Category: action

What better place for such a protest than the city where the Greensboro Four sparked a nationwide sit-in movement for integration?

Four openly gay college students wouldn’t take no for an answer Thursday morning when they were refused enlistment into the Army.

The students conducted a sit-in at the Greensboro Army Recruitment Center.

Three of the four, Matthew Comer, Jessica Arvidson and Alexandria Nini, were arrested and charged with second-degree trespassing.
Students protest military’s gay ban – Daily Tar Heel

Chapel Hill-area label Yep Roc is offerring free downloads of a new anti-war song by Billy Bragg. It’s 165 seconds of raw blues, good humor, and great politics.

Being a man of action, Billy ducked into Big Sky Recordings in Ann Arbor, Mich., on March 22 and laid down “Bush War Blues,” with lyrics adapted to express his condemnation of the war in Iraq. His voice husky from his hefty touring schedule, Billy originally attributed the song to a newly-created alter ego, Johnny Clash.
– Yep Roc Records

Thanks to Paul for the link.

As promised, I’ve uploaded about 30 photos of today’s third annual protest on the anniversary of the Iraq War in Fayetteville, NC, home of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. I also posted a few remainders from Uruguay and Texas.

Me at the Museum (and former home) of Juan Zarillo, poet, patriarch, and national hero of Uruguay. The Rio de la Plata is in the background.

Radical cheerleaders!

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Maybe Jessie Beard was right:

How rich are you? >> I’m loaded. It’s official. I’m the 53,239,565 richest person on earth!

Hat tip: I found the Global Rich List (which is designed like a hypercard deck from a 1980’s Macintosh) via a cool tool called StumbleUpon that a co-worker just pointed me to.