My Little Adventure In Hacktivism For February 16, 2003 – Parts 16 and 17

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Part 16 – One last shot of the march itself before leaving to go the back way around to Civic Center. This clip is a pretty excellent slice of what it felt like within the crowd.

Feb 16, 2003 Part 16 of ? (Hi-res 23 MB)
Feb 16, 2003 Part 16 of ? (Lo-res 9 MB)
Part 17 – We arrive at Civic Center around 2 pm (most people got there after 2pm), and pause for a moment before taking a deep breath and re-entering the crowd. We decide to re-enter from the Polk St. side, in an attempt to try to enter the press pit in front of the stage like we were able to before. (No such luck though.)

Feb 16, 2003 Part 17 of ? (Hi-res 14 MB)
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Participate In Today’s Virtual March On Washington

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MoveOn.org has organized a
Virtual March On Washington today, February 26, 2003.
The idea is to literally have all of the Senators and Representatives’ phones ringing off of the hook all day long — asking them not to rush into this War, please — in your own words. (Perhaps “please” isn’t a word that seems appropriate anymore…)
Estimated Time Investment: 1-2 minutes total.
It took me about 30 seconds to enter my information into a form, including two sentences that I want to say when I leave a message for my reps.
The website creates a page with the names and phone numbers of your representatives that you can print out and keep handy so it’s easy to remember what you want to say when it’s time to make the calls.
This is the kind of organized communication to our representatives that I hope to see a lot more of.
Give it a try, will you? I’m curious what people’s experiences are.
I’ll tell you about mine after I make my calls around noon.

Senate Heating Up Over Estrada Nomination Again

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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) – Judiciary Committee Ranking Member is on CSPAN right now talking about the Estrada nomination.
Not a whole lot has changed. Estrada won’t answer any questions from the Senate Judiciary committee and they are plenty pissed about it.
I’ll grab some of this and put it up.
I also have another installment of my February 16th adventure going up today.
Then I have to cool it for a day or two while I finish up my grad school application before I miss the deadline…

You Too Can Die For Oil

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So we can give up all of our freedoms, and create hassles and holdups in every aspect of our daily lives, and there’s still really no way to protect ourselves from becoming “soft targets” once the war has begun.
Sounds like another good reason to NOT START THE WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Sounds like an even better reason to NOT GIVE UP ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS since it won’t make us any safer anyway.
I have a real problem with articles like this. Parts of it regarding the use of Total Information Awareness are informative, but the rest of it just adds to the hysteria.
Are we drawing up roadmaps for the terrorists now?
Writers and officers are thinking up horrific potential disasters, and printing them up, with details about which places would be best to blow up in order to cause the largest amounts of casualties — and for what purpose? To let us know how bad it could be if we don’t let our freedoms be compromised? To add to the re-freakening of America, perhaps?
At the risk of adding to the hysteria. I bring this article to you.
Fortress America
By Matthew Brzezinski fo the NY Times

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Law Professor Will Assist With Articles Of Impeachment, Free Of Charge

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International Law Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign thinks we ought to pre-emptively kick the Shrub’s butt out of office for making pre-emptive strikes a part of our foreign policy. He thinks we should rid ourselves of Ashcroft while we’re at it. (I think he’s forgetting somebody…But two out of three ain’t bad.)
Preemptive impeachment
Law professor stands ready to draft articles for any member of the House
By K

My Little Adventure In Hacktivism for February 16, 2003 – Parts 14 and 15

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Part 14 – Things get too crowded and Kevin Burton and I “cheat” on the march path (and take a side street to try to make any kind of progress in the march). We then decide to get lunch and observe the crowd a few more blocks along. (There was still plenty of time to get to Civic Center in time for the speakers.)

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Part 15 – After lunch, we try to rejoin the main march, but it still isn’t moving. I revel at the addition of porto-potties, which weren’t at the last protest.

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Heads Up On The Repubs Attempt To Vote On Estrada Tomorrow

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The Shrub was going on and on about the Miguel Estrada nomination during his radio address yesterday. (Which I will upload shortly once I’m convinced it’s not already available online.)
We’ll probably need to call our Democrat congress critters tomorrow to show them support for Filibustering the vote on this guy.
It just isn’t right for him to refuse to answer questions by the Senate Judiciary Committee. I’ve got more video from CSPAN a week ago when they were debating this issue, but my guess is there will be a lot of new debate tomorrow over this.
Remember that Bill Frist agreed that no vote can be taken until 5:30 pm on Monday. That means it could be a late night indeed…
That still gives us all day tomorrow to remind congress how much we care about this issue.
It took me less than a minute to call my senator last week and leave a message thanking her for “doing whatever he/she can to oppose the Miguel Estrada nomination.”
These calls are typically tallied. No more than a sentance or two stating how you feel is required. They’re busy too. The people on the phone are always very nice and glad you called, whatever you have to say.
Let’s get in the habit of letting them know how we feel!