This is an amazing video of IVAW's guerrilla performances of "Operation First Casualty". As you can see the performances were done on the streets of New York City; going to the heart of the ugliness of war.

Today is Veterans' Day. To honor my brother, who is an anti-war activist in Puerto Rico, a New Yorker by birth and a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, please take a moment to watch Operation First Casualty.

And don't think twice about donating to their cause. It's an honorable one.

From this morning's email batch :

NYCLU Hosts Candlelight Vigil to Reflect on Bush’s Dismal Rights Record as Administration Comes to a Close

January 12, 2008 – The New York Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are sponsoring a candlelight vigil on Jan. 13 at Federal Hall to reflect on the Bush administration’s legacy of human rights abuse and look with hope to the future.

Sunday marked seven years since the Bush administration began indefinitely imprisoning terrorist suspects at the U.S. naval facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Next week a new president will be sworn into office pledging to restore the nation’s commitment to human and Constitutional rights. Tuesday’s vigil will remind President-elect Obama that New Yorkers expect him to keep that promise.

What: Remembering Yesterday, Looking Toward Tomorrow: A Vigil to Reflect on Guantánamo, Torture, Detention and the Legacy of Rights Abuses of the Bush Administration

Where: Federal Hall, 26 Wall St. in Manhattan

When: Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 4:30 p.m.

Bring candles!

Sarah Jessica Parker, or SJP as we like to call her, was phonebanking Friday at the Obama HQ; of course, looking flawless.

New York has the onus of making 2, 000, 000 phone calls by the closing of the polls on election day. Please take some time off and get your arse parked at one of the phone banking locations.  If you have an iPhone, get the Obama phonebanking application, and volunteer from the comfort of wherever you're at the moment.

Why am I posting this video? Not only is it a brilliant juxtaposition to The Hipster Olympics, there is an actual hipster sighting at 0:38 seconds.

Also, it was created by my "find of the day" Make The Road : "Make the Road New York* promotes economic justice, equity and opportunity for all New Yorkers through community and electoral organizing, strategic policy advocacy, leadership development, youth and adult education, and high quality legal and support services."  read more »

Yesterday I had a bit of fun at the expense of the Republican noise machines and their efforts to paint themselves already as a loud and marginalized minority in Capitol Hill. I was so caught up on the moment that I didn't blog about it until this morning but Kenneth Quinnell described it as a "Twitter Bomb" and has happy to spread the word :

Twitter Bomb

This wasn't my idea (although I came up with the cool name), I think Liza Sabater was the one who started it, but it's too brilliant to pass up.

Those of you who are on Twitter, send as many tweets as you can over the next few days with #dontgo in them. The conservatives are using this hash mark (like a tag) to spread misinformation about offshore drilling and their latest publicity stunt. What Liza and a few others started doing was to flood that hash with counter-commentary or irrelevant posts. Sort of like a google bomb, this can either disrupt what they're doing or, at the very least, annoy the crap out of them. We can all do this.

Whatever you're posting on twitter, try to fit #dontgo into it. And make sure you include the # sign, which is key.

If you aren't on Twitter, this might be the type of thing to get you into it.

And before I even start to explain, let me break down the lingo for you.  read more »