Patriotic Old Ladies, You're Going To Jail Now Too!

Our rights to peacefully assemble ARE GONE. Now the little old ladies who are against the war are being arrested, jailed, or put into forced labor. The American Holocaust has begun!

Grandmothers for Peace Get Federal Prison Instead
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020107L.shtml
"This week a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced Ms. Webster to two months in federal prison for stepping through a hole in the fence onto the grounds of Fort Benning to carry her protest to the doors of SOA-WHINSEC...The grandmothers and the rest of the 16 protestors will join more than 250 other activists who have spent a collective 92 years in prison and dozens of years on federal probation for prior nonviolent civil disobedience at the gates to Fort Benning and SOA-WHINSEC."

Texas Grandmother Sweeps Streets of Washington as Punishment for Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0131-07.htm
Diane Baker's voice was barely audible above the rumble of the trash can she pushed down the sidewalk. But her actions tended to speak louder, anyway. Baker was one of 71 people arrested during a protest in Washington for crossing a police line to sit on the steps of a Senate office building. Baker, who has a degenerative muscle condition, had to work 8 hours in freezing weather. As punishment, the 60-year-old was sentenced to sweep the streets of the nation's capital for eight cold, blustery hours Tuesday.

R.I.P. Molly Ivins: What Is Remembered Lives

For years, when the air was stagnant and choking with right-wing crock-o'-propaganda, we always knew we could count on Molly Ivins for a little bit of oxygen to help us through. Somehow, although dwarfed in syndication by the gasbags of the neocon world, Molly stood up for what was real and what was right and still managed to throw in a bit of humor. We sure will miss you, Molly, and pray that somewhere out there are journalists who will take the torch you bravely carried, and continue to educate and enlighten those whose eyes can see and ears can hear. Maybe that's all of us.

"We are the deciders," she wrote. "And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war." -- Molly Ivins