Just now, coming down 23rd Street, I witnessed a fearsome sight. The police had stopped the traffic at the intersection of 8th Avenue and circled around a group of protesters. Here were armed officers on foot and on motorcycles, standing in the center of the street halting drivers sitting in vans with flashing lights, not […]
If they try to tell you that there were no people out protesting the Republican National Convention here today in New York, don’t believe them. I just returned from the march, which was moving like a vast human river down 7th Avenue. I am a veteran of many civil rights demonstrations, but nothing prepared me […]
Note from Team Cho: Margaret’s working 16 hour days in NYC on a project for a friend plus doing tour press up until her shows at The Apollo on the 28th (2 sold out shows!!). She has no internet access. Her entries this week will be intermittent at best. We’ve posted a typical letter fom […]
I am a painfully shy person. This poses many challenges of course, especially because I have put myself in a very un-shy profession, which forces me not only to speak in front of thousands of strangers daily, it constantly brings me into the company of people I have never met before. It is difficult for […]
Note From Team Cho: Margaret will be guest hosting for Janeane with Sam Seder on The Majority Report tonight 7-10 et on Air America Radio. You can listen live right here. If you miss it, check here tomorrow to download the whole show. Here’s a great letter Margaret just got. —– Original Message —– From: […]
—– Original Message —– From: “Chris” To: “Karen” Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: Re: my brother hey there karen, that’s really nice of you to post my letter to [Margaret’s] blog. i did hear from my brother, although very shortly, last sunday. since i was on my phone, i didn’t say much, […]
Note from Team Cho: Margaret’s working 16 hour days in NY on a project for a friend plus doing tour press up until her shows at The Apollo on the 28th. She has no internet access. Her entries this week will be intermittent at best. Here’s a letter from a fan whose brother is in […]
I am absolutely in support of legalizing marijuana. It doesn’t make any sense to me to keep it illegal when there is little argument that alcohol and tobacco are clearly far more deadly. Drunks are scary. They have little control over themselves. The word ‘drunk’ goes hand in hand with ‘belligerent’. Tobacco causes cancer, diseases […]
Jerry Corsi is one of the astonishingly idiotic authors of the book “Unfit for Command.” The book attempts to smear John Kerry’s military record in Vietnam, claiming that he betrayed his fellow soldiers by alleging atrocities committed by U.S. troops and earned his medals by indiscriminately killing a Viet Cong teenager. Corsi is a frequent […]
It is revolting that the gay marriages are being annulled in San Francisco. I don’t understand why these bigoted, arrogant, nosy, busybody ‘conservatives’ have to trample all over civil rights in order to make everyone understand that they think that homosexuality is wrong. You know what? I think that intolerance is wrong. I think that […]
Teenage girls with no life experiences and boys who call themselves punk are on my radio singing about how much pain they’ve endured and how hard their lives are
Here’s an anthology of writings just out about the West Memphis Three to which I contributed. All proceeds go to the Damien Echols defense fund, The following is written by Damien Echols who is currently on death row. The smell of the air and the wind on my face makes me remember other places and […]
