[kj] FW: DON'T DESPAIR: Fwd: Best antidote to election gloom!

[cliffmonka at alaska.net]

haha this is too weird,well we actually drove by and saw this last weekend,people
protesting here in Anchorage..yer freaking me out,yer now talking bout where i live
on the gathering and the world's seeming really small.Fuck Plain and McNaci
CliffinAK


> That is fucking great! I hope they gas her like a badger!

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> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf

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> Sent: 18 September 2008 22:14

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> Subject: [kj] FW: DON'T DESPAIR: Fwd: Best antidote to election gloom!

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> [The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on

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> the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage.

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> Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a

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> statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or

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> men.  I had no idea what to expect.

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> The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over

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> coffee.  It made me wonder what other things have started with

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> small groups of women talking over coffee.  It's probably an

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> impressive list.  These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers,

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> posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.

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> One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a

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> long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host.  Turns out

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> that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the

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> people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-

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> killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the

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> organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell

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> them what they thought.  The women, of course, received some

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> nasty, harassing and threatening messages.

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> I felt a bit apprehensive.  I'd been disappointed before by the

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> turnout at other rallies.  Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get

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> 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to

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> myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent

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> by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have

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> been made.  I confess, I still had a mental image of 15

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> demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-

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> killing maggot" haters.

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> It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in

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> front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's

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> trunk.  When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign

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> wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the

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> edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep!  I could hardly find a place

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> to park.  I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and

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> as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join

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> in from every direction, carrying signs.

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> Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years

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> living in Anchorage.  The organizers had someone walk the rally

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> with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not

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> including the 90 counter-demonstrators).  This was the biggest

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> political rally ever, in the history of the state.  I was

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> absolutely stunned.  The second most amazing thing is how many

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> people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.  And even

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> those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge

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> crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.

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> Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up.  He tried to talk to the

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> media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who

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> started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then

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> passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the

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> Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs

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> high.

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> So, if you've been doing the math…  Yes.  The Alaska Women Reject

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> Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got

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> all the national media coverage!  So take heart, sit back, and

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> enjoy the photo gallery.  Feel free to spread the pictures around

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> to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does

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> not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her

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> best, have things to say.

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> A bunch of pictures of that rally:

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> I'm sorry--I don't know how to get the pictures into the body of the email.

> You'll have to open the attachments one by one--but they are worth it. I

> especially like "McPain & Failin."

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