Attended the oil-free congress rally this evening. A couple of other cheerleaders showed up and we did a few cheers. Deanna of Dee's 'Dotes has photos
here and
here. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
thecause was also there (he organized the event) and also took pictures. He will hopefully be posting some of them on
his journal. We saw
Pete Ashdown driving his RV along 7th East during the rally and we waved at and cheered him.
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My friend
mwalton writes about her experiences and lessons learned as an election judge in yesterday's primary election
here.
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Writing a lot of posts on green and environmental issues has gotten me some emails for promoting "green" articles or products lately. One such solicitation was asking me to post about some type of new diesel fuel (not biodiesel) that was supposed to be greener. I checked out the linked website, but still had questions. I emailed back with my questions and received no response, so I never posted about it.
Another solicitation has offered me a book to preview at no cost to me in the hopes that I would post about it. I should be receiving the book shortly and I'm willing to review it here when I do.
I got an email asking me to link to
this article which talks about using the internet to further build the green movement in a bigger way than individual actions can. I thought the article was interesting and thought provoking enough that I'm fine with linking to it.
I received a virtual press pass to preview
Time Magazine's current issue which features Teddy Roosevelt on the cover. The email reads " the man whose quest for conservation and the preservation of the environment and its wildlife left a lasting legacy on the United States including the development of National Parks and monuments as we know them today..
Special attention is paid to President Roosevelt's naturalist background, including stories about his death-defying exploration of the Amazon rain forest, his dedication to preserving natural parks across across the country, and his love for nature. "
While it's true that Teddy Roosevelt does have some good green acts to his credit (such as curbing the "monopolistic corporations" and the development of our national parks) he's not exactly a hero to a peace activist like me. War, after all, is horrible on the environment as is our lust for global domination. He was quoted as saying in 1897 "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one." There followed some horrible wars during his administration. U.S. --soldiers in the Phillipines during that era were ordered to "Burn all and kill all" and 600,000 Filipinos died.
From Time Magazine:
"He was the first President to urge wholeheartedly that the U.S. accept its role as a global power. God knows, he accepted it. He looked at the U.S. the way we now understand the universe, as a thing that began expanding the moment it was born. (It tells you something that he never got over the habit of casting covetous glances toward Canada.) But not until just before he reached the presidency had the nation finally burst through its continental confines. In 1898 the Spanish-American War and its aftermath had placed under U.S. supervision a whole collection of territories and dependencies: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Suddenly, to Roosevelt's utter delight, the U.S. was acting on a world stage, across two oceans. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy under McKinley--a job that should have been nearly meaningless but that he turned into a power center--he had urged on the war. As a Rough Rider, he had fought in it. As President, he would make Americans understand that their new global prominence was a long-term proposition."
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I decided to sign up for a free MySpace account as another communication tool. Yes, I know that MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch the evil media king. Yes, the ads kind of suck. It's just something I'm trying out. This page on LJ will remain my main blog, but I may occasionally repost some articles on MySpace. If it doesn't work out, I'll drop it eventually. If you want to check it out or if you have MySpace and want to friend me, my page is
here and my MySpace blog is
here.
