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----- Featured Action of the Week -----
Fifth week of August, 2001
Getting started on the long walk
This week's action looks into the longer range. As I mentioned a few weeks
ago, I believe that it is time to begin working on a more outgoing brand of
activism. I'll still be offering you the "five minute shot in the arm," but
there'll be more as well -- and the smaller part will be intended to
contribute to the larger activity.
You may have heard about the Walk for Capitalism, scheduled for December in
cities around the world. If not, consider this your introduction to an
event that deserves your support and participation -- and perhaps, if your
city is not yet participating, your active involvement as an organizer.
The anti-capitalist left has long been effective at making hay with protest
and demonstration. You've watched them surge down the streets of every
major city, holding aloft huge "capitalist pig" puppets, protesting the
economic reality that puts them in Birkenstocks instead of bare feet,
delivers them in comfort by air to the sites of their protests, and
provides the very calories that they funnel into "spontaneous" protests.
The protests are, of course, planned months, even years, in advance and
financed with the dollars of productive but gullible fellow travellers.
The Walk for Capitalism _celebrates_ enterprise and technology. It's
intended to be a clarion call for lovers of freedom to stand up and proudly
declare what they believe in. And so far, coordinators in 55 cities around
the world -- on every continent except South America and Antarctica -- have
volunteered to bring the event together on December 2, 2001.
What can you do to help? Well, lots of things. Let's start with that basic,
minimal-effort prescription that you're used to, and work up from there.
Put the Walk for Capitalism banner on your website, linked to the event's
home on the web. Easy, huh?
Now that you've soothed your need to do _something_, let's talk about doing
_something more_.
Is there a Walk for Capitalism event in your city? If so, can you be free
on December 2 to participate?
If there isn't, can you spare the time and effort to become a coordinator
and _bring_ the Walk for Capitalism to your city?
Do you have ideas for a better protest, or can you create art, poetry,
stories, etc. for use on the Walk's site or in its events?
Visit the site. Promote the event. Participate in the event. If you can,
help make the event _possible_ in your area.
See you on December 2.
The Walk for Capitalism site:
http://www.walkforcapitalism.org
Grab the Walk for Capitalism banner for your site:
http://www.walkforcapitalism.org/graphics/banner3d.gif
List of participating cities:
http://www.walkforcapitalism.org/#cities
Subscribe to the Project Leaders Action Network and volunteer to help:
http://prodos.com/bulletin/planet.html
Action of the Week archive:
http://www.free-market.net/features/list-archives/activism/maillist.html
----- Alternate Actions -----
The Freedom Action of the Week Club: Commit yourself to doing one
action per week. If the action above doesn't appeal to you, consider
one of the alternate actions at:
http://www.free-market.net/features/action/
If you know about another action or organize one of your own, e-mail
Tom at tlknapp@free-market.net so we can tell the rest of the group
next week.
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