Start your own <a href="http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/2006/04/one-year-in-phoenix.html">Red Paper Clip project</a>.
Scalp it at the door. Buy $20 of:
- flowers for your SO or parents.
- jelly beans. Twist-wrap them into cellophane bundles & hand out to people you'd like to know.
- Break out a map. Pick a place you (and friend(s)) can drive & get home on $20 of gas. Enjoy the time.
- Take a friend for ice cream and a walk in the park.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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