Posts Tagged ‘protest’

Thursday evening notes

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Watching Maine becoming #5 this week, it occurs to me that while the process may be terribly slow from the perspective of people who just want to be treated equally (and I know I can only say that off-handedly since I already have all the privileges–white, male, straight, etc.) the whole thing is pretty much [...]

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The appropriate response to their garbage

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

I tip my hat to the students of the University of Chicago, who nicely illustrate the appropriate response to the Westboro Baptist Church: mockery.
They were accompanied down the street by a group of students mocking the WBC’s message. The students held a sign reading “Figs Doom Nations” and planted themselves across the street from the [...]

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Same As It Ever Was

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown [...]

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Canadians: Did You Call Jim Prentice Today?

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

I did.
Don’t know who Jim Prentice is? Why he’s the Minister of Industry in Harper’s evil regime.
And why should you have called him today? Well, that’s a long one. The short version is that he’s spearheading a really, really, REALLY bad law–essentially a Canadian version of the American’s dire DMCA–and since he’s been either dodging [...]

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