity gives the repackaged message more impact and will stay with those that observe it.

[Az]

6. This is called Culture Jamming

There is a very rich and developed practice behind this. Adbusters magazine is largely based on this concept. See them here http://www.adbusters.org/

[AmandaRuth]

15. Culture Jamming....

I like it...

[NightTrain]

9. Every little bit helps

Sometimes you gotta do stuff like that just to keep your sanity. :hi:

[Bog Frog]

10. Seem juvenile? Nay, is.

And some clerk has to waste his time going through to straighten them out. Juvenile indeed. Reminds me of the time I smashed a couple of Ding Dongs in the wrapper and put them back on the shelf. I was eight years old.

[Az]

11. Wastes his time?

Oh, you mean he would be spending time at the park if he were not reshelving magazines?

Corporations have made our visual environment a sea of advertisment and marketting. We are continuously inundated with these messages. Some believe it is necissary to turn over these displays in our public square.

[Bog Frog]

16. "you mean he would be spending time at the park . . .

. . . you mean he would be spending time at the park if he were not reshelving magazines?"

No. Shelving magazines is a job he has already done. He would be spending time (as you yourself put it) RE-shelving them. IOW wasting time.

I don't argue that we see an empty wasteland of corporate advertising before us. It makes me sick. But I disagree with this method of "protest." To me, it's juvenile. In my opinion there are better ways of protesting: like writing this rag and telling it you do not buy it or patronize its advertisers because of how it trashes John Kerry.

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[BiggJawn]

13. So? I got 9925 posts. What diference does THAT make?

And I've been an opinionated pain-in-the-ass since Post One.

No harm in swinging for the bleachers in your first at-bat, is there?

[Bog Frog]

17. bummer, seems I missed it.

Oh, well.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Reminds you wrong

You destroyed somebody else's property. luvamericahatebush didn't.

[Bog Frog]

23. good point

But it wasn't the fact that I destroyed something that reminded me of the magazine action. It was the childishness of it.

[AmandaRuth]

14. oh geez...ohhhh poor babe

a clerk has to rearrange the mags.... Thats right, fall in line everyone, even the smallest show of disobedience will be denied. Maybe if enough people do it they will quit carrying these crap rags or at least put them out of sight.

okay, maybe that will never happen, too bad because, for one instance, what they did to JFK and J is gonna pale to what will be coming up for JJ and Carolyn in the next few years. I shudder to think about what they will (and are gonna do) print about JFKerry (crooks and liarstm) and Teresa.

[Bog Frog]

18. "Thats right, fall in line everyone, even the smallest show of

. . . disobedience will be denied."

You've attributed to my post an attitude that's not there, dear.

[Donkeyboy75]

20. You could also wipe your ass with it,

but it doesn't even function well as toilet paper.

[Narf]

22. OUCH!

[Narf]

21. What happened to freedom of speech?

Isn't the Globe entitled to print whatever trash it wants? Aren't you then free to neither read it nor buy it? You are certainly free to encourage your friends to do likewise but to actively attempt to block the access of others to a free and open press sounds like a move straight out of Ashcroft's playbook.

[slackmaster]

24. I can't believe anyone would take the Globe that seriously

Don't they also print articles about the Amazing Frog Boy?



And I don't mean to impugn you or your actions, luvamericahatebush, but I don't believe such a sleazy tabloid has much influence on people.

[AmandaRuth]

25. Well, a sincere sorry to anyone i have offended....

As for people taking the globe seriously, maybe they do and maybe they don't. Does the constant barrage of slanderous spew against anything/anybody democratic coming from just about any media outlet you can name, legitimate and not so legitimate, color the publics perception? l believe it does. I could name a dozen examples, but i won t. Personally I am really tired of it, and I don't think a press/media that has a political agenda to push (or disparage) is anything close to "free", but that's just me. I think I will keep turning the Globe around.

[slackmaster]

26. Speaking only for myself...

I assume by default that anything printed in the Globe, National Enquirer, Weekly World News, etc. is pure fiction.