This Week at I Want Change

Table of Content NEWS: 1. Humans Drive Rare Dolphin to Extinction 2. 190,000 US weapons 'disappear in Iraq' 3. Republicans Defend Big Tobacco From Sick Children 4. Looking For a Leaker 5. New Evidence Clearly Indicates Pat Tillman Was Executed ATROCIOUS SH*T 1. Feds Train Clergy to "Quell Dissent 2. Democrats' Responsibility for Bush Radicalism 3. Gonzales's Truthfulness Long Disputed 4. It's easy for soldiers to score heroin in Afghanistan 5. Sharing Knowledge About Eco-renovation CORPORATE RULE 1. Gore: Polluters Finance Research to Cast Doubt on Global Warming 2. Pollution risk for Olympic events 3. House OKs New Taxes on Oil Companies INDIE ART 1. Glastonbury music madness in England 2. YouTube Calling 3.What's Going On?! JUNE 2007 4. Bush Quotes Archive ********************* *************************** THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT

I've BEEN Wanting Change!

I haven't done an issue of IWantChange.org in nearly a year! I've just been so crazy doing this album, I haven't had time to do both. Unfortunate timing for me, because as I took this year off of IWantChange.org**. "Change" freakin blew up! I feel like it was plucked right out of my brain. Of course, we move amongst each other in so many unknown ways, perhaps it was. Anyway, I remember writing about Obama in '04(you can read it HERE). I, like so many of us, saw his speech at the DNC and fell in love. Back then, his presidency seemed only a whimsical fantasy. One of those "Ohhhh, it'd be so nice if..." To now sit here a short 4 years later and see it becoming a reality is truly amazing. For the first time in a long time I feel proud of America. I feel (and also feel a little manipulated by) hope! Hopeful of a new milestone, of healing. Hope that we just might have a smart person back in the drivers seat again. Hopeful that he remains genuine. Hopeful that after Tuesday, when the Change broohaha has died down, we still strive for it. It's a long road to not only repairing, but moving our country forward, and it merely BEGINS with changing who's in the White House. I'm hopeful that in the coming years we'll take a hard look at our selves and be honest with what we find. For once we win this election(I'm manifesting!), we need to look inward and address our consumer culture, our disposable mentality. We need to examine how we take in information. We need to become critical thinkers again. I'm hopeful of the tide of people that got up and stood behind Obama. As with all leaders, Obama's just another guy without our numbers. Not only did we do this, but we can ALWAYS do this. The power has always been ours to hold. I'm hopeful that we remember this power, and use to it to fight for a more just and balanced world - ALWAYS. **for those of you that don't know, iwantchange.org is a web magazine my mom and I started in '04, long before change became Obama's slogan

WE DID IT!!
I WANT CHANGE SINCE

Barack Obama’s meteoric rise from little-known state lawmaker to the nation’s first black president became complete last night as he rolled over GOP Sen. John McCain and pledged to usher in “the hope of a better day” for America. “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that anything is possible . . . who questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama said in a stirring acceptance speech before 70,000 revelers crammed into Chicago’s Grant Park last night. “Change has come to America.” With the crowd chanting “Yes we can!” Obama vowed to tackle the nation’s broken economy, fight off global threats and support soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. “The road ahead will be long. The climb will be steep. But America, I have never been more hopeful that we will get there,” Obama said. McCain graciously conceded defeat around 11:30 p.m. in an impassioned speech in which he recognized the historical significance of Obama’s election, wished the Democrat “godspeed” and vowed to work with him in Washington. “Senator Obama has achieved a great thing. I applaud him,” McCain said. “These are difficult times . . . I pledge tonight to do everything I can to help him.” President Bush called and congratulated Obama on his “awesome night,” according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. “I promise to make this a smooth transition. You are about to go on one of the great journeys of life. Congratulations and go enjoy yourself,” Bush told Obama, according to Perino. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a friend and ardent backer of Obama, said: “Americans spoke loud and clear and demanded change by electing Barack Obama as our next president. They understood his vision of a fairer and more just America and embraced it.” Obama, a 47-year-old Harvard Law School grad, won in an electoral college landslide and decisive popular vote, besting McCain in several key battleground states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. He also swept the New England states, including a strong win in Massachusetts. “What a wonderful and long overdue night for America,” Sen. John F. Kerry said at an Obama party at Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel last night. “I have the latest exit polls - Bush is exiting, Cheney is exiting and Barack Obama is entering the White House.” Obama’s impressive victory marked the end of one of America’s most grueling and polarizing races for the White House. The roller coaster journey included bitter primary races on both sides, two momentous political conventions and vicious smear tactics that targeted everything from McCain’s age and health to Obama’s ties to a race-baiting pastor. While Obama celebrated with 70,000 jubilant revelers in Chicago, voters in Boston weighed in on his historic rise to power and cited the nation’s fiscal fiasco and war as reasons for the Illinois senator’s win. “I’ve been voting all my life. Today is history,” said James Charvis, a 78-year-old black voter from Dorchester. “And it’s about time.” “We need a damn change,” added Lorena Gorski, 58, of the South End. “We are billions in debt, we are in two wars, the rest of the world hates us, so it is time for a change.”