“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
- John F. Kennedy

Let art guide us through these difficult times…

I woke up today and thought maybe it was all a dream, maybe Congress didn’t pass the AETA. Maybe Kevin isn’t going to prison for starting a website. Maybe 6 very brave activist aren’t going to prison for speaking from their hearts. Maybe I can continue to practice my, new found love of video blogging the local protest, without one day being asked to choose between prison time or rating out my fellow activist, as my friend Josh did. Maybe I couldn’t be raided by the police as many have in the past. Maybe…

I wasn’t so lucky to wake up to that… I only woke up to the reality that this is all true. This is all going on in front of me. This was a chilling reality.

When I first heard of this act I thought: Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, well this targets “terrorist” not activist! But in the eyes of our government I’m a “terrorist”. I try to laugh this off but you can only laugh so hard, for so long, before you are sick.

I’ve been reading Will’s blog (Green Is The New Red) for a while hoping there will soon be good news. No such luck. In fact just today he blogged about how the media itself doesn’t even bat an eye in our direction. Why am I not surprised? The media has never looked our way unless we were standing in below freezing weather naked protesting fur, or have some other “media candy” demo. They didn’t notice us then so why will they notice us now? What the media doesn’t understand, and what they should understand is, now more then ever is the time to notice us! Because this act isn’t just about us, it effects all activists, and I fear by the time they start to notice anything other then “media candy” in activists, it will be too late.

I was asked the question by one of my close friends if I was going to “stop video blogging protest”. “Why?” I replied, to which she said, “Aren’t you afraid?” I told her, “They want me to be afraid. And who am I to give in to them?”
I’m far too stubborn to let a little fear stop me from doing what I love, and what I know in my heart is right. And until our mainstream media wakes up and starts to cover more of our events, I will continue to video blog. And until every cage is empty I will continue to leaflet and protest. Because it’s in my heart!

And besides, I’m far too new at video blogging, and activism, to just throw in the towel this early in the game!

Be safe, be strong, be creative in everyway that you can! AND GO VEGAN!

PS - This is the first time I’ve used this blog to write an article, so please don’t be too harsh on the grammar mistakes!

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