Comments on: The New America http://www.jonahgn.com/2008/11/the-new-america/ Music, Web Design, and other Musings. Wed, 19 May 2010 15:45:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hannah http://www.jonahgn.com/2008/11/the-new-america/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Hannah Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:43:09 +0000 http://www.jonahgn.com/?p=54#comment-25 Last night in downtown Chicago there was more happiness in one place than I have ever seen anywhere. It was beautiful. -hannah Last night in downtown Chicago there was more happiness in one place than I have ever seen anywhere. It was beautiful.

-hannah

]]> By: natalia http://www.jonahgn.com/2008/11/the-new-america/comment-page-1/#comment-24 natalia Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:43:30 +0000 http://www.jonahgn.com/?p=54#comment-24 I started a mob last night. Results came in at 10:00om here in Madison, and jealous that I couldn't be at home in Chicago, I ran outside and started screaming at everyone I passed. Only Amanda and two or three kids I didn't know thought this was a good idea, until inexplicably, people who saw us through their windows came out onto the street. Then we were fifty, and we marched up to the capital building screaming and high-fiving. From (Madison) capitol hill we looked down state street and saw that hundreds of others were joining us. We were stopping traffic. Then we were thousands. We stormed around campus until 2 in the morning. The end count in the papers said three thousand people. Probably one of the coolest things I've ever done. I mean... it doesn't hold a candle to the 500,000 I joined in the immigration protests at home... but those were organized marches. This was a mob. And it was a mob of celebration. And Amanda and I (and the three kids who's names I don't remember) started it. But anyway, Jonah, how are you? I feel like I haven't kept up with everyone as well as last year (swamped by environmental justice etc., as always). Love from N I started a mob last night. Results came in at 10:00om here in Madison, and jealous that I couldn’t be at home in Chicago, I ran outside and started screaming at everyone I passed. Only Amanda and two or three kids I didn’t know thought this was a good idea, until inexplicably, people who saw us through their windows came out onto the street. Then we were fifty, and we marched up to the capital building screaming and high-fiving. From (Madison) capitol hill we looked down state street and saw that hundreds of others were joining us. We were stopping traffic. Then we were thousands. We stormed around campus until 2 in the morning. The end count in the papers said three thousand people. Probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. I mean… it doesn’t hold a candle to the 500,000 I joined in the immigration protests at home… but those were organized marches. This was a mob. And it was a mob of celebration. And Amanda and I (and the three kids who’s names I don’t remember) started it.

But anyway, Jonah, how are you? I feel like I haven’t kept up with everyone as well as last year (swamped by environmental justice etc., as always).

Love from N

]]> By: Harley Olivia http://www.jonahgn.com/2008/11/the-new-america/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Harley Olivia Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:17:05 +0000 http://www.jonahgn.com/?p=54#comment-23 Jonah - This is an amazing piece of writing. And you're right! We are the ones we have been waiting for. H Jonah – This is an amazing piece of writing. And you’re right! We are the ones we have been waiting for.

H

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