The future is in our hands. But it's slowly slipping out from between our fingers.

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Start gripping a little tighter before it's too late.


Assassinating American citizens
Indefinite detention
Corporatist infiltration of the state
Unfettered government surveillance
Shaming civil disobedience
Prosecuting whistle blowers

This is either the beginning of the end or a really good point to kick start a new progressive revolution.

Forgive me if I'm a little more cynical than most. But this is what comes to mind...

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1. "Shaming Civil Disobedience"?

More about the rude outburst squelched by the first lady?

Why, even Code Pink apologized for their initial twitter critical of the first lady.

That wasn't meaningful protest, that was mere attention grabbing, and rude.

CODEPINK Statement Regarding Twitter

Posted by Alli

We would like to apologize for our recent actions that displayed an undeniable insensitivity to persons of color, especially women of color.

As an organization, we strive to speak truth to power and stand for human rights for all. We respect intersectionality and strive to stay aware of the many forms of privilege among our group. We would like to make an unequivocal apology to Michelle Obama, Alicia Keys, and everyone who took offense to messages we posted on Twitter.

By tweeting about how Michelle Obama “should have” responded to Ellen Sturtz’s interruption, we behaved in such a way that reflected a long history of white women dictating how Black women should behave. Our actions were not in keeping with our own values as an organization. While yesterday’s interruption was not a CODEPINK action, it is exemplary of CODEPINK tactics, and the way we responded to it was insensitive and thoughtless.

When the process of petitioning, lobbying and writing letters fails, and when mainstream media ignores the real issues, interruptions of high-profile officials are one tactic to make our voices heard. Because it crosses the line of agreed-upon civility, this tactic is always messy.

We appreciate all the people who gave us instant feedback over Twitter and it has been and will continue to be a learning opportunity for CODEPINK. We are immediately reviewing our process and criteria for social media use, as an organization, and we invite any of our our critics to speak with us directly about issues of race and privilege in order to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.

Onward to peace and justice,

The CODEPINK Staff

http://codepink.org/blog/?p=63489&preview=trueCODEPINK Statement Regarding Twitter

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2. Of course it was attention grabbing. That's the entire point.

[NYC_SKP]

4. If this was OK, then we should all just scream and shout all the time when an Obama is speaking.

I'm going to shout about Health Care, you can shout about something else.

Someone else can shout about legalizing marijuana, and others can shout about closing Guantanamo.

And then nothing will get done, nobody will be heard, and it will be utter stupidity.

No thank you.

Let her take her show to the steps of congress or to some teaparty event and leave Michelle alone to make her point about our children.

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5. Maybe we, as Americans, need to do a little more shouting...

And a little less worrying about disrupting.

[Life Long Dem]

3. Take a stronger grip by keeping the Romney's out