WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- An anti-Bush protest urging no American spend any money on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, is making the rounds on the Internet, USA Today reported Thursday.
Known as "Not One Damn Dime Day," it is a call for a one-day economic boycott in protest of U.S. policy in Iraq and of the estimated $40 million in private funds being spent on Bush's second inaugural.
Like many items floating around the Internet, the provenance of the message is unclear. The Web site notonedamndime.com promotes the boycott but the site's creators, Laura Carmen Arena and Jesse Gordon, said the idea did not originate with them.
Along the same lines, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., in a letter to congressional colleagues, has urged the president to cancel his inaugural celebration and use the money raised for it to give additional pay and equipment to U.S. military personnel serving in Iraq. Weiner, who originally intended to offer his idea as legislation, is not connected to the boycott e-mail.
Thousands of blogs and online forums have posted the e-mail, which began making the rounds in mid-December. Gordon claims his site now gets up to 18,000 hits per day.
