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 […]

Boy, I’m wiped out. It was a strange day.
I went with my friend and co-revolutionary James to promote the GI Rights Hotline outside the big hoopla send-off for the poor National Guard troops who are being deployed to Iraq. But we had to make stops for sign supplies, then got caught in bigtime traffic — […]

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” […]

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 […]

I expect this is just the tip of the iceberg. Our society is still dealing the veterans of Viet Nam, in homeless shelters, mental health clinics, and prisons. I fear that Bush’s wars will have even worse after affects on who had to actually wage it.
Army suicides at highest level in 26 years
USA Today - […]

I’ve never been to one of these, though each year I want to and hope for some miracle that will allow me to. I know a couple of OK Greens who attended, and were very impressed.
Maybe with almost 10 months notice, I’ll finally get there in 2008
Mark your calendar: You need to be in Minneapolis […]