Some things i'm wondering ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas LJ friends ( Read more... )

Dear livejournal ( Read more... )

dear LJ cyber-contacts, most of you aren't even in Chicago, but i wouldn't be covering all my bases if I didn't post to LJ. I'm helping to organize a public action on Friday (complete with adapted "Our House lyrics) and I hope some of you who work downtown will come. The economic crisis has had me in knots. i've come to a place of realization that ( Read more... )

For more than a decade, Jobs with Justic coalitions across the country have held local 'Grinch of the Year' elections to determine the most deserving greedy Grinch in their hometowns. This year, national Jobs with Justice will sponsor the eighth annual online Grinch of the Year election to determine the national figure who does the most harm to ( Read more... )

Not that I haven't been excited and relieved about Obama's success, I just wasn't anxious or as nervous as it seems others around me have been. I was much more of a mess in February during the Primary. I kind of felt a confidence that he would win this time around. And had been feeling that way for some time. I'm not sure why, or what its founded ( Read more... )

I went to Indiana last weekend for two reasons. One, to see Becca and Alva!! OMG he is the cutest and smartest 3 yr. old EVER. And two, to door knock for the Obama Campaign in a "needed area" in Indiana. I got there and Becca put me to work at once. We assembled a rack in her basement, where she was sewing hand-made skirts. It was funny cause an ( Read more... )

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i'm staying up to bake banana bread because my work said we have to freeze all spending except payroll. ouch. we have a fundraising committee mtg and i assumed we could buy snacks. whoops. so i'm making bread from frozen bananas which broqued scoffs at but i know that is the main reason you freeze bananas. right ( Read more... )