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DESCRIPTION:Let me start with the bad news: \n\nAcross the world, a movement has been 
 set to crush your rights as an individual of a free nation. This movement 
 is responsible for the poisonning of the land, global warming and hole in 
 ozone layer the size of Europe. \n\nThis same movement encourages the war 
 in Irak, a country who once boasted some of the best living conditions in 
 Middle East, and is now reduced to a starving and decrepit land, who will 
 once again turn into a bloodbath for millions of its innocent civilians. 
 \nNeedless to say, this movement is also responsible for ravaging whatever 
 little hope there was for the people of Afghanistan. \n\nThis movement 
 destroys a land area the size Great Britain every year in the Amazonian 
 Rain Forest, considered to scientists as the lungs of our planet, for 
 converting excess CO2 into oxygen, and whose biodiversity is unmatched 
 anywhere else in the world. \n\nThis movement steals your jobs by enslaving 
 millions of people, most of them children, into manufacturing the products 
 you eventually buy, from cars to clothing, paying workers less than what is 
 necessary for 3 square meals a day. \n\nThis movement supports 
 dictatorships and hires armies to kill those who oppose it in foreign 
 countries like Zimbabwe, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, The Phillipines and 
 Nigeria to name only a few. \n\nThe leaders of this movement see themselves 
 as the rulers of this world. \n\nGovernments can't do anything about it. 
 Not that they would want to, This movement has corrupted it to the point 
 where it is nothing more than its extention. Its public relations dept. The 
 ones that always take the fall, bite the bullet, only to be replaced by 
 other governments that will do the same thing. \n\nThe Press won't say 
 anything because mergers have limited the sources of information down to a 
 few media companies, companies that give different names for the newspapers 
 and TV station as one company would give different names to its many 
 products. Needless to say, the interest of the public is no more. It is the 
 interest of a few shareholders on top of the ladder that also happen to 
 have a good amount of shares in other companies that sell oil, cars, 
 tobacco, guns and pollute the air we breathe, enslave millions to 
 sweatshops....you get the picture. \n\n\nOr do you? \n\nFact is, you've 
 probably heard all of this before. You either didn't care the world you 
 lived in was being killed, like a stupid cow that doesn't make single fuss 
 when lining up to the slaughterhouse...............Or maybe you felt so 
 damn helpless and impotent you simply couldn't even guess where you can 
 make a difference. \n\nIf you're in the second category, which I expect you 
 are after reading this long speech, you feel what I've been feeling and for 
 that alone, despite the fact we don't know each other's names....we are 
 brothers and sisters. We're part of one big family, quietly going through 
 life, doing what our bosses tell us to, paying the rent, eating the food 
 that's loaded in hormones and chemicals, putting some clothes on everyday 
 that was probably made by the same people we pity. We do it not out of 
 choice, but by a means of survival. \n\nAnd it's in this family of the 
 Silently Pissed Off that I call for help today. Because I've had enough. 
 When I don't see my friends losing their jobs, I see them losing their 
 sanity. If they aren't working for someone likely to care less about their 
 hardships, they're getting brainwashed into buying stuff they don't need 
 made by greedy bastards who rape and plunder the same world you and I like 
 to call home. \n\nI go by the handle of Hybrid69, I'm part of an 
 organization called Viral Outrage. And i'm asking you to take part in a 
 historical event. On April 1st 2003, I would like you to participate in 
 Internationnal Stick It To The Man Day. The day where we all choose to 
 fight this evil movement called The Corporation, by not showing up at work, 
 making The Man loose the only thing he cares about....Money. On that day, 
 turn off the power in every major non-essencial appliance in your house, 
 leave the TV off. Take a white rag, write F*ck The Man on it, and tie it to 
 your left arm. Go outside, meet your long-lost brothers and sisters. 
 \n\nAnd talk. Talk about Phase 2. What you want to do so that the world 
 becomes a better place. Enjoy meeting your family, these people you once 
 dismissed as strangers you should never speak to, these people who feel the 
 same helplessness. Speak of all the things that The Man has done to make 
 your life so miserable. You'll be surprised how big this family really is. 
 \n\nBut first, you have to spread the word about april 1st. Send this to as 
 many people you can think of, and remember that time is running out. I'm 
 sure to some of you, this all seems pointless. But letters like this one 
 work....here's proof: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1589133.stm \n\nIt's a 
 link about a chain-letter that was once written, stating you should put 
 Jedi in the census form the government sends you, and with enough names, it 
 would be considered as an official religion. Go on google, type 
 Jedi+Census. \n\nIf a letter sent can make something ludicrous like what 
 came out of Star Wars an official religion, why can't it make this work? 
 Are you inclined to think there's more people pissed at The Man than there 
 are people wanting Jedi as an official religion? \n\nIf so, you know what 
 to do. And I'll see you on the streets, with the rest of our family. 
 \nPeace out. \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/03/18/17243.php
SUMMARY:International Stick It To THE MAN Day
LOCATION:Everywhere
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