If the author of the above sticker wants to remove his copyright (why did he do that anyway?) I will get it professionally printed up and sell it here at cost, about $3 each, I think.
I copyrighted it to protect my right to make copies of it (thus, preventing someone else from doing so). I did not "reserve" any other rights. You are free to copy it at will and sell the copies if you wish.
Under copyright law, all authored works are copyrighted by default. So the author has copyright regardless of whether he states it or not. By default, all rights are reserved.
There are two ways for the author to give permission for others to use it freely.
First is to put it in the Public Domain. This allows anyone to use it for any purpose. However it does not prevent someone from putting their own copyright on it and claiming it as their own.
The second approach is to "copyleft" it. You assert you're the copyright holder and that you're giving permission for anyone to use it too, so long as they provide those same rights to everyone else. The GPL license provides this sort of permission and protection.
excellent bumpersticker! The main thing we NEED to do is get Cascadia and Cascadian identity are part of the consciousness of the people! It must become part of the everyday. If you have the access then plaster those stickers and similar ones EVERYWHERE!!!!! We MUST wake up the Cascadian inside each person. This "battle" for now will be on two fields:
1.) socio-psychological - we need to have Cascadia enter into the collective conscious or public dialogue.. and then we will have to fight to keep it there and not have it dismissed with passive comments or even humour. We MUST NOT let politicians or want to be celeberties take our movement!!!! I would recomment all read about our "weapons" which are semiotics and "memes".
I am posting some stuff that I had posted in my Cascadian group in
the past but just want
any new people to read adn others to be familiar with. We have been
to be honest under a psychological warfare for years. This war was
done in the from of consumerism. Most of us were born with the TV as
our nurse mother or nanny. We grew up on images projected through a
box. Our mass culture or shared culture is a TV culture and we go
through schools that have become privatized for their consumption.
Even the public universities are now privatized to get the maxium of
the Amerikan dollar. Out of that we unfortunately only learn to be
consumers. And I believe if we are to win this psyops war we need to
understand the tools they use and we need to learn how to "shoot" them
back. So below are some links to Semiotics -- the study of symbols
and signs--
I believe by deconstructing the symbols that the authoritive figures
use we can make these idea weapons harmless .. even laughable. So
when you see a map of Fascist Amerika with all its red and little blue
states you can deconstruct the image they are trying to make you see.
For example when you see that "sea" of red it is often interpeted to
say there are more red voters than blue voters, but the realition is
its a map only visually representing the physical local of a majority
in a county. But often misread that the population levels between red
and blue are the same density. But if you were to show just shear
numbers of populations on these maps the "blue counties" would
outnumber the population of the red counties. On top of that it is
often assumed a red county is only voters of Bush and a blue one only
of voters of Kerry.
Another example is the use of music and imagery in commerials and
public events. When we see a image of a truck going through mud and
hearing a song singing about the steadiness like a rock our minds
often creates the association and if that sound had a previous
association with a patriotic event then the truck is associated with
that patriotism.
What they (the corporations and the people using advertizement firms)
have done is they have managed and manipulated our concepts of
reality. The movie the Matrix is actually about these manipulations
of our sense of reality. We as Cascadians .. as humans .. regardless
of our constructed identities... must liberate ourselves from the
prepackage realities that "they" have fed us. We became enslaved
because "they" controlled how we consumed and what we consumed. When
we deconstruct the "messages" and see them in their raw and simple
forms aswell as how they are tring to be manipulated then we begin to
liberate ourselves from their manipulation. What we need to use as
our weapon in the battle field of psyops is education and educating
the masses. This part will be the "Memetic War" .. a war without
bloodshed but a war of thoughts, paradigms and symbols ... psychops!:
Simplity of symbol or the piggybacking on other symbols (or memes) can be the most effective way to get a message acrossed or into the psychy. One but not the only I would recommend it the conifer tree (specifically the fir tree) in a simple line "drawing" (or spraypainted marking) which is a simple vertical line with 6 "boughs" on either side and with some kind of written message next to it like "Rise up Cascadians!" or "Awake Cascadia!"... this can be a good means to spreading this in the common psychy. What we are doing is generating group identity by displaying simple common symbols with an association with Cascadian identity. Of course I am not suggesting people spraypaint (or with a markers) on public places. Just saying simple symbols with association with Cascadians can trigger an emotion be it a sense of regional pride or hope.
Though semiotics is the study .. it also is used in
advertisement. Basically the use of symbols to sell
an idea or product. I believe a handfull of us with
the right means could send symbols throughout the
population to create a paradigm shift. But it takes
swift action. Have you heard of a "meme" before?
"contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed
on from mind to mind. Memes function the same way
genes and viruses do, propagating through
communication networks and face-to-face contact
between people."
____David Bennahum
Rush Limbaugh was in the also a master at mind control on the radio
and one should read this list to see how they fight and manipulate
The Rules of Conservative Correctness
http://www.turnleft.com/rush/debate.html
2.) the second field of battle or front is the "internets". We MUST use this as fast as possible to get out the message and to get people together before the Fascists take it over. They will do this by two means: a.) false and misleading websites b.) the control of search engines (such as the buying of stock in google and other seach engines) which is the main vehicle of navigation online.
my friend Athena came up with this idea months ago. She also was reading up on blackboxvoting.org and repeatedly told people that this election was going to be stolen. Anyway... it is not a flag but a statement borrowed from others like some the Native Americans and as the international symbol of an American ship in crises... you fly the flag upside down. The "Dia" is from the "dia" in "Cascadia" that ends up on the blue field (sky).
Basically her idea was buy a bunch of cheap stickers and with two permintant markers (one in blue for "free" and the other in green for "Cascadia"). Write "Free Cascadia" on the "upside down" sticker. Then plaster it were people will see it most. Get it in their consciousness.
Due to an online stalking and harassment campaign (which has included physical contact in Cambridge, MA), I moved to "an undisclosed location" where I've started a new life. However, I support your goals and will be producing graphics to support your cause. I think we need to create a bi-national network (US and Canada) with the goal of carving new regions (based on logical commonalities) out of North America. This will increase local autonomy and weaken imperialism. I'll be putting equal energy into several secession movements.
Keep up the good work. Since I get a lot of online harassment (including people posting using my name to harass me), I don't communicate much online in dialogs. If I'm ever in the Portland area, I'll make arrangements to contact your movement in person. At the moment, it doesn't look like I'll be traveling there this year or in 2005, but who knows, anything can happen.
I work as a printer and can get them at cost. I'm willing to donate the first 1,000 (2 color, 3 x 11.5). Each additional lot of 500 is about $65 if anyone wants to buy more
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