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Human Rights

Friday Freebie

This one comes with a bonus: fighting injustice! Join the thousands who are calling for a repeal of Prop 8 which bans gay marriage in California by attending one of tonight's rallies. Let's hope things remain peaceful tonight and throughout this whole process. I found this info here. Not trying to be preachy; religion should have nothing to do with it. It's a matter of civil rights and inequality really. And the last time I checked Americans were pretty big on Civil Rights, no?

Fri Nov, 7th

Santa Barbara
De La Guerra Plaza at 5pm.

Community Rally at Palm Springs.
5:00PM City Hall 3200 Tahquitz Canyon Way

San Francisco Bay Area, Civic Center Rally
TIME: 5:30pm
PLACE: Civic Center (7th St and Market) More info and fliers here.

No On Prop 8 Candlelight Vigil - Merced, 6pm
Veterans Park On M Street, Merced contact: Leslie or Eileen, PLFLAG Merced 209-725-1140

San Jose
6pm in Downtown San Jose, CA at the Cesar Chavez Plaza (Market & San Carlos).

No to Prop 8/ Marriage Equality Protest - Friday Nov 7., 6pm @ Temple Square (State/S.Temple) SLC, Utah

Long Beach Marriage March
March in Long Beach tomorrow night (11/07/08) starting at Redondo & Broadway at 7pm.

Costa Mesa
March tonight at the South Coast Plaza (in Costa Mesa, CA) starting at 9pm on Bristol.

Hillcrest, San Diego
This evening at 9pm community activists are urged to meet at Laurel & Sixth, then the group will walk to City Hall (located at 202 C St in Downtown).

Seriously?

Yesterday I was more than ready for the election to be over and I admit I was feeling a bit apathetic about the whole thing. But today I am so completely angry about the world around me that I couldn't care more about it all. Yesterday evening there was a huge mass assembled protesting Yes on Prop 8. Seriously? How can anyone still have that kind of hate in them toward a group of people? How can you honestly still believe that a group of people, any group of people, should be discriminated against in 2008? I heard comments today about how Prop 8 is "protecting marriage". That's just such crap. What about protecting civil rights? Isn't that a concern to anyone? I also got some comments directed at me about how annoying it is when the Hispanic kids come trick or treating at your door and how they get dropped off by the bus fulls. Wow. The narrow minded hateful things that are still spoken and believed by these people is unbelievable and such a complete culture shock for me. Would it be acceptable if I, a Hispanic woman, said to them that it bothered me when white children came trick or treating in my neighborhood? Another comment I heard was that if Obama were to get elected we're screwed. Seriously? Seriously?! I am in such complete shock and I just needed to vent about these awful things to people who understand these very real concerns.

Is it over yet??

The cable's out. Actually, to be honest, it was never in really. I digress, anywho, this has kept me somewhat safe from the nonstop election watch of 08. But nonetheless I'd like it to be Tuesday now. That would be great. Six more days seems like an eternity. I want to know now, it seems like this election has dragged on for so long and it's such an important one as it will help determine whether or not I should flee the country in terror. I'm the person who gets totally engulfed in the life of the fictional person in a book I'm reading and cheats and reads the last couple pages to know how it turns out before continuing reading where I left off. Oh Tuesday...you are so far...

Made me laugh

This was so great I had to post it here. My friend Jaime sent me this video and it is awesome. Customize your own here.

Yes We Carve.

Haha yay! Barack O'Lanterns!~ How awesome is that? See more here, spotted them over at Not Martha.

Voter Suppression

Having the right to vote is one of the very basic and most wonderful things about this country. I think everyone can agree on that, or at least I thought everyone could agree on that. That is until I stumbled upon this video from the organization ACORN. The video is part of a campaign by ACORN to set the record straight about the organization and it's intentions. Over the last 18 months, ACORN has waged a voter registration campaign, which successfully helped register 1.3 million new voters. But the McCain campaign has recently launched an attack on ACORN's efforts saying that the voters who were registered are fraudulent aims at skewing the race in Obama's favor. Why you ask? In preparation for the possibility of their loss. Should the GOP lose this election they can always put the blame on the "fraudulent voters" registered by ACORN. That attack is ridiculous. It truly is. As explained in this video it nearly impossible to get those kinds of results. Watch and learn.

Oh God Yes, There's More...

Have I mentioned how much I love Amy Poehler? I do.

Caribou Barbie Strikes Again

Obama: Funny too!

Very funny and charming "roast" at the Al Smith Dinner. Obama: "It's possible I'm a little too awesome." Watch both! They're sooo good! More here.

Do you wonder?

I have wondered, like I'm sure many of you have, what awaits us if "the unthinkable happens" and one day we've got a President Palin. Answers are provided here.

Oh Monday.

Watching the news as I got ready for work this morning. It's interesting to me that one story was about how the stock market was down 400 points which was quickly followed by a segment at a high school football field. Without skipping a beat. Really? Is no one concerned anymore? Have we moved on to worrying about football games and fall fashion? Is our attention span really that short? Oh Monday...monday monday...only monday.

What's Up With That?

Today's morning trip to Starbucks was eventful. At first I found this really cool cd packaging that I really liked but alas, I lacked the funds. Then I discovered these tiny little newspapers called Good that Starbucks gives away for free and each week they discuss some different issue. This week was Gas Prices. I thought the tiny newspaper idea was awesome. I showed it to my coworker and he showed me last week's issue, Immigration. I was a bit disturbed by the illustration though. Notice on the Mexican border they show army men with rifles, barbed wire and attack dogs. The Canadian border has playful puppies anad they even have toys to entertain them while "guarding" the border. So it's got me asking, Hey Starbucks, whats up with that?

The Feast!

Yes it's October and this means The Feast is fast approaching, October 16th to be exact! The Feast will gather 150 of the world's leading creatives and entrepreneurs among other brilliantly radical minds. Why you ask? to change the world, duh...
I love it, there's bound to be some fascinating stuff coming out of this!

Too Funny

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

See more hilarity here.

Printing Ersatz

This is via the dailyheller. The piece you see above is a sample of ersatz created by Germany and Austria after WWI. After the war these countries experienced severe financial struggles. Cities began printing and distributing their own bartering money called ersatz. It helped a lot of designers at the time get noticed and it's really interesting to see these pieces now in our own time of financial struggle.

John Stewart

Have I mentioned how I love John Stewart? I do. He was great last night the on The Daily Show as he analyzed Sean Hannity's interview with the could be President of the United States, Sarah Palin.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Awesome!

Love it. Love it. Love it!! Awesome job done by SNL this past weekend!
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