Friday, April 21, 2006
Protesting around the world today!
"Nepali king faces mass protests" - BBC
well that's lovely...citizens ordered shot because a monarch is seeing his power wrenched away.
Stanford students also protested Bush's visit with Hoover fellows today. **Pics up soon**
My three friends, two of them close friends, were arrested for sitting in front of a fire truck.
Video from CBS5
I wish they had gotten my bikini-clad torso that said "Save capitalism" on the back and "Stop destroying the environment with luxury consumption" on the belly. I had a sign that referenced many things: Bush spending like a Democrat, "thanks for all the pork," "don't forget the real dictators" (pics of Ahmadinejad, Castro, and Hugo Chavez), "fuck luxury consumption to save capitalism," etc. The other side was entirely about China and North Korea. yesterday Bush actually apologized to China's president for allowing a protestor some time for free speech (which China would not have given) before being escorted away. Bush apologized? We don't quell our opposition the same way China does!! In China, the protester was not shown to the public.
Comparison of Dr. Wang Wenyi to Rosa Parks.
Apathy and even admiration at Yale when Bush and Mr. Hu visited.
A Washington Post article that speaks too favorably of Mr. Hu:
Maybe they thought she was right and should have been heard!
...despite a shoot-on-sight curfew...tens of thousands of protesters had assembled at several points on the edge of the curfew zone on Friday, after as many as 100,000 people rallied in the capital on Thursday.
well that's lovely...citizens ordered shot because a monarch is seeing his power wrenched away.
Stanford students also protested Bush's visit with Hoover fellows today. **Pics up soon**
My three friends, two of them close friends, were arrested for sitting in front of a fire truck.
Video from CBS5
I wish they had gotten my bikini-clad torso that said "Save capitalism" on the back and "Stop destroying the environment with luxury consumption" on the belly. I had a sign that referenced many things: Bush spending like a Democrat, "thanks for all the pork," "don't forget the real dictators" (pics of Ahmadinejad, Castro, and Hugo Chavez), "fuck luxury consumption to save capitalism," etc. The other side was entirely about China and North Korea. yesterday Bush actually apologized to China's president for allowing a protestor some time for free speech (which China would not have given) before being escorted away. Bush apologized? We don't quell our opposition the same way China does!! In China, the protester was not shown to the public.
Comparison of Dr. Wang Wenyi to Rosa Parks.
Apathy and even admiration at Yale when Bush and Mr. Hu visited.
A Washington Post article that speaks too favorably of Mr. Hu:
Bush and Hu looked up, stunned. It took so long to silence her -- a full three minutes -- that Bush aides began to wonder if the Secret Service's strategy was to let her scream herself hoarse.
Maybe they thought she was right and should have been heard!
