Albuquerque's "I Am Blue" Counter-Inaugural Packed With Activists

From Tom Solomon:
Thursday's Counter-Inaugural held in Albuquerque’s La Posada hotel was a huge success! A fantastic turnout packed the banquet hall and spilled out into the hallways outside. Several hundred 'pissed-off voters' and other activists networked with dozens of activist groups who had tables set up to explain their group’s theme.

We had speeches by the head of the local ACLU on Bush’s upcoming attacks on Constitutional freedoms, the editor of Crosswinds weekly on the freedom of the press, the head of the NM Wilderness Alliance (www.NMWild.org) on protecting Otero Mesa, a local attorney explaining the scam behind ‘tort reform’ (or the “wrongdoer’s don’t pay” law!) and several others. The activist groups got dozens of people to sign up to support their causes, and several groups spoke of the urgent need for activists to take back the Democratic Party.

Good music, good food and great energy lifted our spirits in the face of the inauguration of the Great Buffoon in Washington. Kathy Economy deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for putting on this Counter-Inaugural event! (she can have Tenet's). Thanks Kathy!

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