March 26
1966
Over 50,000 marched in the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade in New York City.
Yesterday I wrote a post on the Kanab City Council’s “Natural Family” resolution and its effect on the city’s tourism business.
The Salt Lake Tribune has published an article today on how the businesses in Kanabe have joined together with a sticker that has the slogan: “Everyone welcome here!”
Many of Kanab’s business-owners are unhappy with the city’s resolution and want people to know it.
The welcome stickers, which will be popping up in store windows in coming weeks, are part of a new campaign from the Kanab Boosters. The new group wants to spread the word that not everyone in town agrees with the council’s resolution and reassure shoppers and visitors that Kanab embraces all.
“It’s not just about tolerance, but acceptance of those different from you,” says JoAnne Rando-Moon, who owns The Critter Corner, a pet-supply store.
The Tribune article also includes links to past stories related to this issue.
March 25
1807
Britain abolished the slave trade.
1872
Toronto printers strike for the 9-hour day — the first major strike in Canada.
1894
Coxey’s “Army” heads peacefully from Ohio for Washington DC, demanding economic reform.
1911
Triangle shirtwaist fire kills 145 in New York City,stirring public outrage and spurs workplace safety reform.
1915
Sisterhood of International Peace founded in Australia.
1965
Their numbers having swelled to 25,000, the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers arrived at the Alabama state capitol. “Yes, we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. The burning of our churches will not deter us. (Yes, sir) The bombing of our homes will not dissuade us. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. (Yes, sir) The beating and killing of our clergymen and young people will not divert us. We are on the move now.”
Martin Luther King Jr. and wife Coretta lead march into Montgomery, Alabama.
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Today the entire school community where I teach took a field trip to see the Diavolo performance. It was awesome.
Diavolo is a company that incorporates modern dance with larger than life-size objects to educate audiences about teamwork, trust, dreams, and inspiration.
Diavolo was founded in 1992 in Los Angeles by Jacques Heim to create large-scale interdisciplinary performances which examine the funny and frightening ways individuals act with their environment. The craftiness and wit of Diavolo is captured by the stylized fox logo. Constantly changing the image presented to the audience, Diavolo has developed a movement vocabulary that creates an almost cinematic experience of powerful images that develop abstract narratives of the human condition.
The company is comprised of dancers, gymnasts and actors who create performances collaboratively under the guidance of Heim. The sets created are outrageous and surrealistic and form an intrinsic part of each piece of work. Everyday items such as doors, chairs and stairways provide the back-drop for dramatic movement – leaping, flying, twirling – that creates metaphors for the challenge of relationships, the absurdities of life and the struggle to maintain our humanity in an increasingly technological world.
Part of the show was getting students up on the stage to acutally do some performing. They had students totally trusting the dancers by having them fall into their arms from a platform.
Some of us travelled to the University on our “grease bus” – our bio-diesel school bus:
We weren’t permitted to take flash photos but I managed to get a few without my flash:
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The AP article below appeared in today’s Provo Daily Herald. The southern Utah town of Kanab has a city council that passed a resolution to unanimously passed a resolution in favor of the “natural family” consisting of a working husband, a stay-at-home wife and a “full quiver of children.”
What the heck is a QUIVER?
(I’m told that in the archery world it’s where you keep your arrows…..)
Pathetic. Tom and I have decided to purposely not travel through Kanab on our way to the Green Party National Convention in Arizona in July.
Here’s the article:
Kanab threatened with tourist boycott
JENNIFER DOBNER – The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The little Utah tourist town of Kanab is a gateway to some of the biggest views in Red Rock country. Nearby are Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks as well as other stunning landscapes that formed the backdrop for TV’s “Gunsmoke” and “The Lone Ranger.”
“Our slogan has been ‘Come and play in our backyard,’ ” Kane County’s tourism director Ted Hallisey says.
But some tourists may be passing up Kanab this year.
In January, the City Council in the overwhelmingly Latter-day Saint community of 3,600 unanimously passed a resolution in favor of the “natural family” consisting of a working husband, a stay-at-home wife and a “full quiver of children.”
The resolution struck some as homophobic and sexist, and stirred talk of a Kanab tourism boycott, which won the endorsement of syndicated travel columnist Arthur Frommer.
“I think they know perfectly well this is a smokescreen for discriminating against gays,” the New York City travel guru and guidebook author said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
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A friend of mine sent me this yesterday:
I just read about this in the American Progress Report. It seems the president of the Oglala Sioux tribe in Pine Ridge takes exception to the ban on abortion signed into law in South Dakota.
From Bitch, PhD.:
“Cecilia Fire Thunder, the President of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota, speaks truth to the white boys who think they run things in her country.
“I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.”
Another blogger called Pine Ridge, spoke to Ms. Fire Thunder, and posts snail mail and email addresses where you can send checks and letters of support to help fund such a clinic. She also points out, correctly, that like most Indian Reservations, Pine Ridge is not flush for cash, so if you have a little extra, you might want to consider donating to the rez directly. Pine Ridge, by the way, is the location of one of only four Indian colleges in the U.S. that is accredited to issue its own bachelor’s degrees. Schools on Pine Ridge are in the bottom 10% of funding by the Dept. of Education and the BIA, teacher turnover there is eight times the national average, and the dropout rate is the highest in the nation, according to their education web site.
The mailing address is:
Oglala Sioux Tribe
ATTN: President Fire Thunder
P. O. Box 2070
Pine Ridge, SD 57770
or
ATTN: PRESIDENT FIRE THUNDER
PO BOX 990
Martin, SD 57751
For donations specifically for the Planned Parenthood clinic, make checks out to OST Planned Parenthood Cecelia Fire Thunder. General donations may be made out to the Oglala Sioux Tribe.”
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Let’s hear it for sovereignty, for a woman’s right to choose and for president Fire Thunder for having the ovaries to do this. I’m opening my check book right now. Please forward this far and wide.
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See also Sioux may challenge SD abortion ban – help open a clinic!
March 24
1661
Willi Leddra executed in New England for being a Quaker.
1918
Canadian women win the right to vote.
1964
1,172 arrested in sit-down against nuclear weapons, Parliament Square, London, England.
1965
The first Teach-In to oppose the Vietnam War is held at the University of Michigan.
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After a legislative session that failed (in my opinion) to address basic human needs and, instead, debated the merits of personal lifestyle and “morals”, Utah citizens are still suffering from lack of services and resources. This article appeared in today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
Homelessness hits more Utah families: SLC’s largest shelter struggles to handle an unexpected surge
102 families….[took] up residence this winter at the Road Home in Salt Lake City – a 62 percent spike over last year, matched only by the winter preceding the Olympics. “We’re not seeing any trends,” said associate shelter director Michelle Flynn. “The families are larger and using up more nights. Most are local two- and single-parent families who, for whatever reason, have just fallen on hard times.” ….poverty and the lack of affordable housing are two growing trends, say low-income advocates.
While the media chooses to publicize the creation of more jobs on Utah, low-income advocates also point out that, yes, more jobs are being created……but for lower pay. The Federal government is reducing its rental assistance programs. Tim Funk, an advocate at Crossroads Urban Center, the state’s busiest food pantry, said Utah’s housing authorities lost 895 Section 8 rent vouchers to federal cuts last year, a 9 percent hit. More cuts are pending under President Bush’s proposed 2007 budget.
How you can help:
More than a third of the Road Home’s budget comes from private donations. To donate, call 359-4142.
The article in the Salt Lake Tribune has a chart that shows stats of the Road Home’s increase in clientel.
Thank you Chris Buttars and LaVarr Christiansen for taking up taxpayer dollars to use the legislative time to argue incessantly about issues that have no place in government, instead of addressing what our citizens really need.
I’m still formulating my platform for my 2006 Campaignand have begun documenting my thoughts on paper. I’m also paying more strict attention to county issues. I will be posting my platform as soon as I have some concrete concise bullet points to post. I’m already getting surveys from groups to answer on my positions on issues. This is actually helping me get my thoughts a little more orgnaized before I publish them.
The survey I received the other day was from a group that advocates protection of equal rights (including those of education, employment, family, government access and protection, marriage, military service, and public accommodation) of gender- and sexual-minority Utahns.
That one was easy to answer. It will be interesting to see what else comes my way.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 