And it's just a >way cool video concept all the way around-- almost 200k views in a couple of days.

The Google Gadget page has an in-browser data viewer for viewing and interacting with the video. The player is Flash-based, so you can zoom with the mouse wheel, or click-and-drag to move it around. WAY COOL!!!

These guys are becoming the "give the power to the people" band.  Which either breaks your paradigm or sends you running scared.  They are releasing the video’s data so that developers can remix it and make their own variations of the music video.  I never was really into Radiohead before, but I have to admit that these kinds of digital plays is making me more aware/exposed...and now I'm becoming a radiohead!

We took the wrapping paper off today. Come visit, learn something powerful, make powerful connections and groups.

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Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a violent Americanradical left organization. The group, which organized a riot in Chicago in 1969 and bombed buildings in the 1970s, was founded in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).(Wikipedia)

Every member of my family who has received these calls on our private cell phones - one carried by a minor - has pressed the number to be removed, yet the calls persist: identical calls at alarming frequency. I think my average is four or five calls a week. Since the automated request didn't work one morning (they called that very afternoon), I pressed one, spoke to a 'warranty specialist' named Leah, and requested that she take my number off their call list. She said she did.

The next day I received another call. My life not revolving around telemarketers, the next time I did anything more than check the caller ID was today. In the mean time, my dad discovered the number was in Nevada, and issued by the phone company, Digitcom Services, Inc. We attempted to return the calls at several of the dozens of numbers from which we received the solicitations, but only received a message saying that they are sorry if we reached their number in error; they only purchase business phone numbers; if we would like our number to be removed from their list, press 1. (Every time you press one, a message tells you your request has been successful.) Mom called Verizon to ask what she could do, and they referred her to the Federal No-Call List, which we were formerly unaware included cell phones. The list allots 30 days at least for companies to cease their sales calls to each number. Fortunately it no longer expires.  A friend receiving similar calls reported her apparent success by requesting to speak with the manager and leaving a firm message - though she admitted there was dead air and no introduction to the machine, so she's not sure if she was talking to anyone or not.

When they called this morning, I answered and spoke to Stephanie, requesting to speak to her manager about these harassing phone calls. I also received dead air, spoke all the same, and concluded that she hung up on me. So I went to work. Google is wonderful.

A lot of people have similar experiences, but most of them are relieved to escape from scam artists and phishers, something of which I was never in danger, since I never had a warranty on my car for it to expire. What I want is the calls to stop. They're using my time and cell phone minutes, and are not benefiting in the slightest from bothering me.

The most helpful website I found was this blogger: Joe Levi He spent at least 30 minutes on the phone with them, wary enough to not feed them real information about his car and person.  He informed them of some of the relevant federal laws, and asked them if they would be willing to comply.  At first the girl said no, basically, so he offered her a second chance to comply.  She eventually promised that he would be sent a copy of their no-call list policy as per federal law. 

What if you could have your own personal governmental control center, and be just as knowledgeable and informed as the giant companies can? Would you like to be able to follow the money, the people and each other. What if someone gave you a peek inside your neighbors political and civic closet?

We are developing a cutting edge tool, that will empower citizens to do just that, and lots more. Stay tuned for more to come soon.

Seguramente tú, ohh, internauta, navegando entre página y página, te habrás encontrado un par de ocasiones con alguno de estos términos: amazon, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Del.icio.us, blogspot, RSS, los podcasts, las redes sociales, por mencionar lo más popular. Si tú has visitado o subido algo a uno de estos sitios, entonces estás siendo parte de la Web 2.0.

¿Qué es la web 2.0?

Es la nueva forma de usar Internet, antes de la Web 2.0 (en los primeros años de Internet, estoy hablando de principios de los 90), solo gente con suficiente conocimiento podía acceder a Internet, y todavía eran menos los que podían publicar contenido. Esta tarea era exclusiva de la gente especializada, el resto solo podía leer los contenidos y ya. Como sucede en la tele, la radio o los periódicos. Existe un solo emisor y muchos receptores.

En 2004, Dale Dougherty, de la empresa O Really Media, hablaba de un renacimiento de la web, en la que la misma gente creara los contenidos que ellos mismos podían leer. Con esto surgieron un sinfin de aplicaciones web que hicieron que la gente pudiera publicar su conocimiento sin preocuparse de ser expertos en computación.

Entre los más exitosos destacan los foros, las galerías de fotos, el alojamiento de videos hechos por la gente (youtube), los blogs (como éste), y sin duda alguna, la Wikipedia, una enciclopedia en la que cualquiera puede ser autor de algún tema sin necesidad de ser un experto en la materia.

Cuando tú subes tu propio video a YouTube, o publicas algo en un foro, o subes tus fotos, o distribuyes un podcast o escribes en un blog, estás creando contenido que otros pueden leer, ver o escuchar. Esto es la Web 2.0, no se refiere a una actualización de la web original, No!!!, es solo la forma en que la usamos, digamos que evolucionó.

Ahora, Internet no es como los medios tradicionales de comunicación, ahora la gente crea su propio contenido para que otros puedan saber qué es lo que pasa, se piensa, se hace, se crítica en otros lugares. Lo que una vez predicó Lennon en su famosa canción "Power to the people", se hizo realidad.

Hoy, todos tenemos la gran oportunidad de compartir lo que sabemos, todos tenemos algo que compartir con los demás, incluyendo nuestra forma de pensar. Es la libertad que nos otorga la Web 2.0.

Tecnológicamente hablando, esto fue posible gracias a los Sistemas Gestores de Contenidos (CMS, Content Management Systems), una tecnología que permite que un usuario aficionado pueda crear sitios donde pueda publicar su propio contenido, por ejemplo, este blog (en Wordpress, un blog libre).

Adiós a las tradicionales páginas web hechas en HTML, Frontpage o Dreamweaver, que son estáticas y díficiles de mantener y actualizar sus contenidos. Hoy en día se pueden mantener sitios complejos de forma fácil y sencilla, gracias a proyectos libres como joomla o drupal.

Esto sin duda, tiene como consecuencia la "democratización" del conocimiento, en la que todos podemos beneficiarnos del conocimiento de otros. El que se mantenga ignorante, es por que así lo quiere...

Saludo2.0

Luis Rivera

We are still oppressed in America. We are still captives to the State, to oppression and injustice.

Oh, well well, here we go again...more bullshit from the State. If you've been following this case like I have, you should be outraged.

A man, not just any man, but a black man gets shot 50 times, count that, 50 times. Not 5, 50. 50 times a man is shot, that's not just injustice, it is sacrilege. That the state would acquit those responsible is a blatant disrespect for human life and justice. New York, you are guilty of perjury, fraudulence of Justice, and oppression. You are being held accountable for the life of a man who was about to be married, a future father, a son to a mother, to a father, a future husband, a close friend. You are being held responsible for the crimes you have committed. You have withheld Justice, and thrived on the fat of the rich, you have sided with the oppressors and forsaken Justice. You have ignored the pleas of the needy, and the desolate, you have made yourself an enemy to Truth, and to Righteousness.

This is not just about what sounds good. This is about respect for a human being. Is it racially motivated? I can't say, but I do believe they were not charged with the mutilation of a body, nor were the officers held accountable for anything. Sean Bell was gunned down using 50 bullets from three officers, one White, one Black and one Hispanic.

Exodus 23:6 : <!-- 6 -->You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

Sean Bell was gunned down on his wedding day, it could have been any other day and it would be just as wrong, but this is intolerable. The acquitted officers may have made a mistake, but it is one that they should be held accountable for. Justice requires retribution, and these officers regardless of excuses need to be removed from the force at the very least, New York's finest, I'm sorry but with these standards any memory of heroics is invalidated, any longing for honor among the force as a whole slips right out the window. These three men need to answer for their sins. Not only them but the Judges as well.

"We are all Sean Bell" the demonstrators shouted. "-http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23663924-38198,00.html?from=public_rss

Deuteronomy 16:19 You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

I think that we have seen a radical injustice, and that the state would arrest the Rev. Al Sharpton for standing for justice shows the oppressive nature of the state. Traffic should be blocked, civil and respectful protest is encouraged. This case cannot go by unnoticed. People of America, and the World, I encourage you to stand for Justice, love good, hate evil.

The Prophet Amos reminds us in the 5th chapter of his book:

¹⁴Seek good and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
just as you have said.
¹⁵Hate evil and love good,
and establish justice in the gate;

...

²⁴But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

To a voice crying out in the wildernesss of an unjust State, Let Justice flow like rivers, to the judges in power, to the attorneys and the police force, let righteousness reign like an ever flowing stream. I am in support of all non-violent resistance, let America hear us.

As the Great St. Martin Luther King once said:

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. [1]

Many thanks to: http://vegannramember.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/we-are-all-sean-bellnypd-go-to-hell

for the pictures.

All Bible Quotes taken from NRSV translation.

The Yahoo News Website Link:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting

[1] Steve Mount Presents: Martin Luther King Jr. "The I Have a Dream Speech" USConstitution.net. 14 Jan. 2008. http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html 05 May 2008.

Currently, there is only a ban on "off-premises" sales of alcohol (i.e. you can't go to the local store and pick up a 6-pack of beer), but you can go down to the bar and get a beer while watching the Sunday afternoon Braves game.  Ok, so you can go drive down to the bar, drink alcohol, and then drive back to your home after consuming alcohol rather than being allowed to pick up a 6-pack from the local store and enjoying it in the privacy of your own home?  Does anyone see a problem with this?

At the least, there is a seeming issue of safety.  Are our leaders saying that it is safer to consume alcohol in a bar and drive back home rather than allowing a man to buy alcohol from a store to drink in his own home?  Where is the logic in that?  Consistency is the key on this issue.  If you're going to say that there are ramifications to the sale of alcohol on Sundays, then ban all alcohol sales on Sunday.  This would show that at least our leaders aren't speaking out of both sides of their mouth.

As a Republican, I believe in pushing the power as far down as it can go.  Why doesn't the our Republican legislature and Governor allow people of Georgia to make up their own minds?  I believe the best thing to do is practice what we preach.  If we, as Republicans, preach in the value of the individual and individual liberties, then we need to allow individuals to have the power to choose for themselves.

The Republican leaders in Georgia need to let the people decide!

Patti Smith: Dream of Life as An American Experience

Patti Smith: The Early Years

Patti Smith was born in Chicago in 1948 and grew up in Woodbury, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, Patti did a brief stint as a factory worker, which convinced her to move to New York City to pursue a life in the arts. Soon after her arrival, she connected with the young photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whom she met while working at a book store. This was a close friendship that she maintained until his death in 1989. In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started doing performance art. When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in The Chelsea Hotel with Mapplethorpe, and they began frequenting the then fashionable Max's Kansas City and CBGB nightclubs.

Audio: Bob Dylan/Farewell

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She helped put New York's punk-rock landmark CBGB on the map, at a time when New York's East Village was becoming a burgeoning center of experimental artistic creativity. She organized The Patti Smith Group and in 1975 released her debut album, Horses, to critical acclaim. Produced by John Cale, the album was described as an original mixture of exhortatory rock & roll, Smith's poetry, vocal mannerisms inspired by Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison, and the band's energetically rudimentary playing. In 1976, Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas oversaw the Patti Smith Group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, and the result was a more bombastic guitar-heavy record, tempered by the title cut, the height of Smith's improvised free rock.

Grief and Mourning

After an almost nine-year hiatus, Smith returned to recording with the 1988 album Dream of Life, the work of a more mellow, but still rebellious songwriter. Smith's comeback album was co-produced by her husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith, with songs that included her call-to-arms, People Have the Power.

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In 1994, her husband died of a heart attack at age 45. A month later, her younger brother (and former road manager), Todd, also died of a heart attack. Her longtime friend Robert Mapplethorpe had already died of AIDS in 1989. Determined to carry on as a tribute to the encouragement her husband and brother had shown her before their passing, Smith performed a string of opening dates with Bob Dylan in late 1995 and issued the intensely personal Gone Again in 1996. The album offered a potent mix of songs about mourning and rebirth, reflecting Smith's belief that the beauty of life survives death.

Dream of Life: A Film Finds a Rocker's Heart

But another eight years would pass before her second artistic comeback, marked by a trio of acclaimed albums released in quick succession, which found her fighting her way out of a period of intense personal grief stemming from the loss of several of the most important people in her life. The documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

What is it like to make a documentary about Patti Smith, the godmother of punk, once all spatter and spit, and the documentary were a different project: not a nostalgia act, but an exploration of real things, like art and family and loss, and not the romantic death found in a rock-and-roll lyric, but the literal kind, the kind that took Smith's husband away?

William Booth published a very thoughtful article about Patti Smith and the making of Patti Smith: Dream of Life in yesterday's edition of The Washington Post:

"You might have something like Steven Sebring's "Patti Smith: Dream of Life," a collaboration between an exceptionally tenacious fashion photographer and his subject, who is now 61 years old and trying to sort it all out. "I was never interested in a rockumentary or a behind-the-scenes thing. I have no interest in that," says Smith of the film, which premiered at Sundance in January and will be shown this Friday at Filmfest DC with guest appearances by Smith and Sebring. Next year the documentary will air on PBS.

Smith met Sebring for a photo shoot for Spin magazine in 1995, just as Smith was coming back into the public sphere after a long hiatus from performing. During the years of her retreat to the suburbs of Detroit, she saw the deaths of her close friend and muse, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe; her pianist, Richard Sohl; her husband, the musician Fred "Sonic" Smith of MC5; and her brother Todd. "Just year after year, month after month, of loss," Smith says. "I was pretty shattered as a human being and I had the responsibility of two young children and I had to really start over again. The movie is really about experiencing joy in life in the saddest of times."

Sebring, alone, without a crew, filmed Smith for 11 years, using available light, and the photography is often quite beautiful by itself, a lovely home movie. The result is a collage that is intimate, arty, pretentious, and a very respectful work by a documentarian who is open about his enthusiasms. "They call her the punk poet prophet," Sebring says. "I feel like one of her soldiers, one of her messengers."

Smith was never a traditional pop star. She had only one big hit, the song "Because the Night," which she wrote with Bruce Springsteen. But beginning with her debut album, "Horses," released in 1975, she created a raw, stripped-down garage sound that combined spoken words, screamed words and three chords per song. Her downtown music, and her style as the androgynous boho in a Bob Dylan pose, has been cited as an influence by bands such as U2 and R.E.M. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, the organization praising "the delirious release of an inspired amateur who knew her voice conveyed more honest passion than any note-perfect rock professional." The French minister of culture named her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Literature.

When Smith was a teenager she worked in a factory and dropped out of college. She was like Juno before the movie "Juno," a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption. She made enough money to move to New York and found her home in the Chelsea Hotel, which in 1970 housed William S. Burroughs, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard, Robbert Mapplethorpe and some of the Warhol crowd.

"So many of my mentors were quite a bit older than me," Smith says. "In my early 20s, I met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, and I was very privileged to meet these people and learn from them. You forget about age if you're creatively engaged. A lot of it is being engaged. It can be manual labor. Charting the stars, sweeping the streets, it doesn't have to be the arts."

Later, Smith says, "If you live long enough, you're a little old lady with your memories." We mention that we like the idea of revisiting our aging pop stars, if they still have something to say. Is it possible they may even grow more interesting as they age? Smith says, "Well, I'm always looking forward. As a mother, you hope for a good future, a good future for your children. And as an artist, always looking toward the next poem, the next song, the next film, the next idea. It's what the imagination is for. I remember talking to Gregory Corso before he died." Corso was a founding member of the Beat generation of writers. "Because he was so fearless. I asked, 'Gregory, aren't you afraid?' 'Only one thing,' he said. 'I'm afraid of the collapse of the imagination.' That's something I think about every single day."

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Patti Smith: Dream of Life (Trailer)

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Anyway, I did this design for a t-shirt contest sponsored by Metropark and OBEY. The challenge was to make a shirt in the spirit of OBEY and Shepard Fairey's work and be a cool t-shirt that could actually be produced and sold. So, I fell into the trap of entering the contest, as I always do, even though there are a few others out there that are pretty good as well. HOWEVER, I actually made a shirt that I would wear, and with your help, that could actually happen. So, please visit my design and vote for it (I think you vote by clicking on the Ms below the design description; the more Ms, the higher the vote. Thanks again, and spread the word.

(Curtis Mayfield - Power To The People)

yep it's time for Curtis. one of the undisputed, hardest hitting social commentators to have graced us with his presence. as usual his lyrics are clear and concise and leave no room for interpretation.

regulars will know how much Curtis means to themusicologist and I could never sing his praises loud enough.

so i'll leave it to the man himself to lay it on you...for me Curtis has always spoken for the oppressed whatever colour, race or creed and his message has always transcended those enforced divisions.

pucker tune that says it all.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/119091

However, in one instance at least, they are fighting for OUR rights. Our right to privacy from Government spying. Now I have nothing to hide, but it makes me very uncomfortable to know that my email, my phone conversations, and any place I visit on the web are being data-mined by the NSA. I don't visit porn sites, don't visit terrorist sites, etc. So why would they be interested in viewing all that I do? It just isn't right!

So when I received an email from the ACLU telling me that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case the ACLU had brought against the NSA, it just makes me mad. How dare they continue to defy the Constitution of the United States of America?

SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO REVIEW WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING CASE

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the ACLU's petition
asking it to hear ACLU v. NSA, our case against the Bush
administration's warrantless wiretapping program. The ACLU filed this case two years ago to put an end to government spying on innocent Americans through National Security Agency surveillance.

From the start, the government's argument has been that the case should be dismissed under the state secrets privilege, but that did not convince the district court in Michigan, which ruled that the NSA's program is unconstitutional and should be stopped. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, however, asserted that our plaintiffs could not prove their communications had been tapped and dismissed the case.

Now, I hate to point out the obvious, but data-mining with nothing more than words and phrases for the keys to look for opens us all up to this farce. How the Supreme Court can't or won't see this is beyond me.

From the inception of the Bush administration we have seen one good boy after the other nominated for key jobs to support Bush. Is it any wonder then that We the People should find it hard to get a fair deal by these days?

NPR has this to say about the whole affair:

NSA Wiretapping: The Legal Debate
by Maria Godoy

Lawmakers, legal scholars and civil libertarians have raised fundamental questions about the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping within the United States.

President Bush authorized the taps on domestic phone calls and e-mails shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But the program remained secret until last December. Since then, the Bush administration has offered legal justifications for the surveillance that rest on two principal assertions. First, administration officials argue that the Constitution gives the president inherent powers to authorize warrantless wiretaps to protect national security. Second, they assert that Congress gave the president that power when, three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, it authorized him to use "all necessary and appropriate military force" against al Qaeda.

Now, I'm still wondering WHY Bush is spying on US Citizens. If he is looking for terrorists, shouldn't he be looking for specific groups and people, NOT any and ALL U. S. Citizens??? As far as I am concerned this is just more of the same that Hitler did only Hitler didn't have the internet. The Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America 5th Amendment states:

AMENDMENT IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Now what part of this isn't clear to President Bush and company? It is clear to me that each and every Citizen aught to have a COPY ON HAND of the Constitution of the United States as well as the Bill of Rights. That each and every person here should be right on top of the Senate and Congress as to what laws they are debating and passing.

I want to know HOW there can be any question as to the legality of what Bush is doing? I want to know why he is still President and Dick Cheney Vice President? I want to know why Congress and the Senate aren't abiding their Oaths of Office and protecting the very people who elected them to their offices? Inquiring minds what to know........

~Kryptikos

Psalms 119:66 "Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I believe in your commands. "

This is what the world looked like in the 1970's.  You'll notice that the brotha's and the sistah's and the brothers and the sisters and the hermanos and hermanas are all dancing together.  This is the moment when Second Wave feminism came to my Junior High.  Just like Caroline Kennedy's.  I can't imagine that it was any different back east than it was out here, no?

It was also the time of a convergence of various movements.  Black Power, Chicano Power and Feminism.

Girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school then, did you know that?  We had to fight for that right by petitioning our schools.  We won.  We wore embroidered Levi's that we made ourselves, not the fake jeans you see now with machine embroidery.  Our older sisters were working on Roe v. Wade.  Remember?

I don't want to hear any lies about how we all didn't dance together once, because we did.

Santana, Al Green, Barry White, Aretha, Chicago?

Here is what is wrong with this particular election.  All these groups who once were brothers and sisters, all these groups who once danced together have fractured apart.

It disgusts me to hear Hillary Clinton accused of "pimping" her daughter Chelsea on TV.  Sickens me.

It's just as bad to read this, from "Something Within" about Maya Angelou being called a "ho."

http://www.somethingwithin.com/blog/?cat=58

You'll really want to read to the last paragraph, because that's my question too.

What a disgusting culture we live in now, isn't it?  I never thought I'd see the day that "racism" would rear its head again, but that day is here.  I'm seeing it towards white people, black people and worst of all Latinos.  I never thought I'd see the day in this country that people were going to be deported.

We live in times of utter cruelty and vulgarity.  Can you imagine what the rest of the world thinks of us?

The reason that I want Hillary Clinton to win is because I know she remembers the better, gentler times that used to be.  She remembers the fight to even be able to wear pants and the struggles of women of all colors.  That's probably why she said "I'll wear the pantsuits..." once she is the president.  Like me, she is going to understand the complexity of all the issues at hand because we are women, and we think differently.  Not like some cheap male newscaster trying to bash her daughter down in a thinly veiled attempt to hurt Hillary.

Today in the Los Angeles Times there is an op-ed by Meghan Daum called "Chelsea's rant control."

A worthier read is Robin Morgan's essay which you can find here at womenspace in wordpress.

http://womensspace.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/good-bye-to-all-that-part-ii-by-robin-morgan/

or here, from the Women's Media Center.

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/020108.html

In the days of the picture above people thought about how they could help others.  They had a slogan then, and it was "Power to the People" -- this meant all people.  That's why their hands are raised.  That's the gesture that they made then.

Which candidate cares more about the people as a whole?  I think that's Hillary Clinton.  She does have a proven record, doesn't she? We should be very proud of both Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea right now.  We should be proud of who we were as tail end Baby Boomers, who knew how to dance together once.

If you want to know about feminism, watch the film "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants."

That is a great way to learn about Second-Wave feminists.  Heterosexual feminists.  My generation got married, got divorced, raised children alone, suffered domestic violence, had abortions.  Unlike the Third-Wave, we didn't believe in stripping to pay our way through college.  Most of us would have shuddered at that thought.

Little sisters, you have a long, long way to go.  You'll find out.  But know, you always have bigger sisters watching.  There are a lot of us right now, and we come in all different colors.

I'll bet you are going to see the Second-Wave start stepping forth about now.  We have a lot to say.

It's just sad how we splintered isn't it?  Remember what you fought for, once.

Remember when we could call ourselves friends.