activism

I participated in my first real protest yesterday. I was afraid going into it, but I really got into it, energized, alive, and yelling. That farce Sarah Palin dared to show her face in Philly yesterday--what the hell was she thinking? She is NOT welcome here, and it was made known to her. Hundreds of people showed up to protest her presence, and I went with a small ActUp group. We had a sign that read "Abstinence only doesn't work, right Sarah? Condoms save lives!" and we had dozens of condoms that we threw into the sky, gave to Republicans, and I even threw one into the car window of a jackass who drove by while we chanted "Abstinence Only Phoney Baloney". We marched into the already started protest chanting "No more mess, Bush in a dress" and it caught on and was wonderful. People had creative signs--I can see New Jersey from here, Santorum in lipstick, An Irish pub isn't foreign policy experience, and so many others that I can't remember now. An old man walked by and saw our sign and heard our chant and started screaming at us "CLOSE YOUR LEGS" When Republicans left the bar where she was, we screamed at them, "SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME"

VIDEO HERE and HERE