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Friday, 15 April 05 :: justice morning.

its been a busy morning. its pay day, tax day, and the day after rally day. 2 out of the 3 cause for reflection, 1 cause for me to take action so that not only i get paid (and thusly add to my savings for grad school a tad more), but also so my fellow employee is able to re-up her bank account. payday is one of my many responsibilities, it is the thing i was hired to do, i do much more than i was hired to do.

the rally yesterday, though sparsely attended, was a rousing success. this morning i have emailed back and forth with another organizer, contemplating not only the power of the grassroots, but also the power of newly formed coalitions. yesterday was the first time that 2 groups from, outwardly appearing, unrelated causes came together to make a statement for justice, for peace, for human rights. it is something i have been working for, something i have hoped for since i started doing this work, since i left that community to work in the peace community 2 years ago. i am happy, and the community is happy. coalitions and grassroots will fix the left that has been wrighted.

its tax day today. i am not a tax resister, but many of my friends are. we all object to our hard earned tax money going to wars, going to the pockets of those who's pockets are full and not to those who's pockets are empty. we object to our hard earned money being used for death, we would prefer a culture of life -- for everyone, not just those who are of the right skin and class. my friends and i will be out at post offices about town educating the masses about where their money truly goes, letting them know that while we have a president who talks about a culture of life, his actions are the opposite.

yesterday, today. we work, we work for what is right. one day we will succeed, i have faith in that. i know that those who object to justice know that soon they will go the way that they wish us to go. they know that their time is limited, they know that the left is the really the true right. they know, in their hearts, that greed and war only lead the wrong way and one day they will simply be relieved that they are forced to give up because the powers of good have won out. yes, they will breathe a sigh of relief, as their bluff has been called, and we on the left will just let them walk away while we walk forward knowing that justice has prevailed.

posted by brooke at April 15, 2005 12:59 PM

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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.