My favorite teacher ever!
If you have read any of my previous diaries (go to this link for a sample: http://www.dailykos.com/...) you know that I have a problem with right wing propoganda in schools. Finally, there is some...
View ArticleMy Favorite form of Protesting
A bit of background before I get into this. I am a 20 year old gay male who goes to college in Washington, DC. I am political science major, and politics is my life. This hopefully explains where...
View ArticleWhy protesting the Iraq "War" Isn't Working
Ok we are at the point where we have to decide what is the most important injustice the Bush administration, has pulled. No one is really more important than any other, but which one is a battle that...
View ArticleThere are Good Hecklers, and Bad Hecklers
Yesterday's visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao certainly will probably do little to distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy, to say the least (and steal from Star Trek VI). From Bush tugging on...
View ArticleSTOP THE ATTACK ON STUDENTS SKIPPING SCHOOL
This attack on students skipping school to engage in political activism, needs to Stop. Democratic principals have never occurred with youth behind desks. From the Popular movement to the Civil Rights...
View ArticleThe Brutal "Miami Model" for Subduing Protests
I'm writing this diary so those who go to protests may, in the future, know what to look out for, keep themselves as safe as possible, and know the truth about what happened at the FTAA protests in...
View ArticleVeteran Arrested for "Protesting for Peace" via T-shirt UPDATED
First we had the Denver Three, ejected from a taxpayer-funded town hall meeting for bumper stickers that said "No Blood for Oil." Now we have a Vietnam vet arrested for wearing a shirt while drinking...
View ArticleWestboro Baptist in the News Again
You may remember Westboro Baptist Church as the people who have been picketing military funerals. Why picket the funerals? Because Fred Phelps and his group dislike our military defending a country...
View ArticleProtest The Stolen 2006 Election, & Bush Can KILL You
This is not hyperbole, this is not "Chicken Little," this is not melodrama. This is a pattern match for a specific circumstance I see possible, and I'd like to warn you about it. As you have likely...
View ArticleSend the message - we're serious - BOYCOTT
Everyone seems to be waiting for crazy Bush - and he's not going to do anything. We have to send the message to the Congress and big business. We have to scare the crap out of them.Bush said "keep...
View ArticleVVAW Anniversary-Dec 26th 1971-Statue of Liberty, Liberation
Six Vietnam veterans founded the VVAW in New York City in 1967 when they marched in a peace demonstration. Organized for returning troops to voice their opposition to the war that was still taking...
View ArticleHave You Heard of the "Presidential Advance Manual?"
I read the diary about the guy who got arrested for protesting, I decided to pass on some info to those who might not know. Bottom line: the Bush Administration had plans to address protesters...
View ArticleDemonstrating Against War at Recruiting Offices Sends Wrong Message
If you are against the war, and want to make that point clear, please don’t do it by demonstrating in front of a recruiting office. By doing so you are playing right into the hands of the Wing Nuts who...
View ArticleRaiding and Arresting Protesters
The raids and the arrests of individuals in Minneapolis are not some plot by the republicans to undermine free speech or squelch dissent. In fact the republicans would love to see a repeat of the...
View ArticleUPDATED: breaking shoe story: one just thrown at Chinese premier
CNN is reporting that a protester let loose a shoe at Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.
View ArticleBottle Up and Explode, Over and Over
Because everyone is a fucking pro, and they all have answers for questions, you know?—Elliott Smith I used to hate the sound of screaming children. I mean really abhor it—the whining, the melodrama,...
View ArticleI will pay one person $20 to carry this sign outside the Westboro chruch...
The first person who can give me photographic (non-photoshopped) proof that they carried a sign and protested outside of the Westboro Church of hate in Kansas that reads as you see below the fold I...
View ArticleDec 26th 1971-Statue of Liberty, Liberation
Back on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 I posted this VVAW Anniversary-Dec 26th 1971-Statue of Liberty, Liberation on my first blog, still in my infancy of blog posting but I had gotten better, like...
View ArticleDude, you forgot to make it a diary!
I know we're not supposed to do call-out diaries here -- actually, come to think of it, I don't know that, now that we're without a "nanny," but I presume it's still true -- but I have to do one...
View ArticleSo - we just sit here?
I've been watching the thing go on in Wisconsin and Michigan and Florida etc. I've come to some conclusions. While it is true that Scott Walker got what he wanted, at least for now, and the MI gov is...
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