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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (65869)	5/26/2009 8:35:51 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 224724

This is fascinating----I will take a picture of her trunk and see if I can post -----have never tried SI's posting of pictures. Her trunk is also flat top, it was originally covered in canvass and had old blue flower paper inside. The refinisher stripped the old paper and also removed the old canvass to reveal the wood underneath which is beautiful. Problem is she did not get all of the old canvass as it would have entailed rebuilding the whole trunk-----the canvass was underneath the slats that circle the trunk. Then we covered the inside with fabric, she built a new insert tray for the top, and replaced a couple of leather handles. The trunk has little tiny wheels that still work so can be moved about. There are likely trunk sites where you can identify your trunk. mj

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (65869)	5/27/2009 7:51:08 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

Ayers, Dohrn say racism not dead HATE MAIL \| He joins professors against wreaths for graves of Confederate soldiers May 26, 2009 suntimes.com BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com So how do a couple of ex-radical anti-war activists spend Memorial Day? Former "Weather Underground" activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn held a discussion about whether President Obama's election moved America past racism -- far from it they say -- at the Hyde Park Arts Center. “On Memorial Day, we hear that the anti-war movement just pisses people off and makes them pro-war and that’s insane,” Ayers told the crowd of 24 white, black and Hispanic men and women. Ayers and Dohrn wore blue jeans and black tops and Ayers drank iced coffee from a plastic Starbucks cup. During the presidential campaign, conservative talk show hosts branded the married couple "domestic terrorists" -- charged but never convicted of setting bombs in the '60s -- and tried unsuccessfully to hang Ayers around Obama's neck as a campaign issue. Obama's camp said Ayers and Obama were not all that close, despite both living in the Hyde Park/Kenwood area and sitting on boards together. Ayers said the same conservative talk-show hosts that tried to make him a boogeyman tried to caricature Michelle Obama. “Michelle Obama has become the queen, not just of America, but of the world,” Ayers said. “Just a few months ago, she was being dragged through the media in what one New York Times person called ‘Round Two of the sulfurous national game of Kill the Witch.’ She was the 'Black Nationalist' who was 'dangerous' and 'frightening, unlike her husband who was cool.'” Ayers found himself in the news again this weekend because he was one of 60 college professors to sign a letter to Obama asking him not to send a wreath to be laid at the graves of Confederate soldiers. Obama compromised and sent one to the graves of African-American soldiers, too. "I just signed it because I sign any petition that comes across my computer," Ayers said. "I've gotten in the last two days, more hate mail on that than I've gotten on anything else, from people who say the Confederacy was a great time in American history." Ayers and Dohrn declined to give Obama a grade on his first 100-plus days, saying it will all depend on whether activists in the streets push him to do great things. "The election of Obama was an astonishing moment. We were in Grant Park dancing in the streets," Ayers said. Ayers' only indirect criticism came when he spoke of Obama's appointment of Arne Duncan as education secretary. Duncan and the other finalists ran "failed" school systems, Ayers said. "He's moderate, like Obama. He's a pragmatist, like Obama. He's not going to piss off the right wing, like Obama. So in many ways, he's Obama's ideological soul mate," Ayers said. "Fifty-seven percent of white voters did not vote for Obama," Dohrn said. Referring to hers and Ayers new book, Race Course: Against White Supremacy, she said, "That was the impetus for writing this book. We've got a big job to do to change those numbers."