CSPAN must reverse its late Friday afternoon decision to not broadcast Saturday’s Bush Step Down Demonstration. This week, every major network broadcast Bush’s State of the Union address ( an aggressive and…
Down by the River
Allen Lang 2/2/06 In organizing for the upcoming State of Emergency protests and reflecting on the moment we must seize, I kept thinking of an analogy an organizer in DC used in…
California, SJU
The corner chosen catches downtown traffic, and is at the edge of SJ State, so we had a big impact. We did a countdown to 6:00 PM, and then there was a…
Illinois, Peoria
Just an update on our action in Peoria. We had a good, if small, protest on Tuesday night. About 20 of us gathered in Liberty Park on the Riverfront at 7:30 pm,…
Organizers Maced & Arrested for Passing Out Leaflets
2/3, 5pm: Two WCW Orgranizers were maced, pepper-sprayed, and roughed-up for leafletting in front of a high school (Bladensburg, Maryland). It is outrageous that people have been arrested for the simple…
Soldiers in Iraq Drown Out Bush’s State of the Union Address
An organizer in New Jersey who is in the ROTC at his High School, but opposed to the war in Iraq, emailed information about the State of the Union protests to his…
“President Jonah” by Gore Vidal
Published 1/24/06 on TruthDig.com While contemplating the ill-starred presidency of G.W. Bush, I looked about for some sort of divine analogy. As usual, when in need of enlightenment, I fell upon…
“President Jonah” by Gore Vidal
Published 1/24/06 on TruthDig.com While contemplating the ill-starred presidency of G.W. Bush, I looked about for some sort of divine analogy. As usual, when in need of enlightenment, I fell upon…
“President Jonah” by Gore Vidal
Published 1/24/06 on TruthDig.com While contemplating the ill-starred presidency of G.W. Bush, I looked about for some sort of divine analogy. As usual, when in need of enlightenment, I fell upon…
Lessons From The Past
I was just sitting down to a favorite web site tonight, one that is dedicated to the men and women of my era. It has music from our generation, music that unfortunately…