Something really cool happened today in front of the Federal Building. Young people were protesting
There were quite a few of them, with signs about money not being speech, and corporations not being people.
I pulled over and talked story with a couple of them. Maybe early 20's, super excited, sincere, and you know that feeling when somebody is on fire and excited for real?
They had that.
I honked and waved and flashed them a shaka, and they came up to my window and gave me some fliers and a bumpersticker. I asked them if they were hooked up with Common Cause Hawaii and the DUI meetings- Democracy Under the Influence. They had never heard of Common Cause.
It was super hot and the sun was pounding them. They were still all jazzed. They're fired up about amending the constitution to close this loophole. We talked until traffic came up behind me, when I moved on.
Went back around the block and gave them a postit with the info http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=7947723
Kanu Hawaii, Hawaii League of Women Voters, and Common Cause Hawaii MAY just have a few new friends next month with no grey hairs!
Something about this exchange really moved me. I guess normally I would have known about the protest and been inviting people, but I stumbled upon this one out of the blue. There were none of the usual suspects, but lots of kids from a generation that has been pretty much absent from politics here as we know it.
They are out there, and they are fired up and ready to go.
Imua.
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