Protester Almost Handcuffs Karl Rove aka Enemy of the American People
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Finally! Someone with the courage to try to bring this monstrous, un-American traitor to justice. Check out the NYT article here about the mortgage bankers’ gathering in San Francisco. Below is a KGO-linked video from CNN of the protester who almost reached Karl Rove to handcuff him for a citizen’s arrest for acts of treason. This woman is one of my new heroes!
Teamsters and tree-huggers united: Seattle’s 1999 massive anti-WTO protests
A new, semi-fictionalized depiction of the 1999 anti-WTO protests, “Battle In Seattle,” has just debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival. The film distilled hundreds of hours of video of the actual demonstrations and of the horrific violence visited upon protesters by the Seattle PD and the surrounding cities’ police departments.
Gilligan’s Ganja Island? Come on: leave these folks alone, already!!
With the recent conviction of Dawn Wells, Mary Ann of Gilligan’s Island, we know what at least two of the folks on the Island were growing. Bob Denver - Gilligan himself - was arrested in 1998 after he signed for a FedEx delivery of 30 grams of marijuana. Police spent more than two hours tearing up his house and Mary Ann was his dealer…
Do we not have REAL issues on which to work: climate change, widespread poverty and hunger, enormous social disparities across the planet, in almost every land?
With Deep Concern for America
Things have been really crappy in our world, like, downright hellish, for so many people for so long.
Rumors of war percolate through my beloved United States of America, my Ulster Scots clan’s home for 200 years. The Nation’s Esther Kaplan’s United for Peace: A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom makes me believe people care, people will act to stop war, conflict, misunderstanding, violence - especially against folks I’ve never even met, so I don’t even know if i might actually like them or not, but my decision - not my government’s. Trusted, intelligent acquaintances and friends have met them, though, and it seems most people want the same things pretty much everywhere: peaceful, just, and civil societies with education, health care, human rights, child care, elder care, clean air and water and land: you know, human prosperity and harmony.
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