2 QUOTES OF THE DAY
"The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them." - - Dave Barry (Author of "Sixteen Things It Took Me 50 Years to Learn")
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
RHINO HERE: Have I mentioned I'm a half century recovering hippy who's not in a hurry to recover? And I have a bunch of friends who haven't lost their idealism in spite of the current onslaught of right leaning wags of the dog. Case in point, my old friend (he's a half century hippie too) Alan Graf.
http://www.hippielawyer.com
You'll find below, an article from The Portland Oregon Tribune written by Alan. It's a first hand account of the recent peaceful protest of a shrub fund raiser where the Portland police went crazy. Hopefully the coming peace rallies planned around the country to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary won't be met with more of the same. I'll be at the San Francisco event this Saturday 9/7 at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park. I'm hoping many of you will seek out the gatherings in your area, if not to protest evil, as MLK put it in the quote above, then just to annoy certain people as Dave Barry put it, and we all know who we want to annoy.
For listings of coming protest gatherings:
United For Peace http://www.unitedforpeace.org
Citizens For Legitimate Government http://legitgov.org/action.html
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