My Activism
Being that I have a huge drive for political philosophies and the current election, I've been wanting to be more of a political activist than I have been. I didn't get the chance to go to Washington D.C. last Saturday for Ron Paul's March because of finances, and the fact that there was no way I was going to drive to D.C. by myself. This Tuesday, however, I got a chance to start my activism on a small scale.
There's this ultra liberal woman that lives in my apartment building on the first floor. She's all about the community, and is all about Obama '08. She decided that this upcoming Tuesday she is going to host a get together for people to come in support of Obama. Well, she sent everybody invites for it by sliding the invites under everybody's doors, her usual method. When I got home, I saw the flyer, and I decided to respond in a public fashion. I made an example of her flyer by crossing out the information she had on it, and scribbled pro-Barr/Libertarian Party information on it. Then, I stuck the revised flyer on the board in the apartment lobby. Apparently, this caused a stir.
Then, on Wednesday, I decided to up the ante and actually make a flyer promoting Barr. Since my editing of the Obama flyer was taken down, I put up my newly designed flyer in its place, next to the invite posted by the ultra liberal. This morning, I put some grayscale copies of the flyer on the table downstairs next to my Barr '08 flyer. Hopefully, some people will be interested enough in wanting something different besides Obama and McCain and will take the flyers and research Barr. It'd be fun if come Tuesday, half of the building was in support of Bob Barr. I know I put Barr's name in the minds of two unsatisfied women in my apartment building, so who knows what will happen. This might just be the year that there is noticable change.
My beautiful flyer.
I figured that it makes no sense for only myself to have the rights to copy and distribute this beautiful flyer, I decided to make it public. I know that most people don't have Adobe Illustrator, and since most people DO have Adobe Acrobat Reader, I decided to post a color version and a grayscale version in PDF format for people to print and distribute. I found that if you don't want to take the time to download the file and print it or put it on a flash drive to get it printed, Office Max will open the file directly from the web and print it. At least, that's what I was able to do.
This is just the first wave of my activism. Hopefully, I'll be able to do more and more to help the cause of liberty. If I don't speak up now, I may never get the chance to before being silenced for good. I'm not willing to let that happen, and neither should anybody else.
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Good for you! Every bit counts. I tend to tell a lot of people about the LP and Barr in conversations — people seem genuinely interested, but my sense is that when it comes down to it, they feel that they are "throwing away their votes" if they go third party. If more people would vote their conscience, instead of for the perceived 'winners,' we'd see some real change. Keep on with the great work you're doing!
That's always been my point. If more people stopped thinking that they were wasting their votes, we'd see significant change. It's just that stupid, "I'm just one vote" mentality that people seem to have. It's foolish.