WHAT: Carnival Bloc, Absurd Response and Creative
Protest

WHEN: Saturday, October 26th, 11AM

WHERE: Washington Monument, Washington DC

WHY: Because this war is absurd and protests should be
fun

WHAT TO BRING: Musical Instruments, Noisemakers,
Costumes, Creativity, Yourself, Your Friends

See you all there!




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Original call follows:

ABSURD RESPONSE
invites YOU to a
PARTY FOR PERMA-WAR
October 26th in Washington DC!!!

WHAT: A festively ironic, theatrical feeder march to
join up with the large anti-war rally/march next
weekend in DC. (Read below for details)

WHERE: Assemble at the LARGE PHALLUS (Washington
Monument) in Washington DC. From there we'll join up
with the main march at the Vietnam
Memorial.

WHEN: Gather at 11:00AM the morning of Saturday,
October 26. DON'T BE
LATE!

***bus tix from NYC available at
www.nysaynotowar.org ***

Calling on all Jugglers, Fire Eaters, Freaks,
Anarchist Clowns, Radical Cheerleaders, Billionaires
for Bush's War, Drummers, Drag Queens, Crusties,
Church Ladies for Choice, Radical Rockettes, Gospel
Singers, Musicians, Chicks and Pricks for Perma-War,
Puppetistas, Babes for Bombs, Students for An
Undemocratic Society, Church of Stop Bombers,
Reclaimers of Streets, New Kids on the Black Bloc, and
anybody and everybody who thinks that this war is
absurd....but ABSOLUTELY NO MIMES!!!

In the tradition of the first Absurdists, who wrote
and performed and drew and danced in response to the
horror and devastation of World War, we
will create our own Theater of the Absurd in response
to our Idiot Boy King's relentlessly moronic and
insane drive to pitch the world into a
state of permanent warfare. This will be a free-form,
multi-faceted, moving theater piece which anyone with
imagination can plug into.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Bring costumes, Bring INSTRUMENTS and
NOISEMAKERS of all kinds, bring posters and banners
(sample slogans pasted below. Feel
free to use these or come up with your own). Bring
lots of friends. Be prepared to mock the Axis of Oil
without mercy.

Some slogans...
- OBEY
- All Hail The Idiot Boy King
- Wag the Dog
- We Have Always Been At War With Oceania
- ExxonMobil (or whatever) Flag over the legend: "Try
Burning This One,
Asshole!" or "These Colors Don't Run!"
- Free the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Bomb the Rainforest
- God Hates Peace
- War is Unhealthy for Children & Other Living Things
- Fuck the
Children
- Jail the Trees
- Peace is Terrorism
- Bomb Harder
- Make War Not Love
- No Justice! No Peace, Either!
- Before We Build New Weapons of Mass Destruction,
Let's Get Some Use
Out of
the Ones We Already Have
- Bring Back McCarthyism
- Tell Us (US?) What to Think
- Bush is a Wimp/Cheney is too!
- War IS Globalization
- More Bush Family Vendettas (Dukakis: You're Next!)
(or Noriega,
Perot,
Buchanan, Clinton, Gore)
- We Want Gulf War III - Starring Jenna Bush!
- Annex Mexico/Canada
- We (heart) Halliburton, Harken, Enron, ExxonMobil,
Royal Dutch Shell,
McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Microsoft, etc.
- God Bless (same as above)
- Pre-empt Germany, France, Democracy, The UN,
Congress, The
Constitution
- War Through Strength
...and add your own !

ABSURD RESPONSE IS CALLING OUT TO YOU!!

Because calling Bush's war plans "short sighted" or
"diplomatically problematic" is giving them far too
much intellectual heft.

Because everyone from James Baker III, to Nelson
Mandela, to CIA director George Tenet has said this is
dumb.

Because if we don't laugh once in a while we'll lose
our minds.