April 9, 2008
Voting Rights March Called Off; Tax Day Protest On
Around this time last year, we were ramping up for the Voting Rights March, an event that eventually brought thousands to the streets of the District to demand that Congress act on legislation granting the city a voting seat in the House of Representatives. Unfortunately, this year we won't be repeating.
The march, which was scheduled on April 16 to coincide with the District's Emancipation Day, was canceled in late March when it became obvious that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the city would make the logistics pretty near impossible to handle. In fact, April 16 is the very day his holiness celebrates his birthday, and he'll be romping around town in the popemobile. We can only hope that he pulls a Dalai Lama and tells the faithful that an unmerciful God will strike them all down with arrows of fire if District residents don't get representation sometime soon.
Fortunately, the folks at D.C. Vote have informed us that they'll still be hosting their Tax Day Protest:
Next Tuesday, April 15 - "Taxed Without Representation" Day - join DC Vote staff, volunteers and activists as we educate citizens about our denial of voting rights and highlight taxation without representation in the nation’s capital. We will circulate postcards and a “wooden nickel” to Senate staffers and visitors to Capitol Hill.If you want to join in the fun, you can head to the Union Station Metro station from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Dirksen Senate Building from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., or the National Capitol Post Office from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
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I will be participating in the protest in my own way by leaving threatening notes on top of pieces of dog poo. Hopefully my elven cloak will protect me from prying eyes. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
[leaves note on poo]
They'll take this poop....FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.
Human beings do not survive on bread alone, you poor, soulless creature, but on the nourishments of liberty, for what indeed is a man without freedom? Naught but a mechanism trapped in the cog wheels of eternity.
Illogical maybe, but logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green.
The DC poobahs called off the Emancipation Day protest because they're all going to the the Pope's Birthday Dinner.