OKC council rejects Indigenous People’s Day proposal for second year
For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma City city council has failed to pass a popular initiative to name the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day, as has been …
Question for the Oklahoman re 'What About Islam?'
This is an ad that was on page 5A of today’s paper. I wonder how much The Oklahoman charged and profited to print this piece of garbage. Yeah, I wonder …
Dangerous memories
I came across an interesting “diary” blog post at Booman Tribune, one of the sites I read daily, about a memory Rosa Parks recalled of an experience she had at …
Oklahoma Political News Roundup
Grassroots power. The Oklahoma Democratic Party is trying to keep funding the staff people that were part of Howard Dean’s 50-state grassroots party-building strategy. That program is being laid down, …
Activist-singer Miriam Makeba passes away
In 1963 (a year after Nelson Mandela was imprisoned), she testified before the UN and asked them to intervene, give black South Africans rights in their own country, release political …
Studs Terkel interview with Mary Owsley and Peggy Terry about Oklahoma City during the depression
Just by chance today I caught This American Life program on NPR when they were noting the recent passing of Studs Terkel by playing a few of the pieces from …
Urgent: Take Action Now to Stop Racist Voter Suppression
Sign the online petition at http://www.iacenter.org/stopvotersuppression Online Petition Text: To: President Bush, Senator McCain, Governor Palin, Attorney General Mukasey, Governors of Key States, Congressional and Republican Party leaders and members …
Election watch: Protect your vote
This is a followup to my post “Following the elections online” from back in September. x EdgeDriven_Widget(“?method=getswf&pid=111111111170&iid=0122542458282&width=480&height=348”,0122542458282,480,348); This video is from from Color of Change, an inspiring grassroots group based …
Something you (probably) don't know about the late Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (1923 – 2008) passed away at his home on Saturday. I wasn’t a fan of Charlton Heston the actor. I didn’t agree with his stance on gun rights. …