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MoveOn has a great tool for finding solidarity rallies near you here.

I’ll be at the one in Manhattan. I’m not especially recognizable but if I hear anyone singing “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria”, I’ll know it’s another BJer and if so, drinks are on me.

Consider this an open thread.

Update. Organizing DC area BJers here! (The correct email is whydirt not why dot dirt.)

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  1. 1.

    Little Boots

    awesome. It is so weird/wonderful to be in Madison right now, but it cannot do anything alone. glad to hear of this.

  4. 4.

    NickM

    Little Boots – can you describe a little what’s so weird/wonderful about Madison now, for those of us who are wishing they could be there?

  5. 5.

    RSR

    went out to the rally for labor in center city Philadelphia today; good crowd, rambunctious, feisty, and vowing it was a beginning of something bigger.

    There’s a rally for public schools outside the board of ed Fri afternoon at 4:00, and another labor rally here Saturday.

    Go, support, mobilize.

  6. 6.

    Mike Kay (Peacemaker)

    I wanna give a shout out to my new buddy and BFF, Glenn Greenwald (Yes, you read correctly).

    Last night, my dear friend Glenn went on MSNBC and hailed our President for his DOMA decision.

    This deserves enthusiastic, unqualified praise.

    The cynic might say this is a play to the base, but that’s really not true because gays have been satisfied by the repeal of DADT, and DOMA is not an item high up on their list.

    Still, right wing groups hate gays and especially gay marriage and they use it to drive up turnout.

    So this action involves a fair amount of political risk, with very little political benefit.

    This is momentous and will lead to removing a grave injustice.

    In earlier times, Glenn has called me a “cultist”, a “North Korean Communist”, a “robot”, and a “Nazi”. No, really.

    Yet, the Bible tells us “the wolf will lie down with the lamb, and a small boy will lead them”.

    Yes, this gifted President, only 2 years and 2 months in office (time flies, doesn’t it), has united the Big Pragmatic Wolf and the Libertarian Lamb.

    If only for this detente, President Obama has richly earned his Nobel Peace Prize.

  8. 8.

    Mike Kay (Peacemaker)

    oops, actually only 2 years and 1 month in office.

    Seems like so much more, doesn’t it.

  10. 10.

    Nicole

    I’ll be sorry to miss you, Doug. Normally I’d be in NYC but I’m visiting the parental units this weekend. I’ll try to take pictures at the rally I’ll go to in PA.

  15. 15.

    Little Boots

    @NickM:

    sorry, just meant that it’s not usually the center of anything huge. I love it, but we’re not exactly discussed morning noon and night on progressive radio or MSNBC generally. That’s really all I was talking about. The mood is terrific at the capital. Huge, loud crowds, lots of college kids as well as union members of course, huge anger at the assclown, but never a hint of violence. And the pizzas. That’s just such a funny thing. People calling in from all over, including Egypt, to have pizzas from this one place downtown delivered to demonstrators.

  16. 16.

    suzanne

    Hmmm, this looks like something I may have to check out. Though I might need to spend the weekend in bed. I’m exhausted.

    I had a job interview today. I think I aced it. Interviewer discussed salary and benefits with me, and called my portfolio “beautiful”.

  17. 17.

    Little Boots

    and college kids have been sleeping at the capital, so they don’t close it. I understand some elected officials are sleeping there tonight.

  19. 19.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    I’m not especially recognizable

    I have my BJ t-shirt. If we wonder too far away from home on saturday into the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I wear my shirt in hopes that someone will recognize it. So far, no luck.

  21. 21.

    Warren Terra

    If I get up on Saturday (something I’m not known for) and go into the city (which I never do), I might go to the one in LA.

  22. 22.

    Mike Kay (Peacemaker)

    @jwb: You won’t hear me say anything negative about my comrade, Glenn.

    I only wish FDL had Glenn’s class. Unlike Glenn, they engaged in Rick Santorum language, saying DOMA was a “bone”, which by transitive property makes the beneficiaries of the act, “dogs”.

    There’s something sick about people who hate Obama so much that they not only denigrate any significant progressive accomplishment (like they did on DADT), but they also trash the underlying aggrieved party.

    With so called progressives like that, who needs wingers.

  23. 23.

    The Dangerman

    Listened to O’Reilly tonight; even he was saying that the stripping of collective bargaining was going to far. Shit, if you’ve lost O’Reilly…

    …then again, he was advocating using the U.S. Military to go in and take out Gaddafi (as if we know where he is). Given how stupid that would be, I guess he could only bat .500 tonight.

  27. 27.

    Michael Bersin

    I plan on covering the noon rally in Jefferson City on Saturday for Show Me Progress, weather permitting and the creek don’t rise.

    Teabaggers are planning a rally in the same location at 10:30 am:

    On this Saturday the 26th of February the communist organization moveon.org is organizing a rally in Jefferson City to support destroying our nation through deeper debt in the name of “protecting the working man”.

    It is very, very important that you and I, the true lovers of freedom and liberty, step up to the plate and let our voices be heard! We are tired of having our government being hijacked by a small minority! We are tired of the middle class always having to pay for the unions’ demands of higher and higher wages, which they continue to demand even though those wages and benefits are 2 or 3 times higher than that of the private sector or fair market value! We want to STOP driving ourselves and our posterity into crushing debt just because some people refuse to tighten their belts!….

    I thought accusing someone of being a communist went out with high button shoes. Evidently not for fascists.

  28. 28.

    dadanarchist

    My pipes aren’t too good so I’m not sure I’ll be singing Bernstein – but I should be there, hopefully with a contingent of Rutgers folks.

  32. 32.

    The Moar You Know

    I will be at the rally in San Diego. Suit and tie. The media will be throwing the DFH meme hard at those protesting and I wish to give them as little traction as possible.

    Please join us for a community-wide
    “We Are One” Rally
    Saturday, February 26th at 12 noon
    County Administration Building
    1600 Pacific Highway (on the west side / bay side)
    Contact the Labor Council at (619) 228-8101 or [email protected] with questions or to RSVP!

  33. 33.

    JCJ

    @Doug Hill:
    I looked at cafepress yesterday to get a Tunch poster but did not see it. I will be in Madison Saturday and probably next weekend so I wanted to get a poster. Are they still around?

  35. 35.

    kideni

    @Little Boots: Union people have been sleeping over too this week (was it one of the Teamster leaders who said “last night we slept with you in the Capitol” and then kind of stammered?). And everyone cleans up after themselves. To protect the marble walls, only the proper tape is used. You see people with kids, people with dogs, people in their 90s, ex-Republicans. It’s incredibly distracting to have all this going on in my little city. It’s absolutely wonderful.

  36. 36.

    Little Boots

    @kideni:

    Didn’t hear that, but yeah, it makes sense. And yes, it’s so Wisconsin, people are so conscientious about cleaning up and protecting the Capitol. (By the way, I still think we have the most beautiful capitol in the country. It’s nice to see so many taking care of it.)

  39. 39.

    General Stuck

    Though I’ve never set foot in WI, it seems Madison has long been a relatively enlightened liberal island for a long time.

    Just reewatched a doc called Two DAys In October, from the Vietnam era, where Madison was one of the first towns, or college campuses of U. of Wi that had a serious confrontational war demonstration. And on the same day, there was a battle in Vietnam where a couple of companies of Army infantry got massacred in an ambush by the NVA. Based on the book They Marched Into Sunlight by DAvid Marranis

  40. 40.

    PurpleGirl

    Doug Hill — I may be at the rally on Saturday at City Hall Park/250 Broadway. But I don’t have much of a singing voice.

  42. 42.

    Little Boots

    @General Stuck:

    yes definitely, the old conservative joke: Madison is 60 square miles surrounded by reality. We’re Austin, Ann Arbor, whatever. the liberal enclave in the midst of a more conservative (but really purple) state. And one of our biggest 60’s activists, Paul Soglin, may well be our mayor again. He’ll be in a runoff election with our current mayor.

  43. 43.

    JonathanW

    ***ATTENTION DC AREA BALLOON JUICERS***

    I’m rounding up my friends to attend the rally at Dupont Circle on Saturday and you are more than welcome to join me if you feel intimidated or just want some people to hang out with.

    Email me at why dot dirt at yahoo if you’re interested!

  47. 47.

    4jkb4ia

    I suppose they had to get people to Jefferson City somehow, and if I couldn’t go to see Obama at the Arch I couldn’t go to this, but it is ridiculous that there is nothing in St. Louis. What happened to all the old Gephardt people?

  48. 48.

    4jkb4ia

    Come on, Mike Kay, that was in quotes, after “You could say that…” It is almost as if bmaz was anticipating the stereotype of FDL. bmaz’s post was unqualified praise for any fairminded person. Good to see you back anyway.

  50. 50.

    Tonal Crow

    I’m going! Someone’s got to represent family Corvidae, after all, and my sort-of-twin Nagual Crow never goes out in any recognizable form.

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