Bianca,

Thanks for the welcome, and for the reply.

I found your post through the links on the April 19 “Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday” at feministe. I’m a regular reader there and occasionally Shamelessly Self-Promote my articles, when they’re relevant.(I listed a couple that week.)

In answer to your question, yes, I was involved in organizing and participating in Tax Day protests (of course, they weren’t called “Tea Parties” until this year) during the late, unlamented Bush administration, most actively when I was living in Auburn, Alabama, with much the same focus and for much the same reasons. (E.g. opposition to my being forced to pay for Mr. Bush’s wars, torture camps, death squad training camps like the School of the Americas, etc.) I was also, for whatever it’s worth, heavily involved in organizing local protests (as a founding member of the Auburn Peace Project) against the Iraq war and occupation, and in organizing protests against a personal appearance by the Warmonger-in-Chief on the Auburn University campus (he was stumping for a local GOP Congressional candidate at the time). Most of my activism these days is focused on opposing all forms of government violence, focusing especially on this government’s wars, the criminalization of immigrants, and police brutality.

Hope this helps explain where I’m coming from.