Archive for the ‘Enhanced Protest Techniques’ Category
Showing up
Nothing is as powerful as showing up: RICHMOND, Va. — Hundreds of women stood mute, arm-in-arm, forming a human cordon through which legislators walked before Monday’s House and Senate sessions to protest a wave of anti-abortion legislation coursing through Virginia’s General Assembly. Capitol and state police officers, there to ensure order, estimated the crowd to [...]
February 21, 2012
· 
Kay · 
126 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
I’m still not clear on why conservatives don’t want people voting early, yet they do want people voting absentee
Sunshine in the sunshine state: Election experts and Democratic voting advocates told U.S. senators Friday that a Republican-backed overhaul of Florida election laws will suppress Democratic turnout in the nation’s biggest battleground state next fall. Democratic Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Dick Durbin of Illinois held a field hearing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse [...]
January 30, 2012
· Kay · 83 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Another really bad idea from Governor Walker’s idea factory
When Kasich barred Ohio protestors from the statehouse, it only made them more determined. It was a bad move: Gov. Scott Walker’s administration could hold demonstrators at the Capitol liable for the cost of extra police or cleanup and repairs after protests, under a new policy unveiled Thursday. The rules, which several legal experts said [...]
December 2, 2011
· Kay · 32 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Recalling Governor Walker
Balloon Juice reader and occasional commenter VidaLoca is in Milwaukee County and he sent me some info on how the recall campaign is going: Madison: The cars pulled up to the curb on a west side street and within a minute or two they pulled away, leaving behind the drivers’ signatures to recall Gov. Scott [...]
November 29, 2011
· Kay · 48 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques
Test drive
I know the Obama 2012 campaign has started because I found myself writing the phrase “white working class voters” here yesterday. Oh, for God’s sake, not that again. In any event. However. There will be all of that chatter, and then there will be a campaign that is actually going on in states and cities. [...]
November 29, 2011
· Kay · 20 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Occupy OKC
ccupy OKC people at Kerr Park, OKC are reporting that eviction is imminent. I drove past the Bricktown police station earlier, and SWAT/SRT vehicles are staged forward there. Bricktown station is about a three minute drive from Kerr park. I don’t know what to make of this because we hadn’t had any difficulties getting permits [...]
November 28, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 78 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Enhanced Protest Techniques
In Your Base, In Fact Destroying The Credibility Of Your Doodz
Here’s the Up With Chris Hayes story that Anne Laurie was talking about earlier today: A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program [...]
November 19, 2011
· Zandar · 68 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Jump! You Fuckers!, Republican Venality
“Some Bullets Make History”
When John Hinkley failed to assasinate Ronald Reagan, I was working in a midwestern university library, and still young and stupid enough to blurt out a “joke” about sending a boy to do a man’s job. (This was so long ago, kids, all our spontaneous stupidity had to be delivered in the meatspace.) Since the [...]
November 19, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 15 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Republican Stupidity
Mitt Romney is always welcome here
We in Ohio were lectured for months by Governor Kasich and media that Kasich’s union busting law was not about unions. It was about health insurance. It was about merit pay. It was about budgets. It was about balancing the state budget. Very few in Ohio believed that, because it was obviously not true. The [...]
November 15, 2011
· Kay · 27 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Education, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives
You’ll also want to vote on voting rights, because you’re good and decent people
Maine has a citizen veto, too, today: Question 1: People’s Veto Do you want to reject the section of Chapter 399 of the Public Laws of 2011 that requires new voters to register to vote at least two business days prior to an election? You’d want to REJECT that, I imagine. Good for Maine for [...]
November 8, 2011
· Kay · 36 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Union Busting is Disgusting
These are photos of public sector and private sector union members and others here in northwest Ohio who have worked really hard the last however many months to put a citizen veto of Issue Two on the ballot. Issue Two is a ballot referendum on former Fox News personality John Kasich’s union busting law, SB [...]
November 8, 2011
· Kay · 36 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Too much voting going on, apparently
Why aren’t our friends on the other side of the aisle democracy enthusiasts? County boards of election must stop early in-person voting as of 6 p.m. Friday, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has advised, prompting Democrats to cry foul. This occurs as a number of counties are reporting higher-than-usual absentee mail-in and early in-person [...]
November 3, 2011
· Kay · 18 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
Occupy Defiance
I went out to a county political event last night and saw my friend Dolores. She told me that she was involved in an Occupy group in a city east of here, so I went out there to see how it was going. Defiance is the name of the city. You can read about that [...]
October 28, 2011
· Kay · 43 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Free Markets Solve Everything, Kochsuckers, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
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October 26, 2011
· Kay · 42 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
I keep seeing this sign
The local police are parking this truck with the No On Two sign in the back all over town. This picture is from Thursday evening, when it was parked at a spot on the courthouse square. I heard yesterday that the mayor told them they were “not allowed” to park it in front of the [...]
October 22, 2011
· Kay · 73 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Enhanced Protest Techniques
