 | Yobaba is a 57 year old married woman from Portland, Oregon, USA. |
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 Nov 17, 10:49pm  (42 reviews) activism http://static.userland.com/images/misnom...
- Couple donates heating oil to needy families | Local News | KING5.com |...
- Nov 17, 8:00pm (2 reviews) activism http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/N...
- Sharing the Power of One
- Nov 16, 8:17pm activism http://www.sharingthepowerofone.com/
- Anti Gay Blacklist
- Nov 14, 11:02pm (60 reviews) activism http://antigayblacklist.com/
- From the page: "The following individuals or organizations (according to ElectionTrack.com) have donated money to the California Proposition 8 campaign which seeks to ban same sex marriages. Please do not patronize them. 8 = HATE."
The power of the Interwebs.
C'mon people ... we all still have "Freedom of Speech" - remember? As far as the group behind this website is concerned, they are only posting public records - there are several websites, so-called 'liberal' and 'ultra-conservative' alike that supply the same information regarding who donates how much to which candidate/political party/PAC or proposition. There is nothing hypocritical about it. My name is on the list of people who donated to the Obama campaign. It's also on a list of people who donated to the mayoral race in the town in which I live.
You talk about "lists" - what about the lists of physicians and clinics (including home addresses and telephone numbers) that are selected as targets for protest, bombings and yes, even murder by the folks known as the Conservative Right who are now whining about this website? If you take offense to this particular list of contributors do you also take offense to the people making out conservative hate lists? If you do not, then you are the hypocrites.
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- Nov 12, 3:47pm (82 reviews) activism http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_Brock...
- My wife made me canvas for Obama; heres what I learned | csmonitor.com
- Nov 3, 7:31am (40 reviews) activism http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1103/p09s0...
- Why we have to stop E.on building a new coal plant | Stop Climate Chaos...
- Nov 2, 8:12pm (2 reviews) activism http://www.stopclimatechaos.org/08/oct/w...
- "Coal is the biggest threat to the climate. As the most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels, it's historically responsible for most of the fossil-fuel CO2 in the air today - about half of all fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions globally."
So-called "new" coal power plants (in the UK) are certainly not in the best interests of the planet. Who do they think they are kidding?
- The Lone Ranger: Is Political Activism Cool Again? - SPIEGEL ONLINE -...
- Oct 27, 5:08pm (2 reviews) activism http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...
- From the page: "In short, today's kids remind me of me and my friends from the 60s. Ours was a generation whose devout mission was to save the world, through the civil rights movement, the Peace Corps, the campaign of both Kennedys, the anti-war movement. We may have failed as much as we succeeded. But saving the world was cool, and that was where the party was.
In recent decades, for young Americans, the party was elsewhere. In the Me Generation, it was all in the self. In the X Generation, it was the Self on Steroids. Finally, it became all about Wall Street. The kids talked about their stock portfolios even before they had them.
Now, for various reasons, the generational focus is the larger polity, the fate of the group. Even before the market crises, Obama had found a vein of youthful idealism just waiting to be tapped. Like most grow-ups, I didn't see it coming. Neither did Hillary. Neither did McCain.
And it's not just the kids who remind me of the 1960s. Today I talked with Richard Williams, a fellow veteran of the old days, a retired school principal in Kentucky. His last involvement in politics was in 1968, when, as a young student, he volunteered for the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy. But Kennedy was assassinated before he could arrive in California. Since then, he has not been involved in a single political campaign -- until now. Now he's making calls, just like my wife, to swing states. For him, too, it seems addictive. "I haven't felt this way since I volunteered for Robert Kennedy," he said. "I haven't given money, I haven't done anything. Now I'm working the lists. I feel like growing my hair long again and wearing an armband."
I concur, with one difference. I was "into" the peace movement and the political movements of the 60's. I campaigned for Bobby Kennedy in '68. I was still too young to vote for McGovern, but I would have. I was tremendously disappointed by what I found in college that autumn - all the so-called activists were far more into getting high than in changing the world, and as the years passed a lot of them sold out to Wall street and - yes - to Ronald Reagan.
I think Obama's supporters are smarter than that. At least I hope so.
- writing evolution
- Oct 27, 11:04am (3 reviews) activism http://writingevolution.net/
- We the Women: sports, society, rules, health care, working women, violence...
- Oct 25, 10:07pm (3 reviews) activism http://www.wethewomen.org/
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