would protesting get their attention?

[keepthemhonest]

some person on another post said in Colorado this weekend they are protesting.

[New Earth]

1. protesting what though?

[keepthemhonest]

4. Electronic voting machines with no paper trail

for starters

[sam sarrha]

2. There hasn't been a Good demonstraion since Kent State............

:cry: :grouphug:

[keepthemhonest]

3. what did they do?

[missouri dem]

5. Died protesting.

[MuseRider]

6. Get attention?

If you mean Bush**, no. It will just be a large focus group, or a small one depending on what TV or newpaper or radio report you hear. Would it be important? Of course, it always is important but these guys will pay no attention and the media will marginalize it if the mention it at all. Should we do it anyway? Every chance we get from small, personal protests to large, organized protests.

[keepthemhonest]

7. The American people's attention mostly

and whatever media will show it(don't have much faith in them.)

[MuseRider]

8. There is the big problem.

Whatever is shown will be painted as much smaller than it was and very fringe. I always thought we got good coverage from CSPAN but really, how many of the people we need to reach are watching CSPAN? I am not even certain that CSPAN is going to be different for much longer. I quit watching but from what I have read here even they are changing. :shrug: Still, we have to do it in some form.

[keepthemhonest]

10. what form?

anyway about how many Duers are there ? and how many friends do they know that might demonstrate? I know my Aunt and two cousins plus a couple people at work that might.
How many people does each of us know that have a problem with trusting our voting system?

[Oak2004]

11. We need to stop protesting as theatre for the media, and start protesting

to impact the government.

The single most important place to protest right now isn't Washington DC or even your state capital. People need to protest at their local election offices, loudly and often, and demand verifiable elections. We need to attend county board meetings en masse (or whatever other unit of govenment has the decision making power -- the responsible unit of govenment varies from state to state).

We need to write and telephone and e-mail our very local officials and demand verifiable voting, and refuse to accept any excuses why it can't be done. We need to call their homes, too. We need to make sure the community can identify their election decisionmakers on sight, and we need to haunt them with questions as they sit down at local restaurants, pursue them with discussion when they shop in the mall, and otherwise pressure them as they've never been pressured. They need to understand that they will have no peace until they restore honest, secure voting.

These people have to live among us. They generally don't have the status and power and money to hide behind security gates and secret service agents. They will yield under enough pressure.

Then it won't matter if the news never mentions us. Because the people who really need to know about us will know more than they ever wanted to know.

[politicasista]

9. The media slobbers all over Bush

and NEVER holds him accountable for anything. America is shameful.

[jsascj]

12. They don't care...

You can protest till you drop dead and the Republicans don't care...

They don't care about US and that scares the crap out of me.

Dumbya can barely SAY "compassionate" much less be bothered with feeling it.