Saturday, April 17, 2004

Bake sales Well, Kate and I spent a couple hours this morning walking around to MoveOn bake sales in our general neighborhood. On one level, it seems like touchy-feely naivete: Bake sales to defeat Bush? Yeah, right. On the other hand, it was really encouraging to see the enthusiasm for the idea around town and the determination people have that the small things they're doing in their own communities, and the money they're gathering, could build into something big. Of course, this is Berkeley, and you could get people to do bake sales for nearly anything; at one gathering, someone said there were 19 MoveOn bake sales around town; I'll bet there were even more. But I wonder how many there were in, say, Kansas.(I just searched on the MoveOn site for future bake sales within 3 miles of our zip code, and got five results. I checked for similar events coming up within 300 miles of Wichita and got three hits. And actually, MoveOn has a map that illustrates where the bake sale hot spots were and weren't) More on this tomorrow. 11:55:53 PM    comment []

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