$$ for JOBS! NOT WAR! Rally & March: New Haven Green

Even as the US began to bomb Libya, I gathered with my brothers and sisters in peace at the New Haven Green to protest: MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION!!! NOT FOR WAR!

It was wonderful weather for a protest! This one was called by ANSWER CT (Act Not to Stop War and End Racism) and endorsed by New Haven Against Police Brutality, March Forward, Unidad Latina en Acción, Party for Socialism and Liberation – CT, New Haven Workers Association, ISO New Haven, and more.

The 6 or so speakers were very moving. They represented various topics such as the teachers and unions in strife and under attack in Wisconsin, crimes against women during wars, the influence of megacorporations and big oil during conflicts in the Middle-East, and how Barack should stand with Unions in Wisconsin instead of bombing Libya. It was also noted that Connecticut’s piece of the war pie adds up to 84 million tax dollars, which would help balance the state’s budget deficit if left here in the state.

Then the march began and so did the chanting. It really took me back to the old days of protesting against Viet Nam. I don’t understand why more people didn’t come out to protest. People we passed on the streets just gawked at us like we were some freaks. What will it take to get people off their duffs and out into the streets? How many more young men must die? How many more people need to be raped? How many more people need to be fired? How many more people need to become homeless? How many more people need to go on foodstamps? How many nations do we need to bomb into smithereens? WAKE UP PEOPLE! NO ONE CAN MAKE PEACE HAPPEN BUT US! We did it for Viet Nam and we can do it again!

A National Money for Jobs & Education! Not War! March and Rally is planned for Noon, Saturday, April 9 at Union Square, 14th Street in New York City. The contact information is at the United National AntiWar Committee: 860 478 5300, UNACpeace@gmail.com, www.UNACpeace.org.

I am sad

Because sometime during the winter, my pond froze totally over and killed all my koi, some of which I have had for over 20 years. I know it doesn’t compare to the devastation of the tsunami in Japan, but still I feel bummed.

As the ice melts, I net them off the pond and throw them in the trash can.

On a happier note, today I cleaned out the blue bird boxes!

Rally to Save the American Dream

Saturday at noon I attended the Rally to Save the American Dream with two of my friends at the Connecticut capital in Hartford that was run by MoveOn.org. We were protesting in solidarity with union workers in Wisconsin who are under attack by Governor Scott Walker and the Republican members of the House. There were about 500 protesters in attendance.

Speakers included Chris Donovan, the Democratic current Speaker of the State House of Connecticut, Laura Donnelly, Ed Vargas, the former President of the AFL-CIO for Hartford, and Bob Kingsley, UE Director. Other speakers not pictured were Debra Emmelman, David Berg, Ed Masterson, and Olia Yelner.

The protest was well-organized but could have been better publicized. I got a tremendous feeling of solidarity from being there and from hearing the speakers and chanting. Especially since my single parent mother was a teacher and raised three of us kids and put us through college, all on her salary. We did need to take out loans. But at that time, college loans were very available. All three of us grew up to have successful careers, my brother in computer science, my sister as a biomedical engineer, and me in the pharmaceutical industry. She was able to do that because she was a Union member. That is the American Dream, and what the protest was all about trying to protect. That is what Gov. Scott Walker is trying to crush in Wisconsin.

But the speakers told stories of a more global nature such as how the states’ and country’s deficits and money woes were not of labor or the Unions’ doing. How the greedy large corporations were responsible instead. How the rich and large corporations needed to be taxed more to fix the problem. It is not the workers who are responsible. Yet, workers are ready to make sacrifices to help out. But workers will not give up collective bargaining; which is the backbone of the unions.

Young Female Cat for Adoption: MOONSHINE

Sometimes people just suck. This is one of those times. Someone abandoned this beautiful, small young female kitty, who is in heat and friendly as anything.


Though alluring and sweet, we cannot keep her since we are both allergic and our dogs look at her as an hors d'oeuvres and are seeking the correct mustard to have her with. Grey poupon perhaps?


She definitely needs a good home and plenty of love. She loves to play and will respond to any name, though I have named her Moonshine, since she has a tiny gray moon next to her nose.




Please leave a comment on this post if you would like more information on Moonshine.

UPDATE: WE ADOPTED HER!

Rapporto di Roma 15: Traveling Homeward

Meet Leeluu [a Boston terrier]. We made her acquaintance at Madrid Barajas Airport. Isn't she a princess? Her lady-in-waiting was returning to her castle in Miami.

Her lady would take her chew toy from her and taunt her with it. Leeluu would grab it and...



Return to the safety of her carrier, probably thinking, "I am not to be disturbed until I am in my palace!"

Look at her regal lines. Definitely royal lineage!