The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency for Troy Anthony Davis shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday, September 12. They did so despite overwhelming doubts of Davis' guilt - and after stating last year that they would "not allow an execution to proceed in this State unless and until its members are convinced that there is no doubt as to the guilt of the accused." Amnesty International members will be gathering in Columbia Heights with other members of the DC anti-death penalty community in support of a larger rally being held in Atlanta, GA to demonstrate that people from across the country care about this issue and demand clemency for Troy.
What: Solidarity Rally for Troy Davis
When: Thursday, September 18th from 6-7pm
Where: Corner of Harvard St, 16th St, and Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC (in the small triangular park) just two blocks from the Columbia Heights metro station (www.wmata.com)
Why: To show support for Troy and solidarity with those gathering in Atlanta, GA
Please take action by visiting http://tinyurl.com/troydavisaction and then help spread the word - Text TROY to 90999
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
California Dream Act - Not sure...comments anyone?
SIGN & FORWARD THIS ONLINE PETITION!
"Turning Our Hopes into Equal Educational Opportunity:
Gov. Schwarzenegger Must Sign the California Dream Act Now"
Sign the Petition Online: ENGLISH ESPAÑOL
Forward Widely! (Everyone can sign it.)
The petition text is below. Do the following:
1. Sign the petition online, and forward this email to EVERYONE you know. The petition is at:
http://www.bamn.com/
2. Download and print the petition to circulate at your school, workplace, church, and community. This is a great way to build a contingent from your school/city to the statewide march on Sept. 26th. Download the petition at:
http://www.bamn.com/
3. March in Sacramento, CA Friday, Sept. 26th! For more information and to get transportation, go to:
http://www.bamn.com/DreamAct.
HERE IS THE PETITION TEXT:
Turning Our Hopes into Equal Educational Opportunity:
Gov. Schwarzenegger Must Sign the California Dream Act Now
• No More Separate and Unequal Treatment for Undocumented Immigrant Students
• Latina/o, Black, Asian, Arab, Native American, and White, Immigrants With & Without Papers—We Are All Californians
• Enact a Federal Dream Act
Our nation is entering a new era of hope. The newly formed and growing mass youth political movement that is the engine of the Obama campaign seeks an America free of racial prejudice, discrimination, and every vestige of the New Jim Crow. For the first time, millions of young Latina/o, black, other minority, immigrant, and poor white students who have been denied equal educational opportunities and access to higher education feel like the lives they have been working so hard to attain might actually be possible to realize. The task of the new civil rights movement and every young person, who for the first time are taking the risk of dreaming about what their lives, communities, state and nation could become, is to use our collective power to make those dreams real.
This year, hundreds of thousands of gifted undocumented California students will be denied the opportunity to attend college. Undocumented students are discriminatorily denied access to state funded campus-based tuition aid. A mere stroke of the pen could right this wrong.
The California Dream Act, supported by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and every significant California educational institution and organization, now sits on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk awaiting his signature. If signed into law, the California Dream Act would give undocumented students the same opportunity as every other California high school graduate to receive campus-based state tuition aid.
If enacted, the California Dream Act will establish the important principle that undocumented students can no longer be assigned to a second-class, inferior status and must be treated with respect and dignity, in every way as the peers and equals of every other student in California. The legal right that undocumented students have to receive the same public educational opportunities as everyone else would be closer to becoming real.
The families and communities of undocumented students contribute billions of tax dollars and incalculable hours of poorly paid labor that benefit the California economy. Giving their sons and daughters the right to benefit from state tuition aid programs is fair and just.
The passage and enactment of the California Dream Act this year would pave the way for a federal Dream Act to be passed and signed into law after the November elections.
THEREFORE, WE THE UNDERSIGNED:
• Support the enactment of the California Dream Act and a Federal Dream Act.
• Stand on the principle that Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, and white, immigrants with and without papers—we are all Californians.
SIGN THE PETITION at:
http://www.bamn.com/
Forward this Email Far and Wide!
30th Annual Adams Morgan Day Festival
It is today 12-7pm
All sorts of cool shit that I don't want to type out because I'm already lagging in my day.
Go here for more info: Adams Morgan Day Festival
Street vendors, arts & crafts, food , performances.
It's a beautiful day, spend it outside!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
16th Annual ARTS on Foot
7th & F Street, NW. Penn Quarter
Metro: Gallery PL-Chinatown
FREE!!!!!! Rain or Shine!
TODAY, Sat. 9-13 from 11am- 5pm
Outdoor festival:
-art market with 80 artist
-Music and performance stages
-Cultural corridor with activities, games, and crafts.
Neighborhood Showcase:
-Exclusive dance and theater performances
-Film screenings, museum and gallery exhibits
Go to artsonfoot.org for more info
Friday, September 12, 2008
Anyone need a ticket to the Cal-Maryland game?
So I can't go to the Cal football game anymore tomorrow but I already bought a ticket. If anyone has decided last minute that they actually want to go but don't have a ticket let me know I would be very happy to sell you mine! I really wish I could go because I know it'll be an absolute blast but unfortunately I can't.
Also, does anyone know anything about Macs? My iTunes decided to stop working this morning and it's killing me to not be able to listen to Rihanna on repeat... If you can help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits?
There's plenty of reasons to believe that white women make up the most important demographic in this election. Obama practically has over 90% support of African Americans - male and female; McCain has locked in the white male vote, though fortunately not to the same extent; and notwithstanding any big shake-up, Obama will get most of the Latino vote - at least in the important battleground states.
However, since September 3rd, John McCain has seen a sudden surge in his numbers in national polls (what can you say, he's a surge-lovin' kinda guy). Whereas before the Republican National Convention Obama had a consistent 2 to 3 percent lead over McCain, since the announcement of Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain has usurped Obama's consistent lead. Why? Look to white women. Before the convention shenanigans, Obama led McCain among white women by 8%. Ever since hockey moms have been swept off their feet by Palin Power like a merman who just saved their life (come on, people, don't you watch Family Guy?), McCain is up among the same demographic group by 12%. Now, I'm no mathematician, but that's a 20% shift overnight. Now, take into account that 56 million women will be voting this November, and looks like the numbers add up.
If we get that far - that white women will make the difference in this election - then Hillary's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits needs to roll up their (suit-pants) sleeves and hit the road - FAST! After all, they're willing to do whatever it takes to keep McCain from the White House.
But wait, don't get too excited. Despite saying she's willing to do anything to get Obama elected just a couple of weeks ago in Denver, Mrs. Clinton has made it clear she will not go on the record attacking Sarah Palin. Instead, she will stick to talking up Obama's record and making a case to people across the country why McCain cannot take over the White House in 09. Yes, because that is exactly what she did during the convention, right? Think again. Not one time in her speech did she mention that Obama was ready to be the Commander-in-Chief.
The fact is, Hillary's ego has once again resulted in her putting her own ambitions and her own interests ahead of the party, ahead of the 18 million people who voted for her, and ahead of the country.
It's clear that Obama and Joe Biden can't attack Palin. As soon as Biden had the audacity to tell the people what they need to hear - that putting Palin in the White House is a backward step for women - the McCain camp and the GOP will play the sexist card. And I will argue that the democratic strategy to just ignore Palin and somehow hope that the buzz surrounding the ex-Wasilla mayor will die in the next 2 months will indeed result in a Republican White House. Obama's been on the national stage for nineteen months and people are still not tired of him - at least not yet.
No. What does a chihuahua do when a pitbull bites it? It bites back. And it bites hard (I'm not sure if this even works, but I think chihuahuas are cool). Hillary Clinton needs to tame her off-the-charts ego and remind women that the reason they supported her wasn't because she has a vagina (we won't get into a debate about whether this is true or not), but because of who she was and what she stood for. The Hill-pack's values run diametrically opposed to Sarah Palin. They are pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-stem-cell.
But of course Hillary can't do it alone. She needs other women like Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, and Claire McCaskill - her own Lena, Carmen, and Tibby (no, I did not know them - thanks Wikipedia).
It's time for Hillary to stop over-promising and under-delivering; it's time for her to stop putting her super-ego ahead of the nation's interest; it's time for her to convince the other 18 million people who didn't vote for her in 08 that they should vote for her in 2016.
However, since September 3rd, John McCain has seen a sudden surge in his numbers in national polls (what can you say, he's a surge-lovin' kinda guy). Whereas before the Republican National Convention Obama had a consistent 2 to 3 percent lead over McCain, since the announcement of Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain has usurped Obama's consistent lead. Why? Look to white women. Before the convention shenanigans, Obama led McCain among white women by 8%. Ever since hockey moms have been swept off their feet by Palin Power like a merman who just saved their life (come on, people, don't you watch Family Guy?), McCain is up among the same demographic group by 12%. Now, I'm no mathematician, but that's a 20% shift overnight. Now, take into account that 56 million women will be voting this November, and looks like the numbers add up.
If we get that far - that white women will make the difference in this election - then Hillary's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits needs to roll up their (suit-pants) sleeves and hit the road - FAST! After all, they're willing to do whatever it takes to keep McCain from the White House.
But wait, don't get too excited. Despite saying she's willing to do anything to get Obama elected just a couple of weeks ago in Denver, Mrs. Clinton has made it clear she will not go on the record attacking Sarah Palin. Instead, she will stick to talking up Obama's record and making a case to people across the country why McCain cannot take over the White House in 09. Yes, because that is exactly what she did during the convention, right? Think again. Not one time in her speech did she mention that Obama was ready to be the Commander-in-Chief.
The fact is, Hillary's ego has once again resulted in her putting her own ambitions and her own interests ahead of the party, ahead of the 18 million people who voted for her, and ahead of the country.
It's clear that Obama and Joe Biden can't attack Palin. As soon as Biden had the audacity to tell the people what they need to hear - that putting Palin in the White House is a backward step for women - the McCain camp and the GOP will play the sexist card. And I will argue that the democratic strategy to just ignore Palin and somehow hope that the buzz surrounding the ex-Wasilla mayor will die in the next 2 months will indeed result in a Republican White House. Obama's been on the national stage for nineteen months and people are still not tired of him - at least not yet.
No. What does a chihuahua do when a pitbull bites it? It bites back. And it bites hard (I'm not sure if this even works, but I think chihuahuas are cool). Hillary Clinton needs to tame her off-the-charts ego and remind women that the reason they supported her wasn't because she has a vagina (we won't get into a debate about whether this is true or not), but because of who she was and what she stood for. The Hill-pack's values run diametrically opposed to Sarah Palin. They are pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-stem-cell.
But of course Hillary can't do it alone. She needs other women like Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, and Claire McCaskill - her own Lena, Carmen, and Tibby (no, I did not know them - thanks Wikipedia).
It's time for Hillary to stop over-promising and under-delivering; it's time for her to stop putting her super-ego ahead of the nation's interest; it's time for her to convince the other 18 million people who didn't vote for her in 08 that they should vote for her in 2016.
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