For a fundraiser, how about selling a spoof on these planned parenthood T-shirts? Like "Please don't kill any more babies" or "I'll never have an abortion".
Posted on 07/27/2004 2:03:56 PM PDT by nightchild84
I run a college conservative paper and I want to sponsor a Conservative Week on my campus in the fall, culminating in a War on Terror prayer/remembrance ceremony. Here is a rough outline: Monday -- Diversity of Ideas Tuesday -- Capitalism/Anti-communism Wednesday -- Faith and Family Thursday -- Conservative Coming Out Friday -- American Spirit
PLEASE help me with ideas for events, activism, poster slogans (I like "Chivalry is sexy" and "I'm conservative, and no, it's not just a stage"), etc.
Some thoughts included a Reagan movie night, a debate between black conservatives and the head of the liberal black student alliance (to show that diversity of ideas is the kind of diversity that matters), etc.
I appreciate any and all ideas. Thanks, guys!
How about some teaching activities?
- Teach how to verify sources for for information to debunk propaganda
- Show the liberal media trick on how propaganda gets into circulation with the citing each other as sources when the actual info is wrong at the main source
- Show how the old democratic party has been hijacked and teach people about cpusa.org, moveon.org et al
- Show how freedom of speech is not a license to defame and lie. Show how wonderful freedoms we had are taken away from abuse from the 'so called' new democratic hijacked party.
Prehaps you could gather some statistics on the political affiliations of faculty members on your campus? Nothing speaks louder about academic bias then learning only 1 of your 30 history teachers is a registered republican or over 80 of the Physics department are democrats.
Maybe you could put some of those statistics on a T-shirit along with a slogan like "How do you know you disagree with Conservatism if you've never been allowed to hear it?"
I don't where this would fit into your schedule, maybe "diversity day", but why not invite the Second Amendment Sisters to speak about a woman's right to choose self-defense? The Pink Pistols would probably also show up if you asked.
"Conservatives still believe your future is in your own hands."
"Government hands didn't create this great nation. Hands free of government did."
"A conservative believes personal freedom and hard work are the two keys to success."
"Get government out of my way. I am not afraid of freedom or hard work. I am a conservative and I control my destiny."
Poster: "If you want to see Hillary in the Whitehouse, then you need to vote for Bush"
You give me hope..good luck on your event week : )
Operating a conservative newspaper on a college campus is akin to espousing conservative ideas on the floor of the democrat's convention. You're not going to get much attention with the likes of "Chivalry is sexy, I'm conserv....". You are in a war and you are in the midst of the battle.
40 years ago I had to sacrifice grades to do battle with conservative profs. 10 years ago, my daughter was nearly run off campus for starting a young republican's chapter.
You need slogans like: Morals and Logical Thinking are not exclusive of one another; Liberalism = socialism; Abortion is Evil; America was built on Judea/Christian Values.
For Faith and Family Thursday:
My parents taught me to fight for what is RIGHT!
Invite recruiters and prove Moore is a fat, stupid, white guy.
Consequently American conservatism is about freedom - which is ironically the opportunity for people who aren't politically important to do things that the government didn't tell us to do, in a way that hasn't been tried before. And even to patent the new way of doing things, and get the credit for ("make money on") your improvements. Therefore American conservatism is very dynamic; it is the so-called "progressive" who wants to take over the decision-making power, making for an effectively stupid society.
If the Soviet Union had existed in isolation it would never have instituted computers because it wasn't necessary to use them to do exactly what had always been done. It is only because of freedom and capitalism that an American secretary today would have to think long and hard about giving up the health care (for herself and her family) and all the things run by electricity or gasoline or made of plastic, for all the baubles enjoyed by Queen Victoria. Or, for that matter, for the perks of an American slaveowning southerner.
American conservatism stands for good management, for uniting responsibility with authority. Nobody should get blamed for what they couldn't prevent, and nobody should get credit for what others did.
OTOH the leftist wants credit for what he didn't do, and seeks to seize that credit by means of propaganda. The leftist's desire for the government to seize "the means of production" is actually a second guess of the entrepreneur who proved that his way of producing, and the product he invented or chose to seek more economically to produce, was valuable. It is a second guess because the leftist doesn't want anything to do with the failed attempts at creating "means of production" - only the successes, chosen after the fact.
Since change entails risk and the leftist is unwilling to take responsibility for failure, leftism is actually "conservative" - in the stultifying way with which leftists seek to unfairly tar the freedom-promoting and dynamic American conservative. It is leftist to want the government to impose wage and price controls, for example. But what is a government-frozen price but an artifact of conditions which existed in a past time? American conservatism enshrines a process which will always adapt effectively to changed conditions - and also will always create changes in conditions.
And it is that discomfiting reality - which Winston Churchill said was "like a raft. It won't sink, but your feet are always wet" - which leftists exploit. There is always something to complain about, and the publicity media are at their most powerful when they are complaining. The key point is that American conservatism did in fact create modern America, and is in fact what makes the economy operate and grow.
"Liberalism" - leftism - consists of attempting to seize credit for that away from the individual people whose initiative and willingness to risk; political liberalism is simply the impulse to complain right along with journalism. Journalism and political liberalism complain about the same things, they are simbiotic rather than competitive. Liberalism revolves around the idea that it is not solving problems which counts; what counts to the liberal is who gets the credit or the blame for the problem or its solution. To the liberal nothing matters but PR.
Journalism is at its most influential when it is shifting credit to (or blame from) those who toady up to journalism - and that requirement to pander emphatically applies to individual journalists themselves. And the one thing that obsequience to journalism demands is according journalism - and only journalism - the status of being implicitly taken as being objective. And since there is to my knowledge no possibility of being objective without being wise, journalism's explicit or implicit claims of objectivity ammount to a claim of wisdom.
Notwithstanding the fact that a claim of wisdom is "sophistry" whereas the refusal to claim wisdom is sine qua non for the "lover of wisdom" - the philosopher.
For good or bad, I am who I say I am. Editor in chief of the conservative paper at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. And I'm not particularly naive ; I am well aware that being a conservative on a campus (and running a well-read and often-criticized conservative publication) is difficult.
And don't worry, I think that any conservative activism on campus will get attention, if for no other reason than novelty's sake.
But thanks for the poster slogans -- quite good!
Conservative Week should celebrate just that. . .why not just have the Black Conservatives tell their story as to how it is/why they are 'Conservative'. . .discuss their favorite books, etc; role models et al. . .go to Frontpagemagazine.com (David Horowitiz) to see how you can help your campus to become 'Conservative enlightened' so to speak. Go to JewishWorldReview.com for other good writings etc.
Perhaps after your Conservative week; you can meet once a month/week whatever and have open invitation group discussions re the core values of conservatism/book reviews/ideas etc. . . .or just 'book club' with all invited to participate or just listen .
Break down the 'hate radio' bias. . .have a 'Rush' lunch group; open of course to anyone in listening range. . .of course, there are classes to attend etc. so all these things are not possible; but in some form or number. . .might not be a bad idea to try some.
Also; see that your Library carries Conservative books/mag. . .and Black Conservative books ie Thomas Sowell et al. . .
Don't make this just a week; make it a kick-off for the new diversity exposure on campus. . .Conservatism. Kick-off with guest. . .David Horowitz or one of his 'et al' band'o'brothers'. . .or just take them on by book/dvd etc.
As for slogan; keep them simple/not to cute. How about:
CONSERVATISM is NOT a four letter word. . .
BUMP
Conservative Education Forum
"The Conservative Internet Portal"
http://www.truthusa.com/cindy.html
*Maybe something on this 2 page site
will be of interest to you.
Which day is "value of life" day?
Also, perhaps Tuesday or Friday could be Constitution Day.
Needs help and ideas.
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