The Charleston County Democratic Party will present the Democratic Peacemakers Tent at Charleston Peace one Day at Brittlebank Park in Charleston, this Sunday from 1 to 6 pm. Come and enjoy a salon/living room type discussion with these three accomplished peacemakers, each from South Carolina. The tentative Schedule is set out at the bottom of this post. Also we’ll have Candidates and Elected Democratic Officials serving as greeters. Mike Ruckes, opposing Demint is Scheduled for 2 and 4 pm. Others to be added later. You’re also invited to sign a petition supporting Mayor Riley’s stand against Illegal Guns and Health Care Reform.
Here are our Peacemakers.
Neal Petersen twice circumnavigated the Earth in the BOC Challenge (Now the Around Alone Race), using a sailboat he built himself. After growing up under apartheid in South Africa, he became one of his nation’s most famous sailors, and one of it’s few black sailors. In his travels, he came to realize that all people need food, clean water, healthcare, housing and most of all freedom. Today Neal works as a world recognized corporate coach and motivational speaker. While working globally, Neal builds understanding through his No-Barriers Foundation. He recently completed a civilian observer’s trip to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and a people to people upriver trip through the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela. Learn more at http://www.no-barriers.com/
Wescoat Sandlin is an attorney who works on political asylum cases, helping people remain here who have fled oppression to the United States when their return to their country of origin might result in their being tortured or killed. US policy towards international refugees of this type varies based on our relationship with their home country. Often, if a repressive regime is friendly to the US, it’s difficult for those seeking political asylum to remain here. Wescoat has helped people from Iraq, Columbia, Sudan, Cuba, Haiti, Ethiopia, Guatemala, El Salvador, China, and Algeria. Sandlin is also a Roman Catholic Deacon.
Julia Dawson, a native of Charleston, has worked in the peace and justice community since graduating from College. She recently spent two years in Pakistan working as a female journalist. She has worked for the Corporation for Community Development organizing improved halfway houses for former convicts, neighborhood rehabilitation in Greenville and individual empowerment.
Peacemaker Schedule (Tentative)
1:15 pm- Julia Dawson
2:00 pm- Wescoat Sandlin
2:45 pm- Julia Dawson
3:30 pm- Neal Petersen
4:15 pm- Wescoat Sandlin
5:00 pm- Neal Petersen
Candidates & Public Officials, Host/Greeters
1:00 pm TBA
2:00 pm Mike Ruckes, Candidate for US Senate
3:00 pm TBA
4:00 pm Mike Ruckes, Candidate for US Senate
5:00 pm TBA
Porches to Sidewalks, as published in the Moultrie News
read and comment at www.moultrienews.com
Mt. Pleasant, SC, USA- Transit progresses East of the Cooper as a changing economy and new Federal policies recognize the twilight of the car.
The automobile continues as our community’s the core symbolic possession. Our area is caricatured as a place small women drive vehicles the size of tanks. You can drive to our High School or Mt. Pleasant Town Hall, but the sidewalks don’t go all the way there. Like voting Republican, driving large vehicles long distances defines life here. Both activities have approximately the same relationship with the future for exactly the same reasons.
February auto sales were down 53 percent at General Motors, 48 percent at Ford Motors, 44 percent at Chrysler, 40 percent at Toyota and 38 percent at Honda compared with February 2008. The total number of vehicles on American roads will decline this year for the first time since WWII, falling by over a million.
Miles driven by Americans has fallen as well, continuing a trend started in 2005. December was the 14th straight month of declining highway travel, a total of 115 billion fewer miles driven since November 2007. For 2008 the number of miles driven dropped 3.6%, almost 108 billion miles less than in 2007, according to the US department of Transportation.
At the same time, Public Transit is booming. That surge didn’t end when gas prices plunged. “More than 2.8 billion trips were taken on public transportation in the third quarter of 2008 -- an increase of 6.5 percent over the third quarter of 2007. This is the largest quarterly increase in public transportation ridership in 25 years” The American Public Transportation Association.
Locally, CARTA had its best year ever, with over 4 million riders, a 20% increase. East Cooper’s fixed routes are booming. Ridership on the #40 increased from 10,569 in January 2008 to 11,883, in January 2009. Express Bus ridership grew from 10,593 to 12,623 in the same period. CARTA system farebox revenue was up 29% last year.
Increasing East Cooper CARTA Ridership brings us to the verge of new possibilities. By adding a third bus to the #40 route, service could be extended to Wando High School and the new Roper Hospital. The extension of Wingo Way through the new waterfront park might allow this route to serve hotels near the bridge more efficiently as well. Many people now believe a fixed route serving the Old Village, Rifle Range Road, the Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island is needed, at least in warm weather, replacing the current Flex Bus on demand service which is at capacity.
Decisions about new routes, stops and changes like this are driven by ridership data. East Cooper’s routes are currently outperforming routes in North Charleston and West Ashley. If we act aggressively through our municipal governments and CARTA board representatives, East Cooper can pull underutilized capacity into our area where full buses prove East Cooper will ride.
Soon GPS linked buses will further improve performance and ridership data collection. It may even be possible to dial your bus stop’s number on your cell phone and see when the next bus is expected. Not merely when it is scheduled, but an ETA generated in real time based on the current location of the bus, its speed and historic route data.
Federal Stimulus funding will allow CARTA to install new bus stop shelters and benches throughout its service area. Now is the time for East Cooper residents to lobby for shelters on their routes.
Federal stimulus funding will enable CARTA to replace part of its aging fleet, purchased after the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Low fuel efficiency and increasing maintenance costs suggest moving these units to the parked reserve fleet would save costs. Last Fall CARTA bought a dozen used buses for about 5 Thousand Dollars each from California which had an average of 250 thousand miles on them. These were put on the road after being refurbished for about 25 thousand dollars each. Several of those units are already running on the East Cooper Express Route, providing extra buses for rush hour when those routes had standing passengers.
New hybrid electric transit buses are often much lower to the ground that CARTA’s legacy fleet of standard diesels. The American made Fisher Coachworks' lightweight hybrid operates with over twice the efficiency of CARTA’s current fleet, while providing a desirable shorter climb on to the bus. However, don’t expect CARTA’s veteran diesels to completely disappear since they’re the only type of bus which can wade through downtown Charleston’s flooded streets while keeping the floor dry.
CARTA has requested that funding previously set aside for the never constructed Futrex monorail system be reallocated for the North Area’s Passenger Intermodal Transportation Center. This shovel ready project in North Charleston would bring together a new Amtrak Station, Greyhound intercity bus service, a regional bus transit hub for CARTA and rural bus transit systems, park and ride facilities and taxi service. This center would also have some service retail such as a pharmacy, convenience store, quick serve restaurants, and dry cleaning. A short, direct bus ride from locations East of the Cooper would bring residents to the intermodal center, connecting them with ground transportation options for the entire region. The proposed commuter rail system linking Charleston and Summerville could also stop there.
There are plenty of people East of the Cooper who have no interest in transit. The Town of Mt. Pleasant’s 30 million dollar request for federal stimulus money focused exclusively on their weary quest for more and wider asphalt to reach the Never Never Land of suburban sprawl development in Awendaw which eagerly awaits the improbable simultaneous return of cheap credit and cheap gas. Perhaps during the next Town election, in November 2009, the rising number of East Cooper Transit Riders will be heard at the polls to reshape our Town Government’s priorities.
CARTA board meeting dates can be found at www.ridecarta.com. East Cooper should act to obtain service, stop infrastructure and connections which will make it competitive using the resources being distributed now.
I was wondering if this site will continue on for the forseeable future? I hope so!!!!
Lee ;-)((fist bump))I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I'm asking you to believe in yours.-Barack Obama
A few good books to catch up on things as we get ready for inauguration. Can't afford to get blindsided!
The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank
How Race Survived US History by David Roediger
Tuned In by Craig Stull
Water Wars by Vandana Shiva
Welcome to the Terrordome by Dave Zirin
and, if you haven't read it yet, Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Kudos to all for a fine job. But now the work really begins. First order: Make it to inauguration. Overall task as we provide the man's muscle: Watch out for those gremlins! Joe the Plumber has a cherrybomb for every Democratic toilet in town. Please do not laugh: The opponents of our agenda are not above sabotaging the peoples' plumbing to create a job for themselves in 4 years (or less.)
Let's keep those pipes clean! Defend our public infrastructure!
Battleground Florida, The Fight for Pensacola
Porches to Sidewalks
By William J. Hamilton, III
Pensacola, Fl.- By the time this is published it is hoped America will know who it's next president is. I am in Pensacola where that issue may be decided, working as an Attorney volunteer with the Obama campaign.
Pensacola is famous for having the whitest beaches in America, but I have not seen them. Phil Hall, the attorney volunteer for Escambia County grabbed me at the airport Saturday morning and deposited me in a parking lot outside the Library where early voting was adding over 6000 ballots to those scanned here since voting started on October 20. By day's end, over half the expected turnout of 85% had marked their ballots and seen them scanned through the tabulator.
Unlike South Carolina's touch screen voting system, Escambia county has a "paper trail." The ballots are filled out like the SAT or another standardized test. They're marked with a number two pencil by the voter and then fed into a scanner about the size of a trash compactor. The tabulator/scanner checks for "overvoting" where someone marks too many candidates, such as voting for both McCain and Obama. Those kick back to the voter for correction. "Undervoting" where no one is marked doesn't cause a ballot to kickback. It's presumed you didn't like any of your choices. Valid ballots are scanned and tabulated, but the results won't be known until all the votes are counted. The marked paper ballots are preserved for a possible recount.
Hanging and pregnant chads are a thing of the past in Florida.
The system has has clear advantages over Charleston County's touch screen system. In regular voting, ballots can be marked and accumulated even if the machines break down. There is something solid to check when it's all over. Each scanner can handle 180 ballots per hour. The volume of expensive hardware per voter is reduced. All the voter really needes is an inexpensive plastic booth to mark their ballot in and a sheet of paper.
Over 150 Democratic Lawyers are working in Escambia County. Some polling places will have four Democratic attorney's assigned. We outnumber the McCain campaign's force 3 to 1. Fooling with the machines appears to be likely. However the people running the elections here work for an Elected supervisor who is a Republican. It's hard to say who has the advantage in this wrestling match.
We didn't have many problems Saturday. Everyone entering the polling place met myself or a lady Attorney from Chicago before they voted and were informed of their rights. Inside Phil Hall monitored the voting. We made the same promises to everyone, Republican or Democrat, as the law and Obama campaign require. It was wierd to commit to protect the voting rights of someone wearing a McCain Palin T-shirt. Thankfully, the Obama campain will not be challenging voters, therefore it's almost impossible I'll be helping push a vote for the opposition through the scanner.
In Florida you can correct your name or change your address right at the polling place if your registration doesn't match. Some voters Saturday weren't offered that opportunity. One disappointed voter was denied a ballot and emerged looking for legal help. He chose the lady Attorney from Chicago. Our "inside lawyer" was away doing training. It appeared things were about to go downhill.
We pulled a folding chair up to our picnic table under a Magnolia tree and opened the law office, completely surrounded with Republican campaign workers with whom we had been spending a friendly day.
They apparently don't teach charm classes at Law School in Chicago. She forcefully informed the voter of his rights and assured him we would be with him until his record was corrected and he was allowed to vote. As the Republicans around us listened, I assured him we could have the entire legal team down at the polling place in twenty minutes, including lots of Florida lawyers able to work inside. Inspired by the Chicago Attorney's example, I told everone around that if they wanted the rest of the day to be hard, we would be happy to arrange it. He went back in to try again.
Twenty minutes later he walked out smiling, his registration updated, having seen his ballot glide through the tabulator. It was a victory for American democracy. We never asked him who he was voting for.
Since then I've helped drop 200 yard signs with another community organizer, Derek Stromas, spoken to a rally of 1500 people on behalf of the voting rights project, seen Claudia Brown Curry, a Pentacostal evangelist and candidate for School Superintendent sing her campaign speech to the audience with a forty voice choir and terrified the opposition, who keeps hearing rumors about a noisy, overweight lawyer from South Carolina.
Tip O'Neil once said all politics is local. True, but after three months of work in the Lowcountry it's been a huge amount of fun to meet a new team in a new field in the same cause. Everyone weary of politics should give it a try. Do an election away from home. There are 200 thousand members of the "Obama Army" in Florida today and about 100 thousand working for McCain. You would think we would be standing on top of each other, but there is a lot of room for democracy in Florida.
We'll need it all, because tomarrow's election is the most important one held in our lifetimes. We don't know how it will turn out as I write this, but America is worth fighting for in battleground Florida.
William Hamilton (www.wjhamilton.com) is an attorney who lives in I'On Village. You can read this and other opinion published in the Moultrie News and comment on it at www.moultrienews.com.
Sarah Palin is a woman, so she’s probably the best candidate for women, right? WAY wrong.
FEMINISTS FOR OBAMAFeminist Majority Launches Online Videos Targeting McCainIf McCain and Palin win, Women Lose. Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority, says, “Obama/Biden are running on the strongest platform for women’s rights of any major party in U.S. history”. That’s why Feminist Majority launched www.FeministsForObama.org, a side-by-side comparison of the Democratic and Republican nominees on four major women’s issues: Violence Against Women, Abortion and Contraception, Women and Work, and Breast Cancer and Health Care. To reach as many people as possible, Feminist Majority created three striking web videos that illuminate some of the grave truths about the McCain/Palin record on women’s issues. One in Sixhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChyeoMJc3U “John McCain voted against funding to fight violence against women.”Unholy Trinityhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFrEzQAOvM“McCain voted against a program funding breast cancer research.”Violationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7ZZ5huKMk“John McCain and Sarah Palin are running on a platform that seeks to outlaw a woman's right to an abortion even in cases of rape and incest.”McCain on Breast CancerOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You deserve to know where the candidates stand: http://www.feministsforobama.org/Issues_breastcancer.htmMcCain voted against funding breast cancer research if it meant taking away from military funds. Breast cancer affects all women, even the 370,000 women currently serving in the US Armed Forces. Since breast cancer attacks 1 in 8 women, that means 46,250 members of the US military will deal with breast cancer. And John McCain voted NO. It is not a niche issue, it’s America’s issue. He voted against a bill that changed the course of breast cancer research. McCain on Violence Against WomenOctober is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. You deserve to know where the candidates stand: http://www.feministsforobama.org/Issues_domesticviolence.htmSenators Obama and Biden have sponsored and supported legislation, including funding, to reduce violence against women and to assist women survivors of domestic abuse. Biden authored the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Obama cosponsored the reauthorization of VAWA and authored legislation on violence against women as an Illinois State Senator.Not only did McCain vote NO on VAWA, but he also failed to co-sponsor VAWA reauthorization although many Republican and Conservative Senators did. Quick FactsDid you know Senator McCain voted against establishing the Army's Breast Cancer Research Program? This program, which started modestly, appropriated hundreds of millions to Breast Cancer research.Did you know Senator McCain opposes the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act? The Act failed to pass in 2008 because of a Republican filibuster and would have restored a woman’s right to fight pay discrimination in federal court. Did you know Senator McCain has ducked questions on contraceptive insurance discrimination as recently as July 2008?Visit www.FeministsForObama.org to read more.* * *If you would like more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority: (703) 522-2214
Text from Visitors Guide for October 11 Concert for Change <p>
You can request a PDF version of the full guide, including the maps, by email to wjhamilton@wjhamilton.com
Get There EarlyWe’ll have informal activities at the Amphitheater starting at 4 pm, including children’s sailing on the lake and outdoor chess. Grab a primo picnic spot and start the celebration early. Don’t forget your folding chairs. Neighborhood merchants will have picnics to go. Don’t forget to bring some “red meat for the base,” canned protein foods for donations to the Ecco community pantry. Yes we canned!Stick with the ProgramVolunteers on I’On Square will be putting onbumper stickers and have yard signs for your trunk for willing drivers from 4 to 4:50 pm. Do the Electric Shuttle from BI-LOA free electric Shuttle Service featuring Hybrid Cabs, Gem Cars and Golf Cars will operate from 4 pm to 5:00 linking the BI-LO parking lot and Amphitheater. The electric shuttle route is shown as a dotted line on the map. Pickup is at the pavilion in the BI-LO parking lot. It will resume immediately following the concert and operate until 7 pm. Park Prudently Park at BI-Lo if you can. I’On was designed for walking. Driving and parking your car here requires a bit of thought. Parking spaces on the street are found throughout I’On. They’re marked with white, painted “T”s. These are the only places on the streets where you can park. Cars parked elsewhere will be ticketed or towed. Please park with your wheels within 12 inches of the curb, the closer the better. If you want to park inside I’On, plan to arrive before 4:30. You’ll find sidewalks throughout the neighborhood leading to the amphitheater. Please remember that children play and walk on the streets of I’On. Drive carefully. We throw things if you don’t.Ride CARTA As part of today’s get there green initiative, the CARTA Flex bus will be make two drop offs prior to the concert which will connect to CARTA’s stop and fixed #40 route service from Charleston at Target/Seaside farms. The bus will pick up passengers at the Bus Shelter near the entrance to the Seaside Farms Target Parking Lot at 3:38 and 4:38 pm. After the concert, the Flex Bus will pickup at the intersection of West Shipyard and N. Shelmore in I’On, by the Perseverance Park fountain at 6:40 to connect with the #40 at Town Center at 7 pm and the stop at Target a few minutes later. Those returning to Charleston should transfer at Town Center. Those parked at Target should stay on until the bus returns there. A second return run, if necessary, will follow as quickly as possible. CARTA dispatchers will be in touch with an event coordinator at Perseverance Park fountain with ETA information for the second run.To get a CARTA Flex bus ride to the concert, make a reservation for the CARTA Flex bus by calling dispatch this week at (843) 747-0922. If you do not make a reservation, boarding cannot be guaranteed. Normal CARTA bus fare will apply.Bike or WalkIf you live nearby, bike or walk to the Concert. Mathis Ferry Road has a wonderful pathway which connects all the way to Wonder’s Way on the Cooper River Bridge. Help our Non Political FriendsTimes are tough. We hope you’ll consider spending some time or money with our non political neighbors this afternoon.Picnics to Go will be available from the BI-LO Deli- 388-1550, Square Onion- 856-4246; O’Brion’s Pub- 388-9733 and Golden Garden Chinese Food- 388-8183. Wines are available from Crushed- 856-1156, Soif 884-9708, BI-LO, the Square Onion. Call ahead to order. BI-LO will have a variety of canned meats available if you need “red meat for the base.”Drop by Sweet Olive and the businesses on the Square to see what they have to offer.
Mt. Pleasant, SC- The Main Street Volunteer Voter Registration effort for the 2008 General Election in Mt. Pleasant, SC will begin at 8 am and conclude at 12 noon on Saturday, October 4 at Alex’s Restaurant at 302 Coleman Blvd in Mt Pleasant, SC 29464.
At noon, the last registration forms will be collected. Those present will go out front to raise a brand new American Flag to the top of Alex’s pole to celebrate participating in the statewide registration of over 125 thousand new voters. The audience will recite the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. Everyone who’s helped will be recognized. After that, the last folder of signed forms will be given to Shanna Switzer, a Trek bicycle triathlon racer and her teammates. They will mount their bikes and race across Wonder’s Way on the Ravanel Bridge to County Election Headquarters in North Charleston. The last voter registrations in Mt. Pleasant are going to our government on American made bicycles driven by American muscle. They must arrive by 1 pm.
Citizens needing to register for the first time, to register at a new address or to change registration to their new name are all welcome. Registration is free. Assistance to those who have trouble with their handwriting will be available. Alex’s Restaurant will be decorated in red, white and blue for the final effort. Jane, the manager, will pull out the Fourth of July decorations for the occasion. Everyone’s invited to come by for a breakfast of fresh local shrimp, to talk the politics of hope and change and to enjoy the company of their neighbors.
Alex’s Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant has figured prominently in this year’s election. Several candidates for the nominations made appearances there in January. CNN broadcast live to the nation from its dining room.
Other area registration efforts may continue until later in the day. Anyone unregistered at the end of the day will not be able to vote in the Presidential election of 2008.Alex's telephone number is (843) 881-7714.END END ENDFor more information on this event, Contact William Hamilton at www.wjhamilton.com or 870-5299 or 216-2646
We registered 21 people and signed up five new volunteers for the Campaign for Change yesterday at the Mary Street Transit Mall on Thursday, September 25. Afterwards Professional Transit Expert Peter Techlinberg (whose father was once Chairman of the Charleston County Democratic Party and was in line to work in the Commerce Department on tourism for Bill Clinton) visited Obama HQ in N. Charleston to help identify the places and times when voter registration would be most effective at transit stops in the Charleston area. Images are attached. Obama Headquarters now has CARTA system maps marked with the locations and times on week days when large groups of potential voters will be congregated waiting on busses. This includes early morning before work opportunities at major Express Bus Park and Ride Locations and nighttime at the North Charleston Outlet mall.
Thanks to our wonderful volunteers from the Charleston School of Law and the indestructible Michael Whack for their hard work. Michael's expert guidance and on the job training turned the two law students working with us into seasoned and effective sidewalk voter registration volunteers. They and their fellow Law Students will take over and continue operating voter registration at the Mary Street Transit Mall effective today and continuing until the registration deadline.
Transit site voter registration continues at the Cosgrove and Rivers Superstop, where it has been going on for months.
Next week William Hamilton will operate a registration effort downtown near MUSC for homebound express bus riders called "More Voters Stat!" Watch the Obama website for times and locations.
We’ll go forward with this afternoon’s voter registration at the Mary Street transit mall in downtown Charleston, South Caroiina across from Hughes Lumber between King and Meeting, 2:30 to 5 pm The weather looks a bit messy, but this spot is one where rain isn’t a problem. The parking garage was designed to provide shade and rain shelter for CARTA transit customers. Thanks Mayor Riley. There is a nice, sheltered spot right behind the benches we can use where we (and more importantly those paper forms, will be out of the wind and weather. I have clip boards to hold the paper down. We’ll be getting some volunteer help from students at the Law School.
There are a number of places on the CARTA transit system where large numbers of potential voters tend to congregate at certain times of the day. However some of these places will be deserted a few hours earlier or later. We’ll be putting together maps and lists of times and locations on the CARTA system which will work well for those doing voter registration. That information will be available at Headquarters on Friday, September 26. Contact Robin Biro there if you have an interest in this type of work on Friday. If you would like to learn about the CARTA sytem before then, see their website www.ridecarta.com.
I’ll have a PDF flyer on Obama and public transit ready today, however, you can read his full four page position paper on the subject online: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/additional/Obama_FactSheet_Transportation.pdf
And so on... The cause of all this? Look out your window, see that uneconomic transportation unit parked nearby? Yes, the automobile. We have subsidized it for too long.
The solution: free public transit. Check out this site: http://freepublictransit.org
Changning, Hunan, China. Public transit is free of charge.
http://frepubtra.blogspot.com/2008/09/changning-china-buses-are-now-free.html
The Time is Now! The Answer is You!
Famous Quotes from Big Hit Buda's fired up anthem titled "ELECT OBAMA". 85% of the HD video has already been shot, we filmed in Springfield for Barack's Speech and last Sunday in downtown Chicago. Here's the specifics of when and where we will be shooting.
Thursday Sept. 4th 1:00pm @ corner of LaSalle and North in Old Town. The cameraman is only hired until 3pm so this will be brief.
We would be FIRED UP if you could make it because the only element of our music video that is missing are a couple shots of actual Chicago Area Obama supporters. Seriously we only need you to say one or 2 lines (i.e. Let's Go or We Will) That's It. Now if you want to be more involved by all means hang with us and let's finish this video in style.
For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to listen to and/or watch Buda's video on YouTube. We encourage you to visit our website www.electobamatoday.com This is why..
We aren't just some guys who made an Obama anthem much like many average musicians have this year. This anthem is the Hulk Hogan like theme music for Obama Campaigners and supporters like yourself. Most importantly, this song was also created to point out factual, critical, motivational and inspirational information to those people who have not yet made up their minds on who they should vote for.
here's my number if you have any questions 309.212.4612
YES WE CAN! hope to see your mug Thursday!
Sean "TiL Dawn" TurnerCEO - TiL Dawn Productions - EXIST by DAY - LIVE by NIGHT
I want to welcome Sen. Joe Biden as the Vice Presidential nominee to the Obama 'family'. I am looking forward to the Democratic National Convention all this week...and after that, let's keep it going to a win on November 4th!
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment everyday.-Thorton Wilder
Chicago's gallery for local emerging artists is having a special show for October in line with Barack Obama's message. All art will be hope or change themed. Proceeds from sales will go to the Obama campaign and a local Chicago Public School in need for art supplies. Free admission. Register to vote at the shop!
OPENING RECEPTION October 2nd 6pm-9pm
Here is what Jim Hightower has to say ablout McCain and Big Oil...
