Just got home from the Jazz Funeral for Democracy.

[tsuki]

Son and I attended. It was a day of mixed feelings.

First let me say that there were more than the 200 or 250 people there as reported by Fox Network in NO LA. I don't know how many, but there were A LOT. Tomorrow Son and I will try to post pics.

It felt good to be making our voice heard, but there were as many gray heads (like mine) as there were young. We oldsters kept looking at each other saying, "did you ever think that we'd be doing the same thing forty years later?"

We were given the mandatory speech...there'll be hecklers, ignore them, etc...but in reality, there was one man set up on the parade route in a lawn chair with a "I love Bush" sign, one old lady in a purple dress and red hat (tacky), and a old guy on a bicycle threatening us with having a hand grenade in his backpack. Cars honked at us with thumbs ups, constructions workers flashed the peace sign, passersby clapped and cheered.

The Jazz Funeral people were great.

I think if I had had to say home and watch the Chimp's Coronation, I would not have survived.

March 19...the 2nd annual protest against the war. Make plans! I intend to round up all the old radicals here and caravan to NO. Join Us!

[jdj]

1. thanks for posting, I'm jealous.

I think that boomers were a unique sign under the sun or something.

I'm embarassed that my generation (early X)hasn't taken up the call, but growing up under the spectre of Reagan and imminent nuclear war really got into our psyches, I think, and created alot of apathy and darkness. It wasn't obvious to me then, but it is now, how really sucked the wind out of so many my age, even if sub-consciously.

[tsuki]

2. Son was part of the drop out generation. But he was marching

with me (or maybe I was with him.) And he's returning on the 19th of March.

Once the floodgates open, even Rupert Murdock won't be able to close them.

BTW, watch for Newsweek pics. A man with Newsweek on his camera pouch was taking pictures. (Or maybe he was undercover CIA LOL)

[jdj]

3. I would have loved to have been there.

Murdock and his ilk really are a cancer on humanity.

This is such good dem strategy, and a perfect example of just how out of touch dem leadership is with it's base, which now is everyone in the U.S. not fascist or fundie.

We are smart, creative people. They need to listen to us. I am now back in school after dropping out in late 80's to spend 15 years doing manual labor, I hope to get my paralegal in a couple of years for the sole purpose of advancing liberal causes somehow. I may even go to law school if I can somehow afford it. I do think my generation is waking the hell up, I was one of the people that kind of had the attitude of "we did it!" with regards to the 90's and Clinton, I felt it the progress America was making would never be undone. Boy was I wrong.