Eight hours.

(Also: me and Sam just went and saw The Great Debaters. I cried during, sobbed after. Who I am to not be working for justice? After thinking rationally, talking to my mom, seeing this movie, I know: before I go back to Chehalis, after I leave here, I have to spend time in Seattle working with WWFOR. For my soul.)

Guerrilla Gardening

Mixperiment

Publishers Weekly review of "The Woman I Was Not Born to Be"  by Aleshia Brevard.

"These days, it is understood that sometimes boys will be girls; in Alfred Brevard Crenshaw's case, he wanted to be a woman - and what a woman! Born in 1937 to a genteel Tennessee family, Crenshaw knew that he was different from an early age. In his early 20s, he fled ( Read more... )

While my parents and peace group put on an MLK celebration focusing on economic justice, I was in Olympia with Teen Council lobbying my representatives for Planned Parenthood issues. Yay!

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Woman Who Killed Her Unborn Child

I don't think she's a criminal. I don't think that's even a question that should be being asked. What is glaringly obvious to me here is that yet another person was caught in a abusive situation and she took desperate measures. Neither prison nor no-prison will do her any good. We've ( Read more... )

There are 3,000+ crosses and gravestones on my campus’s lawns. I helped put them up yesterday in the pouring rain. Almost all of them have a name on them. The name of someone who has died in Iraq. Just “our side”. Not the Iraqis - because there isn’t enough room to put 204,000 gravestones up. We have a speaker system set up and we are reading the ( Read more... )

Ahhh...::stretches::...I just purged my trash. 542 messages gone forever. I feel light. I feel free.

Attention:

Lt. Ehren Watada still needs our help. For those of you who don't, this guy refused to "fight an illegal war" (i.e. Iraq) and may be court martialed. Please print the following off, sign it,  and mail it. Hand-written is always better so, ( Read more... )

I got another one published! Which they aren't even supposed to do! Because they are only supposed to publish a writer every two weeks! Hurrah!

Newt's Letter About Nuclear

(It's the one I posted on here a few days ago before it was published).

August 2, 2006
Section: Opinion

WASL failures may create many societal problems
To the editor: I am writing to encourage the Chehalis and Centralia school boards to oppose the Washington Assessment of Student Learning as a graduation requirement. I attend Centralia College, so the WASL does not affect me personally, but it does affect my peers - ( Read more... )

Monday morning I woke up with an idea. It follows. I willingly admit that I traced the body from a drawing book - I did not draw it.


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