Creative direct action ideas

[Moorlock]

 More intriguing is the story behind a number called "Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter." "It's about a guy in Florida who seized the Capitol building after breaking in an unguarded front door" during the Bush I administration, explained Jello Biafra. "[He] demanded to speak with, among other people, Chuck D, Timothy Leary, Ice Cube, Lemmy [Kilminster of Motorhead], and me. This is an actual story. [The police] panicked and surrounded the Capitol with SWAT teams and everything else, because they didn't know if it was a whole group of people or just one, or whether the person was even armed. It turned out he wasn't."

http://sniggle.net/Jello/jb3.php

[Moorlock]

"You stimulate the opposition to react so that it overpowers itself, becomes its own enemy, and you escape in the process. It's the same technique we used in Chicago during the demonstrations. And it's true that I've studied the technique. You have to learn to communicate. You study your environment - in this case, the electronic jungle of the United States - just the way a Latin-American revolutionary studies the back streets of Buenos Aires or a Vietnamese studies the jungles of Indochina. You learn your terrain and how to use it." -- Abbie Hoffman

http://sniggle.net/Hoffman/hof5.php

[Moorlock]

Remember the great put-on that smoking banana peels will get you high?

You can find a "bananadine" extraction recipe in The Anarchist Cookbook, and the legend was allegedly the inspiration for Donovan's folk-rock song "Mellow Yellow" ("E-lec-trical banana / Is gonna be a sudden craze"). The band Country Joe & the Fish claim to have passed banana joints to their audiences.

One story I heard makes the hoax out to be a yippie prank planted in the Berkeley Barb in 1967 and designed to throw the authorities into a tizzy wondering how they were going to crack down on the banana trade.

http://sniggle.net/banana.php

[Moorlock]

Hugh Troy had a friend who worked for Con Ed or such and along with some other friends the dug up part of the street in front of St. Patrick's while the Police directed trafic around them. After digging for a while they loaded up their tools leaving the hole with the police directing trafic.

He bought a park bench and would go to the park and sleep on the bench until the police would attempt to chase him at that point with the help of an accomplace they would pick up the bench and walk off. When stopped by the police and brought before a judge he would produce his receipt.

When overwhelmed by worthless paperwork as an Army lieutenant during World War Two, Troy invented a new form, the "Flypaper Report," which was supposed to list the number of flies caught per sheet of flypaper per week, and periodically total and average these numbers. He submitted carbon copies with his regular reports to Washington as a gag.

To his surprise, his peers in other units started pestering him about where he got his flypaper reports, as their counterparts at the Pentagon had started to complain that they were missing from their reports!

http://sniggle.net/troy.php

[toowm]

Keep it going!

At this rate, this thread will be longer than the Ed Brown thread in only 5 days!!

[Kat Kanning]

Bumping this thread too.

[Raineyrocks]

Bumping this thread too.

If someone lets me know what creative action ideas we're supposed to be coming up with, I will try to come up with at least 54 of them, in no specific order of time though.

Please I beg of you don't make me read the whole 7 pages, I'll just get confused anyway.   

Who knows maybe I'll shock everybody and come up with some great stuff once I know what it's suppose to be about.  I'll guess, new ways to protest? New ideas for spreading the word on something? Okay, I'm drawing a blank after those guesses.