Democracy Now has an appalling report on how those (more than 1700) arrested as protestors/demonstrators at the RNC are being treated and the conditions they are enduring in a makeshift prison in a garage at Pier 57. Some of the people being held weren’t even protestors, just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and have still been held for twelve hours or more, with no access to a lawyer or even a phone call. “New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has denied the city’s operating what some have called Guantanamo on the Hudson, defended the use of the pier garage, saying, quote, it’s not supposed to be Club Med”.
Archive for September, 2004
Well my perfect laid plans for employment after I leave here are crumbling. The judge that I was going to work for is concerned about me taking off a couple months next spring to go to Europe, so now he’s saying that he may want to wait until I get back from that trip to have me come work for him. CRAP. I knew something like this was going to happen, that’s why I wasn’t letting myself get excited about it yet. It was just too perfect. I don’t get his logic though - he’d rather wait eight months for me to come work for him instead of have me work and bring business in for him for six months before I go? I don’t get it. Sigh. He said he would think about it more over the weekend and let me know. Great. Excuse me while I go send out some resumes. GRRRR!
I was having a hard time falling asleep last night because I was so mad at the Republicans, namely Arnold Schwarzenegger and his “girlie men” bullshit. But today I found out that one of our Republican judges loathes Bush so much that he and his wife are working and donating a ton of time to get people registered to vote (hopefully for Kerry).
This gives me big hope. I have met a lot of Republicans recently who have said that they cannot, in good conscience, vote for Bush. I hope this is the case across the country, not just here in L.A.
