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

[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 ;)