Kucinich touches down in Madison, Wisconsin

[CMT]

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich endorsed a $7.75 minimum wage for the city of Madison on Monday and promised to break up corporate monopolies, which are "strangling" Wisconsin dairy farmers, if elected.

It is time to get the U.N. in and the U.S. out", Kucinich declared in a fiery speech to a couple of hundred supporters at the Wisconsin Aviation airport hangar on Madison's North Side.

http://www.madison.com/wisconsinstatejournal/local/58719.php

[cosmicdot]

1. sending forth ripples of hope

"First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man ...

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage such as these that the belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." RFK

http://www.jfklibrary.org/r060666a.htm

The promise of hope is powerful, and when someone extends the message and taps into the many different centers of energy ... whether it be dairy farmers, laborers, young people, the uninsured, etc., a current is built when these ripples cross one another ...

..... let the momentum continue.

[JohnKleeb]

4. let it continue and let it prosper

"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"
Robert F. Kennedy, after George Bernard Shaw

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black ...
"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
RFK

[no name no slogan]

2. Go Dennis Go

and we'll see you in six hours in Minnesota!!!!

:kick: Kick :kick:

[Desertrose]

3. kick up for MN

:kick:

Peace
DR

[diamondsoul]

8. HEY! What's the big idea holding Dennis hostage to MN weather?!

:evilgrin: Just teasing. I guess it was a good gathering?

[goodhue]

9. tell me more

It was a beautiful night here last night in Minnesota, so what gives? Our candidate pulled away from Roosevelt High on the way to the airport (about 10 minutes away) at about 7:15. What happened thereafter?

[diamondsoul]

10. The report in Chicago was the weather held him up, but maybe-

it was just air-traffic instead? When he called in, after we determined he couldn't get to Chicago before the conference room had to be vacated, he did mention something about traffic over Chicago, so maybe someone mixed the facts up. Thanks, I was wondering what the heck happened in Minnesota!

The only facts I had were that he couldn't get clearance to take off even as late as 8:30pm, and that it wasn't looking good for him to make it. I posted about this in another thread, and while it was disappointing not to see Dennis as we'd all hoped to do, the trip was well worth it.(I drove up from Indianapolis) I met peope I've spoken to online for months, met new people who have the same ideas about humanity as I do, and got to see Studs Terkel. Let's face it folks, the man isn't getting any younger, and I've noticed every time I skip a chance to see someone I admire something bad happens to them. Shoot maybe I gave Studs another 10 years!*LOL*

Dennis is all about "lifting up America"...well friends, we were as uplifted as we could get without his presence to finish the job, and lemme tell ya that was a mighty high level as it was. I'm glad I went, and surely I'll see Dennis one of these times. More incentive to find him a spot to speak here in Indiana I guess, right? :toast:

[cosmicdot]

5. vote in the DU primary

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=537909

[revcarol]

6. Doesn't anyone have pics?

Dennis, DU-ers, the crowd, anyone?

[dpbrown]

11. We have photos on ourl listserv

They're at:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minnesota4Kucinich/lst

You might have to be a member of the listserv to access them there.

They'll be uploaded to our website as soon as someone can get to it.
http://www.minnesotaforkucinich.com

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[cosmicdot]

7. listen to Dennis in Madison

http://madison.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/2/14494_1.13.03.mp3

Mimi Kennedy 00:04 - 03:35
Dennis Kucinich 03:10 - 15:55