Especially when they could use a little work. Still, as we work on plans of plastering our old schools with boycott posters, there seems to be a little bit of hope for me. In this brief entry, I'm just covering what's going on plan-wise. I've got a few businesses to personally see about poster-hanging and any chance at participation. Any place you visit semi-regularly is a place to start, for anyone thinking of doing the same. With a mentally taxing past few days, I'm almost lost for words. (How could that ever happen? Even I don't know.) Still, with the encroaching new year, I've got some resolutions to work on, including more posting. It'll start. Oh yes, it will.
     As a resolution for anyone else, well, there are a lot of options, aren't there? Even though I'm sure many with chaotic lives have long lists involving a few repeats, and some of the more peacefully minded still have their plates full, it can't hurt to tack on a little P.S. about the boycott. Whether it's to be stricter with your product consumption, to hang that poster you've been meaning to, or to finally send that e-mail to your aunt or uncle, there's always a first step to take (and sometimes a long-delayed third). For me, this is something I take seriously because I've been able to learn a lot about many aspects of life through the discipline and thought necessary so far. I recommend it for any timid (or brave) soul in need of learning and inspiration.
    Activism and consumer-revelation revolution business aside, all have my wishes for a healthy, hopeful, healing new year. Let's make it one full of inspiration and errors born of trials, with bandages for every painfully scraped knee. From here in Portland, I hope everyone has a great time. If any unfortunate has hard nights like I've had, do something silly like read this again and know that I'd be more than willing to give you a big hug (or a pat on the back if you're not a huggy type of person).
- Josie (that One Teen)

     I'm also lazy. I haven't been posting the update blogs I've sworn to myself I would, but worry not, fair citizen. It has been taunting the back of my mind like a parasitic disease, gnawing at my cerebellum as I go about my day to day existence. Hither and yonder I wander, boycott workings implanted in my brain like a pesky seed that spreads its translucent roots from my primary somatosensory cortex on to my frontal and temporal lobes. It's agony.
     It doesn't help that I've been preoccupied with an application to a Serbia trip and that every time I try and work on the website, the internet decides it doesn't like that plan. Filthy corporate drone. It took me twenty minutes of persistence to load it today. I just haven't had that sort of time as of late, but no longer. Now, onto the official business.
     We have a new French translation page up and a new Italian one on the way. If anybody is fluent in German, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Pirate English or L33t and thinks the translation would be a piece of cake (or a pizza cake, whichever you prefer), send it to [email protected] and you will shortly receive many mad props.
     In other news, I've been scrambling to come up with more posters. The time has come for us to begin printing off what we have and hanging them in appropriate areas (I intend to put Sasha's unicorn poster up by my sister's middle school). If anybody is artistically inclined, doodle inclined, boredom inclined, or in possession of a spare five minutes in which they can stencil out block letters, consider yourself implored to do so. In return I will gladly post a link to any deviantart or similar art portfolio, or just let everybody know that you're made of crazy awesome.
That's right: five minutes and a few block letters invested in a boycott poster infuses the very fiber of your being with mad cool.
It's completely easy to do. Come up with a catchy boycott phrase (if you can't think if anything, send an e-mail to the aforementioned e-mail address, [email protected], or hit up the facebook discussion board and watch us rush to your aid like evil henchmen), take out a piece of pencil, paper, and a ruler/stencil if you so choose, and write that sucker down. From there you can add shadowing, a border, or a miscellaneous doodle that may or may not be related to the boycott. It's your call.
     Adding more posters would actually make an incredibly large difference. It allows people to print out even four or five and post them in strategically chosen places. Everyone needs to step up and do something to get this out in the open. Making a poster enables people to do so anonymously since many find anonymity comfortable. It makes them daring. Why do you think superheros like it so much? Because anonymous is synonymous with mysterious and really, really cool. Do it.
     On a slightly different note. . .The discussion boards. Get on them. I'm blogging (if I did it a little more regularly, I might even be called a blogger), rallying and organizing, each to different degrees on different days and often in different and scatterbrained ways. You, too, can be a scatterbrain. Every idea and question you have is relevant and worthwhile. You don't have to log in every day or even every week. There isn't any amount of time you're forced to commit and no stark pile of work you're chained to if you want to get involved. Whatever works for you and your schedule. Oh, and, 16+ cool points to the first twenty people to get talking.
     Additionally, I'm going to be throwing in weeks here and there where we focus on bringing the message to specific crowds. Sunday, December 12th (today) through Sunday, December 19th is Aunts and Uncles Week! Send a letter, set up brunch, or send an e-mail to anywhere from your favorite to most tolerable of uncles and aunts! You can write a long and detailed explanation of why it's important to you, a pleasantly mid-sized message about why it's relevant and interesting, or more likely a short three sentences and a link to the website (and facebook page if they use facebook).

So that nobody's lost for words, here are a few points you can throw in there when you're talking to someone about it:
The boycott is:
- Of, by, and for those who want to do their part against unethical corporate practices around the world.
- Specifically targeting Coca-Cola due to the history of and ongoing offenses against the environment and human rights in addition to relentless marketing and false advertising. Skim the website again so you have some specific things to cite.
- Comprised of all age groups (One Teen [me] is fifteen. Play the card if it will get them interested)

Excited to see where this goes!