It seems like in my
circle of friends, talk of protest
and resistance have come up more and more.
They always say that the media learned not to show
the dead [and like images] on television. That it creates
anti-war sediments. I'd say that they also learned not to cover
stories about anti-war & civil rights movements.

I'm tired of my generation
getting shit from the previous ones
saying that we're complacent... that we do nothing.
The problem isn't that we don't care and that we do nothing,
the problem is that we do things and it simply isn't covered.
(examples: a man burned himself alive in the middle of a street in
chicago last year in protest of the iraq war, all ports along the west coast were
shut down on May Day last year in protest of the iraq war, the demonstrations/police riot
at the RNC this past year in St. Paul; all not covered.)

When you begin to realize that the
flow of news and media that you get via
main stream media sources all come from 2 to 3
sources, you have to wonder what the hell are you being fed.
More often than not the average consumer takes in these different
forms of news not questioning anything about them. Not weather what they're
hearing is true or not or weather there is an agenda behind what they're hearing or
why it is that they are hearing THESE stories rather than others.

I never questioned it
until last year and it's not until
this year that I'm even doing anything about it.
I'm choosing now to get my news from alternative outlets
rather than simply turning to mainstream media.


Speaking of which there's
an anti-war and immigration rights coalition
rally/protest on march 14th. I will be there.