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by Linda Milazzo
Here's a little puzzle to ponder. Consider these two American institutions... then guess which institutions they are?? One institution is over 200 years old and the product of passion, commitment, creativity and pain-staking labor. It is present every New Years Day in Pasadena, California, but it is NEVER seen. The second institution is a spectacular floral extravaganza, over 100 years of age. It is also the product of passion, commitment, creativity and pain-staking labor. It, too, is present every New Years Day in Pasadena, but it is ALWAYS seen. The vision of the second displays its majesty.
The majesty of the first displays its vision. The first, much older UNSEEN institution allows the second institution to be seen. Without the presence of the first and older institution, the younger institution might not be. Can you guess which institutions these are? Allow me fill you in. The first institution, the UNSEEN one, is the Constitution of the United States. The second institution is the annual Pasadena Rose Parade.
The Constitution, the underpinning of our Democracy, gave
forth the freedoms of expression and assembly which allow the Rose
Parade to take place. The Rose Parade owes its existence to the
Constitution. This year, as a gift to the nation and as a reminder of
how revered the Constitution should be, a consortium of patriots will
join together in Pasadena to VISUALLY unite both institutions. On New
Years Day, thanks to the 2008 White Rose Coalition (WRC), a GIANT
rendering of the Preamble to the Constitution will be carried at the
end of the Rose Parade by American patriots in the PEOPLE'S PARADE FOR
DEMOCRACY.
Accompanying the Preamble will be the famed chain-gang bobble-heads of
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice,
adorned in prison garb with chains and tiny balls. See youtube video of
Bobble Heads in action:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gK6TX3kzkbk
The 2008 White Rose Coalition is a convergence of patriots from
pro-peace/pro-impeachment organizations across the nation, including
the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC), CODEPINK, Troops
Out Now, World Can't Wait, ANSWER, Progressive Democrats of America,
the Green Party, Veterans For Peace, United For Peace and Justice, The
Backbone Campaign, Office Of The Americas, Brave New Films, and more.
They have assembled under the banner of the White Rose Coalition in
tribute to the resistance movement in Munich in 1942. Caolition members
will employ a wide variety of visuals throughout the Rose Parade
broadcast to drive home the urgency to end the war in Iraq and impeach
George Bush and Dick Cheney. The 2008 WRC is the brainchild of Los
Angeles attorney, Peter Thottam. Thottam, a former Green Party
candidate for California Assembly and Director of LANIC, has assembled
a stellar array of progressive leaders to march in The PEOPLE'S PARADE.
They include Camp Casey Peace Institute founder and San
Francisco Congressional Candidate, Cindy Sheehan, CODEPINK Co-founder,
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK human rights activist, Tighe Barry, who was
recently arrested in Pakistan for challenging Musharraf's martial law,
and Marcy Winograd, President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles
and 2006 Congressional candidate for California's 36th District.
THE
PEOPLE'S PARADE will begin at approximately 10:30AM (Pacific Time) and
wind down Colorado Boulevard beginning at the Norton Simon Museum and
end at 11:00AM at the steps of Pasadena City Hall. There, Cindy Sheehan
and others will hold a press conference on impeachment and the war on
Iraq. Since Speaker of the House, Pelosi, and her Congress, have failed
to honor their Constitutional duty to initiate impeachment proceedings
against Bush and Cheney, and the U.S. Legislature continues to fund the
war on Iraq, the pro-America White Rose Coalition believes it is time
for Americans to take the most visible and proactive roles possible to
return the nation to its democratic principles.
With the
bipartisan passage of H.R. 1955, the Violent Radicalization and
Homegrown Terrorism Act of 2007, and its Senate clone, S. 1959 pending
passage in February, it is abundantly clear that Democrats and
Republicans in Washington are colluding to suppress dissent. The effort
to undermine the First Amendment is underway as this suppressive
legislation proves. As consequence, the White Rose Coalition intends to
usher in election year '08 with overwhelming visibility to advance THE
PEOPLE'S cause: END THE WAR & IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY!!
Across all fifty states of this Union, Americans want an end to war,
and Bush and Cheney held accountable for their crimes.
If
elected officials won't uphold the Constitution, it's up to THE PEOPLE
to RISE!! 2008 must be the year for the American people to work in
consort to return their beloved nation to its Constitutional roots. No
torture. No manufactured consent for war. No corporate profiteering at
the expense of the masses to enrich the few. No arrogant self-exile
from cooperative efforts to safeguard the planet. Alternatively,
Americans must demand the establishment of an America that is respected
and emulated by the community of nations - not for its military
prowess, but for its contributions to humanity. Every New Years Day,
the domestic and international press broadcast the Rose Parade to a
worldwide audience of millions. The questions this year are: Will
mainstream media broadcast the Preamble to the Constitution and the
PEOPLE'S PARADE that will follow right after??
Will mainstream
media grant the same center stage visibility to a facsimile of the
Constitution that it grants to floral facsimiles of minor import? The
answers, my fellow Americans, depend on the patriotism of the "free"
press, which like the Rose Parade and all forms of artistic and
political expression, our Constitution provides for and protects.
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