[kj] FW: DON'T DESPAIR: Fwd: Best antidote to election gloom!
cliffmonka at alaska.net
cliffmonka at alaska.net
Thu Sep 18 22:49:39 EDT 2008
haha this is too weird,well we actually drove by and saw this last weekend,people
protesting here in Anchorage..yer freaking me out,yer now talking bout where i live
on the gathering and the world's seeming really small.Fuck Plain and McNaci
CliffinAK
> That is fucking great! I hope they gas her like a badger!
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> Subject: [kj] FW: DON'T DESPAIR: Fwd: Best antidote to election gloom!
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> [The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on
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> the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage.
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> Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a
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> statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or
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> men. I had no idea what to expect.
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> The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over
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> coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with
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> small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an
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> impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers,
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> posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.
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> One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a
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> long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out
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> that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the
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> people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-
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> killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the
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> organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell
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> them what they thought. The women, of course, received some
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> nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
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> I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the
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> turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get
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> 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to
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> myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent
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> by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have
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> been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15
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> demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-
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> killing maggot" haters.
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> It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in
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> front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's
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> trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign
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> wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the
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> edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place
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> to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and
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> as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join
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> in from every direction, carrying signs.
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> Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years
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> living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally
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> with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not
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> including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest
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> political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was
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> absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many
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> people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even
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> those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge
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> crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
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> Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the
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> media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who
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> started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then
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> passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the
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> Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs
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> high.
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> So, if you've been doing the math⦠Yes. The Alaska Women Reject
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> Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got
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> all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and
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> enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around
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> to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does
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> not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her
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> best, have things to say.
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> A bunch of pictures of that rally:
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> I'm sorry--I don't know how to get the pictures into the body of the email.
> You'll have to open the attachments one by one--but they are worth it. I
> especially like "McPain & Failin."
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