Peace-A-Rena

For news report, see story about this event at Oklahoma Indymedia, Gold Star Fathers Call for Peace at Oklahoma City Rally.

I just posted the minutes of last Sunday’s annual meeting of the Green Party of Oklahoma, along with some pictures I took, on the party’s web site. We had a lot of fun while tending to our pressing business, including ballot access reform, and I think that comes across in the pictures.
They are a small […]

A number of Oklahoma legislators are knocking themselves out in rudely and publicly refusing a gift of a Quran from a group of Muslim Oklahomans. Another class act for the citizens of our state to be proud of. Not.
I was glad to see that the Speaker of the House, Lance Cargill, with whom I usually […]

I’ll be there!
Green Party of Oklahoma to have 6th Annual Meeting in Stroud
The Green Party of Oklahoma will have its annual meeting on Sunday, October 21 at 3pm at the Rock Cafe in Stroud.
Anyone interested in the Green Party, its values and positions, is welcome to attend, whether official members of the Green Party or […]

I didn’t make it to the SCHIP rally at the Capital today (I had to take my mother to the doctor). But Mainstream Baptist was there, and in fact Dr. Bruce Prescott, the director, was a speaker. I’m very heartened to see religious leaders and groups around the country, many of them conservative and/or “pro-life” […]

Sometime next week, the Pentagon will announce that 13,000 more Guard troops will deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan next year (7 of 8 units going to Iraq).
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The […]

I got an email from Andrew Rice’s campaign today, their “Blogger Connection” distribution, with some news updates, on the pending S-CHIP vote in DC and the campaign’s fundraising figures for the third quarter.
1) Sen. Rice today called on members of the Oklahoma House delegation to vote to override President Bush’s SCHIP veto tomorrow. The text […]

I have a hard time motivating myself to call and write Oklahoma legislators on issues, because they are so reliably hard-line awful, and I’m already depressed, so who needs the hassle…
Nonetheless, I called my Congressperson, Frank Lucas, on S-CHIP — twice.
So here’s what happened.
The first time, last week, I called the Yukon office and just […]

Come to one of these events, call your Congresscritters. Do it NOW — time is short!!
Save SCHIP Candlelight Vigil
Tuesday, Oct 16, 7:00 PM
Join us in front of the OK County Republican Headquarters, 4031 N. Lincoln, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. Children and Families especially.
Sign up for this event.
Sponsored by MoveOn, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, Americans […]

From EFF:
This Wednesday, the RESTORE Act enters the final round in the House of Representatives, where it will be presented to the entire House for a floor vote. Within the next 48 hours, all House representatives must hear the same, clear message — keep telecom immunity out of the RESTORE ACT.
Last week, we initiated a […]