Pssst…
Scissorheads –
Heads up, kids! While the Wingnuts are running around teabagging on July 4th, a group of us lefty bloggers are planning to do something constructive: we are going to try to get 1 million cans of food into food banks across the country, and you can participate!
Here’s the deal: Reverand Phat over at Les Enragés and the unruly mob over there decided that they wanted to do something positive to counteract all the silliness of Wingnuttia, and to co-opt their event they are challenging the conservatives to participate in the food drive. Clever, n’est-ce pas?
Please see this post over at Les Enragés for details.
Now then, being such a nice guy, and having time on my hand, I have designed some badges to put on your websites and blogs for anyone who wants to participate. Besides the 4-color design shown here, I also have created badges with each of the individual cans in two sizes: 150 pixels and 250 pixels — for small and wider sidebars. The full sized versions are also available if you want to use them in a post.
Feel free to download them and use them, and I hope that everyone has a chance to participate. Let’s show the Teabaggers something constructive instead of something negative!
A food drive? How passé and actually helpful to those in need, you socialist. I figure it’ll be much more enjoyable to pass out some snakes-in-a-can to the teabaggers in between all their teabagging.
Warhol would be pleased.
Tengrain, you kick some serious can.
Someone at RevPhat’s place said that they loved my cans.
heh,
Tengrain
I love having an opportunity to suggest tea-baggers can it. Thanks for the badge, TG!
consider the “dumpster” in on the bag…er, can.
Can post and will can!
I’m taking this over to my friend Hill’s place, a number of people there have blogs that will prolly put those lovely cans up.
Great work, Tengrain. Posted.
I love me some Scissorheads. Sorry Capt. Bat, that includes you.
Now get out there and spread the word!
Regards,
El Presidenté for Life – Tengrain
Capt. Bat Guano steered me this way. No, I’m not a cow, but I do live in the Hill Country of Texas.
I’m in!
Adding a badge to my website right now.
Gracias!
Welcome to MPS, Hill. It is good to have you with us!
Please feel free to use any or all of the badges, and do promote the event to your readers. This is a win-win-win, and I’m including the wingnuts as part of the winners (if they participate).
Regards,
Tengrain
Thank you for the warm welcome, Tengrain.
Actually made a bloggy button on the sidebar at my place that links directly to this post.
We’ll do all we can to spread the word.
Hill –
You are my kind of Scissorhead.
Many thanks — and anyone reading this, take note: Collecting food for the food bank is the fastest way to heaven… or at least unto Grain’s Good Graces…
OK, that was too much even for me. But seriously folks: Promote the hell outta this. Let’s really make a difference, Ça-va?
Regards,
Tengrain
Capt. Bat Gauno sent me here from Hill’s Country. I will try to get one of the cans on my blog. Thank you for posting this.
Hey Keith – Welcome to the Million Can March and to MPS. It is good to have you with us. Enchanté de faire votre connaissançe.
Regards,
Tengrain
Will there be silkscreen cans or actual cans?
Hopefully people will donate actual cans to their local foodbanks. I have a request at Rev Phat’s site to make my design available for tee shirts (speaking of silk screens) – if you guys are interested, I might be more likely to open a Cafe Press store for this. Let me know.
Regards,
Tengrain
i *heart* the blogfather’s, ‘grain, cans.
I would totally wear a t-shirt and/or sweatshirt with SUCH pride, TG.
I love this idea. I’m grabbing a badge or two now and getting busy on this to spread the word. Thanks, Tengrain!
i am gonna do the can-can
I also posted at Democracy for Vancouver.
http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2009/06/15/million-march-coming/
That’s Fantastic, Fantastic Forrest! Thanks for helping to get the word out!
Regards,
Tengrain
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