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December 02, 2005
Protest at Cheney-Delay Fundraiser - Monday 12/5
Or as I prefer to call it, Fun with Dick & Tom.
Dick Cheney will be speaking at a fundraiser for this country's most corrupt politician, Tom Delay at the Westin Oaks on Monday evening. Join us to demonstrate against everything that is wrong with their abuses of power - from corruption to war mongering and corporatism. See below the fold for more information.
Protest at Cheney-Delay Fundraiser
Format for printingStart: Dec 5 2005 - 5:00pm
End: Dec 5 2005 - 7:00pm
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
We are pleased to inform you that a growing number of organizations and individuals are working together to organize a large, spirited, and peaceful protest against Cheney, DeLay, and their policies of war, repression, torture, and injustice.
The growing list of co-sponsors for this protest include:
- Code Pink
- Democracy for Houston
- Gold Star Families for Peace
- Houston Global Awareness Collective
- International Socialist Organization
- Military Families Speak Out, MoveOn
- Peace Action- Houston, Progressive Action Alliance
- Progressive Populist Caucus of the Texas Democratic Party
- Progressive Workers Organizing Committee, Veterans for Peace, and more.
We are united in our determination to send a loud, clear message of opposition to the war in Iraq; torture as a tool of foreign policy; the war against workers, immigrants, communities of color, women, and sexual minorities at home; the wanton corruption of the Bush Administration and Congressman Tom DeLay; Halliburton and war profiteering; and much more.
When
Monday, Dec. 5
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Give yourself extra time to deal with LOTS of traffic in the area.
Where
Outside Westin Oaks Hotel
Houston Galleria, 5011 Westheimer Rd., Houston 77056
map: http://tinyurl.com/94md5
We will assemble on the sidewalk along Westheimer near Galleria entrances 2 and 3. If the turnout is as large as we anticipate, we should be able to spread out along South Post Oak, south of Westheimer, too.
Please stay on the sidewalks. Don't stand in the Westheimer median. Don't block the sidewalk for pedestrians. Be careful to stay out of the street.
Details
Please bring signs, banners, costumes, masks, puppets, and flashlights! Shine your flashlight at our signs and costumes, not at cars.
We need lots of signs or T-shirts with BIG, EASY-TO-READ labelling. Think large, bold letters, with high contrast -- lighting will be poor after about 5:30.
We don't have a single, simple theme, but anything bringing attention to DeLay's and Cheney's corruption, indictments, and/or support of torture, the occupation of Iraq, and the war at home would be great.
We will have a sound permit, bullhorns, a video camera person, security volunteers, and a legal observer. More still and video photographers are needed.
Please post your best photos, and any stories you wish to write about this, to http://houston.indymedia.org/ afterwards.
Please let us know if your group would like to endorse the protest, if you can bring another video camera, or if you would like to help with security (to ensure that this is non-violent and to discourage interactions with any provocateurs or counter-demonstrators).
Please forward this announcement as widely as possible and contact us if you have questions or would like more information.
Contacts
- David from PWOC at (832) 692-2306
- John from BAND at (281) 486-5203
- Folko from ISO at (713) 775-2108
- Stan from VFP at 713-666-8444
- Bill from PAA at 713-641-4941
Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance and numerous others
Event Contact Name:
Bill
Event Phone Contact Information:
713-641-4941
Event Website:
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Comments
THANKS! For sharing this info with everyone.
The national office of the Democratic Party has also sent out its email notice on this event for us, as well!
MoveOn.Org has also signed on for this event along with many others...
This should be a LARGE gathering where everyone will be welcome to "shine the light" or flashlights on the "culture of corruption" that is personified by Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay.
Don't miss this one!
Posted by: Phillip McNutt at December 2, 2005 07:30 PM
I want to tell you a story.
Just a little over four years ago I caught wind of an anti-war protest that was supposed to happen on a Saturday afternoon. Nervous and just a little afraid, I decided I would go. I got in my car and drove to the meeting site. I parked my car a short distance away, in case I decided to remain anonymous and leave. I mustered my courage and walked into the assembled strangers.
The strangest thing happened to me. I began to cry. I don't exactly know why. It was one of those spontaneous things, an involuntary reaction. At the time, fire trucks made me cry in the same way. Maybe I was relieved to finally be doing something, however small; to voice my objections to what I believed was a disastrous reaction to a horribly unjust crime.
I stood side by side with these few brave individuals and we marched. We marched down the sidewalk past angry citizens and bewildered Latinos, but we marched. I marched.
I was (and am) a middle aged individual of waspish descent and I'd just made up my mind I was going to try and be big enough to do it on my own. And I did it. For the first time in months I actually felt better and a tiny bit more hopeful that some of us might be able to encourage the rest of us to make a noise and change our world.
I wanted to tell this story so that anyone out there who is nervous or afraid or making excuses for not showing up to a protest will know that, as with so many hard things, you just have to make up your mind, screw up your courage and come out and make yourself heard.
Barb Jones
Posted by: Barb Jones at December 5, 2005 08:57 AM