Sign ideas for DC protest Saturday?

[teriyaki jones]

I'm taking the bus from Chicago to attend the march in DC this weekend and having a hard time deciding what to put on my protest sign. You know, so many slogans, so few signs!

So I'm soliciting your ideas, DUers, especially from those of you who won't be able to make it and want to be represented. I'll probaby make several and share them with my fellow riders/protesters.

Some of the things I'm considering:

INVESTIGATE
IMPEACH
IMPRISON


MAKE ALTERNATIVE FUELS, NOT WAR

IMPEACHMENT, IT'S NOT FOR BLOW JOBS ANYMORE

GET OUT OF IRAQ
STAY OUT OF IRAN
FIX AMERICA--IT'S BROKEN

I know there are thousands of good bumper sticker slogans that have been featured in posts here. After I get your suggestions I'll probably post a poll. (This is what democracy looks like?!)

I welcome your suggestions and hope this post doesn't sink like a stone!

And as much as I like it, Helderheid, I think "Ooga, Booga, Smooga Wooga" is just too much of an inside joke!

Thanks for your help.

tj

[stonecoldsober]

1. I would make one small change

IMPEACHMENT, IT'S NOT JUST FOR BLOW JOBS ANYMORE

and that would be my number one choice!

[BonnieJW]

4. THAT is fabulous!

You are brilliant and should go into business writing bumper stickers.

[teriyaki jones]

5. Sorry, that's what I meant!

And I'm a proofreader, jeez! When I went to the March 18 protest last year here in Chicago, my spelling-impaired friend made our signs, and I was sooo grateful to find a sharpie in my purse so I could correct her spelling (especially since I actually got interviewed for the local TV news!).

tj



(edited to add the image of the bumper sticker I made that was subsequently stolen off the back of my car!)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. more...

[teriyaki jones]

15. I particularly like

Operation Enduring Stupidity!

Thanks, Laura!

[bdamomma]

30. that is pretty good.

[kwassa]

44. How about "Withdraw, Bush, Your Father Should Have!"

rude, or what?

[bdamomma]

2. the main idea of this demonstration is to get our troops out of Iraq

I know there are many issues to tackle out there, but the number one reason for this demonstration should be:

GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ OR WE WILL BE A FAILURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[demnan]

11. I'm with you, this is about the war

Not our hatred of Bush. (We can have a march about that when the war is over).

We've done some area protests and the best ones we've had are "PEACE IS PATRIOTIC" and "BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW". I also like "SUPPORT THE TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME"

Also this weekend if you see a large converted schoolbus with the words Prince William Peacemakers wave, I'll wave back. :)

[teriyaki jones]

17. Impeachment may be inextricably tied

to ending the war. If you saw or read about Cheney's interview with Wolfenstein Blitzkrieg yesterday, it's pretty clear that they have every intention of doing whatever they fucking please as long as they're in power.

tj

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. EVICT BUSH/CHENEY! n/t

[radfringe]

6. hand out paper plates

with impeachment written on them - because like plates, impeachment belongs on the table

[teriyaki jones]

7. NICE--I like it!

I may also make stickers to hand out. I have the technology, as they say!

[no_hypocrisy]

8. If I were going, I'd be carrying a GI Joe nailed to a cross. n/t

[teriyaki jones]

9. Whoa, that's intense!

When I went a year ago for the World Can't Wait protest (which was very poorly attended and I was surrounded by Communists on my bus) one of my favorite things was a little effigy of * with his pants on fire. I know I have a pic of that somewhere . . .

Is it "kosher" for a little Jewish girl to carry a cross?

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Sure, it's an international, ubitquitous sign of peace.

Or torture. It depends, but it's still "kosher".

[WolverineDG]

31. How about a barrel of oil instead? n/t

[TahitiNut]

43. Caption: "Our Troops Are Dying For Bush's Sins!!!"

:thumbsup:

[The2ndWheel]

10. I know you're not listening

but thank you for allowing me to vent! 1, 2, 3, 4, we don't want your stinkin' war!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Ideas...

[ThatsMyBarack]

13. That Bush LIAR....

....looks like a police sketch. Creepy! :scared:

[helderheid]

16. Personally (and I'm a little different) I'd have side one say "Pelosi For President 2007 - Whether

She Wants it or NOT!" and side 2 OOGA BOOGA SMOOGA WOOGA (but that's just me!)

:D

[teriyaki jones]

20. I'm all for that sentiment!

And I knew I'd see your Ooga Booga Smooga Wooga here (I realize most of you have probably never seen me post, but I'm here every day!)

Thanks, Helderheid!

tj

[underpants]

18. Hooray for our signs

I wish I had used that back in Oct of 2002

[teriyaki jones]

21. You mean from this…?

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

[underpants]

22. NO

Man I am so lyrically deaf

All these years I thought it was SIGNS

well that would work too really.

DAMN!

[teriyaki jones]

26. That's a great idea for a fun thread someday . . .

'fessing up to what we thought the lyrics were to various songs from our youth!

[underpants]

28. -

IT has been done several times but it is always worth another revisit.

One of the ones that came out in the threads of the past that cracked my up and to this day I hear THAT now instead of the actual lyrics was

Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" which was misheard by several DU'ers (and others out there on the web) as:

Tony Danza
Dancer for money
do what you want me to do

:rofl:

Mine

From "Sugar Magnolia" -The Dead

"pays my tickets when I speed" became "Feeds my chickens when I sleep"

as well as that Chumbawumba song :eyes:

[teriyaki jones]

33. LOL!

When I was just a little girl, I had a Dick Clark album of 1957's biggest hits. One of them was a song that I just discovered was called "Beep, Beep" (I always thought it was called "Little Nash Rambler"). Anyway, it's about a guy driving a Nash Rambler, trying to keep up with a Cadillac so he could ask the driver a question. I always thought the question was, "Hey buddy, how do you get this car out of Sagoneer" (which I thought was a town in Michigan or something). Of course, the punchline really was "Hey buddy, how do you get this car out of second gear"! Didn't figure it out until probably 30 years later (because the damn thing was still rattling around in my head!)

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_playmates/beep_beep.html

[NI4NI]

23. Liar! Liar! Iraq's on Fire

[teriyaki jones]

27. Good one! n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

24. TIME FOR YOU TO GO!

[BurtWorm]

25. Retire Bush-Cheney Early

America's Right Wing: The Treason-Based Community

Hogwash Cheney, You're Out of Line!

[kentuck]

29. Lies Are Forever..

Trust your heart and conscience.

[LiberalEsto]

32. You're not PRO-LIFE if you're not ANTI-WAR

A little comment to all the anti-abortion marches who came to DC this past Monday.

:evilgrin:

[teriyaki jones]

35. Yep, that's the biggest hypocrisy of all

Well, I guess it's hard these days to determine just what is actually the BIGGEST hypocrisy, but this one is definitely in the top 5.

[mopinko]

34. OHIO!

OHIO!!

[teriyaki jones]

36. As in "Four Dead in Ohio" . . .?

or as in the recent recount convictions?!

Actually, Mopinko, I know this is really your thing, buttons and such. Are you going to the protest? I know you're from my neck of the woods.

[mopinko]

40. sadly, no

my health really cannot put up with these bus trips. i do not travel well. i have done a few of them, but they take a toll. especially when it is cold.
are you going/taking a bus? i should try and hit the bus line-up. i have some signs made from my button designs.

but ohio, both as in 4 dead in, and as in the theft of '04. it could be- we know what you did in ohio. i was at a cindy sheehan appearance out in batavia this spring. there were some college rethuglicans there trying to shout her and other gold star families down. i was yelling back- ohio, ohio, we know what you did in ohio. i got a few glances that were clearly full of fear.

[teriyaki jones]

42. I'm taking the bus . . .

I did it last year and it wasn't too taxing for me (though the company was somewhat weird).

I plan on getting on in Elmhurst as it will be easier to get there and park. I'm in Mundelein (pretty far north) and my experience driving into the city on a Friday afternoon is usually pretty much of a slo-mo nightmare!

It would be great to meet you if you show up for the send-off there. Will you be covered in buttons like a political English cockney? I'm going to check out your website again (looked once a long time ago--you're good!).

tj

[mopinko]

49. i just sent off an email to the chicago organizer

to see if i can get a little support, or at least permission to do it downtown.
maybe if that looks f'ed up, i could do the elmhurst pickup point. cops tend to chase peddlers downtown, and my peddlers license got hosed up.
yeah, mundelein is a long way. hope you can get in for a meetup sometime.
and thanks for the compliment. double points for compliments from people in the biz. yeah.

[teriyaki jones]

52. I know they're planning send-off rallies

at both departure points, so you may be able to blend in to the crowd. It certainly would be a good audience! There's a guy who always comes to these events with his buttons, which I'm sure he prints on an inkjet because they run in the rain. I still have the rain-streaked IMPEACH BUSH button on my jacket from last year's march. I'm hoping for better weather this time--I swear I've never been so wet in my life, not even in the shower!

[mopinko]

53. little short black fella?

i have seen him around. i was gonna work out a deal with him, but we never got hooked up. i'm not sure if he is still doing it, i haven't seen him in a while. i heard his wife died. maybe murdered?? don't remember exactly just remember is was something very sad.
i don't think there is a rally for the downtown pickup, but i don't know. their pickup point is not a good location for a rally. hope they get back to me.

[teriyaki jones]

54. nope, a big white guy, 50 or so, I think he's a vet

I think I know some folks who are involved in the send-off rally downtown--I'll try to get some info for ya.

[teriyaki jones]

37. shameless kick

[shadowknows69]

38. No signs

bring pitchforks and torches or copius amounts of tar and feathers. If you must go the sign route try this: get a broom stick and somehow hand a pair of novelty handcuffs off it so it jingles when you walk.

[teriyaki jones]

39. Pitchforks and torches . . .

may get you a nice cushy cell in a Halliburton detention center!

[shadowknows69]

51. Sure I will someday

n/t

[alfredo]

41. Look over my

site and see if you find an idea or two. see the "anti bush posters" link in my sig line. They are made for 8X10 paper, but with a bit of ingenuity you can scale them up to work for you.
Go to this thread for info on scaling up your images
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x37006

Here's what I use: http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/

[teriyaki jones]

47. Thanks--I'll check it out

I'm a graphic artist by trade, so I'm pretty good at blowing stuff up (hmmmm . . . that's the kind of talk that can get you arrested;-) ).

I actually took a tiny web image of Bush and Hastert in those ridiculous lab coats and goggles (a classic) and blew it up to poster size for my Halloween display. It worked, amazingly enough!

[alfredo]

55. That is so funny.

I remember the low tech way of blowing up images. Draw a grid on the original 8X10 of, let's say 1/2 inch squares. Then on a 16X20 draw a grid of 1 inch squares. Then draw the image using the grids as a guide. Let's hear it from high school art class!!!!

[TahitiNut]

45. Impeach! Remove! Indict! Convict! Imprison! (Rinse. Repeat.)

War Criminals belong in prison, not in the White House.

[teriyaki jones]

48. Another good one! n/t

[Skidmore]

46. How about

NO MORE LIES
NO MORE WAR
....NO MORE!!!

[demrabble]

50. Here's Some Ideas:

1. GET OUT OF IRAQ
GET OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE

2. BUSH/CHENEY:
YOU'RE FIRED

3. WE ARE THE FACE OF AMERICA

4. YOU STOLE THE ELECTION
YOU LIED
YOU'RE FIRED