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Orange Alternative (Pomarańczowa Alternatywa) is a name for an underground protest movement which was started and led by Waldemar Fydrych (sometimes misspelled as Frydrych), then commonly known as Major (Commander of the Festung Breslau), in Wroclaw Poland in 1983. Its main purpose was to protest peacefully by using absurd and NONECNSICAL elements. By doing this, Orange Alternative participants could not be arrested by the police for opposition to the communist regime. It organized happenings and painted ridiculous graffiti on walls. It was the most picturesque element of Polish opposition against communism. Among other things they organized happenings which demanded "Freedom for Santa Claus" and painted big orange smiling dwarfs on buildings. It suspended activity in 1989, but reactivated in 2001 to organize the action Vote for dwarfs: Only dwarfs can save the country!. The movement carried on Avant-garde ideas, with roots going back to Dadaism. This can be seen through its use of child like tricks and pranks to oppose the national party.

Brief History of Dwarves

On June 1, 1987 dozens of dwarves in red hats danced on Wroclaw’s city square giving lollipops to children and singing. As a result, many of them were taken to the police station for “breach of peace” and “littering” as some lollipops had dropped to the ground. Then, an action Who Is Afraid of Toilet Paper? followed as a peculiar reaction to the socialist shortage of goods. A very serious statement claimed that “Socialism with its bizarre distribution of goods and eccentric social position has advanced people’s dream of toilet paper... Aiming to satisfy the imperative of progressive thinking we will come to Swidnicka Street on October 1 at 4 p.m. Let everyone bring toilet paper. Take it out slowly and give out to people bit by bit. It should be a fair division. Let the fairness starts with the toilet paper.” A trade mark was below the statement and a postscipt assuring everyone that, “We can wipe the government’s one too.”
The repressive army and police suffered from the oranges most of all. All of a sudden, the Polish president, Jaruselsky received a competitor – a general named Pumpernickel who began to issue absolutely idiotic orders published on the walls. For example, “United Headquarters of NATO and Warsaw Treaty Organization announce the World Arms Race Day on May 9.” March 1 was announced Spy Day and leaflets signed by General Pumpernickel urging spies of all countries to unite appeared on the walls of Wroclaw buildings. People in black with dark glasses with KGB and CIA badges, ear trumpets and funnels asked passers-by if they had any secret documents. On the Day of the Polish Army, Pumpernickel ordered that Orange Alternative hold military maneuvers code-named Melon in Mayonnaise under the slogan, “Warsaw Treaty Organization is Bastion of Peace.” On November 7, the October Revolution anniversary, the Oranges saddled wooden horses, pulled down red hats, and staged a battle of Budenny’s army. They inscribed on their banners, “We support Boris Yeltsin,” “We demand an eight-hour workday for the secret police,” “Red Borshch.” One of slogans was, “We want complete rehabilitation of comrade Leo Trotsky.” The latter caused a report of West German TV about a Trotskyite demonstration. The police detained 150 people. The police chief shouted via a radio transmitter, “Snatch the Red!” Red Oranges in their turn had fun presenting the police and soldiers with cigarettes, sweets and flowers and, of course, tangerines.
On March 8, 1988, the Polish authorities caught Major and he received two months of imprisonment for a street farce in which he had focused on feminine hygiene with a slogan saying, “No Pershing! Yes hygienic tampons!” After three weeks, his case came to trial. His witnesses, all in orange, and his girlfriend, also in orange, who was pulling along a wheeled toy-lion made of plastic, gave such idiotic evidence that the court had to announce recesses several times. Finally, Fydrych was acquitted. As a result of a six-hour session, the court decided that distribution of hygienic tampons “cannot be qualified as a crime in accordance with Polish laws.”
Later, Fydrych said, “The western world will understand the Polish situation much better as soon as they learn that I was imprisoned not for reading opposition books or articles but for distributing tampons.” Gradually, the Orange Alternative became a mass movement a slogan came forth saying, “Dwarves of all countries, unite!” Naturally, the Polish experience was enthusiastically accepted in other socialist countries. The Party of Fools (the Republic of Latvia), Chuchhe Beams (Kiev), Estonian Royalist Party, and other appeared on Soviet territory and little by little disappeared in the the 1990s.
read more: http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?roc=2006&cis=2

Gallery : http://pomaranczowa-alternatywa.republika.pl/expo%20eng.html

MSM LOOOOVE such ridiculus stuff.
You could make demontration in name "draft for McCain" or "Hannity for president" or whatever.

"The Greenpeace style" can be your inspiration too. They can make NEWS with 10 people enchained to SOMEthing :)

PS. Please let me know if there are mistakes in my "english".

There are a number of excellent thinktanks who are very good at advocacy of Ron Paul's ideas. Some of them are listed below:

The Ludwig von Mises Institute
www.Mises.org

The Future of Freedom Foundation
www.fff.org

The Foundation for Economic Education
www.fee.org

The Randolph Bourne Institute
www.antiwar.com

The Rockford Institute (publisher of Chronicles Magazine)
www.rockfordinstitute.org

Fully Informed Jury Association
www.fija.org

The American Free Press
www.AmericanFreePress.net

American Nationalist Union
www.anu.org

John Birch Society (publishers of the New American)
www.jbs.org

While these groups are not associated with the Ron Paul campaigns (either Presidential or Congressional), in any way, they are indispensible to promoting the awareness in our fellow Americans necessary for us to help Ron Paul in the fight to reclaim our Constitution, our Country, and our freedom!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
David K, Meller

many of us were too inexperienced to know that the only way to win with grassroots alone is to canvass, canvass, canvass. I did not truly understand this until it was almost too late. I am sure many here did not truly understand this.

Ron Paul did not win in my district because I failed in my duties to deliver it to him. I converted people I knew...but alas, I don't know very many people. I hope I will be given another chance in my lifetime to support a candidate who means as much to me as Ron Paul does.

"It does not take a majority to prevail. But rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." ~Samuel Adams while plotting the Boston Tea Party.

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The next time RP speaks specifically on the economy, he should bring a briefcase with $1,000,000 in Monopoly money. He can make an analogy with the U.S. dollar that neither one is backed by anything.............and that both come from China! (I assume Milton Bradley makes their board games in China).

As all of you know, we are exposed to many advertisements prior to viewing the feature film at our local theatre. I am in the process of contacting my local Cinemedia marketing representative and ask him what the cost is for showing a 30 second – 1 minute video of Dr. Paul. I’m guessing it’s not that expensive because many local small businesses advertise at the theatre. I think showing a Ron Paul campaign message to a prime time (after 7:00pm, weekends?) ‘captured’ audience has benefits for our movement. I’ll let everyone know when I find out the details.

Cinemedia is a nationwide chain of movie theatres. The regional sales lead coordinator for my area is Jennifer Solimene. Her phone number is 303.792.8669 and her email address is jennifersolimene@ncm.com. If HQ is interested in a nationwide ad, Cinemedia may offer a price discount depending on targeted marketing areas.

I think this idea has potential since movie theatres are declining and looking for other ways to generate revenue from advertisements.

traditional christian values. What did Jesus Christ teach?

If Dr. Paul wants voters who identify themselves as chrisitians to vote for him then he needs to make it clear that he is a true christian as well as a true conservative. Non-violence, anti-war, pro-liberty, anti-death penalty, against torture, charity for those in need.....

Vote RON PAUL 2008
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It might be considered illegal, noise pollution -- that sort of thing:

BUT I can remember (as a kid) vans and cars driving around the neighborhood ADVERTISING certain candidates using LOUD SPEAKER set up, and saying the person's name and 'vote for' and giving the date and a little message like 'America's Only Hope'. That kind of thing.

And of course the vans and cars were all decked out with the candidates smiling photo, and flags, and streamers, and such.

Yeah, probably illegal -- especially in populated areas where people might actually hear this message. Anybody know about this?

New Party Formation - new excitement - Goodbye GOP - RSVP!
New Campaign Staff that knows how to play the game-aggressively
New Money Appeal from larger base

Other than that, it's been fun (frustrating) trying.