Protests & Celebrities

Tomorrow at 9:30 AM there will be a protest at the BLM's office in Salt Lake City (440 W. 200 S.). The protest is over what we've been so upset over for the past few weeks: the BLM in cahoots with the Bush administration, selling land to oil companies. Double boo. PLEASE GO AND SUPPORT THIS PROTEST! CJ and I are tragically stuck in Sacramento this time around, and can't make it...so please go for me! For some reason (which I know, but you don't) I really want to plea for all the women I know to go to this. Read this blog post, and then help me start a storm!

On Wednesday Robert Redford (who I previously had a little animostiy towards for commercializing the Sundance area, but now I guess we'll be friends) lent his star-power and is joining our fight.
"These lands are not Cheney and Bush's, they're ours," Redford said via satellite from Los Angeles during a media briefing at the National Press Club in Washington. "There's so much deception, so much sleight of hand here. ... So, I say: Stop it. Enough is enough."
See the rest of the story here.

Fundraiser/Protest Update

Thanks to everyone who came to our fundraiser and donated to SUWA. Hopefully you got some good gear out of your donation. We had so much gear donated! Companies were really generous. I was amazed! This was all really encouraging: it made me realize that we CAN make a difference. We put this together in just one week! We raised more awareness and some money for a cause we really believe in. It all started with group of friends in a living room complaining about something, and deciding to actually DO something.

Earlier that day, Friday, our group, Visual Cacophony, had a little protest/demonstration outside the BLM office in Salt Lake City. Everyone poured black paint, representing oil, over Hasenpfeffer who was sitting in front of our sign "drill something else." Lots of people have made comments about how "stupid" we were for doing this. But what they fail to see is two things: 1) This "stunt" got our issue on the front page, rather than somewhere lost in the depths of the newspaper, and 2) This kind of thing is really fun to do/put together/participate in. People need to have more fun with things, and stop taking themselves so seriously, yes? Read about it here.

Friday Issue Round Up-Issue 1: Protest

Two weeks from today, on December 19th, there will be a protest at the BLM Salt Lake City office. What are we protesting? The auction of land in southern Utah. The BLM has recalled some of the RPM's, but we want the land auctions delayed so that there can be more analysis on the land. Most of all, we want the land to be free of drilling, oil shale, and tar sands.

I have pictures here of women suffragates protesting, why? Because we respect the women suffragates, and what they did for us. We see them as noble. Today, thanks to the hippie movement, people often think of protests as something for those who are "crazy." Protests are for all of us...it is our duty as citizens.

"All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." -Declaration of Independence

Basically, it is our DUTY to protest when the government infringes on our rights. I do not want the government to misuse this beautiful earth that is here for us to enjoy and to be stewards over. My soapbox: stop buying things you don't need, stop throwing away things that aren't broken, stop developing new homes (re-model instead), live close to all your shopping needs so you don't have to drive your car so much (and invest in one of these if you have kids).

SEE YOU AT THE PROTEST DECEMBER 19TH AT THE BLM SALT LAKE CITY OFFICE (time will be posted later).