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2006-12-05
boston tea party | 9-11 commission report
The Boston Tea Party will be re-enacted the weekend of Saturday 16 December 2006 in Boston.
Sponsored by the The Boston Committee for 9/11 Truth the organizers are calling to re-open the 9-11 Commission report to search more throughly the truth behind the bombing and collapse of the World Trade Towers in New York City.
The weekend's events begin at Boston College at McGuinn Hall on the Chestnut Hill Campus [the hyperlinks lead to maps of the campus]. with a lecture by Col. Robert Bowman, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret), who's lecture will focus on the importance of the 9/11 movement, its need to provide a strong voice in today’s society, and how the movement relates to the current political process at large.
In the spirit of the first Boston Tea Party, and to make great street theatre, the orgaizers are encouraging people with dress in 18th Century Colonial Wear. Simple instruction on becoming an american colonial patriot:
* Tri corner hat - easily procured fron costume shops and online
* White loose fitting shirt to wear under vest or cloak
* Vest and or Cape
* Pants, use corduroy pants, roll them up to the knee
* Socks long socks from knee length
* Black shoes (with buckle if possible)
* Bring a fife, drum, historical flag, hand held bells,
* Signs, create your own signs - use colonial typefaces if you can - Caslon is a good one
The timing is good. Other problems with 9-11 and its aftermath are coming now to the fore. Just last week the New York Village Voice published an article ["Death by Dust"] on the many health hazards, [including a markedly higher level of cancers and respiratory illnesses] that survivors of the Twin Towers are experiencing without any response from the government, health insurance providers or the corporate captains who spoke so eloquently back in 2001 about what heroes those same survivors were.
The Boston Tea Party will be re-enacted the weekend of Saturday 16 December 2006 in Boston. Sponsored by the The Boston Committee for 9/11 Truth the organizers are calling to re-open the 9-11 Commission report to search more throughly the truth behind the bombing and collapse of the World Trade Towers in New York City.
The weekend's events begin at Boston College at McGuinn Hall on the Chestnut Hill Campus [the hyperlinks lead to maps of the campus]. with a lecture by Col. Robert Bowman, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret), who's lecture will focus on the importance of the 9/11 movement, its need to provide a strong voice in today’s society, and how the movement relates to the current political process at large.
On Saturday, the events start at Faneuil Hall and follow with a march to Boston Harbor.“The US government at the highest levels may have committed treason and mass murder by purposely allowing 9/11 to happen.” – Dr. Robert M. Bowman
In the spirit of the first Boston Tea Party, and to make great street theatre, the orgaizers are encouraging people with dress in 18th Century Colonial Wear. Simple instruction on becoming an american colonial patriot:
* Tri corner hat - easily procured fron costume shops and online
* White loose fitting shirt to wear under vest or cloak
* Vest and or Cape
* Pants, use corduroy pants, roll them up to the knee
* Socks long socks from knee length
* Black shoes (with buckle if possible)
* Bring a fife, drum, historical flag, hand held bells,
* Signs, create your own signs - use colonial typefaces if you can - Caslon is a good one
The timing is good. Other problems with 9-11 and its aftermath are coming now to the fore. Just last week the New York Village Voice published an article ["Death by Dust"] on the many health hazards, [including a markedly higher level of cancers and respiratory illnesses] that survivors of the Twin Towers are experiencing without any response from the government, health insurance providers or the corporate captains who spoke so eloquently back in 2001 about what heroes those same survivors were.
For More info on the Second Boston Tea Party SEE: Boston 9-11 Truth Committee and the Tea Party Blog|
Labels: 9-11, iraq, protest, social justice
¶ 17:24 1 comments
2006-05-01
iraq quagmire | high crimes | protest
A friend sent a link to a Flickr group, with postings of photos from the NYC Peace March April 29, 2006.
Held just yesterday, I wasn't there since I was hauling furniture from Florida to about half a mile from here [where I write you just now] during the weekend and setting it up in someone's home only today.
The march was planned and co-ordinated by a coalition of willing peacemongers going under the umbrella name of United for Peace.
The USA Media [those who bothered to provide coverage], included the erstwhile Washington Post who affirmed that "tens of thousands" attended. It was left for the international press, such as Monsters and Critics to actually provide something other than stock wire coverage of the event.
Dubya declined comment on the march, but at a dinner held in his honor by the White House Correspondents [can you imagine?] Bush spoke instead about the faux staff change shuffle at the White House, indicating that he "...survived the shake up" himself.
Meanwhile, the Hartford Courant, in it's Sunday magazine, questioned whether or not Dubya could still lad the nation given his increasingly abysmal job performance ratings. The article made mention of a contingent of voters who support impeachment or at the very least censure for his and his administration's actions. Me. I say dispense with the niceties and try the whole lot of them for TREASON and get it over with. Would this be devisive? Doubtless. But bring it on!
Held just yesterday, I wasn't there since I was hauling furniture from Florida to about half a mile from here [where I write you just now] during the weekend and setting it up in someone's home only today.The march was planned and co-ordinated by a coalition of willing peacemongers going under the umbrella name of United for Peace.
The USA Media [those who bothered to provide coverage], included the erstwhile Washington Post who affirmed that "tens of thousands" attended. It was left for the international press, such as Monsters and Critics to actually provide something other than stock wire coverage of the event.
Dubya declined comment on the march, but at a dinner held in his honor by the White House Correspondents [can you imagine?] Bush spoke instead about the faux staff change shuffle at the White House, indicating that he "...survived the shake up" himself.
Meanwhile, the Hartford Courant, in it's Sunday magazine, questioned whether or not Dubya could still lad the nation given his increasingly abysmal job performance ratings. The article made mention of a contingent of voters who support impeachment or at the very least censure for his and his administration's actions. Me. I say dispense with the niceties and try the whole lot of them for TREASON and get it over with. Would this be devisive? Doubtless. But bring it on!
Labels: imipeachment, iraq, protest, social comment, treason
¶ 02:55 2 comments
2006-03-29
paris riots
I love Paris in the Springtime... Well, maybe not this year. Traveling a quarter-way around the globe to get a romantic whiff of CS gas is not my idea of a good time, though it would be certainly taking part in dramatic historic events.
But I want to know about this kind of thing, and I did when I stumbled across the Flickr photo collection of Charlotte Gonzalez. Here's a couple of her photos with her own comments:
"the guy on the right ran to help the guy who fell.
the guy on the left ran, turned back his head and saw the guy on the ground and kept running away. and i stayed there taking photos, until i couldnt breathe anymore
after that, i ran to a water canon, took blurry shots of people being soaked, and then was soaked myself. had the good reflex for the camera. the water has chemical products, and my face burned for quite a while. i don't even mention how aweful i look these days :P
She also maintains a gallery of her remarkable journalistic photography at DeviantArt
But I want to know about this kind of thing, and I did when I stumbled across the Flickr photo collection of Charlotte Gonzalez. Here's a couple of her photos with her own comments:
"the guy on the right ran to help the guy who fell.
the guy on the left ran, turned back his head and saw the guy on the ground and kept running away. and i stayed there taking photos, until i couldnt breathe anymore
after that, i ran to a water canon, took blurry shots of people being soaked, and then was soaked myself. had the good reflex for the camera. the water has chemical products, and my face burned for quite a while. i don't even mention how aweful i look these days :P She also maintains a gallery of her remarkable journalistic photography at DeviantArt
THANKS TO: Jake Compton |
Labels: paris, protest, s, social comment, travel
¶ 00:22 0 comments
2006-03-26
immigration
Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit.
If I thought you were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me.
Do not misunderstand me
But understand me fully with reference to the land
I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose
The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it.
I claim a right to live on my land
And accord you the privilege to return to yours.
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce nation, late 1800s, in a speech to representatives from Washington DC
It should come as no surprise that the self-important dorks in Washington, DC are arrogant enough to put the screws to immigrants. Although since so many of these self-serving malcontents have short memories [and, no doubt, equally short pedeigrees when it comes to how many centuries their ancestors actually lived on this continent] I find it, hopefully, instructive for them to once again hear or see these words from Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph.
So when the Republican from Wisconson, Rep. James Sensenbrenner came up with a bill that makes 11 million undocumented dishwashers and nannies "aggravated criminal felons" and turns priests and nurses into criminals for "aiding and abetting" the undocumented. But there may very well be a reason for the suddent outcry against immigration; the voter may be more politically savvy on the gay marriage issue as a political wedge, so the raving hyenas from D.C. have to come up with some new bogeyman. Illegal [hell... even legal] Immigrants.
Joshua Hoyt is even more passionate about the cruel absurdity of HR4437, noting that Sensenbrenner is not alone in his no very crypto-racist hubris. In fact, none other than "...Illinois Congressman and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert made a decision last fall to use "illegal immigration" as the Republican Party's next emotionally charged wedge issue. The political calculation is that the resentment and latent racism felt towards our new Mexican neighbors can be demagogued for political advantage this year, dividing the Democrats and keeping the House of Representatives in Republican hands. Other political opportunists across the nation, including perennial candidate Jim Oberweis in Illinois, have piled on. If "gay marriage" worked in 2004, then why not "illegals" in '06?
Personally, I find it heartening to see an outpouring of protest from the populous and diverse immigrant community, in Chicago, Illinois [a state named after native peoples], Los Angeles [isn't that a Spanish name?], Milwaukee, Wisconsin [also named after native peoples, not white men], as well as in Trenton New Jersey, Providence Rhode Island; Atlanta Georgia, Kansas City, Missouri; Phoenix Arizona and elsewhere.
Of course, since migration of peoples, particularly oppressed, disenfranchised or disadvantaged peoples, is something that I believe ought to be encouraged, you might consider me biased. But I firmly believe that the cross-fertilization of cultures ultimately has a positive effect and impact on all of us, an unexpected bonus from mixing races and cultures.
And since the pea-brained, opportunistic boors [including, but not limited to the usual suspects like Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert and other well known Bushco syncophants, but also lesser known bigots such Colorado's Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) and the Senator from Arizona Jon Kyl (R)] that are running things in this nation right now are not likely to return from whence they came, the need for people to rise up and protest is paramount.
This isn't over yet. Rethuglican businessmen who think they can have it both ways [i.e. hire illegales at below legal wages and no benefits while grandstanding against wetbacks coming across borders to work] need to wake up and be chastised. This isn't about terrorism or stealing jobs or people who can't speak english on the telemarketing or tech support lines. This is about greed of the privileged, callously foisting blame for social problems they create on others who are rarely in a place to contest their lies.
True, there's the additional problems caused by fringe group know-nothings like the Minutemen or outright racist pigs, but if those assigned to shepard the nation through difficult times keep failing to be leaders rather than self-interested, narrow sighted porcine grunters, then we can hardly expect those bigot fringe groups to recognizing that their race-based anger is misapplied.
This has me obviously somewhat inarticulate, but disgusted enough to post this both at Blogspot and LiveJournal at the same time.
Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit.If I thought you were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me.
Do not misunderstand me
But understand me fully with reference to the land
I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose
The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it.
I claim a right to live on my land
And accord you the privilege to return to yours.
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce nation, late 1800s, in a speech to representatives from Washington DC
It should come as no surprise that the self-important dorks in Washington, DC are arrogant enough to put the screws to immigrants. Although since so many of these self-serving malcontents have short memories [and, no doubt, equally short pedeigrees when it comes to how many centuries their ancestors actually lived on this continent] I find it, hopefully, instructive for them to once again hear or see these words from Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph.
So when the Republican from Wisconson, Rep. James Sensenbrenner came up with a bill that makes 11 million undocumented dishwashers and nannies "aggravated criminal felons" and turns priests and nurses into criminals for "aiding and abetting" the undocumented. But there may very well be a reason for the suddent outcry against immigration; the voter may be more politically savvy on the gay marriage issue as a political wedge, so the raving hyenas from D.C. have to come up with some new bogeyman. Illegal [hell... even legal] Immigrants.
Joshua Hoyt is even more passionate about the cruel absurdity of HR4437, noting that Sensenbrenner is not alone in his no very crypto-racist hubris. In fact, none other than "...Illinois Congressman and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert made a decision last fall to use "illegal immigration" as the Republican Party's next emotionally charged wedge issue. The political calculation is that the resentment and latent racism felt towards our new Mexican neighbors can be demagogued for political advantage this year, dividing the Democrats and keeping the House of Representatives in Republican hands. Other political opportunists across the nation, including perennial candidate Jim Oberweis in Illinois, have piled on. If "gay marriage" worked in 2004, then why not "illegals" in '06?Personally, I find it heartening to see an outpouring of protest from the populous and diverse immigrant community, in Chicago, Illinois [a state named after native peoples], Los Angeles [isn't that a Spanish name?], Milwaukee, Wisconsin [also named after native peoples, not white men], as well as in Trenton New Jersey, Providence Rhode Island; Atlanta Georgia, Kansas City, Missouri; Phoenix Arizona and elsewhere.
Of course, since migration of peoples, particularly oppressed, disenfranchised or disadvantaged peoples, is something that I believe ought to be encouraged, you might consider me biased. But I firmly believe that the cross-fertilization of cultures ultimately has a positive effect and impact on all of us, an unexpected bonus from mixing races and cultures.
And since the pea-brained, opportunistic boors [including, but not limited to the usual suspects like Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert and other well known Bushco syncophants, but also lesser known bigots such Colorado's Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) and the Senator from Arizona Jon Kyl (R)] that are running things in this nation right now are not likely to return from whence they came, the need for people to rise up and protest is paramount.
This isn't over yet. Rethuglican businessmen who think they can have it both ways [i.e. hire illegales at below legal wages and no benefits while grandstanding against wetbacks coming across borders to work] need to wake up and be chastised. This isn't about terrorism or stealing jobs or people who can't speak english on the telemarketing or tech support lines. This is about greed of the privileged, callously foisting blame for social problems they create on others who are rarely in a place to contest their lies.
True, there's the additional problems caused by fringe group know-nothings like the Minutemen or outright racist pigs, but if those assigned to shepard the nation through difficult times keep failing to be leaders rather than self-interested, narrow sighted porcine grunters, then we can hardly expect those bigot fringe groups to recognizing that their race-based anger is misapplied.
This has me obviously somewhat inarticulate, but disgusted enough to post this both at Blogspot and LiveJournal at the same time.
PIX CREDITS: First People for the Chief Joseph image and Chicago Indy Media for the demonstration march | OBSERVATION: Representative Sensenbrenner has a particularly personally opportunistic bent to his support of legislation. While he pushed the xenophobic document that was HR 4437, at other times he's promoted increasing quotas for immigrant labor in high-tech industries, weakening the USA labor movement and he co-sponsored constitutional amendment to deny citizenship to babies of illegal aliens [didn't pass, but the thought was there] FOR MORE DETAIL: Stop by Pam Spaulding's site, where she sakes the question: Immigration vs Invasion |
Labels: Amerindians, immigration, protest, social justice
¶ 22:14 1 comments
