i have decided against printing it...

but it basicaly stated that there will be more passionate chaos in the malls a week before christmas than there was in LA on 11-11-2000

the protest SHOULD NOT have been for the democratic party but for true DEMOCRACY in general!!!

not the rights of the candidates but the rights of the people...

and you dont have to stay within the protest area and wait until the light changes...to protest is to break the rules in CRITICAL MASS so that the opposition will understand that we will not put up with an unjust ruler...if they give us unjust rules we must break them...otherwise they have won...

or something like that...

but this is just some dissappointed rant...

so i leave you with the promise...

i am ready when you are...

Cut 'em some slack. This ain't Serbia. They're not up for months of daily demonstations. Not yet. But at least they got up and did *something*. That's a start. You'll never organize anybody to do anything if you start off by feeling contempt for them.

I was there. I know that there were Gore/Lieberman sign holders at the rally. I know that the crowd was liberal, not radical. I know that there were no arrests, no confrontations with police, no tense standoffs. Yet it is important to rembember: this rally was organized in less than 48 hours; the vast majority of signs were handmade and did not specifically refer to Gore, but rather, more referred to Bush; that in this crowd, as in any mainstream crowd in the country, the majority most likely voted for Gore but will get Bush; and that the message got out to thousands of people driving by the busiest intersection of the city, with many thousands more from the tv news and in today's LA Times (hopefully more than just the Times covered the event). There will be another protest next week and any and all are welcome to participate in whatever capacity they choose. Come as you are, speak your mind.

All power to the people. That's what my sign said. Is it radical enough?

I'll take people in the street any way I can get 'em out there. Today's timid marchers are tomorrow's converts.

-- .- .-. -.-. --- -. ..

How beautiful it would be

if next Saturday

the crosswalk circle of marchers

found the courage to, at some

spontaneous moment, dance

against the lights

sunwise of course (as most seemed

to instinctively walk Saturday)

narrowing the circle as in the spiral dance

of the Native Americans

till they ended up in the center

of the intersection in critical mass

only to fall back under the rule of law

before the boys in blue could mobilize.

Hopefully the drums will be back

to inspire the dancing again.

written in 1908, The Iron Heel explains in some detail, (subsequently confirmed) how plutocracy will overthrow democracy if it gets the chance. If we are about to enter such a phase, it will give us some pointers.

Dunbeks, a small Djimbe, Hoop Drum, egyptian tabla, marachas and clave on the corner of Wilshire and Veteran - over three hours of continuous music in front of the Spanish American War Memorial (prayers for the dead and justice for the living).

Drumming in a celebration of what the people can do when we look to each other for our fulfillment. The people are a community, not another commodity to be traded and taken for granted.

See you next week (Saturday, 11.18.00, 1:00 p.m., corner of Wilshire and Veteran, Westwood, LA, CA), or before if the call demands.

peace, justice, democracy,

elbop, warren, pamela, walter, corn woman, mikey, clint, rebecca, randy and john

Occupied Hahamongna (Pasadena, CA, USA)