I admire your enthusiasm, and anyone who tries to do this, but personally I cannot do this, as much as I must travel during the week, one tank in my car wont last me the whole week.

It is a good idea, but I don't think it will have the desired impact, because not enough people will be involved.

sorry to be the pessimist.

This is easy, I'll do it! I can do that for at least 24 hours. I'll shoot for a whole week. I think even Delacroix can do it for at least 24 hours. Fill your tank the day before. Get all of your neccesaties before hand and boycott for 24 hours. That is very doable. I personally would like more radical camping in the street kind of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, but this is a great start.

Not one damn Dime. I like it. So does it start on inauguation day and continue for a week? Try for the first 24 hours and then go as long as you can for the week following?

I think most people could commit to a 24 hour time period, all it takes is a little preparation.

Is there a website sponsoring this?

I think it should be changed to: "Not one RED cent."

Do you think the media even cares your not buying food or anything during Inauguration. Please, hate Bush all you want, but why punish yourself? I mean, you didn't vote for him did you? WHy give him the satisfaction of punishing yourself.

How will we get to the inauguration day protest if we don't buy gas? Some of us live more than one tankful away.

I hate to be a killjoy but...

It's a great idea in theory, but in practice you'll just have to buy twice as much the week before or the week after the coronation, so how exactly does this affect anything? I'm not trying to be a smartass, I swear.

I live in California and will be visiting relatives in Ohio over the holidays and have already volunteered to help out in any way I can with the recount there. Let's channel our energies into something positive and quit trying to go negative. And believe me, I have never felt so negative as I have since Nov. 2. I still have faith that the majority of people in the U.S. voted for Kerry/Edwards and there voice was stolen.

Let's do something that will truly make a difference. Let's act like "born agains" and attempt to convert a repug a week. Show them the true path to righteousness. You'll have to choose carefully, and try and find one with a heart though.

It shouldn't be hard. Apparently repugs are stupid and willing to believe any lie, so we may have to avoid the truth (j/k). Use sound logic and have facts in support of your argument and avoid using repug tactics like calling people stupid like I did above (at least not to their faces).

I haven't been able to look a repug in the face since Nov. 2nd, and have been avoiding family/friends/co-workers at all costs. We need to stop doing this and make them face their false repug beliefs and understand how much damage they have done to democracy. Let's stop being pussies (like I have been, and many others like me) and be proud to be Liberals again. Nail them with facts everytime they spew some filth they heard from Rush/Bush/Rove. We have to overcome blind faith with truth. We have to MAKE them see what's really going on right in front of their noses. Speak freely (while you still can) and often. Don't be afraid of hurting someones feelings. The truth often hurts.

Sorry for my rant, but change always starts at home. Screw 2008. Our time is now.

We should protest by wearing a black burka. Symbols of mourning and oppression.

There is a good idea...honestly, these are all good ideas. If you can, don't buy anything on Inauguration Day. If you have to buy things, find another way to protest. Wear black. Wear red. Don't wear anything. Sport the flag upside down. Lower it to half mast. Wear a burka. Whatever you want to do, do it. Get together and figure something out. Just make sure to do something.

How about if we made a list of all the places like McDonald's and Wal-Mart and the others on that list that gave all their money to the Repugs in the election and get millions to boycott JUST THEM for a whole week that way their would still be a few places we could go for everyday needs. That would make it easier on everyone. Or how about we pick the top five corporate sponsors on the Repug list and agree not to buy anything from them again until they quit promoting facism?

That is also a good idea...boycotting them for a week is good. Boycotting them for good is better. The best is when you boycott them until they change, but still don't shop there because you don't want to.
My first day on the job at Target, they told us that if a person has a positive shopping experience, they'll tell one person, maybe two. If they have a bad one, they'll tell at least ten people, usually more. We can use that ratio to our advantage somehow...I'm not sure how, it's almost 5 am.

Pass the word. This is more than red/blue. Great information on social and enviromental concerns, brands owned, etc.
This site can not only help with blue and green shopping but to find responsible companies to invest in.
http://www.responsibleshopper.org/

Not trying to be nasty, but this is a really poorly conceived idea for reasons others have already brought up (you'll have to buy more beforehand; many people can't afford to not go to work, which is what they'd have to do if they can't pay for the bus or subway that day, etc.)

Here's something that might be better. On CD, instead of sitting in your house or apartment holding a protest that might be well-meant but that will be ultimately useless, why not spend the day writing letters?

By writing letters, I mean writing letters. Not printing off the computer. Not using Microsoft Word and a mail merge program to slap out hundreds of the same thing. I mean take a few minutes, research the addresses of those corporations or political groups you are trying to reach. Include some news organizations while you're at it.

Send a hand-written letter. Print if you have to. Don't cross out. Pretend you are trying to impress the person on the other end with your ability to write a letter without it looking like a fourth-grader did it.

Start it off with something polite but firm like "I hope you realize that it takes time to write a carefully worded letter by hand, instead of just cranking out some generalized slop on the computer."

Then you can say something like "I'm writing because I disapprove of your corporation's policy of [torturing gnomes, eating the skin off the top of pudding, drinking from the milk carton, etc.]. I disapprove of it so strongly that I have decided that I will no longer purchase any product from your company until you change this [gnome torturing, pudding-skinning, milk-drinking] policy."

Remember, all the e-mail petitions you sign DON'T MEAN A THING. Wow! You click a mouse a couple of times. Big fat hairy deal. Do you think a politician reads those? Of course not. An assistant, during a briefing of the morning e-mail is probably asked something like this:

"Anything important? Anything I should be aware of?"

"A few people e-mailed in some petitions."

"For God's sake. I said important."

If you can't write a letter, can you dial a phone? Pick up the phone, call your politicians up and ask what they intend to do about some issue that actually matters to you. And don't just call out of the blue. Sit down and come up with some questions. Do some research.

Again, I'm not trying to be nasty with this. But I look at all the opportunities the Democrats lost to really stick to the issues and the substantive matters, and now we've got a country that's going to have four more years of policies that favor people who are already at the top of the pile. And we've got a Supreme Court that's about to age out probably four justices in the next four years. Those retirements mean that the SCOTUS will probably have twenty or thirty years of conservative interpretation. Think about that. I'm 36. I'll be close to retirement. Some of you will be dead of old age. The rest of your lives will be spent under a Supreme Court of young, healthy ultra-conservatives.

And you know what made that happen? A bunch of people who spend all their energy every day running around on the Internet thinking all their IMing back and forth mattered. The real power's out there. The real power's in the SOS' office in Ohio. And I'll bet you Blackwell doesn't spend ten minutes a day on his office computer unless it's to do actual work.

That's how you win.

Getting off my soap-box.

when writing letters to the editor or elected officials i DO mind my p's & q's. i DO check spelling and i don't use "cutesy" affectations such as lowercase or all uppercase. when i post here, i write in an informal way because i feel here i am among friends, freely expressing ourselves. i do not feel the need to be "formal" or to write as if it were a thesis to be graded or judged by.
and, while you disagree, i do feel that the people here have come up with some great ideas. i will be standing - with my back to *, in silence. i hope many others will stand with their backs to him as well. and i hope many more will make their presence known with whistles.
i hope each of us finds a way to express themselves, a way they feel good about, a way that empowers them. and from there we work forward until america is again a place we can be proud to call home.

and my family and i won't spend one RED cent the week of the election, because it makes me feel GOOD just thinking about it. and hell - isn't that a good enough reason?

not one RED cent, not one DEM dime. off topic, and yet not really off topic - i ordered a wonderful bumpersticker today: Live Simply, so that others may simply LIVE.

If I learned anything in college (and I like to think that I did, hopefully, or I wasted a shitload of money for nothing), it is this: No matter how small an action, it has a reaction. Lots of small reactions have large reactions. Think about this: almost 120 million people voted in this election. It is a small action, in relative terms, but in numbers, it is quite a reaction. Even without numbers, any action has an effect. One person not shopping somewhere won't make much of a difference, but a few people will make a difference. It is all about the numbers, and small or large, they matter. A few hundred people's votes decided the 2000 election. Less than 50 is the deciding factor in Washington's Gubernatorial election. 19 people carried out the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
As far as boycotts go, even small amounts of people can make a large difference. For instance, a few years back there was a movement to boycott sponsors of Rush Limbaugh. While probably a few thousand people sent e-mails to sponsors, quite a few of the sponsors responded very soon saying that they were going to pull their advertising and that the apologized to the boycotters. It works. Honestly, telling people you aren't going to spend money is usually much more effective than actually not spending the money.

Get Your War On
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

Economic resistance WILL WORK, make a conscious effort daily to reduce non essential spending.
Do we all know that Dell Computer gave "W" $250,000.00 for his inaugaration ??

http://www.inaugural05.com/donors/

I guess resisting dell wouldn't kill anyone eh??

Google some of those other contributors and see how far their tentacles reach into your pocket.

Hey you have to do what you have to do, I know that seeing that dell logo everyday and then watching dubya's ceremony and realizing that my purchase directly help pay for the festivities (sic)............

Gotta make your butt itch don't it !!.................

regardless of who Dell contrubuted to, I would still return them! Dell = poor quality! Now though I am an Apple fanatic, I do understand that Macs are pricey and not everyone can get one (I need it for my graphic design and web design.) So if I were to get a PC there are two options. Either buy all the components and build it myself, or buy one from a smaller computer manufacturer, like eMachines. Or if money isn't an issue, but you want a Windows based x86 machine go with Alienware.

Ok I think our ranting on you is punishment enough. So save your shins from the torture. :)

What will work is to boycot major oil companies, what we need to do is boycot say Exxon for a whole month, than move on to Shell etc. etc. 1 month at a time it would cripple them.

then who would we get gas from after they are all crippled? would that not end up biting us in the butt?

Yeah I can see him now with crown and a long red robe covering his flying monkey wings, and on the robe a giant "DELL" logo !!!

Makes my butt itch!!