9-29-08 @8:20 AM ~ Gracias Sister Chris ~ I appreciate the Email and the photos! Definitely this will be an historic Presidential election and will set the pace for the next several years and beyond. I believe that no matter who anyone supports that the ideal is to GET OUT THE VOTE! Without an active aware citizenry there can be no real democracy!I myself am a Registered Democrat and support Obama for President! McCain is one of the dinosaurs and Palin is a pretty face who should never be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. We should be careful not to let one's gender divide us along gender lines. America already has enough divisions!
We should cast our vote for the best qualified candidate who will respond to the basic survival needs and urgent critical issues of these troubled times.
Feel free to join the Humane-Rights-Agenda Yahoo Group via the Link below. It is an unmoderated group and has served as a strong advocate online group for basic humane rights for all peoples BEFORE 911.
The banner of HUMANE RIGHTS is our common denominator, despite political party affiliation or politic leanings. We need to get far beyond superficial distinctions of left vs. right, Democrat vs. Republican and think in terms of what is best for the majority of the people!
We still must build a true democracy inside the United States and that mandates the active awareness and participation of its peoples! The Bush Regime has wrecked havoc upon our humane rights, has instilled an emotional paranoid fear among people and has resulted in millions and millions of foreigners hating America! An active participatory democracy must response to the basic needs and issues of all of the earth's peoples!
Educate to Liberate!
Peter S. Lopez
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
Sacramento, California, U.S.A.
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Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:03 PM
The Alaskan rally I was telling you about:). Sue
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Sent: 9/20/2008 10:38:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: Fw: ALASKA Rally Photos
I thought these rally photos (scroll below the text) were too good not to share.. Alaskans are not stupid.
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage . Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages..
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically,in Anchorage , if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-killing maggot" haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned.The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard.Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math… Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.The citizens of Alaska , who know her best, have things to say.
A bunch of pictures of that rally:
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