The Protest Bush rally in L.A.

It was great! Several thousand people came. We were loud, boisterous, and militant. Bush was inside the Century Plaza Hotel getting legalized bribes, er, doing fund raising, while we were outside protesting.

As you can see from the first photo, Laura Bush slipped out to speak to the crowd. Tragically though towards the end of her speech, some neer’do-well’s unfurled a Bush you lied you’re fired banner from their hotel balcony facing the crowd. Laura, I feel your pain.

Ok ok, Laura was actually John Price, a very funny stand up comedian. There was some hip hop, spoken word, several speeches; Filipinos, a Gulf War vet, the National Lawyers Guild, Palestinians, Latinos, and many more.

We did good. The crowd was larger than I’d expected. The peace movement is alive and well in L.A.

My first attempt at camblogging went quite well. I took several photos with my cell phone then emailed them using the cell phone to a website where they were posted instantly. Check it out!

PS The banner was a ’satin pink slip’ compliments of Code Pink!

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Recall backers say they’re close

“Backers of the campaign to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis from office say they have collected nearly 900,000 signatures - the minimum needed to qualify for the ballot - and plan a victory celebration on July 4 in Orange County.”

If the recall qualifies by July, and it looks like it will, then the recall election will probably be held in the fall - bad news for Gray Davis.

Meanwhile

Peter Camejo, who ran for California governor in 2002 as a Green, will announce on Monday he is running for Governor in the recall.

and

“Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions are circulating.”

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Hey Dubya, I thought you said we’d won the war

Two U.S. soldiers reported abducted

“American troops and helicopters scoured the desert Thursday for two U.S. soldiers who were apparently abducted from an observation post north of Baghdad. Ambushes and hostile fire elsewhere in Iraq killed two U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi civilians and wounded eight other Americans.  “

One G.I. dead, another wounded in ambush

“American soldiers came under fire again today across Iraq, with one soldier shot in the head and wounded while shopping and another killed in an ambush late last night near the southern city of Najaf.”

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National Do Not Call number

The Federal government just opened a website where you can sign up to be on a national Do Not Call list for telemarketers. If you are on the list, and they call, it’s serious fines. Keep trying to get on the website, because everyone is signing up.

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