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Travels of a Dedicated Peace Monger
October 10, 2009
I am up late in Sweden after spending 5 days here speaking at seminars and doing interviews.
I am heading back to the U.S. tomorrow and after a stop in Albuquerque, I will head back to my home in California on Monday.
I
have been gone from the beautiful, yet broke, state of my birth for
over 3 weeks now. This trip hasn't been the longest one, or even most
grueling one, but it has been eventful!
I
left Sacramento Airport on Friday, September 18th early in the morning
to fly to Dallas. There I once again, for the umpteenth time, protested
George Bush at his Dallas home, with dozens of others, spoke at my
radio station's (Rational Radio) progressive forum (with Thom Hartmann
and David Swanson), and snuck into an event at Texas Stadium where
George Bush was speaking to young, impressionable students and barely
missed confronting him, but got my pic taken with war-supporter Roger
Staubach. Yep, that's a pic of Roger and Me!
I think he looks a little stunned, myself!
After
Dallas, I headed to the G20 protest, where I was hit by an LRAD (LONG
RANGE ACOUSTIC DEVICE), teargassed, and chased around Pittsburgh by US
Stormtroopers there to protect the globalists meeting at the Convention
Center from We the Peaceful. Pittsburgh showed me the actual and
potential brutality of the Police State.
I
was getting ready to go to Nevada to protest at the air force base from
where many drone bombing missions are controlled, when I came down with
some kind of yucky flu and had to go to the ER in Pittsburgh because I
was having trouble breathing...yes, I have no health insurance...and I
was trapped in a hotel room for 3 days before I felt strong enough to
head down and over to our nation's capital to participate in an
anti-economic sanctions conference. In my opinion, sanctions are a WMD,
and our Secretary of State has been threatening "crippling" ones
against Iran. Sort of like the sanctions against Iraq that kiled over
one million children and were "worth it" to Madam Madeline Allbright.
St.
Louis for a book event (Myth America), then back to the capital for an
anti-war rally, where I joined hundreds of others and read the
International People's Declaration of Peace
in front of the White House. Oh by the way, I also got arrested
(pictured above) after I chained myself to the fence with activist
Janine Boneparth from the Bay Area. So, hundreds of us protested the
future Nobel Peace Laureate and that makes me wonder what that makes
us? Anti-peace?
Anyway, here
I am in Sweden, late Saturday night missing my grandson and my children
and my dog and my cat and my own bed and looking forward to the birth
of my granddaughter at the end of this month (an event that I will be
present for).
Thank you for
your love and support. My supporters help me get through the tough
times and rejoice with me in the victories and the good times.
Now,
we are planning the most ambitious and bold peace action ever in
Washington DC beginning as soon as we have 5000 people sign up:
With a Nobel Peace Laureate as our President, I think it's time to strike while the iron is smoking hot!
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