Reply #28: besides anti-Vietnam war protests , and many petitions...

[abq e streeter]

let's see....at 15 I told my parents I was going to a friend's house and instead marched in the first open-housing march in my town. Also got tear and pepper gassed at a march in Berkeley, Cal. commemorating the 1st anniversary of the Peoples' Park protests...Also testified in front of a NM state senate committee in favor of the indoor smoking ban ( an action that apparently labels me a fascist in the eyes of a disturbing amount of DUers) . Brought and displayed some large, homemade, tongue in cheek anti -Nixon signs a few days before the "72 election at a big Nixon rally at the Albuquerque airport.. One said " Junkies for Nixon", with a syringe dripping blood, and the other said, "Virgins for Dick" with little cherries everywhere...Smaller little personal protests too---Refusing an ORDER to give a standing ovation to our retiring, worthless school superintendent at my HS graduation ( the only other person I saw doing the same was the girl next to me; I still remember us looking at each other in amazement realizing that we weren't the only one to do this). Also, I refuse to stand and/or say the pledge in my classrooms, and do not ever tell the kids to stand either, although most do. If and when this country is taken back from the clutches of fascists and criminals, I'll gladly stand and say the pledge again..... Attended a local school board meeting in support of teachers who'd been reprimanded, and worse, for their anti- Iraq war statements.... Protested a Cheney visit here in Albuquerque too. Sounds like I'm tootin' my own horn here; I freely acknowledge that this is a miniscule amount of activism compared to what a true activist does--I've really been a shootin' my mouth off and doing very little type of person for far too much of my life.