Category Archives: Campaign ’08

Managing Despair

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Cam Hassard

By Jeanne Treadway from Next World Stories, published in January 2009. FOR MORE THAN 20 years I’ve relied on three musical traditions to carry me through the ferociously maniacal holidays. On Thanksgiving, Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacree makes me laugh … Continue reading →

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Flashpoint

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Eric Francis

“Only humans have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They don’t use their brains, and they have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, or their dreams. They don’t use the knowledge … Continue reading →

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Individual and collective growth, here and now

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Eric Francis

Revised. Non-collige virgo rosas. Good Morning, The Moon is in Cancer now, making a sextile to the Taurus Sun today. This water-to-earth combination should provide a little relief over yesterday’s scattered mental energy of the Gemini Moon with so many … Continue reading →

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Bittersweet: Yes on Obama, Yes on Prop 8

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Rachel Asher

Editor’s Note: The following article was written by Rahmana Finney in San Francisco, one of our new and vibrant additions to the Planet Waves staff. Below, she weighs in on Obama, race and Prop. 8. –RA Dear Friend and Reader, … Continue reading →

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Stepping Backwards: Three States Ban Same-sex Marriage

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Rachel Asher

Dear Friend and Reader, YESTERDAY, AS THE election results rolled in, Eric wrote that we have a long struggle ahead, a massive clean-up job after close to a decade of President Bush. He’s right, and as hundreds of electoral votes … Continue reading →

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In my neighborhood…

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Eric Francis

Fast check-in… I live and work in Kingston, a city of 23,000 in the hills north of the big city. Kingston is the county seat, so all the campaigns have their offices here. The Republicans are right downstairs from my … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Sarah Palin: Thanks for the Memories

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Rachel Asher

Obama won in Ohio — it’s all over folks. Here’s a farewell tribute to Sarah Palin:

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Bush: God’s gift to Democracy

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Eric Francis

It is true, we’ve paid a high cost for this level of participation…and the soldiers and families in Iraq who continue to be the last people to die for a lie — in the immortal words of John Kerry — have really paid that price. We have sacrificed civil liberties, $6 trillion in debt, and a government structure that is basically gutted, pillaged and ravaged; a banking structure that remains on the brink of collapse; we have a lot of ideologue judges injected throughout the federal courts, and John Alito and John Roberts on the Supreme Court for the next decade or so…whose decisions will affect countless millions of lives. Continue reading →

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This Just In!

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Eric Francis

Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President

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Brother, beware! Obama wants your closet, too.

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Rachel Asher

Editor’s note: the following piece was written by Shanna Philipson. –RA Brother, beware! Obama wants your closet, too. Before you cast your vote for Obama, you may want to consider his views on your pants. That’s right: Obama wants you … Continue reading →

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