FROM THE BARRICADES-11/06/09
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Posted by Jon Pike Nov 6, 2009 |
I really enjoyed writing my most current post on activism. What it says to me, is that we shouldn’t necessarily look at the big moments for insights in to how activists are changing the world. We often have to look slightly askew and examine the fringes.
Case-in-point: While it was certainly disheartening to see the vote on gay marriage inMain, there were smaller moment s that may be providing, eventually, a more cumulative effect. There were smaller victories. Marriage equality activists were successful in Washington. They were successful in a municipal vote in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The vaunted Conservative Party candidate, who was certainly being assisted by the anti-marriage equality forces was defeated in New York. These are smaller victories, through which we may see a cumulative effect.
I really believe that the anti-marriage equality cause is fighting a rear-guard action. Gay couples, good And bad, will continue to exist and show the rest of us that they are largely the same. I am now a married man, and I can tell you that the existence of gay couples, or gay married couples has no impact whatsoever on my own marriage.
I will probably be writing on Sunday about new developments on the Rainbow Family cases. I have some news that has wafted my way through the intertubes and I will be sharing them via suite101. Essentially, it looks like the feds are going to trial in Wyoming over one of the cases following the 2008 Rainbow Gathering. So, it’s a chance to report on a very timely subject. Long story short, I am contracted to provide at least four of these articles a month.
On some other fronts, we will probably see an early activism article from me this week as I am going to a conference down in Chicago to see if I can do something about my currently marginal employment status. On the other hand, I making some plans to increase my writing productivity so, we may be getting some more articles out on occasion.
Besides visiting my suite101 page, I have some other writing projects you may wish to take a look at. First of all, my local news franchise at NorthDakotaHometimes and my Newsvine page. Please visit them often. It’s off to face some new educational environments in the next calendar year, and hopefully I can keep my writing up through that.
That’s it for now, see you next month, On The Barricades
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