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Monday, 1 October 07 :: btw.

the human rights campaign.. hrc.org. has decided to back a version of ENDA - the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that does not include our Transgender brothers and sisters in it's protections. Frankly, i'm furious. i'm tired of organizations like the hrc selling people out. they've taken the T out of LGBT and frankly, i don't support that action.

WHEN, WHEN, WHEN is the left going to understand that WE can DEMAND peace and justice? WHEN is the LEFT going to stop being spineless and know that we can be powerful and nice? that we can DEMAND justice for all? that WE CAN GET JUSTICE FOR ALL?

frankly, i'm starting to be ashamed of this left movement, because the people in power are not taking their power.

DARN IT ALL. STAND UP, DEMAND IT, KNOW THAT WE CAN HAVE POWER.. and that WHEN WE GET POWER, we can SHARE POWER, with EVERYONE, including those that want to take it to keep it and hold it for their own.

WE CAN TRANSFORM the power structures. WE CAN. WE CAN STAND AND BE EXAMPLES.

at some point, we will have to be examples, because soon, soon their won't be any belief that there is any movement behind our movements. that if those who represent us in congress don't take what is being handed to them, then we will become an even more helpless nation than we are now.

i know. i know. where am i? i've got my nose in books like 'applied multiple regression, correlation and analysis for the behavioral sciences.' i know, i understand i'm not doing my part. but this is my calling right now, pursuing this degree, understanding how i can be an activist from the ivory tower, understanding how i can use research monies for good feels like my calling. i hope you can respect that.

and on that note, i'll leave you with this seemingly random thought.. but - if you think - it's not that random.

"Dancing is not rising to your feet, painlessly, like speck of dust, blown in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces, and giving up your soul." Rumi

posted by brooke at October 1, 2007 11:19 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.