Call for Change: MoveOn.Org

[H2O Man]

This afternoon I will be attending a screening of the film "Iraq for Sale" at a local library. It is being put on by some of the local participants in MoveOn.Org. This will allow me the opportunity to meet with friends and neighbors from this area, and to discuss the tactics that we will use to try to get the vote out in November. It doesn't mean that I will agree with every single thing that the top people in MoveOn.Org believe. Nor is it likely that I will agree on every single thing that the other people there today believe.

But it is the essense of grass roots political activism. We will be sitting down and setting our minor differences aside, and focusing on those important things that we have in common. The one thing that we will all agree on is that we have a common enemy, and that enemy is the forces that have gotten our country stuck in a war in Iraq. This war has cost the lives of some of the young people that grew up attending the same schools as our children attended. This war is not helping make our country "safer" in the war on terrorism. Far from it. This war is sucking up the resources that should be invested in making the United States a better place to live; instead, it's going to Haliburton. And this war is being used by the Bush-Cheney administration as cause to trample the United States Constitution.

Today's meeting will give me an opportunity to exercise those things defined by the Bill of Rights, which are designed to give US citizens power from the grass roots up. I'm happy to have the opportunity to go to this meeting. It's time that we all get into high gear for the elections.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I've watched my copy 2x already...

Very powerful, moving and maddening, considering this gross incompetence and waste had resulted in the deaths of our soldiers.

Truman Commission v. 2k6 needed desperately. That's something I hope is at the top of the new Dem congress's list!:thumbsup:

You'll dig the movie!:hi:

[H2O Man]

5. It was a

powerful movie. I would think that it would appeal to every American, except those who are intent upon capitalizing on the war.

[msongs]

2. saw it last week, useful information all tho an over the top tear jerker

would have been better had it stuck to its intent and facts.

I found it a tad difficult to get worked up about the death of war profiteers who knew they were going to a war zone and did it for the money anyway. the angle was that these individuals were betrayed by their corporate masters. umm, ok. If you are in it for the money, you and your corporate masters are doing the same thing.

otherwise, a fine advocate for cancelling contracts given to KBR, CACI, Blackwater et al without any bidding OR accountablility as political paybacks for campaign cash.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Me.]

3. Agreed

"This war is sucking up the resources", our most valuable ones to begin with....

A friend, headhunter, was talking to a one star general. She told him and his wife to have a baby, as it was not if but when the draft would be re-instated.

*shadow government*

[Annces]

4. It is always good to seek out those things that get you motivated

We should never had gotten into that war.

By the way, I had to tell you I saw the Emile Griffith movie. It was so moving. You had to cry a little when you saw how horrible he felt at accidentally killing Paret. Toward the end of the movie, they showed how Paret was being worn out in earlier fights, and was half unconscious but the referee put him back in to be finished. And Griffith was following the managers instructions. I am glad I rented it.

[H2O Man]

8. That is a good film.

Benny was treated like an animal by his manager. The guy was looking to make every last dollar on his investment. He knew that there were problems, as "Kid" Paret had taken a lot of punishment in his last fight in particular.

Emile Griffith is a good man. Paret's death haunted him. I think it did him good to finally meet Benny's son.

[Dystopian]

6. Iraq for Sale is too controversial.

I have the DVD.....tried the local community college and the library...they won't touch it. The librarian said it would be too controversial/political.

The reason the college wouldn't provide a room, "It's not the content. It's because if we let you do it, we'll have to let everyone else do it."
That was a great reason :eyes:

So much for 'public library' and 'community' colleges....and this is in Massachusetts! :grr:

I'm very thankful that we have UU churches in this area....finalizing plans with them to provide room for screening. I don't think they can co-sponsor because of the
church/tax-exempt/political thing....all the regulations that I know nothing about.
I think it's great that they'll provide the space for us though...


peace~

[H2O Man]

7. The library I went to

let the two people "rent" a room for $10, the same as they charge any other group. I think we are going to start showing other films on a weekly basis. The next one will be "Rove's War," by DU's very own Symbolman.