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well we've been standing on the corner of 2nd and broadway in rochester for two years and it hasn't seemed to do much good.... we have taken parts of winter off... and last month, there was no time or energy... we did have more luck when we had some info - but since we're on street corners i don't think we are allowed to set up tables. we handed out lit in the skyway that is owned by the city (only over the street... both ends are owned by a private business man - i think taxes paid for the whole thing though) and a private security guard tried to run us off... i stood my ground and he went to get his super but never returned (we were only there during the lunch hour)... the group thought i should have tried to win him over to our cause... so it's a mostly older group that's extremely respectful... we've been to tim walz' office about the war... again, i was given the evil eye for asking a tough question... it had taken them a year to get a viewing. makes me wonder about dr. king and his letter from jail about moderates... sorry i'm off and running now... i appreciate your comments and will share them w/a progressive group that i had a potluck w/last night... we had 21 local people show up at a last minute gathering. that's really great for our rural area. so you direction is much appreciated. peace.
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Sherry, it is just the kind of activities you describe that will create real change in this country--- we are all like that one little snowflake... it doesn't amount to much... but, come a Minnesota blizzard and everyone has a new idea about that "one little snowflake."
Personally, I'm convinced that what you describe as your activities is what will bring real change about in this country.
I travel Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan quite frequently... I carry with me a small portable fold-up table I purchased at Walgreens for $15.00... I set up in front of grocery stores, co-operatives, public libraries and post offices and in parks where ever people are with information about peace, public health care and child care with a couple leaflets explaining what I'm doing... my letters to the editor are frequently published in all kinds of newspapers and I often turn those letters into leaflets and sometimes friends write letters to the editor and we combine our letters into small pamphlets.
There is no end to what we can creatively do as individuals working from our living rooms and kitchens to counter the influence of the lies perpetuated and perpetrated by the mainstream media.
In this way, the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party rose to power for a decade in Minnesota and elected two socialist Governors, Floyd Olson and Elmer Benson and a miner from the Iron Range, John Bernard to the U.S. Congress... not to mention controlling the Minnesota State House and almost coming to control the Minnesota State Senate as well as dominating township, county and city governments... including the proverbial "dog catcher."
The wealthy who cling to power want us to believe our activities are useless... they hope we will just "go away." The thing they don't understand is that the injustices they are perpetrating on humanity are so gross that the movements for peace and social justice will continue to grow and flourish like dandelions sprouting up after a warm spring rain... there are a lot more of us then there is of them and the future belongs to those who work for peace and social and economic justice not those who make wars and push humanity towards poverty
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