i'm so behind in posting for the week. i need to rant about my stressful apartment search as well as my anguish and embrassment at the way my country handles major crises and the needs of poor minorities.

i missed a protest of this local hate-fest, yesterday, unfortuantely. but i got to see jess briefly last night, which was nice. i've mostly been spending my weekends at home, hanging with the parents doing absolutely nothing because i'm so exhausted from attempts at apartment hunting after work on weeknights. we'll hopefully have a place in park slope or prospect heights, brooklyn within a week or two. cross your fingers. if you like me.

even though i've always had a lot of gripes with the clinton family, as the state of this country's elected leadership has sunken to new and newer lows over the past few years, and as i've read about bill clinton's work in stemming the aids crisis overseas and other work, my admiration for him has started to return, despite many of the decisions he's made that i oppose, most egregiously, his support for "free trade" capitalism at the expense of the rest of the world's welfare. as i walk past his foundation's headquarters every day on my way to and from work, i imagine that it might be a much more exciting and worthwhile place for me to be working. clearly much of his work is attempting to effect major change in global public health.

although i've disagreed with many of hillary's moves since she became my senator 4 and a half years ago, i think it would be really cool if she became president. although many of her goddamn liberal politicking drives me crazy, i do have to face the reality that nobody left of her is going to get elected to the highest office in the land, and of coures, she is a woman.

BUT i was extermely dismayed to learn that she's officially joined the leadership of the DLC. not that she was such a leftist before, as this stupid article seems to imply, but still. the DLC has the potential to suck every idealistic and populist bone out of her body, leaving a centrist shell infinitely indistinguishable form the GOP.

it's now 4 yrs since cornell and ithaca really became my home. i can descreetly remember the entire chronology of that day four years ago, 9/11/01, and how safe i felt tucked away up there amidst the large gothic buildings, the collective brilliance, picturesque hills and meadows, and the throngs of identical looking students. as i've mentioned earlier, i think that day really bonded our class together, as a group, because the place you can experience a tragedy like that and come through it together collectively, is truly home. although the only thing i'll likely be doing today in commemoration is posting on this blog and watching the reading of the names broadcast on tv, the fact that the four years since the 9/11 attacks coincides with the same four years since i began college, since i began my journey of joys and frustrations at cornell has some stronger meaning to me. i'm not sure what it quite is yet. i have a feeling that my journey and relationship to that place is not over and will continue at some point in the future.

as i read my first alumni magazine last night, it was actual more of a sad, heart-felt experience than anything else.although i spent the last 10 months or more complaining aboud so much and wanting to get out of there, last night what i experienced was a sadness at the speed with which those same four years passed and a recognition of all of the regrets i have, experiences passed up, moments extinguished, both trivial and not.

it seems like our country has more and more victimes with each passing year, and it's not only because i have come to experience a more complete political understanding of the world around me since i began four years ago as a freshman: first 9/11, the war in afghanistan, invasion of iraq, now katrina, continous violence in other locations intermingled, specifically israel and the occupied territories, and really every continent i can think of besides australia. i don't know. i feel like the past four years have only partially equipped me to deal with all of these global problems. i feel like it was an amazing start, an immersion in problems, solutions, nuance...but only a beginning. but there seems to be so much more i should have gleaned from that experience, and i can't help wondering if jacob lehman had been chosen a little earlier as university president and stayed a little longer, might cornell have made a bit more progress at advancing towards that goal of comprehensive global education?


may the memories of all the victims over the past four years, near and far, nameless and unnamed by the press be for blessings to guide us to a more just society and world.

i have so much stuff to bitch about and say about how shit's going down down south; maybe i'll write that later, but i just wanted to say--- i just went to lunch and i saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said "hang out with your wang out" and now i can't get the phrase "rock out with your cock out" out of my head.

sim city 2000

according to CNN, they're following my lead and contining the real life city 2005 version of sim city 2000:

Widespread looting and random gunfire have been reported across the city. Police told CNN that groups of armed men roamed the streets overnight.

money and more money: being a real person sucks

issue number 1:
so i've basically had my heart set on moving to nyc the past few weeks/months. when i accepted this job, even though i didn't want to be in new york, i told myself it was only on the condition that i would not be living at home.

however, last week, i was reading this book i'm in the middle of, called hope's edge, which is an amazing book. technically the sequel to diet for a small planet, it deals a lot more with the relationships between food consumption, production and global justice movements. a section i was reading on the trains that mornign made me really excited about all these potential avenues for creativity in the future, all these exciting alternative development projects, and as usual my thoughts turned to thinking about how i could be doing that now and wondering why i'm wasting my time in this job that really doesn't excite me or make much progress beyond a few hundred folks in a very minute manner.

my rationale for the past few weeks every other time i've been wondering this is that i need to get a head start, start making some money, and then after either i've worked a bit or i've gotten a graduate degree, i can go off and do my own thing. but this morning i realized that if i'm going to live in the city, i'm really not going to be saving much, if at all, depending on what rent ends up being and the lifestyle i choose to lead. and so, it seems, that i'm sort of just wasting a whole year, becasue i know what i'll be doing the whole year, unless i change jobs, and although i'm making a decent amount of money, i'll just spending a boatload of it on rent and living in this psycho city, when there's so much more i could be doing if i was a less risk-averse person.

so i've definitely been having some doubts about actually moving to the city, although i can't see staying in the position i'm in for much longer either. and the problem is, that if i can't stand my job after a few months, i won't be able to move somewhere else and do something else unless i find a subletter. but i will likely be living with two good friends, which would be great, and i'm hoping to get involved in stuff and meet lots of nwe people. it's just that the majority of my awake time will be spent at work, and it seems like it will mostly be a waste. i suppose what i can do, if i do move, is to keep looking for cooler jobs in nyc and then if i get one, switch jobs while staying in the apt.

but what i don't understand is how i can get a recommendation if i'm looking surreptitiously and don't want them to know.

issue number 2:
i've received a lot of credit card offers in the mail and have been trying to decide between them which one to get, because i do need to get a new credit card to replace the one i currently have and need to cancel which is tied to an ithaca local bank. i had been vaguely thinking abotu the working assets credit card, because it could be a concerete lifestyle action on my part towards supporting progressive organizing. however, after i decided to research the card a bit, to make sure there was nothign sketchy about it, i discovered this whole issue people had been discussing online- apparently the credit line for working assets is through MBNA, a financial group that donates heavily to the republicans. while this was not something i had thought about previously, after reading it did seem relevant, causing me to have doubts about that card.

someone's comment on that board mentioned the Salmon Nation card, through the ShoreBank/Pacific, which is a local Northwest US bank also linked with community development in Chicago. So now I've been thinking about that card, but I can't decide what to do and would welcome any suggestions.

P.S. This post was intended for Friday Aug. 26 or earlier but I didn't finish writing it, so it's only being posted now. However, none of the above issues have yet been resolved so it is still relevant.

flooding--> city destroyed

CNN Reports:

Nagin said both the city's airports were under water, the Southern Yacht Club had burned to the ground, an oil tanker had run aground and was leaking, there were gas leaks throughout the city and Interstate 10's twin spans heading east over the lake were "completely destroyed."

I'm sorry, and this is really not funny, but isn't that reminiscent of old school Sim City 2000?

I will investigate any ways to help besides sending money etc. to Red Cross and post them here to compensate for my lack of sensitivity towards the subject. Please don't send me for sensitivity training.

oh my gawd, i'm kvelling!

so i've been reading jewschool for months, maybe years, now but nothing has topped both this insanely hilarious article
and this call for submissions that is WAY after my own heart and ideas and something i imagine i could get very passionate about/involved with in the future. i'm only sorry i never responded to the initial call for submissions for Mazel Tov Cocktail because you're damn straight i could write a friggin epic whatever about how amazing Barbara Myheroff is or the conversation that would occur if she had dinner with Emma Goldman.

mayors

so apparently mayor bloomberg thinks that noise is a big problem issue in new york? something on which time should be spent above other issues?

wtf

after reading/reading about last night's mayoral debate, i really like freddy ferrer. but then, i liked him 4 yrs ago too. also, i can't vote in nyc. damnit. although solicitors (not british lawyers) constantly come up to me and i have to turn them down bc it's utterly irrelevant for them to waste their time on me.

shoutout to phil kim, my fellow CIW '03.

how to blogroll, anyone?

engaging the disengagement

honestly, i don't know what to think. for months i agreed with the likes of Naomi Chazan, who I heard speak in October '04, and other members of the faltering israeli left, who have warned against the disengagement, both for its unilateral nature and for fear that leaders would view it as a substitute for rather than precursor to bilateral talks with the palestinians. however, honestly, this seems to be a huge step. i haven't been reading much of what the left opposition to the disengagement is saying, besides stressing that it not be the end-game solution. maybe they're saying it's all a big publicity stunt and that the palestinians aren't actually getting much.

i suppose we'll see what happens when it's over. as i write, haaretz is reporting that 16 of 21 gaza settlements have already been evacuated and it's only day 4. will there be civil war? will missiles be launched over the green line now as the right insinuates, proving that gaza alone might not even be sufficient as a first step? i don't know.

what i do know is that this is really going to continue wreaking havoc on israel internally. i wish i was taking the class i took on israeli society (with tamir sorek) right now. when i took that class, it was just a dead-end depressing time, in the middle of the second intifada (2003), when more people were being killed by the day and it seemed clear that the geneva initiative wasn't taking hold beyond the fringe. but now it would be really interestign to discuss these issues, because a main focus of the course was on the internal splits between religious and secular and between elite and poverty-stricken, and the intrsection of those divides.

even though it came from ariel sharon, for whom i would never have expected to have anything but fightin words, it seems like it might be the spark to light the internal struggle which was going to have to happen sooner or later. clearly, such a struggle would not be pleasant for anyone involved, but what i could never understand about the people who kept saying, well, we can't give land back, because they don't deserve it right now, or we can't do this, or we can't do that: did they honestly see the current situation as sustainable, as somethign that could continue the way it's been for the past 5 yrs (or the past 38 years) for much longer?

Yair Sheleg writes in Haaretz:

In recent years, there was an unofficial status quo between the religious right and the liberal left: On the one hand, the liberal left railed against the settlements, but never dared to evacuate them (including in the context of the Oslo agreements) out of an understanding that this was the apple of the right's eye, and out of a sense of what the consequences could be. On the other hand, the religious right railed against the control the liberals have over the legal system, the media, academia - in fact all the systems that create public opinion - but in actual fact did not wage an all-out war to change the situation, both because it was preoccupied with struggles over the territories as well as out of an understanding that these institutions were the apple of the liberals' eye.

He writes of a "deal that fell through," and seems to imply that the religious right will no longer hold up its end of the "deal," now that it has been betrayed. I agree with Sheleg's assessment of the way in which the disengagement represents a huge twist in Israeli politics and a huge departure from the corrupt and undemocratic status quo deals of the coalitions. But I'm not quite sure if the religious will be able to force their agenda in other matters as revenge, as Sheleg claims. And who's to say this might not lead to more honest brokering between the factions; more of a recognition of who actually represents the will of the majority and who doesn't...
TO BE CONTINUED (maybe)

8.19 update:

wow. it gets better and better.

Condoleeza Rice is actually towing the line of the Israeli left, "empathizing with Israel," while reminding her that the Gaza pullout is not enough, urging withdrawal from more of the West Bank and decreased travel restrictions on Palestinians.

wal-mart

another story about wal-mart, amidst all the talk of their hopeful (hopeful for them, i mean, clearly)expansion to places like queens, ny that have thus far been succesful at keeping out their poor labor etc. practices:

so they are complaining that their profits have been lower for the past two quarters, which they think is a result of the continuously rising gas prices and they foresee this to continue to cut into their profits. oh poor babies.

but maybe the other culprit is unions at work? have any of the wal-marts successfully unionized yet? i don't even know.

Wal-Mart is also struggling with keeping its expenses down, Scott said.

"We did not meet our goals as our expenses in the quarter grew faster than our sales," Scott said.

oh, poor babies again- their expenses are rising. well, clearly we know who will be hit if they are trying to lower their expenses.

(actually, i don't even know if increased wages/benefits/etc. would even increase their expenses by that much, given how big they are.)
thoughts anyone? or have i already expended too many characters and too much energy on the terrible titan?

maybe i should have been in "ordinary people"

i always thought they were a cool troup, albeit a bit too campy and amateurish for the subjects they were dealing with. well, apparently, although the NCAA finally got the hint about one of their major issues, the ridiculous appropriation, mocking and god knows what else of Native American tribes in sports teams, Jeb Bush can't possibly deal with Florida State University not mocking Native Americans, and actually claims that they like it!

some of these things are so out there one can hardly believe that they are true stories.

i also think that if i done more of that sort of creative arts before i graduated, whether it was non-chai notes music, drama acting, or writing- journalistically or whatever, i might have gone in that direction in the first place, and not be struggling to shove it into my life now. hopefully, once i look for, get, and move into an apt., i can allocate more time to these things.

i've really been realizing lately that i need to have a career that directly involves more politics (not just by explaining, well, these people are neglected by the mainstream healthcare system, and so by helping them i'm decreasing the disparities, leveling the playing field and subverting the system...) and definitely more writing. so i'm hoping that even though i don't have particular training/skills/much-knowledge in things like agricultural trade policy, or immigration law, which really interest me, if i try to begin reading and writing more on those topics and trying to freelance a bit, that will hopefully get mre more into the writing field, and show that i have some experience in those topics. (so it wouldn't really help me to freelance on any human development or non-political topics, like, say....colon cancer...lol)

8.10.05 edit: i tried to link to some reference website for ordinary people, but it seems that they no longer have an rso page or anything. i hope they didn't disband!

the news sucks

preface: there are a number of very annoying cliche/expressions in this post, for some reason, which bothers me immensely, but in order to post from work at all, i don't have time to work on the writing to try to say exactly what i mean, and must rely on this molest-some banter. ha! i made up a word!

i don't understand how this could have barely made the news, covered up by all this stupid detalia about the shuttle and whether the size of each astronaut's farts will affect the return to earth. literally, the mother of some astronaut from queens has been getting air time every single night to spew the same idiotic quote every single night, about how she completely trusts nasa and she believes her son is safe because they said so. dude, it's fucking outer space.....i'm sure anyone really know what they're talking about.

but anyway, back to reality, so all this time as bush was ducking away under semantic differences over who in his administration he was going to fire and who he was just going to slap on the wrist, regarding valerie plame-gate, it turns out john bolton had testified in the grand jury and then lied about it?

i love sen. joe biden (D-DE) who investigated and figured out this whole coverup and said:

It seems unusual that Mr. Bolton would not remember his involvement in such a serious matter...In my mind, this raises more questions that need to be answered. I hope President Bush will not make the mistake of recess appointing Mr. Bolton.

but no, bush has gone ahead and appointed him as a recess appointment, despite the hard work of senator biden, proving all of his (sadly) weak opponents correct again. so the horrible reasons the u.s. is going down to hell in a handbasket both domestically and internationally are just piling on now, and nobody seems to care! it's all still about the poor little spring break party girl lost in aruba, and angelina and brad's cute little african baby (clearly, not being orientalized or exoticized....clearly...) and who knows what else. in place of the fact that now both the american people and all the constituent nations of the u.n. (the whole world basically) are being screwed with their pants on.

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in other news, my stint as the sole resident of my house has ended, as my parents came home from their vacation last night. it was a little sad saying goodbye to the car that had become mine last night, but shortlived things are nice sometimes too. any you know, i don't really want to get too comfortable in the white picket fence, leather-seated car lifestyle anyway.

the grinch who stole my...something

the following post was written on 7.26. i was hoping to add more that day and i've had various other things to write since then, but if i don't write them down right away, which the schedule doesn't really allow, i tend to forget them, so...closure/structure is lacking. read away at your own risk:

i feel like i am falling down the chute. or more accurately, falling up the chute. like there's some kind of suction chute that brings you away from your goals, your ideals and your interests; once you start living in one place, making money and associating with boring, normal, apolitical people, the kind of people i've seen specifically identified by a friend of mine in the past few weeks and also by the main character in the AMAZING book "extremely loud and incredibly close."

anyway, these people, and this lfestyle brought me way up the chute yesterday. to the point where i had no idea till thei morning when it was too late, that cafta was up for a vote in the house yesterday.

[there was supposed to be more written in here about why i was very upset that cafta was approved by the house. basically, it passed by two votes, two of which were democratic representatives from brooklyn and queens. so i kinda feel like if i had done something more, even though i don't actually live in brooklyn or queens, but close enough, then maybe i could have changed the course of history. but probably not.]

of course, very dissapointed am i. ringing repeatedly through my ears is josh lyman's cry, "i lose this vote...i'm resigning," from the guns not butter episode of the west wing.

yesterday, was a really long, busy day, as i am coming to understand all of my wednesdays will be at this job, because i have to trek around harlem collecting data and dealing with disorganized clinics.

so much to post about. i'm so behind.
job
weekend in michigan
sweet honey in the rock popping up everywhere

but i'm so tired. i'm always too tired when i come home at night to post. maybe i should force myself to beat the fear and post at work?
weird.

they stole my line!

p.s. fucking "AM New York" horrible paper stole my headline idea....it came to my mind last night while i was reading something, and it was so perfect and i was going to make it a blog post title: the plame game

i think they're already using plame-gate. i honestly don't know why anyone is surprised. it's just more fodder for the talking heads, now in the form of blog rolls to leech upon minutiae which still elude your average american. true, i obviously think w is being a ridiculous lying coward and rove should be hung out to dry, but i still think there are more pressing matters to be typing and arguing about.

colons, colons, colons

here's why i need to be a journalist- i get bored with things very quickly. i don't know how i can do only colon cancer for a whole year, let alone do the same thing every day for a whole year or for my whole life. i need to be learning new things all the time, or at least some of the time. i'll have learned everything i need to know by next week and if i want to learn more, here it's snooping.

boo.

and i want to write! and be political!
boo for big salaries accompanying boring jobs.

oy...

**apologies for the poor writing quality and incoherence of this entry; i'm really tired but feeling creative/emotive/in need of catharsis**

so, i should really get to bed soon, or more likely, start what will become my nightly routine of: iron my clothes for tomorrow, make lunch for tomorrow and otherwise get ready to wake up at an ungodly hour, but

i wanted to post a bit about how i'm in a much better mood than i was last night, for some reason...
last night i was really annoyed, hopefully this won't offend anyone reading this, after spending some time with some friends, and i realized i'm really starting to get sick of all these labels that the left puts on each other- lately, everything that doesn't fit people's exact image of what a true leftist, or someone who's political enough, or something, everyone's (well not EVERYONE) favorite word seems to be "bourg-y" (no idea how to spell it but it's a shortened adjective form of bourgeouis) and i'm really fucking sick of all the hypocrisy.

it seems like everyone's just too fuckin "armchair" or "bourg-y" no matter what they do, but the realy hypocrisy seems to be that the people who just love labeling people and putting them in these not cool enough/not political enough boxes seem pretty fucking "boug-y" to me, when they seem to have all the newest status symbols, mooching of mommy and daddy and seeming to have no self control to avoid satisfying their need for instant gratification, whether it's fashion, food, substances, sex.....what have you. dude, just cuz you put on the fucking starving artist act, it doesn't mean that's you. you can't possibly say you're not bourg-y when you keep having shit handed to you. so ok, maybe you're not loaded with trust-fund induced gadgets and hundred dollar handbags, but come on...and it's complete hypocrisy for all these people like this, who are students or single people who have no responsibilities in life except checking their email, getting to work or class, finding a place to sleep at night and keeping up with the latest trends.

you know what- in some ways, the notion of family in this world, in this city (forgetting for a minute that i'm not "b and t"), is pretty fucking radical. and i'm getting fucking sick and tired of having to defend people who live in the real world, people who have children, spouses/partners, siblings, parents and other relatives to worry about, who have real responsibilities, which may require them to act politically in different ways.

honestly, i think you have more power as a consumer of alcohol, fast food, cigarettes, jeans, computers and flip flops, than you do as a member of a huge protest mob. look at the world. the fact that you even have the privilege of traveling around the world to witness other political struggles puts you up their on the continuum of wealth and privilege and we as americans just really don't get it. for the most part. so, until you can say you've lived on 10 bucks a day with no extra alcohol budget, or spared yourself some new trends to save up for someone else's future, i don't fucking want to hear it about the "bourg-y" armchair activists.

and that's the end of my rant.

(and my disclaimer- i'm not saying i've had to brave the real world either, but at least i don't go around judging everyone and their apartment building by these characteristics, or at least i try not to, and if you ever catch me doing it, i want you to call me on it, unless i'm complaining about my fellow cornellians who are up in the high 5-digit incomes in their insane finance jobs gambling away money on private prisons and predatory lending. they fucking deserve it....... ahh, the irony :) )


and although that was what was fucking pissing me off last night, i'm in a much better mood tonight- i had my first day back at work today, post chicken-pox, and it was really exhausting and i need to go to bed. but, even though my first patient to recruit this AM was only spanish speaking and i must have sounded like a complete disrespectful moron reading to her off of a sheet aboud colon cancer, in crappy spanish, she enrolled in the study! which was exciting, so i couldn't have been that bad.
but now i must get to bed for my next of many future days as a member of the real working world. at least i have my ipod to get me through the commute :) (yes, again with the crappy irony/sarcasm)

p.s.- here's an im i just wrote:

MiniVAVster: ya, seriously, no more late night ices for me
MiniVAVster: i'm fuckin pooped

ciao, over and out

chicken pox

wow, i have poor communication skills. i mean, i've basically been home now for 6 and a half days straight and have been more out of touch with friends [and blog] near and far than ever before.

a recap of my life is that i started work last week- monday and tuesday were orientation, then i had one day at my worksite on wednesday, at which point (at the end of the day on wednesday) i started having a reaction to the chicken pox shot which i got two weeks earlier, having never actually experienced the chicken pox virus. since wednesday, i've been home with this reaction (consisting of about 20-25 "pox") because they wouldn't let me go to work because i could theoretically transmit my version of the virus to the immune-compromised cancer patients.

anyway, i've thus had lots of free time,but for some reason haven't posted.

going to do some errands now, but i'll be back later. i promise.

in the meantime....i think this brief about american over-influence in efforst against the disengagement of the gaza strip is interesting...

:: APN :: Issue Briefs

bad at decisions

well, the fact that i completely suck at taking control of my own life and making decisions is finally coming back to haunt me.

so- somehow, my parents got inside my head enough to convince me to do exactly what they wanted me to do, which was to get a more secure, better paying, less political, less what i actually want to do, job in new york, in a secure (in terms of job security) place like a hospital....

so somehow, bc of the fact that i had graduated and am living at home, i became so desperate that i started following these leads that they wanted me to follow- and now i have been offered a job at sloan-kettering doing something that is remotely interesting/relevant to what i want to do, but there are so many other jobs, in other cities, that i would much rather have --and the HR woman at SK is being a bitch and won't give me extra time to decide, really because they need to know bc the job would start in july--so they have to hire someone mas ahora.


so i really don't know what to do and i have to decide by like mon or tues---someone help! what should i do???

p.s. sorry i haven't posted in a while- since then, i graduated and have been living at home where a) there's nothign to write about except how long island sucks and b)the internet is slower than driving behind a white bell driving school drivers ed car.

boo. also yay. graduating's a bit of a mixed bag i guess. i hate that expression. i also hate having to go to the public library to go online, bourgeouise-nik that i am.

who's up for living in queens with me? bc i'm only taking the job under the condition that i don't live at home, and i don't think i'll be able to afford anywhere else besides queens (plus it would be a cool place to live, i think).

consciousness-raising

well, it's senior week- supposed to be so much fun, and i have been having fun, relearning how to knit, spending lots of time outside, going to the farmer's market and the commons, and some other stuff...

but i still don't have a job and have been having difficulty motivating myself to keep looking.

since gloria steinem was on the l-word last week, i've been looking for more info about her, googling, etc. and i feel like she's not known, understood or revered enough among my generation. i'm currently listening to a speech she recently made at a symposium on women's sexuality at indiana university, and she said that she went to some other school (i forget exactly where) and most female students didn't know who she was. i was astounded at this, and it only cemented something i'd been feeling for the past few hours, after thinking about it-

i think we need a new sort of consciousness-raising for our generation, both dealing with gender politics and other politics, i think because of the way the debates are being framed by the right and by media censorship. and there seems to be a backlash, a rising acceptance of sexist attitudes, especially among young males, black, white, brown, etc., especially among educated folks, a growing apathy driven by consumerism and the obsession with the superficial issues presented in reality tv shoes, etc. and it's somehow gotten uncool to be progressive, to be an activist, it likens you to those old hippies.

gloria also said somethign in the same speech about how women get more radical with age, and i actually think to some degree that seems to be true, at least with some women, and i feel like my generation and younger women (and men) seem to be rejecting any association with politics, despite the high turnout in the last election.

anyway, i think i'm goign to sit and marinate with this idea, and see what i can do about it. about raising the consciousness-- here to start, is a list of radical, inspring women, that i'm eventually hoping to put on the web and expand as a resource, but it's still in production (or really, rather just begun:

bella abzug | barbara boxer | joan jacobs brumberg | heather cottin | barbara ehrenreich | emma goldman | fannie lou hamer | arlie hochschild | bell hooks | frida kahlo | diane keaton | naomi klein | natalie merchant | rosie o'donnell | marge piercy | bernice johnson reagon | adrienne rich | susan sarandon | gloria steinem | barbra streisand | alicia svigals

-and check out the flickr for new pictures.
peace out