I found this video via James Wolcott by way of Al Giordano. What this video shows is college students no longer taking the thuggish Tom Delay brand of Republican redistricting abuse of power:
Texas Republicans have worked overtime to make it harder for key Democratic voting groups to vote and be represented fairly. The redistricting games they’ve played are infamous. And for the Prairie View A&M University precincts, they put the early-polling place more than seven miles from the school.
So what did the students in this video do? They shut down the highway as they marched seven miles to cast their votes on the first day of early voting.
This sentiment was inspired by a diary on Booman Tribune that I read...
For all of its sturm und drang... does the progressive blogosphere actually have a concrete declaration of sentiments and aims put together? Not necessarily a "platform" -- just a simple, articulable manifesto?
For the last four or five years, the blogosphere has been nauseatingly crammed with talk about "movements" -- either of bloggers, of political parties, or of candidates -- and yet, when you ask about where the manifestos for these movements are, all you get is a blank look.
"We're having a conference in New York," someone will say to you.
Great. When will the manifesto be presented?
"We're having breakaway working groups. You can sign up for as many as you want. And then, the keynote event will be an address by [insert famous politician name here]."
