After having defined ourselves as members of a counter-movement for some time now, PAC505 is undergoing a bit of an identity crisis as we try to understand and redefine our role now that we got what we wanted.  Are we cheerleaders?  An external leftward pressure on the new powers that be?  What do we do [...]

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Rahm Emanuel is former ballet dancer.  The character “Ari” in the HBO show “Entourage” is based on Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ari.  Emanuel is the son of an Israeli and remains a practicing “modern Orthodox” Jew.  He is a strong proponent of universal health care, and was a senior adviser to President Clinton.  Emanuel’s appointment has [...]

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Apparently the winds of change, tolerance, intelligence, have yet to blow through parts of Otero County.  According to the Alamogordo Daily News, Republican visionary Marcia Stirman, who, in one foul breath last month mislabeled our new president a Muslim and, more disturbingly, declared Muslim people to be enemies of America, was re-elected to her post [...]

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Hakim Bellamy: “He Absolutely Had to Be a Community-Organizer”
Hakim Bellamy is a two-time National Champion in the Poetry Slam scene, as well as a freelance journalist, community organizer and social justice advocate. He is currently working for the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs and is a board member for Poetic Justice Institute and [...]

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Last night there were a bunch of protests in California in the aftermath of the yes vote on Proposition 8, which amends California’s Constitution to restrict marriages to unions between men and women.  Here is a montage that describes the issue and the outrage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVgkGej4Ck

If you have trouble getting upset about this issue, check out one [...]

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At least for the next six months, what Obama says goes. His acceptance speech, while being necessarily celebratory, offered advice on how to unite our country. “Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics so long.” I was surprised last night when, on [...]

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Lacking words to reflect on what happened last night or our gratitude toward Obama and this renewed nation, PAC505 leaves you with a youtube version of the slideshow that we projected during the election party last night, and an e-mail we received directly from Noam Chomsky a few months ago that reminds us all of [...]

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In the waning hours of this election, PAC505 is hoping to see a few more outbursts of racism and xenophobia from the far right and/or the McCain campaign. We will happily oblige their effort to turn this election into a referendum on intolerance. Bring it on.  Let it out. The more that Republicans rely on [...]

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On top of that, McCain had to bus in 4,000 of the 6,000 attendees from local schools in order to give the appearance of being appreciated by a substantial number of people.
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