Ideas and Revolution

Many of you know that the Shadow Democracy blog (link still works but not for much longer) which I was involved in as the webmaster and as a infrequent contributor come to an end a couple of months ago. This happened because my good friend Matthew Podoba, the blog owner needed to take a break because of family issues. The good news is Matt will be starting a new blog and there will be announcement in regards to this very soon!

I decided to import my key posts from Shadow Democracy into this blog to archive and for your reading and comment pleasure…

Huge Protests Tonight At Berkeley City Council Meeting Over Military Recruiting…

Iran and the coming of World War III… Huh?

Taser this: Fuck Bush - Yeah I just said that…

Get government out of the marriage business!

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This post originally appeared in the Shadow Democracy blog which is a old project I was part of but no longer exists.

The big showdown has been brewing for weeks after the Berkeley city council voted to ask the Marines Corp. to close the recruiting station downtown near the UC Berkeley campus because they are “unwelcome intruders”. The issue has been the city not wanting the Marines to recruit their young people for the Iraq War that is not supported by the majority of the people in the city.

Hundreds of people from anti-war groups like Code Pink will be met by support-the-troops groups that is sure to be interesting.

The San Francisco Chronicle has been covering the story…

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In my quest to become more personally involved in community activism I went to the Iraq War Anniversary Vigil held at the corner of Elmwood and West Ferry at 6:00pm today. This was organized by MoveOn.org of which I am on their mailing list and was part of the 1000’s of nationwide vigils held today for the war. Turn out was small, which was about 40 strong but could be expected because of the weather. While there was much support by cars passing by heard from the frequent horn blowing, the vigil never really got off the ground. Much of the problem was because the vigil was only scheduled to be half hour which seemed to short. But as it turns out the real event was inside the Unitarian Church at that corner.

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Thanks to MoveOn.org you can get a free bumper sticker that expresses how you feel about the war in Iraq. Sure to be limited so order yours now like I did here.

Update - All bumper stickers are gone!

A Comic from Ward Sutton that I spied in the current issue of Buffalo’s alternative newspaper the Artvoice.

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Ties in well with the “troop support” rant in my Welcome post. Just a handy illustration to make sense of how G.W. Bush and buddies see what makes for good troop morale. Enjoy…