3 posts tagged “activism”
that the word ME shows up bigger than all heck in my tags?
Last night went great. We were out in the rain but the energy was huge, funny and positive as we decried Bliar for the warmonger that he is. lots of press, including press photographers loving little John, the red diaper toddler of P and L, owners of the Perth Banner Factory and excellent designers of world-famous protest banners.
Here's a picture and news story of the sunnier noontime protest that happened today.
November 6, mark this date in your diary. Good things will happen that day.
On today: Speech-writing. Need statistics on the Iraq and Afghan wars
for index cards. Work. Thoroughly brushing and spritzing hair for
cameras but hopefully there won't be any.
On tomorrow: Solidarity meeting. Discourse on poverty by the experienced
thumper of tub; discourse on veil by Ms. Young Muslim Bad-Ass.
I'm writing my blog post while at work by using a little encrypted
window. I'm writing this post on another computer altogether, and then I
will use a hidden window behind this window to send encrypted mail to my
moblog. I have a different brain entirely whilst at work so this should
make for frequent and interesting blog posts.
Interestingnesses:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200610/kaplan-korea Susan Sontag and Anne Leibovitz were lovers. Liebovitz just released a
book that includes photos of Sontag as she was dying of cancer. Via
aldaily.com.
When Sontag was dying she wanted to write more books. I've not written a
singled damn book or even had a fucking short story published for a long
time. World-hacking (activism) has taken that energy and time. Had
better get writing one of these days.
http://www.reason.com/0608/bagge.shtml Right-wing pro-immigration cartoon, deeply thought and well drawn by the
Crumb-ite scribbler Bagge. Contains some telling critiques against the
loonly left (us) and suggests that a clearly articulated message is the
way to go. I agree. Via boingboing.net.
Tony Blair is coming to town and we're going to have a polite vigil and rally questioning his competence at peace-making for Northern Ireland when he's done such a crap job at it in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I'm speaking and a friend's speaking. I'll write the speech as a few illegible scratches on a small sheaf of index cards, which will somehow help. Then I won't look at the speech.
I'll be interested to see how my friend composes a speech. Does she read it, or hold it in the hand and look in the audience's eyes, or does she glance at it now and then?
