Solution Details 4 of 5: The Tilt Strategy

 

The tilt strategy was central to the birth of this proposal.  It was spawned from two earlier realizations.  First, there was a newspaper photo of a limp woman allowing herself to be dragged by police officers at a UC Berkeley Middle East peace rally.  As the newspaper showed her noble act of passive resistance, the world appeared no different for her sacrifice of the day before.  This led to the conclusion that activism could accomplish more if directed at smaller goals that can generate tangible change.

 

The second precursor to the tilt strategy was the emerging awareness of indefensible positions.  Many policies and members of the Bush administration have so grossly wronged the American people and the world that an examination of certain positions led to the recognition that the worst of these stances were only maintained because they were going unchallenged.  When Trent Lott lost the Senate leadership, the tilt premise emerged.  Lott's loss came not from a new indiscretion as much as from a novel challenge to a previously uncontested history of racial insensitivity.

 

Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine warrants special mention here as its timing enabled a closed loop around the ideas above.  Recall the scenes at K-Mart, where Moore and victims of the Columbine school shootings confronted executives about the continued availability of bullets at K-Mart stores.  The sequence concludes with a pledge to discontinue the practice.  Moore tilted K-Mart.  Other tilt targets then began to emerge accompanied by the media and propaganda concepts discussed on other pages of this proposal.

 

Below are just some of the situations where one or more parties appear to be maintaining an indefensible position, a stance held only by virtue of being unchallenged.  All of these situations are ripe to be tilted, generating change by a forced confrontation with the facts.  Prioritization is the first key question followed by a case-by-case confrontation strategy.

 

Tilt Target: Antitrust

Tilt Target: Ashcroft

Tilt Target: Budget

Tilt Target: Corporate Personhood

Tilt Target: Depleted Uranium

Tilt Target: Environment

Tilt Target: False Pretenses

Tilt Target: Impeach Bush

Tilt Target: Intolerance

Tilt Target: Voting

Tilt Target: Water Privatization

 

 

Proceed To Solution Details 5: The Positive Propaganda Campaign

 

Proceed To Solution Details 3a: The Project-Based Radio Format

 

Proceed To Solution Details 3b: The Activist Network Video Hub

 

Proceed To Solution Details 3c: Necessary Resources and Costs

 

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