You know what it all reminds me of: The big explosion of media publicity for the anti-war movement that occurred back in the fall of 1965 when there was the first International Days of Protest against the Vietnam War on Oct. 15-16, and the big headlines was for SDS's anti-draft activities. The supposedly "negative" publicity BUILT SDS into a mass movement--and membership applications poured into SDS headquarters on 63rd Street here in Chicago faster than the staff could open the envelopes--thousands and thousands of them, all wanted to join up with the "seditious" draft-dodgers! Congressional committees announced investigations, the FBI said that SDS was "dangerous," etc. and NO ONE could ignore the fact any more that there was a big, growing, active, and controversial anti-war movement.
What if on a selected holiday, all across the country, thousands of people, even if only one, two, three, or six per place "disrupted" services ACROSS the country, and denounced the hypocracy of institutions that claim they honor the "commandment" thou shall not kill while failed to take any effective action against the U.S. government's war against the people of the world, its war for empire, the fact that, in the words of MLK it is STILL the biggest purveyor of violence in the world today while draining the life out of the population of large portions of the globe it plunders? What if some Catholic priests were to start saying to the Congresspeople who attend their services: fillibuster against the war, vote to cut off the funding, shut down Congress till the war ends, or get the hell out of our church!
What if people targeted local business, selecting a few and told them--you will be boycotted, you will be leafleted every day, disruptive demonstrations will be organized INSIDE your business until you take an official stand against the totally unacceptable war, put up anti-war posters in your business, put an anti-war statement in each of your ads?
too many people "protest" without being willing to take on any "risks."
If there were 100,000 people in this country willing to say: enough, we will now do what it takes to end this war, millions would start to think. If there were a million, they could shut this country down.