SOA vigil, ft.benning ga



most of the rad cpe crew




jessie in the puppetista parade




mike

This weekend was the SOA protest in FtBenning Georgia: resistance, inspiration, and 40's. I head home for Thanksgiving break tomorrow with Dana and billie, I cant wait!

gettin goin to SOA

jlunas a blurrrr


at the beehive collective event


i did distro


then hot apple cider and wiskey, and a bonfire

CPE has had an event everyday since Sunday, and tomorrow is packed with stuff going on. Megan, Greg, and Carrie all have their graduation shows tomorrow, and Josh's recital, The Rootforce Road show, Colber (but I sold my ticket for 16 dollars). Saturday morning we head out to ft.benning.

And shannon turned 23 yesterday! Brad is only 18. I think brad is the youngest person I know, it really surprised me to find out he was 18. Time really flies!

email from mom

I remember this day like it was yesterday! It was August 1982 so you guys were 3 years old. I was dating Dad and we went to an Art Fair in Lawrence…the artsy spot of Van Buren County! I wore a flowing purple sundress and thought I was so hot (J). They had artists dressed in huge paper mache heads and Galen was so scared of them. Then there was a puppet show and one of the puppets is in the picture. These puppets were not scary but were as big as you guys and Galen was afraid of them too. You took him over after the show to show him that they were not real. You were explaining it to him like he was soooo much younger than you! You just loved taking care of Galen, being his “big sister”, teaching him, leading him around! We were married about 2 months later…so that was 24 years ago…eeeek!

cpe retreat and the opera

luis


virginia


cpe'ers


ryan and alan


dana

The holiday on friday gave us a day off classes to hold a CPE retreat at my house. For about 7 hours (with breaks, fo sho) we did workshops and teachins. I did a presentation on the Student Farmwork Alliance and the mcdonalds campaign. After the retreat i went to see Milo's opera (Falstaff) at Rubydimond Auditorium. We all dressed up, so i wore my goodwill suit. I really need a nice suit (not that you cant get a nice suit from goodwill, you just have to look hard). Milo was a great drunk sidekick, and snuck us all in through the stage door, and im fallin hard for Dana, as you can see in the picture, where i look pretty goofy.

Then the yeti party, where dana put my hightops on over her shoes and sported some fly dance moves with me. Saturday we slothed around watching donnie brasco and drinking a bottle of wine in the afternoon. I gotta clean the house and catch up on some homework today. And i forgot to cancel netflicks again, so another month of copious movie watching, and dana is a bigtime movie buff. SOA' next weekend, jon luna comming in town this week, rootforce road show saturday, and next week is thanksgiving. Ok, off to watch the Cowboy bebop movie.

south central, up town, the mansion

3 pairs of hightop, 3 dollars

some guy on tennessee street asked me for a ciggarett tonight when I was biking home, so I gave him the whole pack. Then this lady pulled up and and yelled 'hey, got anything other than soap' and laughed really loud. And last Saturday before Halloween these creepy old people were at the house like 3 hours before the party. Someone told me they all just got back from the rainbow gathering, they looked a bit burnt out.

Halloween

Simon Sedillo was amazing. He's been documenting the resistance in Oaxaca Mexico and the strikes goin on there. A indymedia journalist Brad Will was killed on Friday by paramilitary, which really moved Simon who knows the guy. It seems like a lot of people are talking about Oaxaca now, and theres alot of false media out there. The peoples movement in Oaxaca is responding to corupt and brutal politicians. They have videos of the "paramilitary" and connect them to the Oaxacan police. Actually, it seems like Mexico will use it for a motive to squash the APPO with guns and police. Neolibralism, corporate exploitation, these free trade agreements that have forced Mexico in to an economic depression, the people are sick of it! American need to open their eyes and see it!


The mansion lady's Ninja Cycling Team for the Talloween race.

So it was raining Friday, pretty hard, so hard the bike race almost didnt happen. But it was postponed and started around 9:30pm. Talloween 2 was a zombie bike race, where the first person to finish alive wins the race, and every check point theres zombies trying to turn you into zombies.



I of coarse, opted for the check point and we put together a zombie dance party. Mike and I really rocked it, and I drank all this wine to really get me dancing. I you know the house, the basement is totally sketchy, and worked perfect as "a seedy opium den" (as some racer said). Im tired, I got to go to bed, so Im cutting to the end, its like 3:16am and i got tons to do in the morning.


Simon partied with us Saturday night.

And yesterday was halloween. CPE meeting went on for like 2 hours, which is WAY to long. Got home and there were these creepy rainbow gathering people in our back yard wating for the party to start (at like 9pm, weirdos). When the party did start, it got pretty fun. Costumes were better on Saturday night, but halloween was one to remember. Pictures...







At the end of the night, and i think my costume just turned into urban casual.

nite.