It's been a full week since I last updated on Oak Park's "War on Veggies", so it's time to recap this week's developments.

First, I stopped by Julie Bass's house on Thursday just to see for myself what all the fuss was about.* I didn't have a camera, but Julie herself posted a photo of her front yard earlier that day, saving me the trouble. The ( Read more... )

In our previous installment, I wrote:

Troy City Council asks for August library ballot question
By BONNIE CAPRARA
Special to The Oakland Press
...If the council formally adopts the ballot language at its next meeting on Monday, the council will have to vote on a measure to keep the library open at least until the special election. The library was ( Read more... )

Art Info: China Steps Up Its Cyberwar on Change.org

Apparently, now China is trying to shut down free speech outside its borders as well as within.

On Tuesday, we reported that the Web site Change.org, which is hosting a petition for the release of detained artist Ai Weiwei, stated that it was facing “highly sophisticated denial of service ( Read more... )

The T-shirt designs below were submitted by nonnie9999 at Hysterical Raisins for Coffee Party USA's Yard Sign and T-shirt contest as part of the Coffee Break to Save America campaign.


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Originally posted at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

From MSNBC: Cities are going dark for Earth Hour
By John Roach

Cities around the world are going dark on Saturday night for the annual Earth Hour event, which aims to raise awareness about actions people can take for the environment's sake.

The campaign, now in its fourth year, boasting participation of ( Read more... )

Five conference calls in one week all related to my activism totalling at least eight hours have left me in a goofy mood. To counteract all the SRS BZNS, here's a video of how activist groups should not act.

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Truthout: At "Summit for the People," Call for Action on Citizens United
Monday 24 January 2011
by: James Russell, t r u t h o u t | Report

According to Annabel Park, founder of the Coffee Party USA, the influence of corporations on elections is "a cancer in our political system."

Speaking by phone, she elaborates on this heavy metaphor with an ( Read more... )

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