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Carnival of Greed on April 26th!
by a pogger Sunday, Apr. 20, 2003 at 11:55 AM

Join POG at high noon on April 26th for a Carnival of Greed in the park on 29th and Penn in the Strip District. The carnival will then proceed into a march to The Regional Re-Convergence in Market Square, proceeding down Penn Ave. -> right on Liberty Ave. at the Greyhound station -> left on Market Street -> Market Square. Come dressed festively and/or greedily!

CALL TO ACTION

Come one, come all to the Carnival of Greed!

Fellow activists, join us in a festival of consumption!

Watch capitalists take over the world with their endless warring and raping of weaker neighbors to corner the market on slave labor!

Correctly guess the number of innocent children who will die tomorrow due to the ravages of DU and the new-and-improved United States' "shock and awe" bombing policy and you could win a kewpie doll the color (yes, you guessed it, everybody's favorite!) of a brand new dollar bill!

Spin our Wheel of Shame and see if you can land on the country the US is going to invade next in order to tighten our grip on the world economy!

Throw a baseball at our stack of Starbucks coffee mugs.. knock them all down and we'll build an entire store in your very own neighborhood!

Be the first to name all brands of over-priced sneakers on the market and what colors they are available in and you could win your very own Malaysian boy to follow you home and MAKE YOU SHOES!

Where can I find this Spectacle of Gluttony, you ask! Why, friends, you are lucky enough to be living in the Capital of Capitalism!! In THE LAND that is the Idol of Imperialism!! The Veteran of Voracity!! Fortunately for you, friends, EVERY DAY is Carnival of Greed Day here in the United States of America, Home of the FREE and land of the BRAVE!!!

But just like we can't have fireworks EVERY DAY like we do on the gloriest of glory days FOURTH OF JULY to honor our great country, nor can we march in the streets to show our love of money and the United States government's wanton desire to crush the entire world into its big, fat, greedy belly. So meet us at the park on 29TH and PENN in the Strip District at HIGH NOON on APRIL 26th! Bring your brightest colors, your festive clothing, your banners, your instruments, your voices, and your ENTHUSIASM and march with us Downtown to Market Square where we can celebrate how beautiful it is that WAR and CAPITALISM go HAND IN HAND!!!!