Neil Gaiman's gonna do a reading at Spangenberg, and i won't be there to see it! and to make it all worse, he's not gonna be in portland at all. i'm cursed, i say, CURSED!!!

Dear Citizens of America,

In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she ( Read more... )

aaargh! so uninspired, and it's 2am with 2 pages to go! i think i might go crazy! just let it be break already!

so when the police finally decide to move the protesters, they go apeshit. everyone, bystanders and media included, gets pepper sprayed. the people barricading get their goggles ripped off, get sprayed directly in the eyes, and then are physically dragged from the road. there was a huge amount of brutality from the cops. the people who'd been ( Read more... )

I went back to Olympia last night, and stayed up all night at the port. nothing particularly exciting happened, other than me meeting lots of people and getting only half an hour of sleep. it was raining, windy, and really cold, so it wasn't the best night of my life, but it was worth it nonetheless.

two entrances to the port had been barricaded by ( Read more... )

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Everyone came back to the port and gathered on one of the corners to regroup. As we wait for the next convoy, a bus full of riot cops shows up, so we know we need to discuss what we're going to do, or if we're doing anything at all. We start trying to figure it out, thinking we have time since it's only been about 20 minutes ( Read more... )

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 Yesterday afternoon, I drove for 2 hours to Olympia to attend a protest there. An army ship was using their port to unload Strykers that had been contaminated with depleted uranium, and our goal was to shut down the streets so that they couldn't leave. after going to a meeting to plan the night and the next few days, we all headed down to the port ( Read more... )

 i'm in a weird mood. i don't want to do homework. and i'm really tired, but i'm not going to bed because i know i need to do homework. but i'm not doing homework because i'm tired. it's an evil cycle. i'll never escape. eeep!

 Gaaaaahhhhhh! the bible is not really a subject on which i care to write an essay, but somehow i think i'd still be procrastinating even if it were a more interesting subject. this four page paper is due tomorrow, and i've written three sentences in the past three hours. i'm so fucked.