Bring Out Troops Home NOW!

I spent the rest of the day at the revolutionary women’s event tabling with Jody. It was a FABULOUS event held in Boston’s new convention center – no police presence, just security that once I left my truck parked, was pretty laid-back – other than having to wear a tag at all times! Of course, I immediately lost mine somehow but they all knew me – after all I drove my truck there!

There must have been a thousand wimmin there easy. Many wimmin didn’t know of CodePINK but lots did! We got several pages of wimmin to sign up for CodePINK! It was great! Many wimmin came up to our table, introduced themselves. I felt I should recognize their names at least, if not their faces. Fortunately Jody was there to respond appropriately.

It was terribly thrilling, all that womonist/feminist energy, all that bountiful hope and brilliance!

But the best part of today was this evening at the dnc. There are 2 sections: the floor is the bottom part where all the delegates are seated; then there are the upper levels where the non-delegates are seated.

The democrats running the convention made it illegal for anyone to bring in their own home-made signs. i.e. they wanted to control the signs that were on the floor and in the upper levels.

Well, Medea somehow secured a ticket to the floor!!! AND was able to unfurl a banner that read “Bring Our Troops Home Now!”

She stood there, solid and determined, by herself, with this banner, refusing to back down or sit down. The press covered her and you could hear her lone strong voice yelling ‘bring our troops home now’ as security finally dragged her from the floor!

Then they made all the CodePINK wimmin, who weren’t able to get into the floor but were sitting in the second level, leave.

Medea’s action was the only protest of the people that I know of to reach the floor of the convention other than Al Sharpton tossing out his scripted six minutes and delivering his inspirational twenty minutes,