The day after I marched in the January 27th mass demonstration against the war in DC, I attended the Holocaust museum for the first time. Though I had but a fraction of the time one needs to take-in the gut-wrenching history of the museum's multiple levels, the experience haunted me.
When President Bush made an appearance at the Miami Dade College graduation, The Miami Herald predicted that Bush would receive "more cheers than heckles." However, during his visit a group of people equal in size to the number of graduates greeted the president with a criminal's welcome on the hottest day of the year. On the same day, activists in cities across the country took to the streets calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
After years of protesting on the streets of Melbourne, Florida five members of the Brevard's Patriots for Peace got the opportunity on April 27th to meet with congressman Dave Weldon (FL-15) for a forty-minute meeting on the war. Comprised of a graduate student, nurse, retired teacher and artist, grandmother, and writer, our delegation sat face-to-face with one of the Iraq war's greatest proponents and grilled him. Dave Weldon
On Saturday 27, 2007, hundreds of thousands of peace protestors responded to President Bush's call for a surge in troops with a peace surge that flooded the streets of
[Speech given at a First Amendment Rally in Brevard County, Florida]
Despite our First Amendment guaranteed Constitutional right to assemble, the US government is moving in the dangerous direction of undermining those rights. I am a father, a husband, and a suspect. My peaceful, law-abiding protesting over the last three years, my petitioning of the government, has earned me an FBI number and, in 2004, also the label of ‘suspect’ by Florida’s Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
Republicans are reaching into the God, Guns and Country bag of tricks once again to molest the most ignorant and prejudice of American minds. In an effort led by zealots on the religious right along with Republicans desperate to survive President Bush's plunge at the polls, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist hopes to satisfy and ignite the party's Christian conservative base by beginning debate on an amendment to ban gay marriage on Monday, June 5th.
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