Nice concept!
Folks have been thinking about how to counter the Conservative Media Juggernaut, a.k.a. The Mighty Wurlitzer.
The Daily Dystopian pointed me at a grass-roots technique promoted by Question W.
dystopia explained it simply:
To participate, just wear a simple question mark of some sort, every day, everywhere you go.
… The object of the game is to make people ask, "What's with the question mark?", thus creating opportunities to ask them your questions, whether about tax cuts or the forged Nigerian documents or the Patriot Act or Cheney's meetings with the energy industry or whatever your priority issues are, and to generate discussion with your fellow Americans about things that matter.
The ultimate goal is to get everyone in the country talking about all the questions that aren't being addressed by this administration before Election Day 2004.
I did something similar once. Several years back Dr. Calvin 0. Butts, III, Pastor of The Abyssinian Baptist Church in NYC, suggested all Black people spend a specific day at home, neither working nor spending, to demonstrate the importance of Black folks to the economy of NYC. Because I had committed to a meeting at work the day he requested participation, I decided to go inmy double-breasted silk-tied finest … but wearing sneakers. The point was to get people to ask why. Most assumed I had foot problems, of course, but I explained exactly what I was doing. Even had a little speech prepared. Had some real interesting conversations that day.
So I know this sort of thing works. And informed conversation with someone you trust has as much impact as a press release.
And (in a way) best of all, the parties responsible for the idea will be familiar to those that do a lot of blogging.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/13/2003 07:35:08 PM |
