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CLOSE Guantanamo. End the broken promises.
By Kate, 21 January 2010
Neil & I participated today in a march from the White House to the Supreme Court to the Capitol building in orange jumpsuits & hoods.
[We are in that photo on the far left. I'm holding the B in "Broken" & Neil is right behind me.]
When we got to the Capitol we had to quickly take off the suits to avoid arrest. 28 protesters were arrested outside & 14 were inside pretending to be on a tour & were also arrested for a demonstration the led in the Rotunda.
One year ago President Obama issued an executive order to close Guantanamo & promised it would be completed in one year. He must keep this promise.
Shame on Yoo
By Kate, 15 January 2010
That’s right folks, I had my first orange jumper experience today. I went down with the folks I’ve been fasting with, Witness Against Torture, to Chinatown where the Federalist Society was hosting a luncheon for John Yoo, author of the torture memos (and law professor at Berkeley Law… in case you thought that Berkeley was still a bastion of progressive politics… think again).
It was a very interesting experience to stand still and hooded for hours. I was humbled by my fellow protesters, two of whom were women in their 70s who have problems walking, but are marching every day in vigils.
We were very warmly received by all the people passing by & even some of those attending the event. And, when Yoo came out I spontaneously screamed “Shame on You!” even though it was supposed to be a silent protest. I mean, his name just makes for such an easy protest pun… I could not keep a lid on it.
Here I am trying to keep a solemn face after the protest (but, laughing in spite of myself):
It was a great day, even though I was REALLY really tired. It felt good to stand there with those brave people.
Vive la Révolution: Or How I Crashed an Airbus into the Statue of Liberty while Drinking Perrier
By Neil, 15 April 2008
I know we are so over it and so back to drinking Perrier, flying on Airbus planes, coating our faces with L’Oreal and reading Rolling Stone magazine, even so I want to write about the old French product protest “we” had a few years ago. My first question about our protest of French products is; did it include the Statue of Liberty? Because it was made in France under commission of the French as a gift to America symbolizing the bonds of friendship that had formed between the two nations during the revolutionary war. If we (I am using the royal “we,” I had nothing to do with this shindig) really wanted to stick-it to the French we should have boycotted their symbol of union and friendship by only visiting the Statue of Liberty to deface it with spray paint and sledge hammers.
OK, so maybe we (royal “we” again) were only trying to hurt the French economy and as long as we already had a French product before the boycott we could continue using it because the transaction had already taken place. Fair enough, but that brings me to my second question; who even knows what a French products are? Most are elitist consumer goods anyway, and it seems like the type of American protesting French products wouldn’t buy them even during peace times. I mean I can’t tell you the last French thing I bought, ate or consumed that wasn’t purchased while in France. And I think this is probably true for most people. (To tell you the truth I bought a small bottle of French horseradish mustard the other day).
And finally, as case and point for my whole argument against the French product protest, when you have to make a Boycott Website to show people what to boycott and and what not to, it just goes to show that the world has changed so much that you can’t really punish a country anymore through a citizen product protest. Everything is made and owned by everyone else that if you were going to abstain from anything profitable to the French you’ll be left eating grass clippings and walking barefoot. Likely many French companies are owned by an American umbrella company or some other international group, and many things “Made in America” are owned by foreigners and maybe even the French. I say lets protest all things created, said or sold by those who came up with this stupid protest in the first place.
I am interested to see how the Chinese product protest goes with this whole Tibet and Olympics thing, there is not much left in the world that isn’t made in China.