[Mb-civic] [Mb-hair] A New Age of Aquarius

[Barbara Siomos]

"Right On"  Scott....<big smile>

peace,
barbara
>To: michael at michaelbutler.com 
>From: NewChaz64 at aol.com 
>Date:  Thu, Nov 4, 2004, 3:22pm 
>To: mb-hair at islandemail.com
>Subject: [Mb-civic] [Mb-hair] A New Age of
>Aquarius    

Michael Butler flew to St. Louis in August 2001 to see New Line
Theatre's production of HAIR, and he told me that he saw a new 60s youth
movement rising up, that it would transform America, that the HAIR
tribes would be at the forefront. I think we just saw the beginning of
that, this summer. Even though Bush won, we have to remember that more
people voted against him than in any other election in US history, and
that fully 80% of our total population did NOT vote for him -- and 80%
also did not vote for Kerry.  
 
Yes, there were setbacks in the election results, but the same was true
of the Civil Rights movement in the 60s (during which members of
Congress often denounced "activist judges" who were forcing the schools
to desegregate -- sound familiar?). When you look at how politics
changed this cycle, when you see the record turnout, there's only one
conclusion that can be drawn. We are at the beginning of something big.
Howard Dean and a lot of other people see it coming, just like Michael
Butler does.
 
We can't get discouraged. We have to get more and more engaged until
America is all it should be. We needed to get people riled up, and four
more years of Bush is gonna do just that. I think Michael Butler is
right -- a new American activism has been born, and so were a bunch of
new American activists. That's pretty exciting...
 
Scott