[Peace] Fw: ABSURD RESPONSE Invites YOU to a PARTY FOR PERMA-WAR...

Margaret E. Kosal nerdgirl at s.scs.uiuc.edu
Fri Oct 18 17:59:53 CDT 2002


Since i know that there are a number of CU-folx going to Washington, 
thought this might be of interest.

Namaste,
Margaret

> > PLEASE REPOST! PLEASE REPOST! PLEASE REPOST! PLEASE REPOST! PLEASE REPOST!
> >
> > ABSURD RESPONSE Invites YOU to a PARTY FOR PERMA-WAR
> >
> > October 26TH in Washington DC!!!
> >
> > WHAT: A festively ironic, theatrical feeder march to join up with the
> > large anti-war rally/march next weekend in DC. (read below for details)
> >
> > WHERE: Assemble at the LARGE PHALLUS (Washington Monument) in Washington
> > DC. From there we'll join up with the main march at the Vietnam Memorial.
> >
> > WHEN: Gather at 11am the morning of October 26. DON'T BE LATE!
> >
> > WHY: Because we feel like if we don't laugh once in a while we'll lose
> > out minds.
> >
> > Calling on all Jugglers, Fire Eaters, Freaks, Anarchist Clowns, Radical
> > Cheerleaders, Billionaires for Bush's War, Drummers, Drag Queens, Church
> > Ladies for Choice, Radical Rockettes, Gospel Singers, Musicians, Chicks
> > and Pricks for Perma-War, Puppetistas, Babes for Bombs, Students for An
> > Undemocratic Society, Church of Stop Bombers, Reclaimers of Streets, New
> > Kids on the Blac Bloc, and anybody and everybody who thinks that this
> > war is absurd -- but ABSOLUTELY NO MIMES!!!
> >
> > In the tradition of the first Absurdists, who wrote and performed and
> > drew and danced in response to the horror and devastation of World War,
> > we will create our own Theater of the Absurd in response to our Idiot
> > Boy King's relentlessly moronic and insane drive to pitch the world into
> > a state of permanent warfare.
> >
> > The festivities will commence with a ritual "Bowing Down To The Mighty
> > Phallus," followed by a "Hoisting of the Balls of War" presided over by
> > Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Bombing Gospel Choir. From there
> > it will be a free-form, multi-faceted, moving theater piece which anyone
> > with an imagination can plug into.
> >
> > WHAT YOU CAN DO: Bring costumes, Bring INSTRUMENTS and NOISEMAKERS of
> > all kinds, bring posters and banners (sample slogans pasted below. Feel
> > free to use these or come up with your own). Be prepared to mock the
> > Axis of Oil without mercy.
> >
> > SLOGANS:
> >
> > -Regime Change Begins At Home
> > -OBEY
> > -All Hail The Idiot Boy King
> > -Attack to Defend
> > -Wag the Dog
> > -We Have Always Been At War With Oceania
> > -ExxonMobil (or whatever) Flag over the legend: "Try Burning This One,
> > Asshole!" or "These Colors Don't Run!"
> > -Free the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
> > -God Hates Peace
> > -Jail the Trees
> > -Peace is Terrorism
> > -Bomb Harder
> > -Make War Not Love
> > -No Justice! No Peace, Either!
> > -Before We Build New Weapons of Mass Destruction, Let's Get Some Use Out
> > of the Ones We Already Have
> > -Bring Back McCarthyism
> > -Tell Us (US?) What to Think
> > -War IS Globalization
> > -More Bush Family Vendettas (Dukakis: You're Next!) (or Noriega, Perot,
> > Buchanan, Clinton, Gore)
> > -We Want Gulf War III - Starring Jenna Bush!
> > -Annex Mexico
> > -We (heart) Halliburton, Harken, Enron, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell,
> > McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Microsoft, etc.
> > -God Bless (same as above)
> > -Pre-empt Germany, France, Democracy, The UN, Congress, The Constitution
> >
> > *Because we can't "Endure" another "Operation" for "Freedom" or
> > "Democracy" or any other Noble-Idea-Twisted-Into-Orwellian-Knots-War.
> >
> > *Because everyone from James Baker III to Nelson Mandela to CIA director
> > George Tenet thinks this is dumb.
> >
> > *Because every time Bush opens his mouth it sounds like he's playing
> > Dungeons and Dragons.
> >
> > PLEASE REPOST WIDELY!




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