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Story I wrote about Eminem

Eminem: An Incitement to Vote?!

I also wrote this center column article about it. I think it has a few more links but shorter text

posted by mahtin @ 11:06 PM

I found this and posted it to Indybay tonight

Election Eve Candlelight Vigils

Election Eve Candlelight Vigil

For Peace, Justice and Democracy

On election eve, come together. Stand up. Gather in solidarity.
Participate actively in our democracy. Let's remember the issues that
connect us all - peace, justice, security, jobs, housing. Your voice
matters. Build democracy. Vote November 2nd.

Monday, November 1

7:00 pm in front of the San Francisco City Hall and Elections
Department (City Hall Plaza)

"This is a non-partisan effort by the following organizations: American
Friends Service Committee, National Council of Churches, Bay Area
United for Peace & Justice, and many others

Contact: Stephen McNeil at tel: 415-565-0201 x 12 or email
smcneil@afsc.org

Other sites around the country and around the world:
www.afsc.org/vigil/default.php"

More proof of the crisis that democracy is facing- people have to resort to god to try to get a fair election

But also: IRS prohibits churches from praying for the re-election of Bush on eve of Tuesday's election, Says Christian Defense Coalition...People will also be praying for the election of "pro-life leaders"

God help us...

posted by mahtin @ 1:56 AM

The Curse Has Been Lifted...but at what cost?

Curse of the bambino lifted

I can't believe it-- the Red Sox won! Babe Ruth must have rolled over tonight. And a bunch of old guys all over New England must have croaked (I hope my Dad is ok).

So there is one another thing on my mind, besides wishing I were rioting in the streets of Boston tonight...

Good skeptics have to wonder, when there is one big story in the media (especially a non-political one), what is not being covered?

Soldiers are resisting in Iraq. US democracy is in a really big crisis- there is election fraud all over the place. I was thinking that the election would be called off, but maybe it will just be invalidated afterwards. Will the national guard (redeployed from Iraq and wherever else) kick our butts at the protests after the election?

A young woman was killed by a (normally) "non-lethal weapon" shot by the cops after a Red Sox game last week. Two days before the 9th annual national day of protest to Stop police brutality

This poster to Indybay said:

Well, the seemingly impossible has happened and not only happened but happened with such resounding finality that it ranks in the realm of the truly awesome. Yes, baseball history was indeed made today and it goes beyond baseball. This Red Sox victory not only is the greatest single message of hope fulfilled, but it is also the single most inspiring example of playing against the odds and emerging victorious. It has deeper repercussions as well. As I watched the final moments of the game, images of our troops in Iraq wearing fatigues and Red Sox baseball hats were flashed on the Fox sports channel. I've been opposed to this stupid costly war from the get go, and I haven't been happy about our troops slaughtering so many Iraqis, yet when I saw those pictures, in an instant I felt a bond of love for those guys that transcended all the political stuff. As loudly as I cheered the victorious Red Sox, I cheered these guys. I sent them no disapproval, only love and a sincere desire for their safety. God bring em home now safe and sound! This is where they belong. Home. Safe with their families. The Red Sox victory, happening on this auspicious full moon eclipse, speaks to the deep need for the seemingly impossible to happen across the board....like true and lasting peace to erupt all over the place and not a phony peace backed up by mutually assured destruction or by tense military bargaining, but real, palpable, earth friendly and people friendly peace. Yes. The Red Sox victory says that this is not only possible but do-able. Yes. Once the energetic of something like this is set loose on the hearts and minds of peoples’ consciousnesses, it sets a creative flux of similar possibilities in motion. There is no accident that all this happened on the day of a full lunar eclipse. The moon is symbolic of deep spiritual change and renewal. All of creation moves in synchronicity with these events. This is a harbinger of good things to come. Don’t doubt it, like so many did about the chances for the Red Sox, but hold in your thoughts the frigging do-ability of it. The Red Sox proved that team solidarity and belief in yourself to succeed is paramount to achieving anything. Anything.
We are the creators of this reality and we are the masters of change. Yes we are!

posted by mahtin @ 1:16 AM