Portland Tea Party

[primsong]

Just a happy note that the Portland version of the anti-stimulus-package protests went very well this morning! I'm ready to do it again.


My eldest says she's a real teenager now because she's been in a protest.

Weather was beautiful, turnout was pretty good considering this is Ye Olde Liberal Portland and it was only quickly organized *and* at 9:00 am on a workday - lots of people taking pictures, two radio type personalities to talk and one tv camera, so that's something.

Lots of pics of all the protests in all sorts of cities coming up online today - here's a nice gallery of ours in particular:

http://www.letmeshootyou.org/022709/index.htm

They *loved* the King George III sign we'd scribbled up late last night and kept asking for it to be in the pictures, which was fun. Lots of tea dumped in the river (minus the bags & tags of course - no littering)... probably some seriously buzzed fish down there today. We weren't very good at all the shouting part, everyone was too polite to shout, lol...

Most interesting thing I find about this is out of that entire crowd we only had a couple people who had ever marched for *anything* in their lives. This is all new folks, real grassroots stuff. Really nice folks.

Comments

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

Rats! I wish you would have told me of this....

on second thought I would have have got in trouble running around in a loin cloth and war paint, too cold any way for dress up.

Glad y'all are making waves as the sun sets on America as I knew it. I am totally disappointed in the "new" admin. in D.C.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I would have paid for tickets to see you running around the Waterfront in a loincloth and warpaint. Extra if you added feathers. XD

I'll be sure to pass the word for Round Two once the date is set.

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize this was going to be an actual protest, but more a discussion like some of the Obama house parties we've been going through ;)

We found some of the signs rather amusing...its ironic how that many of us felt we were losing our liberties under Bush, and now others, like your crowd here, feel like we are losing them under Obama ;o. Some of those signs reflect a pretty skewed impression of Obama, his administration, and what he wants to do for this country...which is certainly *not* one party dictatorship ;)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

*bites tongue*

Each to their own! ;-)

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

I am just sad that you and others don't realize that Obama is really trying to *help* this country and particularly us, the hard working little people ;( And not even just here in the US...the world's reaction to him has been very positive. I just want everyone to share in the joy, especially friends like you :(

And I definitely agree with you about the grumbling...it seems many folks, especially politicians and pundits on the right just want to find something to complain about just so they don't have to recognize anything positive about Obama...at least your group took action.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Egads, you really believe that, don't you? o_0

*tries to find eyeballs after they rolled under the furniture*

*bites tongue even harder*

Nooo...politics is certainly a Great Divide, but you're a lovely lady anyway. ;-)

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

I sure do and so do a lot of other people....I choose hope and postiveness over fear...after all God said that He has not given us a spirit of fear ;)

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's the kind of tea party it was! :-D Cool!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Very, very cool! I'm happy to be a part of it, beats just sitting around grumbling. Good turnout all over the country - 40+ other parties going on in other cities today. I heard St. Louis was expecting about 50 and got over a thousand.

Rosie and her kids were a hoot too, and she did the most amazing painting of the Boston Tea Party ship as a gift to the organizers. :-) We rode back together on the train, really enjoying having her out here.

[tuilelindowen.livejournal.com]

I briefly looked at all the pics, but didn't see your King George one right away. Is it there?

This one made me laugh out loud:
http://www.letmeshootyou.org/022709/pages/3218.htm

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Yes! That was one of my favorites too. I'm the one with the brown hat on - here's my daughter and I, freezing on the waterfront:
http://www.letmeshootyou.org/022709/pages/3190.htm

They had me stick it in the middle of the kids grouping too, so I'm down in front with it here:
http://www.letmeshootyou.org/022709/pages/3327.htm

Rosie's kids were great in all this as well, they're the ones who brought the flag from their house and even had signs on their strollers. ;-D

[tuilelindowen.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for pointing me to your photos. I love them! Love your hat! My favorite part though is the comment about your daughter, "My eldest says she's a real teenager now because she's been in a protest."

That tickles me no end -- empowerment is a wonderful thing.