>>Nothing -- short of sustained, mass civil disobedience -- will
>>alter this political equation.
Doug asked
>Disobedience of what laws, by whom, where, when?
That's what a discussion list would be good for.
First, Cindy Sheehan initiated Camp Casey as an act civil disobedience. So there's already an instance in play, which is currently traveling by bus toward DC. Due to arrive September 21 with actions scheduled from September 24 to the 26. That would be a good place to start.
Second, people need to examine their lives -- income, housing, consumption, personal relationships -- with a view to reducing their dependency on business-as-usual and making it possible to take a principled stand. Read Thoreau and listen to Phil Ochs if you have to.
Third, reducing dependency on the business-as-usual economy is itself a form of civil disobedience that involves breaking no law other than the "laws" of supply and demand and the infinite expansion of consumption needs. This isn't hair-shirt stuff -- it's deciding for yourself what's important.
Fourth, disobey the laws of channeled communication by engaging in varieties of 'guerilla' public political performance.
The Sandwichman