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Wednesday, 19 January 05 :: fuck patriarchy

i have several shirts i could wear tommorrow. subjects include hate, peace, feminism, civil liberties, spirituality, the rural organizing project: advancing democracy in rural oregon.. but really only one expresses my true feelings, my anger at the whole system (thanks to my friends c and l i have it to wear)..

yes, fuck patriarchy.

part of me doens't care if i offend anyone.. part of me does. but this whole thing, this whole day tommorrow is offensive. it is a gross party that is taking place, the upper echalon throwing a 40 million dollar party for themselves while people in this country die because of lack of health care, housing, food. a 40 million dollar party while people around the world die because of our policies, because we spend a gross amount on military. it is simply disgusting.. i have been reluctant to embrace any kind of nazi references, because we have simply not done that.. but as this administration moves along in each day, i am more relcutant to dismiss it. yes, the privilaged get a party tommorrow, while the not privilaged live fucked lives. it doesn't seem very democratic at all.

posted by brooke at January 19, 2005 10:05 PM

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Four more years sounds like a lifetime. Maybe we can do something in our own small way and lose Mr Blair.

posted by: Jo at January 20, 2005 05:50 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.