MoveOn has a great tool for finding solidarity rallies near you here.
I’ll be at the one in Manhattan. I’m not especially recognizable but if I hear anyone singing “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria”, I’ll know it’s another BJer and if so, drinks are on me.
Consider this an open thread.
Update. Organizing DC area BJers here! (The correct email is whydirt not why dot dirt.)
Little Boots
awesome. It is so weird/wonderful to be in Madison right now, but it cannot do anything alone. glad to hear of this.
Doug Hill
@Little Boots:
You’re in Madison? Are you going to rallies?
Tsulagi
I’ll be in Bogota tomorrow night. If any BJer wears two wetsuits, mojitos on me.
NickM
Little Boots – can you describe a little what’s so weird/wonderful about Madison now, for those of us who are wishing they could be there?
RSR
went out to the rally for labor in center city Philadelphia today; good crowd, rambunctious, feisty, and vowing it was a beginning of something bigger.
There’s a rally for public schools outside the board of ed Fri afternoon at 4:00, and another labor rally here Saturday.
Go, support, mobilize.
Mike Kay (Peacemaker)
I wanna give a shout out to my new buddy and BFF, Glenn Greenwald (Yes, you read correctly).
Last night, my dear friend Glenn went on MSNBC and hailed our President for his DOMA decision.
In earlier times, Glenn has called me a “cultist”, a “North Korean Communist”, a “robot”, and a “Nazi”. No, really.
Yet, the Bible tells us “the wolf will lie down with the lamb, and a small boy will lead them”.
Yes, this gifted President, only 2 years and 2 months in office (time flies, doesn’t it), has united the Big Pragmatic Wolf and the Libertarian Lamb.
If only for this detente, President Obama has richly earned his Nobel Peace Prize.
Little Boots
@Doug Hill:
yeah, went tonight. The capital is packed, alive, incredibly energized still. this protest is not going anywhere.
Mike Kay (Peacemaker)
oops, actually only 2 years and 1 month in office.
Seems like so much more, doesn’t it.
General Stuck
@Mike Kay (Peacemaker):
You might be the first Manchurian Obot.
If I get banned for excessive Obotry, I’m running away as fast as my feets will take me.
Nicole
I’ll be sorry to miss you, Doug. Normally I’d be in NYC but I’m visiting the parental units this weekend. I’ll try to take pictures at the rally I’ll go to in PA.
jwb
@Mike Kay (Peacemaker): You did check out GG’s long caveat to that praise, didn’t you?
Doug Hill
@Mike Kay (Peacemaker):
Glenn called you a “Nazi” or he called Obama a “Nazi”?
khead
Come to Maryland and I will put you in the poor house.
Geoduck
I’m.. assuming that gays really weren’t “satisfied” with the repeal of DADT..?
Little Boots
@NickM:
sorry, just meant that it’s not usually the center of anything huge. I love it, but we’re not exactly discussed morning noon and night on progressive radio or MSNBC generally. That’s really all I was talking about. The mood is terrific at the capital. Huge, loud crowds, lots of college kids as well as union members of course, huge anger at the assclown, but never a hint of violence. And the pizzas. That’s just such a funny thing. People calling in from all over, including Egypt, to have pizzas from this one place downtown delivered to demonstrators.
suzanne
Hmmm, this looks like something I may have to check out. Though I might need to spend the weekend in bed. I’m exhausted.
I had a job interview today. I think I aced it. Interviewer discussed salary and benefits with me, and called my portfolio “beautiful”.
Little Boots
and college kids have been sleeping at the capital, so they don’t close it. I understand some elected officials are sleeping there tonight.
Little Boots
@Mike Kay (Peacemaker):
just to clarify, you’re not anything of those things, are you?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
I have my BJ t-shirt. If we wonder too far away from home on saturday into the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I wear my shirt in hopes that someone will recognize it. So far, no luck.
Moesha
I’ll be at the Manhattan rally too. I work for the City.
Warren Terra
If I get up on Saturday (something I’m not known for) and go into the city (which I never do), I might go to the one in LA.
Mike Kay (Peacemaker)
@jwb: You won’t hear me say anything negative about my comrade, Glenn.
I only wish FDL had Glenn’s class. Unlike Glenn, they engaged in Rick Santorum language, saying DOMA was a “bone”, which by transitive property makes the beneficiaries of the act, “dogs”.
There’s something sick about people who hate Obama so much that they not only denigrate any significant progressive accomplishment (like they did on DADT), but they also trash the underlying aggrieved party.
With so called progressives like that, who needs wingers.
The Dangerman
Listened to O’Reilly tonight; even he was saying that the stripping of collective bargaining was going to far. Shit, if you’ve lost O’Reilly…
…then again, he was advocating using the U.S. Military to go in and take out Gaddafi (as if we know where he is). Given how stupid that would be, I guess he could only bat .500 tonight.
Doug Hill
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
All I have is the apron. But I’ll be looking for people with the tee-shirt.
Mike Kay (Peacemaker)
@Little Boots: well, I did attend an octoberfest, where brats were liberally served.
Little Boots
@Mike Kay (Peacemaker):
A HAH!!!!
Michael Bersin
I plan on covering the noon rally in Jefferson City on Saturday for Show Me Progress, weather permitting and the creek don’t rise.
Teabaggers are planning a rally in the same location at 10:30 am:
I thought accusing someone of being a communist went out with high button shoes. Evidently not for fascists.
dadanarchist
My pipes aren’t too good so I’m not sure I’ll be singing Bernstein – but I should be there, hopefully with a contingent of Rutgers folks.
MikeJ
@Doug Hill: If you’re going to feed Tunch(pbuh), you are allowed to protect your clothing. His benevolence is great. As long as He gets fed.
Mike Kay (Peacemaker)
@Doug Hill: there’s no need to go into the past. I’m not thin skinned. Really. Personal insults roll off my shoulders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R2pOZuBd_U&feature=related
Michael Bersin
Also, evidently, my html skills here need serious work.
The Moar You Know
I will be at the rally in San Diego. Suit and tie. The media will be throwing the DFH meme hard at those protesting and I wish to give them as little traction as possible.
JCJ
@Doug Hill:
I looked at cafepress yesterday to get a Tunch poster but did not see it. I will be in Madison Saturday and probably next weekend so I wanted to get a poster. Are they still around?
Doug Hill
@JCJ:
I will check. They may have run out.
kideni
@Little Boots: Union people have been sleeping over too this week (was it one of the Teamster leaders who said “last night we slept with you in the Capitol” and then kind of stammered?). And everyone cleans up after themselves. To protect the marble walls, only the proper tape is used. You see people with kids, people with dogs, people in their 90s, ex-Republicans. It’s incredibly distracting to have all this going on in my little city. It’s absolutely wonderful.
Little Boots
@kideni:
Didn’t hear that, but yeah, it makes sense. And yes, it’s so Wisconsin, people are so conscientious about cleaning up and protecting the Capitol. (By the way, I still think we have the most beautiful capitol in the country. It’s nice to see so many taking care of it.)
Omnes Omnibus
@kideni: That is exactly what I have seen as well.
Little Boots
@The Dangerman:
O’Reilly? Oh really? that is hilarious! And Scott Walker’s fellow govs are all distancing themselves. The goober is slowly being hung out.
General Stuck
Though I’ve never set foot in WI, it seems Madison has long been a relatively enlightened liberal island for a long time.
Just reewatched a doc called Two DAys In October, from the Vietnam era, where Madison was one of the first towns, or college campuses of U. of Wi that had a serious confrontational war demonstration. And on the same day, there was a battle in Vietnam where a couple of companies of Army infantry got massacred in an ambush by the NVA. Based on the book They Marched Into Sunlight by DAvid Marranis
PurpleGirl
Doug Hill — I may be at the rally on Saturday at City Hall Park/250 Broadway. But I don’t have much of a singing voice.
Phoebe
I came by to find an open thread so I could give you all this:
http://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/mayoremanuel.pdf
It’s all of his campaign tweets until he shut it down. I will fight no more forever. Fight my love for that wee precious man, that is. So what if he’s wrong about many things? So?
Little Boots
@General Stuck:
yes definitely, the old conservative joke: Madison is 60 square miles surrounded by reality. We’re Austin, Ann Arbor, whatever. the liberal enclave in the midst of a more conservative (but really purple) state. And one of our biggest 60’s activists, Paul Soglin, may well be our mayor again. He’ll be in a runoff election with our current mayor.
JonathanW
***ATTENTION DC AREA BALLOON JUICERS***
I’m rounding up my friends to attend the rally at Dupont Circle on Saturday and you are more than welcome to join me if you feel intimidated or just want some people to hang out with.
Email me at why dot dirt at yahoo if you’re interested!
JonathanW
Since I can’t edit my post above, let me correct my address here:
whydirt at yahoo
bigorange
Food for thought.
A revolution against neoliberalism?
bigorange
Sorry link did not go through.
A revolution against neoliberalism?
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201122414315249621.html
4jkb4ia
I suppose they had to get people to Jefferson City somehow, and if I couldn’t go to see Obama at the Arch I couldn’t go to this, but it is ridiculous that there is nothing in St. Louis. What happened to all the old Gephardt people?
4jkb4ia
Come on, Mike Kay, that was in quotes, after “You could say that…” It is almost as if bmaz was anticipating the stereotype of FDL. bmaz’s post was unqualified praise for any fairminded person. Good to see you back anyway.
4jkb4ia
@suzanne:
Good luck!
Tonal Crow
I’m going! Someone’s got to represent family Corvidae, after all, and my sort-of-twin Nagual Crow never goes out in any recognizable form.
Stillwater
@bigorange: Thanks for that link!
bob h
How long before pistol-packing Teatards show up at these rallies?