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MARCH 20 - Call For An Overweight Lard Ass Bloc
by Richard Simmons Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 at 4:33 PM

information on a Overweight XXXL Big Bad Fat Ass You Ain't Moving Me bloc for the March 20th mass march and rally, part of pittsburgh regional convergence against war and occupation.

March 20 Pittsburgh Call for a Lard-Ass Bloc!

Over the last 15 months, Pittsburgh has taken a vehement stand against Super SIzed Beverages, Extra Large Fries, Happy Meals, and the war and occupation of Iraq. And throughout this struggle, the overweight, heavyset, Two Tons Of Fun, XXXL Transgender transfattyacid mumu wearing chunky and huggable people of size and girth of Pittsburgh have been a constant and enthusiastic contributor to our attempts to stop the war and the assault on our freedom to eat whatever adn whenever we damn well please. One year after the invasion of Iraq, one year after beginning of the end of the slaughter of innocent citizens of Iraq, one year after the onset of military engagements results in the grant of freedom to so many promising Iraqi lives, Pittsburgh will once again take to the streets to register its protest. As the future of this city, this country, and this world, adn the Size Sized Menu at McDonalds, chunky folk must rise up to stop these egregious wrongs and assaults on freedom.

This is a call for the Super Sized of Pittsburgh to join together and combine their accumulated mass to say, “Just You Try And Move Me!” On March 20th, the Anti-Lo-Fat-Menu Committee of the Dave Thomas Mutton Center has organized a march and rally, endorsed by 52 different groups (including the Center For The PRomotion Of The Burka In America, The Islamist Students Association, and The Center For Peace And Injustice, as the centerpiece of the weekend long regional convergence events. More information at the convergence and mass march-rally is available at http://www.pittsburghmarch20.org

The overweight, Super Sized, Big as a Barn Crowd of Pittsburgh and the surrounding region must play a key role in making sure that the message of this event gets through and the even if the police turn the fire hoses on the march, all you will get is a bath. "cause not even a Rachel Corrie memorial Bulldozer could move a line of chunky peaceniks motivated by the free buffet at the end of the rally. In order to accomplish this, the XXXXXL Set must play a visible role in all the activities of the weekend. To this end, we, the XXXL and Loving It from all over the region, from all different socio-economic backgrounds, and from all different types of beliefs (i.e. Is Cheesecake a fruit or vegetable), will march together as a ‘Big Ass Bloc’. We must also participate in other activities during the weekend, especially including the civil disobedience (A non-violent sit-in ... we can be particular helpful at the sit-ins) being organized by the Pittsburgh Organizing Group (http://www.organizepittsburgh.org) to directly attack the snack machine at Carnegie Mellon University. This March 20th, let us take a new step towards stopping the arbitrary limits placed on all-you-can-eat specials at Red Lobster.

The ‘Big Ass Bloc’ will be gathering at 1:00pm at Flagstaff Hill, look for the cheeseburger themed banner.

Let us create the world we want to eat in.

For more information, contact:

PghBigAssAntiLoFat@hotmail.com

Ways to help:

1: Download and pass out flyers at your favorite fast food esstablishment (flyers soon to be released and posted on http://www.pittsburghmarch20.org)
2: Participate in the buffet line civil disobedience trainings being organized for March 19th
3: Talk to sympathetic food service workers about lettign you have freerefills and seconds. Talk to teachers about incorporating the protests of the efforts to do away with the McDonalds Super Sixe Menu into the curriculum.
4: Write letters to the editor mentioning how under funded your O-Dog budget is while 100+ billion is being spent on the South Beach Diet, the Atkins Diet and womens and mens magazines depicting an oppressive image of an undernourished waif or low body fat ego-maniac as the appropriate self image for women and men everywhere.
5: Show up on March 20th and take part in the Big Ass Bloc!

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