go to a protest

My friend and I went along with this larger group , all related/hosted by O.C human relations and other coalitions up in North Cal., to protest the budget cuts for schools all over california. We hopped on a charter bus around 11 pm in Long Beach, stopped only for a half hour in some town around 2 am, arrived to Sacramento at 6 am. The rally/protest went really well, had a lot of people attend. The only thing that sucked was the heat. Schwarzenegger never came out, he was hiding in his office.
There were some people protesting us, a bunch of fundamentalist christians saying public school causes “gay ness, pregnancy and drug abuse” among other things.
I was prancing around them and just bugging hte hell out of them. Mwahahahahaha.

So, it’s fun. Go to a protest. You’ll feel you did something.

A tribute to the Songs of Protest, Dissent and Electoral Dysfunction. Thirty bands, twelve hours. All local musicians.

They played some good original tunes as well as some of the most famous protest songs, like Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth, and What’s So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding, which of course the cooler of the two Elvises made popular. And naturally, some John Lennon and Woody Guthrie.

Not any violent sort of protest at all, just a bunch of old hippies mixing with the younger generations, singing along to the folkier tunes or rocking out to the harder ones. I was so tired afterward, I slept twelve hours straight through.

Best slogan I saw: “Ban Republican Marriage.”

Something very cool planned for tomorrow! I’ll update more afterward. I don’t really like to advertise my whereabouts ahead of time in case I have any local stalkers.

for something worthwhile.
preferably environmental issue :)