by Eliza
On Saturday, November 15th, people gathered in cities & towns all over the United States to protest the passage of Proposition 8 in California, & to advocate for equality of marriage rights for same-sex couples. (Scan down at the site linked to see photos & comments from many cities & towns.)
My 10 yr old son and I attended the rally & march in Seattle, along with 3000-8000 other people (depending on whose estimate you believe). I ran into ~20 people I know, from various arenas of my life: work, my son’s school, my UU church, and an atheist group I belong to. The mayor, the county executive, a state Senator, and our Representative to the U.S. House all spoke at the rally (proving how liberal this area is). It was a stirring demonstration of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and it was upbeat and positive, yet it feels like it will be years before anything will actually change.
There’s a lot I could say. The observation I’d like to present is this: with ideas being communicated on placards and in chants, people distilled issues down to the features they felt were most important to communicate to others. Read the rest of this entry »
11-17-2008 |
28 Comments »Wow, I just watched this. If I’d seen it yesterday I would have posted it as the Friday Video.
11-15-2008 |
10 Comments »There’s an event that sounds intriguing in Seattle this weekend: “Freedom Rings…and the long life of Habeas Corpus”. According to the flyer, it will include speakers and choirs from both a (black) Baptist church and a (white) Unitarian-Universalist church, ‘prominent community leaders’ reading the Bill of Rights ‘with Gospel accompaniment’, and a physical/comic actor/artist who will “enact the role of Habeas Corpus”. Sounds irresistible! I hope to go. But it forces me to ask, finally, just what “habeas corpus” is.
Luckily, YouTube had this handy-dandy video to help explain habeas corpus & that pesky Constitution, from “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC.
11-03-2006 |
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