I have arrived in Jackson MS with my partner Dylan. There is a great community here bubbling with activism. We are staying with a couple who moved here a few years ago from California: Sage and Brad (and their dog Ziggy). Sage works at the Jackson Free Press (http://www.jacksonfreepress.com) - an awesome independent free weekly newspaper. Brad is the manager of the High Noon Cafe in Jackson's Rainbow Food Coop (http://www.rainbowcoop.org/cafe.htm). They live in a little house in Fondren with chickens and bees in the yard. It is nice to be so welcome.
Here's how I know we're in the South: catfish, no sidewalks, Sage was telling me about a friend of hers who grew up in the northern Delta and had segregated prom.
Looking at the Winter MS ACLU newsletter I was struck by an article about student speech after the Presidential election: the ACLU is respoding to multiple reports of students being disciplined for saying Barak Obama's name in school or discussing the election. Read the newsletter here: http://www.msaclu.org/ .
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Congrats on arriving. I'm so glad to hear you and Dylan have a wonderful home base to orient you in Jackson. Post your thoughts often -- I'm looking forward to hearing about MP '09's work!
PS: This is Shirley. Have to remember to switch my Blogspot accounts!
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