Jan. 19, 2009 - Where will you be today and tomorrow? We want to know!
Are you participating in the National Day of Service, attend some of the many festivities, stay at home, or be at work?
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Loraine Webb, Nevada City An easy thing to do this morning on National Service Day!
Here in Grass Valley/Nevada City, folks are gathering at Hospitality House (the homeless support center) at 246 South Church Street at 10:00 AM. They will walk to SummerThymes to support the shelter ($5 suggested contribution) where folks will have coffee.
All day, SummerThymes will be accepting and collecting winter clothing, jackets, sleeping bags and clean, new socks for the Hospitality House.
See you there....
Photo courtesy Shelley Spalding
Shelley Spalding, Olympia , WA
That is the "Capital Theater" in Olympia , WA is where I will be with lots
of other folks watching the big event live on the big screen!!
Photo courtesy Jim Hurley
Jim Hurley, Nevada City CA
Jim Hurley will be at the Miners Foundry for the morning swearing-in ceremony.
If I should suffer a flat tire in route, I shall try to make an emergency landing in Deer Creek. Ready your cameras.
View the inauguration LIVE in the Foundry Stone Hall, Tuesday Morning at 8:00 a.m.!!!!
(Coffee and Muffins for Sale)
You can also join us to celebrate the inauguration on Tuesday evening at 6:00 p.m.
Re-Play of Inauguration Ceremony, Live Music by Remley and Loose Change / No-Host Bar
Community Pot Luck Finger Food - bring a dish to share!
Both events are: Free to the Public
Photo courtesy Sue Clark
Sue Clark, Nevada County, CA
Today I will try to get to the Miners' Foundry in time to get in to hear the gospel choir. (I am a newcomer to the area and had no idea last year how early you had to be there.) It will be especially poignant this year.
Tomorrow, I will be at the Foundry again to see morning coverage. Then off to Reno for an appointment and still listening with tears of joy.
Editor's note: For details on the Gospel Choir Concert, click here.
Verona Murray Oroville, CA
We live in the hills between Oroville and Forbestown and we will remain at home both days. We will view the national celebration on TV via our satellite dish and take advantage of the good weather to work on fire protection/clean up on our eight forested acres. More and more we choose to stay home quietly in our beloved hills rather than connect with crowds since we retired from public service employment (social work). The younger generations of our family who usually join us for holidays will remain in the cities for the celebrations, but we are content here.
Amigo Cantisano, North San Juan CA
Tomorrow I will be working to really make change, during the celebration of the charade disguised as change. In all this fervor we need to remember that Obama has not appointed or nominated a single progressive or liberal minded person to ANY position yet. All of his cabinet and executive appointments are either members of the Trilateral Commission or Bildenberg's, or both. His nomination for Secretary of Agriculture is a total 100% shill for corporate agribusiness, GMO's and the energy companies. The pastor giving the sermon tomorrow, setting the tone for the inauguration and the entire presidential term, is an extreme bigot, bitterly against all people who are not heterosexual. Obama pushed for the bailouts of Wall Street and the Detroit. He supports a big ESCALATION of the war in Afghanistan, and has conveniently forgotten his pledge to get the U.S. out of Iraq in a timely, quick fashion. He is going to spend America into the greatest debt this nation ever will have; he'll make Bush look like a cheapskate. And it goes on. Change, what change?
I think that the majority of white americans who voted for Obama did so to assuage their guilt for centuries of abusing black people. We need to look behind the skin color and see the man for what he really is: a smooth talking politician with total ties to all the corporate interests that have suppressed all working class people throughout the last 200 years.
Stay tuned. There will be more...
Bobbie O'Neel, Santa Rosa, CA
Mostly I will be at home today and tomorrow, watching history being made with the swearing in of our new president. I am very hopeful that our new president will bring changes to our struggling economy and the world.
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