June 2012
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“If you have to stop people voting to win elections, your ideas suck.”
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RE: Voter ID laws (via think-progress)
Can’t really improve on this.
Exploring Possibilities in Ravenswood →
mylesdannhausen.com
Last night I joined in a community meeting to discuss opportunities for growth in the Damen corridor of Ravenswood, a pop-up gathering in an empty storefront that I stumbled across a couple weeks ago on Tumblr. In my hometown I found myself covering or organizing such meetings often, so I jumped at the chance to join in such a discussion here in Chicago. I was a bit surprised to find that the concerns and hopes of business owners here in the big city aren’t much different from those of business owners in rural Wisconsin.
“Just consider what one single, isolated attack on American soil more than a decade ago did to Sullivan, Packer and company: the desire for violence which that one attack 11 years ago unleashed is seemingly boundless by time or intensity. Given the ongoing American quest for violence from that one-day attack, just imagine the impact which continuous attacks over the course of a full decade must have on those whom we’ve been invading, droning, cluster-bombing, occupying, detaining without charges, and indiscriminately shooting.”
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/13-1
Obvious…then again, sadly, it’s not to those with the power to do something different.
