But I'm a Cheerleader!

[eek]

CHEERLEADERS FOR CHANGE
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=436242

David Usborne - It has been about a year since Lickity Split started
subverting the all-American tradition of team cheerleading for political
ends. They have kept the pompoms and the ear-to-ear saccharin smiles.
And they gleefully display lots of flesh. (A little too much, you might
say.) But this definitely is not the version of cheerleading you will
see on the average college football field or as portrayed in films like
American Beauty. Their energies are not going into perpetuating the
macho image of the American jock, but rather into voicing anger at the
system. Anger at Bush. Anger at homophobia. Anger at war. Anger at
whatever.

And while they are the only group in Chicago, Lickity Split are hardly
alone in the land. First dreamed up by two sisters in Florida six years
ago as a new means of expressing political outrage, Radical Cheerleading
is fast becoming a movement all of its own, with an estimated 100 squads
trading clenched fists for pompoms in cities all across the United
States and Canada. . .

And they have one important advantage. Riot police are less likely to
arrest you or fumigate you with tear gas if your skirt ends just beneath
the crotch and your most dangerous weapon is a pompom.

[JohnKleeb]

1. radical cheerleaders heh

well I am a radical white boy so heh :)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

2. cool, they sound like the "radical cheerleaders"

that show up at protests.

[XNASA]

3. Makes me proud, to be a Chicagoan.

<wipes tear from corner of eye with crumpled piece of Kleenex>

[maggrwaggr]

4. Hot damn! Between them and the women in pink .....

protests are THE place to babe-watch.

I'm there dude.

Heh heh ... he said "pink ..."

[nostamj]

5. any 'radical cheerleaders' in the NYC area ???

would love to get them involved in a ?W media action...

[Dr Fate]

6. Bush himself was a Male cheerleader during Vietnam!!!

Bush is his brave role as Male cheerleader, while others die in comabat in Vietnam...