There’ll be a live webcast of today’s rally events, starting at 10 AM EST.

Speaker List

Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Representative John Conyers (D-MI)
Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)

Greg Proops of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union
Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Reverend Rich Killmer, Executive Director, National Religious
      Campaign Against Torture
Sister Diana Ortiz, Executive Director, Torture Abolition and Survivors
      Support Coalition International and torture survivor

Reverend Dr. Charles E. Gutenson, Associate Professor of
      Philosophical Theology, Asbury Theological Seminary
Dr. Ingrid Matson, Islamic Society of North America
Rabbi Gerrald Serotta, Temple Shalom
Bishop Walter Sullivan, Catholic Diocese of Richmond (Ret.)

Frowning mightily on all audio/visual webcasting as my employer does –whenever I get even close to one my monitor instantly displays the official corporate Screaming Red Warning Scold Screen of Excessive Naughtiness–  I’m not going to be able to watch this today, but I’ll be there in spirit. 

I also want to point out, not insignificantly,  that my oldest son is there,  in the flesh, so when you’re watching the webcast today keep an eye out for the exceptionally handsome young 6′3″ Nordic man-god in the Minnesota delegation 

..and I’m not just sayin that cuz I’m his (very proud) mom.  Really. 

UPDATE: 

To read more about Habeas, the Military Commissions Act, and today’s rally on Capitol Hill…

firedoglake:  Bending Congressional Ears

TalkLeft:  Two Views on Guantanamo:  Which Is Yours?

Carpetbagger Report:  No one is working ‘on behalf of enemy fighters’

 

   

  

 

Posted: June 26th, 2007 under ACLU, Habeas Corpus, Law.
Comments: none

Letters, we get letters…
Well, email anyway, altho these days I kinda wonder why. For as often as I’ve posted anything this month, I might as well not have a blog at all. But then, I have been feeling the need for a break from the thing. I’m sick of it. I have nothing to say; nothing to add. Most of all, tho, I’m staying away from the blog because it feels like my real (ie, offline) life is careening into the future without me and I better start paying attention before it vanishes over the horizon.

So there I was just MMOB over the weekend: staying indoors (it’s been too damn hot); re-potting my office plants; doing laundry; shovelling out Kid 2’s room while he’s away (on Friday he left for three weeks in Japan). And then on Sunday I got this email:

I’m a PhD student from the English Dept, at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. I specialise in feminist theory, and am researching the effect that new technologies have had on gender and language.
One of my favourite areas of research is blogs, and I’ve been asked to present some of my work at the
20th Annual Feminist & Women’s Studies Association conference at Newcastle, UK.

(You can find me in the programme if you’d like to check that I’m for real!).

I did do that, altho I really wasn’t too much in doubt about her reality. Scroll down to Session Six on Saturday June 30th.

Anyway, I recently found a great image related to women and blogging online in the Obsidian Wings blog, which the blogger credits to you. (pls see March 29th post)

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/03/index.html

I would love to use this image as the introduction to my presentation, and would be very grateful if you would give me permission to use it. I would, of course, credit you in my presentation. Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you need to know any more about my research.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Katherine Harrison

Well that’s pretty neato. Of course I told her to go ahead and use it and with my blessing. I’m amazed at how those She Blogger pictures keep turning up every so often and ever- farther afield, two years after I created them for Elayne Riggs and her great series Estrogen Month, spotlighting women bloggers.

The conference sounds terrific; wish I could be there. All good wishes to Ms. Harrison and good luck with her presentation. I’m proud to be a part of it, however fleeting.

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20th Annual Feminist & Women’s Studies Association conference

Newcastle, UK, June 28 thru July 1, 2007

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Click on the image to see the full version:

The ur-She Blogger.

Beware the link-hungry hussies of Blog Island.

Link this, varmint.

We promise we won’t give you girl-cooties. Unless you want some.

That question again…

Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Feminism, She Blogger.
Comments: 4

Humphrey uttered many a pithy, punchy statement in his day.

Here’s another good one:

“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”

And another:

“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation — emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination… from poverty.”

Read more here.

Those and more here.

Posted: June 8th, 2007 under General, Hubert H Humphrey.
Comments: 1