Happy Labor Day Weekend 2007, v. 1.

“Waitresses at Woolworth’s staged an eight-day sitdown strike in 1937, singing, dancing, exercising, doing each others hair and nails until finally management recognized their union and gave them a five-cent per hour pay hike.”
(c/o Detroit News web site) 

Police state update: North Carolina.

I guess that if I lived in North Carolina, I’d be a criminal today for posting this image.  Oh, well.  Come get me, y’all.
From The Progressive:
Watching Melissa Etheridge on TV at the Live Earth concert persuaded Jonas Phillips and his wife, Kindra, to go out and do something about the Bush Administration’s abuses.
So they made [...]

“What the world must do for Darfur.”

The critical conditions that continue to prevail in Darfur are causing immense suffering to its people. Both sides of the conflict – the government of Sudan and its allied forces, as well as all the opposition groups in Darfur – must understand that civilians should no longer fall victim to their political disputes.
The Sudanese [...]

This week’s outrage from Darfur.

MANAWASHI, South Darfur, Sudan — The rains have come to South Darfur and bright patches of green occasionally dot the barren landscape. But in Manawashi the ground remains dry and parched.
It is here that Zahara, a mother of three, decided to make her home after fleeing the attack on her village two years ago [...]

When fundies attack…

… sometimes, sad to say, they win.
EVESHAM, N.J. (AP) – A video depicting same-sex parents will not be used as part of the third-grade curriculum this school year in this Burlington County community.
The documentary titled “That’s a Family!” was included in last year’s health curriculum to meet a state requirement on teaching diversity issues, but [...]

I hate to gloat. But…

Sweep.   Suh-weeeeeep.  S-W-E-E-P.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Chase Utley hit an RBI single off Billy Wagner in the ninth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies completed a huge sweep of the first-place New York Mets by rallying for an 11-10 victory Thursday in one of the wildest games of the season.
By winning four straight against the Mets, [...]

“All Americans are victims of Katrina…”

“Yesterday marked two years since Hurricane Katrina descended on Louisiana and Mississippi, on Aug. 29, 2005. I hesitate to call it an anniversary because the word implies, in some way, a celebration, a birth. What we are scratching on the calendar is more like a notch on a raw gravestone, a count of the days [...]

The Quaker Agitator is back.

I’m back.  For good, I think.  Thanks for sticking with me.