A favorite saying of my husband’s grandfather, Lorenzo “Windy” Parnell: Voting is like driving a car. When you want it to go forward you put it in “D.” When you want it to go backward you put it in “R.” buildpeace.blogspot.com
Voting. Has right given way to privilege in Arizona?
Some of the attenton of the nation should begin to turn to voting rights and voting procedure this week with the appearance of Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer in court for failure to perform duty to adopt voting equipment decertification standards. The Arizona Citizens for Fair Elections site describes is thus: Secretary of State […]
What's been happening in the Old Pueblo
A 20% increase in border deaths in the Tucson Sector in the last 12 months is a shocking and relatively unreported factoid. There was a large Border Action yesterday sponsored by Derechos Humanos/Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras; Nogales Infantil; Promotoras de Derechos Humanos-Nogales, Son. and Tucson, AZ; No More Deaths, UA Women of Color, UA MEChA, […]
Back Home Again in Arizona
Been back in Arizona for a couple of days now after attending a family wedding in New York that piggy-backed the D.C. protests. It seems like I have been gone for ages. While I’ve blogged over the last few weeks, I have not had reliable internet access nor access to mainstream, corporate televised media. The […]
Arrest fest, cooperation, and individual style
September 27, 200511:21 a.m. Okay, I’ve been bad for the last couple of days. Some would think it good, but, in my world, I would have probably garnered more respect had I been arrested with all the good folks along with Cindy and Medea. I wanted to make a stand. And I guess I did […]
Hundreds of Thousands March
This is the first moment I’ve truly had to myself when I wasn’t exhausted and writing after midnight. I’m not a quick writer. I like to ponder and choose and rearrange and mull. Interruption is far more of a distraction to having the internal dialog that is writing than noise or passers by. The March […]