When the University of Michigan was defending its racist "Affirmative Action" policy, the local republicans put on an Affirmative Action Bake Sale, with prices that were regulated according to the color of the person that was purchasing.

The anti-abortion folks had massive pictures of aborted babies from a local hospital that they put up in the middle of the Diag (the big brick square most students walk by at least once during the day).

Lots of people had sidewalk chalk...that got to be rather hilarious during the election years.

Love the idea of that bake sale. I was gone from there by then, I think, but I read about it.

Oh yeah, and thanks for reminding me of the abortion clinic thing. I had that in my notes yesterday and forgot about it.

All I can think of for #3 is "Every kiss begins with Kay." I hate their commercials.

Protest slogans
-Who would Jesus bomb? Pretty common bumper sticker.
-Chant--"Hey hey, ho ho, [fill in blank] has got to go!" I've heard this at EVERY protest I've been to.

Ways people protest:
-Angel action. Started at Matthew Shepard's funeral in response to Fred Phelps' band of morons. Angel action protesters wear giant wings and stand silently with their backs turned, blocking out Phelps &Co.

-Black-out days (popular on college campuses). All people of a certain race (LGBT community does this too) wear all black and do not speak a word for an entire day. The idea is to demonstrate what the world would be like without them.

"And no, there's no fence-painting involved,..."

...and people wonder why I adore your writing. Heh.

Hey, don't forget Gray Davis getting plastic dinnerware in the mail when he signed a bill banning "plastic knives".

Haven't seen it, read about it somewhere.

"Make Love Not War" was used during the Viet Nam war (I'm dating myself).

My favorite all-American protest story is here:

"Texas man stages pig races to protest Islamic neighbor's plans to build mosque"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241897,00.html

Protest slogans: In my corner of the world, the Unions (When in strike) love to chant "So, So, So... Solidarité!" as an union rally chant. They also loves to take nursery songs and edit the paroles to add their grievances or to lampoon the opposing side. Sometimes, they even bring colorful costumes and make scenes or they wear huge caricatural heads of ministers. It make the whole thing looks like a carnival.

Annoying someone to death by music is also a tactic. I saw a union putting up a truck with speakers right in front of city hall and let the music play loudly during business hours.

Public workers also love to protest by not wearing their uniform. We have cops right now who are wearing cammo pants and red caps.

Stickers are also a weapon for the unions. They love to stick them outside (or inside, if they have access) the offices of those they are in strike.

Here, the Anarchists found a debilitating way to manifest. They form a group and they just walk around, wrecking everything looking corporate. This mess with the tactics of the riot squad.

Talking Riot Squad, we have our yearly Punk-Police punchfest rally here in Montreal. There's a collective (Anarchist) group who organize every year a anti-police brutality walk who always turn into a brawl with the Police's Riot Squad. Every Bloody Year...

1. Protest slogans: In the 1980s, there was this (German) bumper sticker against racism I really liked: "All people are foreigners. Almost everywhere." (Translated from: "Alle Menschen sind Ausländer. Fast überall.") Soon thereafter someone became more explicit, using the same bumper sticker layout for this: "All racists are a**holes. Everywhere."

2. Ways people protest (against the Vietnam war, in this case, by cheering the draft dodgers): In the sixties, there was this poster showing lightly dressed (or even nude) women with the slogan: "Women say 'Yes' to men who say 'No'." (I think even Joan Baez was on the poster, but I'm not sure.) I found that way of protest very subtle when I first read about it in the eighties, because it shows the draft dodgers as the ones who really "get the girl" while undermining the image of the "brave and manly soldier" who usually does.

3. Advertising lines for romantic stuff: 20 years ago I was in the London subway on a very long escalator (going down). On the wall next to me, there was an endless row of small advertising posters, just on eye level. The very last one said: "If you think this is deep, try our poetry department." Followed by the address of a book store, of course. (Not sure if this counts for "romantic stuff", as poetry is not considered as romantic as a huge diamond. I don't know why this is so...)

Good luck with your book, Amy, but now I have to go back to my own double deadline (Two projects due, one on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, but I think I am going to make it...)

Hmm. How about removing the "W" key from keyboards and trashing offices because your candidate didn't win?

One of my favorite advertising lines hails from a 1960s campaign for Lanvin's Arpège: "Promise her anything... but give her Arpège."

Not exactly romantic but there's always: "My wife. I think I'll keep her." (Geritol, I think.)

Can't remember the company ... didn't somebody do "A diamond says you'd marry her all over again"?

Ahh if you want funny ways at how people protest. Check out the "Land of the Morning Calm" where the Koreans are always pissed of about something - Japanese Text books, beef, rice prices, Free trade, Japan, American Soldiers, Chinese claims to 2000 year old kingdoms and umm Japan again.

Check out the following page.

http://www.who-sucks.com/people/the-exciting-world-of-south-korean-protests
(Warning some disturbing and some funny images)

I think my favorite is finger chopping. That is the most serious. I mean you are crippling yourself. Let's hope you are not a professional protester - 10 big protests then you are done. Maybe not you could then go on to toes, then hands, feet and end off with a stumpy hari-kari.

followed one the links on the page I listed and came up with a few more

http://www.kyotojournal.org/kjselections/koreanprotest.html

1.

Give Peace A Chance
We Shall Overcome
Sidney or the Bush (from Peanuts)

2.

Vapid YouTube videos (Motrin)
Boycotts
Petitions
Parades / Marches

1.
"Peace through superior fire power." (Painted on the back of my bass player's truck)
"War is not healthy for children and other living things" on an old poster I had

2. When we were in high school, we protested the cafeteria food by staging a sit-in at the flag pole on the school lawn. We all just sat there, playing guitars and singing, while smoking pot. Then there was the time we filled all the gas tanks of the machinery that was being used to build a new shopping complex with sugar. That was fun! o.O

Don't know if this is helpful, but the ad campaign for Lexus in December really bothers me. They want people to buy someone a Lexus as a Christmas gift. WTF? It's the Lexus "December to Remember" campaign

For the mink and for the fox,
smash their windows, glue their locks!

Right to Life, your name's a lie
you don't care if women die!

The coolest protest I ever saw was in San Francisco. There's a street called "Bush Street", and the day after the election, or maybe it was the day after the Supreme Court ruled, all the signs had been covered and now read "Puppet" instead of "Bush". It was the same exact font and shade of green as the sign, it really looked like the signs, I was even confused for a minute.

When I was in 9th grade the school did a walkout and speakout in protest of the Rodney King verdict.

There's the French dude who bulldozed the McDonald's... don't forget him!

Thanks, everybody, for all this stuff. P.S. Some of those Korean protests were really disturbing!

Sorry I've been absent, Amy, but I am deeply focused on trying to fight back a Socialist Coup d'etat of my country of Canada. There's no violence yet but it's very scary for those of us who care about democracy and the will of the people. I wish it were April 1st and I was just kidding about all of this.

Anyhow, here in Vancouver we have protests all the time. Some of the more colourful ones have included:

- People hoisting themselves up in trees to "protect" the widening of the causeway through the famous Stanley Park. To these people, the lives of drivers were a whole lot less important than cutting down a few trees.

- Every year or so a father (as in "dad") dresses up in a costume and either stands on a bridge or climbs up it. This is to draw attention to the dismal plight of father's rights in Canada.

"Love rocks"

a little play on words from Zales.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!omg which was hilarious!!!