Woke up feeling REALLY outraged this morning having
spent sunday night at a fundraiser for
Women's Rights during which the organizers screened
the documentary "A Voice for Choice"
which examines the current crisis in women's
reproductive freedoms and the systematic attacks
being wreaked by the current Bush administration
on a woman's right to choose.
The film really affected me profoundly,at one
point bringing me to the brink of tears and has left me
feeling really anxious and concerned. I
grew up in the UK which is essentially a pretty liberal country
for all that we British gripe about it and although
I have always been aware that the laws pertaining to
women's rights in the US were rather restricitve
by comparison I must have been sleeping because I
genuinely had no idea just how threatened they
have become during this current administration.
If Bush and Cheney succeed in their bid for another
four years I dread to think how much more
fucked up things could become.
On another political note.........seeing as Wisconsin
is a swing state, all the celebrity activists are
turning up in downtown Madison to try and encourage
people to utilize their vote. Leonardo De Caprio,
Michael Moore and Natalie Portman to name but
a few.Oh man this election is going to be INTENSE.
As it happens,we're all going off to hear Michael
Moore speak at the University of Wisconsin student union
tonight and I am so fucking EXCITED.Never before
in my lifetime has an election seemed so desperately
important and it's weird.....it feels like we're
going to a rock show or something and we're all a titter with
excitment and anticipation and the feeling of
being united with others.What's adding to the excitement and
the sense of occasion is the fact that it's the
first time the temperature has dropped below 40 degrees this fall,
signalling the beginning of winter and plunging
temperatures so we're scrambling around trying to muster
enough scarfs and gloves to keep everyone snugglelicious,making
it feel like a holiday of some sort!!!