Tuesday, September 26, 2006
This election season, if you'd sooner gouge out your own eyes than vote for a pro-life candidate, log on to www.knowyourcandidate.com, a new site launched this week by the Family Planning Action Fund of Maine, the Maine Women's Lobby, and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The site includes voting records and survey results from local candidates on issues related to reproductive choice. You'll need this to make sure you vote your conscience and avoid any subsequent eye-gouging. Gubernatorial and legislative candidates are reviewed and you can click on a link to register to vote. It's both handy and progressive.
Day to vote is November 7.
Image from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Well, fall has begun. It's the season just cool enough to make us more productive and just sunny enough to keep us away from the cloud-induced depression which can make motivation go into hibernation. If you're feeling motivated to beat a bongo drum and yell about the War in Iraq in the City That Never Sleeps, your day is close at hand. On October 9, buses will depart from Portland for an anti-war rally on Wall Street in NYC. Peace Action Maine is organizing this Columbus Day event, which will include speakers like "Tiokasin Ghosthorse from First Voices @ WBAI Radio in NYC, the War Resisters League of NYC, naming out "The Merchants of Death," Melissa Van New York State Peace Action Director, Madelyn Hoffman New Jersey State Peace Action Director, Lawrence Hamm People's Organization for Progress Director, and others," according to an email hyping the event circulated by Maine Veterans for Peace.
If you want to get on the bus, email jamillaelshafei@yahoo.com.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
A Pat LaMarche campaign ad was posted on YouTube.com yesterday, and will begin airing statewide tomorrow, the campaign tells us. It's an all-silent ad, so don't think you're missing the sound. LaMarche is the only Maine gubernatorial candidate with any videos posted on YouTube. But that's not why she has called the ad "Only One Candidate In Maine." Take a look, and tell us what you think by posting comments below!
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