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layne (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:00 AM Original message |
What event (s) turned you into the activist that I'm assuming you |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. Ok, so I'm old enough that I got into this during |
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AngryWhiteDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. It started 3 years ago |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I remember that one AWD |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
3. The conditions farmworkers labored under and the intimidation |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
4. The neverending Whitewater investigation |
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caledesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Same here. Total BS. |
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NightTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
5. Election 1988 |
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layne (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:18 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I also was outraged by everything that happened to the Clinton's |
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utopian (815 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. Ronald Wilson Reagan |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. I was born |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
9. The 2000 Presidential Campaign |
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deek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
10. * campaigning for office in 2000 n/t |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
12. The Iraq war II but... |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
13. having parents who could not afford healthcare |
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layne (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I also am disgusted by |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 01:02 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. the Log-Cabin gays freak me out totally |
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anti_shrub (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 01:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. I would say folks like you guys are the minority |
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kimchi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:53 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I understand completely, roughsatori. |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 01:06 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. We had the pregnant 15 year old and the brother in prison too |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
15. Well |
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layne (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:47 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Oregonian |
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mjb4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
17. Fake Rodney King trails |
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anti_shrub (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
18. A few things helped form my activism |
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UrbScotty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
21. Much of it had to do with 2000, but DU has a part. |
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leftist_rebel1569 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
23. Rage Against The Machine |
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Coffee Coyote (949 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
24. Anti-apartheid activism - mid80's |
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Gingersnap (420 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
26. growing up in the cold war nuclear escalation |
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layne (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 08:48 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. It's the term "trailer trash" |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
29. Effects of a liberal childhood. |
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clyrc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
30. 2000 election |
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joetruck (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:05 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Art, nature, Monkeywrench Gang, thoughtful childhood |
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
32. Interest in politics, world history |
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dani (640 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
33. East Timor |
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LiberalLibra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
34. For me, and this will age me, it started when Kennedy was..... |
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MaineDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
35. No one event |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
36. Three events come to mind for me |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
37. "This generation may be the one to face the apocalypse." |
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cmf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
38. Nothing specific |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
39. Shrub's anti-inaugural march in DC |
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gypsy11 (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
40. For me it was |
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rene moon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
41. It was the first Gulf War |
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SPICYHOT (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
42. Since I was very little |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
43. birth? |
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maxanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
44. the civil rights movement |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
45. I grew up in a liberal household |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-08-03 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
46. When Reagan's people were hunting down Marcos' enemies for him |
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