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wish i may
i might
make a wish upon a star tonight..
email.
me.
i'm brooke. a short, fatish, bisexual, feminist, pacifist, very-liberal activist. i have 4 cats. and 2 computers, 2 kayaks, 1 masters degree, multiple backpacks, and way too many books.
i live in the most beautiful eugene, oregon. i'm currently disabled due to treatment resistant severe depression. i've been blogging since election day of 2000.
i'm born and raised in the mountains of southwestern virginia. i could join the daughters of the american revolution, i don't think they'd like me cause i hear they like to throw tea parties instead of rallies and revolutions.
links.
lane co. bill of rights defense committee (lcbordc) ~
bill of rights defense committee ~
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lisa ~
carrie ~
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Tuesday, May 20
i think i'm gonna start a political blog too. i'm watching the second half of hitler: the rise of evil and it just hits a little to close to home. i don't want to clutter this space with political stuff..... maybe. but politics is such a part of me.
i put a personal ad in the weekly. i said i was an activist. someone answered it, we talked to today and he said he wasn't very political. of course i talked politics. talking politics is so.. well, i'm not as passionate as some are but i guess compared to the average person i'm political. there's just so much disturbing stuff going on. from cuts to human services to cuts to the bill of rights. there is so much to fear with the current state of this nation. there is so much to fear with the state of this state that i live in.
hitler.. they arrested people for no reason, no charges.. they wouldn't release them. the same thing is happening in this country. hundreds of people arrested for no reason, sit in jail with no charges, no lawyer, tried in a military tribunal. citizens of this country deported for no reason. its so incredibly disturbing.
so, politics. i don't know how i can't not talk about them. because its not politics, its our lives, our everyday lives. the very foundations on which this country was built.. its all being threatened, in the name of patriotism and freedom.
i'm going to my first meeting of the lane county bill of rights committee on thursday. i'll just be a stupid little worker bee.. the people working on this committee are all so knowledgeable, big-wigs in this town. i'm going because i feel that the issue of immigration rights, the p.a.t.r.i.o.t. act, the bill of rights are all so important. i'm willing to feel like a really small fish in a huge pond if i can be of some help. someone at the event that i went to this weekend said "once we loose our rights the only way to get them back is a revolution." i don't want to see our rights lost. i have to do something.
so, i politic. i listen to the passion in my heart, i do the work that others don't have time to do, that others don't care about.. i talk about them because it needs to be heard.. people need to know that yes-- they can change things, that the things they believe in can happen if they believe it.
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