I found an interesting set of documents while staying in Maryland. Maryland has a handbook for bicyclists with complete listings of all the laws and rights of people who use their biycles. This state also has a map of the entire states with bicycle routes.
Something like this would be a real asset to bicyclists in Utah.
Tonight I read a piece called Why People Don’t Get Involved, about an activist planning meeting that turned some folks off because a group of folks insisted on getting their own way.
It’s very sad, but, unfortunately, very true, as much as I hate to admit it.
It’s hard to be an activist working towards collective change these days.
I will be helping with publicity and outreach for the event being planned for the Bush/Rice visit ot Salt Lake on August 30.
Since I have been out of town recently I will be unable to participate in face to face meetings, however email is a wonderful thing!
For updates, please visit Utah Voices, a website designed specifically for this event. I have also syndicated its feed to my Friends List (click “Dee’s Connections” on the top sidebar.).
Today we drove with my family to the Chesapeake Bay region, specifically to Cambridge, Maryland where we are staying for a few days.
On the way we passed the exit to the National Security Administration. Oddly enough, there were two unmarked dark cars on either side of the highway between the on and off ramps to the NSA, with lights flashing. We thought that was ironic and odd at the same time – is this a symbolic display of what the NSA is doing?
Here is a photo. Notice the car beyond the sign under the tree.
While I was en route across the country I received a call asking me to be a featured speaker at a national press conference at the Green Party of the United States National Committee Meeting in Tuscon. The press conference will be Friday, July 28 at 3pm and will consist of all Green women candidates.
I have a personal statement on my candidate website regarding women’s issues. I will be formulating my speech around those.
last Thursday I accompanied Carmen to Fetal Photos, a place that takes ultrasound photos of your fetus and also creates a DVD of the movement of the fetus. Amazing. We found out we are going to have a baby boy (no doubt about it) and gosh did he move around! He did flips and just plain wiggled. Here is a photo:
I’m headed out of town today for a cross country trip. I’ll have intermittent access to the interenet, so I’ll post when I can and phone in posts when I feel compelled. I’ll have lots to post about when I return, for sure.
This is a very funny yet informative flash video called ADDICTED TO OIL that I received from The Ruckus Society.
With Condi dancing in the background and playing some mean guitar, Georgie sings “Addicted to Oil” to the tune of Robert Palmer‘s “Addicted to Love”.
After the video, viewers can click on the image to go to Oil Change Internatonal to find out how to participate in the Separation of Oil and State campaign.
Finally, the folks from Ruckus say,
We’ll be back with updates on all our recent work, our Freedom From Oil conclusions and how to tap into our Fall camp schedule and answer our call to peaceful, creative strategic direct action once we’re done hanging from the trees and communing with the possums. Until then, keep watching the flash, learn the words, and pass it on to e’rybody!
Much love,
Team Ruckus
CodePink is thick in its “Troops Home Fast!” campaign. A number of people are fasting in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. in a project which began July 4. Here is what came into my email box:
It wasn’t easy scooping out ice cream for the homeless while on our fast!
There we saw the devastating financial costs of this war.
Diane Wilson, one of our long-term, water-only fasters, is committed to the “I Scream for the Homeless” project.
So every Friday we’ll be out on the streets dishing out ice cream to show the homeless that we love them and demonstrate our commitment to reversing our nation’s priorities from war to life-affirming efforts.
Please help us. Here’s how:
Donate your lunch money:
Fast for one day:
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Well, if I thought my summer was going to be carefree and laid back…..NOT!
I’m having fun, though. I leave late tomorrow afternoon for my drive to Maryland to see my family. We should arrive in Maryland on Sunday. While there we will spend time on the eastern shore and just hanging out with my children, my parents, and my siblings and their families.
We will leave Maryland around July 23 or 24 to drive to Tuscon for the Green Party of the United States National Committee Meeting in Tuscon, which will take place July 27 – 30. We plan to drive along the Texas/Mexican border on the way there and while in Tuscon, we hope to take a field trip to the border to witness the barriers that are being built.
From Tuscon we will drive home to West Jordan and plan to be back by August 1.
In the meantime, we have successfully prepared our gardens for our absence and are continuing to very actively engage in activism (and plan to stay engaged even while en route in our travels – email and phone are wonderful tools!). Beginning last night we are involved in a youth leadership conference, as part of the Community of Caring Initiative, with three of our students from school which continues today and into tomorrow. Today’s activities should be interesting as we are taking a field trip to Lee Caldwell’s ranch in Leehi – he is a Horse Whisperer.
Onward!
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 