You know what? Ava Lowrey is my hero! (And She's a DUer!)

[jeff30997]

She's a courageous woman surrounded by rednecks and she's fighting for the truth anyway!

"Ava Lowery is a fifteen-year-old who lives in Alabama. She calls herself a peace activist, and for the past year, she’s been producing her own short animations on her website, peacetakescourage.com. All in all, she’s made about seventy of them, she says, and most of them oppose Bush and his Iraq War"

She says she’s received a lot of positive feedback in short messages back to her site. And she understands that the fact that “people are on the web, and they just let loose.” But she was unprepared for the viciousness of the negative feedback—especially the ugly sexual slurs similar to those that Cindy Sheehan has faced. (If you can’t stand foul language, stop reading now.)

“It’s people like you who need to fucking die and get raped while your corpse rots in the sun,” said one e-mail Lowery shared with me. “Fuck you, I would jack off on your parents if I could. If you don’t like the team, get out of the park. That means take ur small dick and get the fuck off of my homeland you faggot chocolate gulper.”


Ava,you have all our support here at DU.

You are great and I admire you and your talent.Your animations are awesome!

Keep up the good work!

-Jeff

Ava's Website: http://www.peacetakescourage.com/page-about.htm

[jeff30997]

1. Kickin' for Ava!

:kick:

[opiate69]

2. Another K&R for Ava

[mikelewis]

3. K & R

[Robbie Michaels]

4. Yet another K&R

:kick:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Ava is awesome, and so is her web site.

If you have not done so, check it out. And take a listen to the three radio interviews she has recently done. She has links to them on her journal.

[durrrty libby]

6. There are sadly,plenty of cowardly ignorant Amerukins

At this moment that number is 31%

[Oversea Visitor]

7. Yeah 15years old

Talk the talk, Walk the Walk.

Treasure her, she like one in a billion.

[jeff30997]

18. Yeah,she's amazing!

At that age I don't think I was so politically aware and so talented.

[Bjornsdotter]

8. K & R

Nice job!

Cheers

[Mr_Spock]

9. We desperately need more people like Ava in this country

She is a ray of sunshine in an area of the country that sees it's share of rays from the sun - yet they remain mostly in the dark there.

[Kerrytravelers]

10. K&R

:kick:

[Richard Steele]

11. Yeah, Jeff, she's pretty awesome, intshe?

As a very VISUAL person, I've been watching and loving Ava's videos
since she started posting them here.

And she really just has an AMAZING gift for it.

I was totally in AWE of her stuff from the get-go;
so much so that the revelation that she was a teenager
hardly even shocked me.

In my head, I was like:
"She's 15 and lives in Alabama; that's a surprise...
But that's NOTHING compared to the SURPRISING juxtapositions
of image/sound/context I see EVERY WEEK on her website!"

[MadMaddie]

12. Bravo Ava....

It concerns me that these grown ass men and women are attacking a 15 year old....this is the stuff that needs to get put out..maybe they don't know she is 15...but just the same it's disrespectful and threatening...just curious are these assholes leaving their names....because if they aren't.....hmmmm....

These repugs have no shame....pathetic cowards!!!

Keep up the good work Ava!!

[hwmnbn]

28. They are leaving other clues......

:evilgrin:

[Swamp Rat]

13. Geaux Ava!

:kick:

[RagingInMiami]

14. Let's get her a fake ID

So she can vote this upcoming election

[TexasLawyer]

15. 15??!!!???

Wow, I'm speechless! Way to go Ava. I've seen your stuff and it's great.

[Triana]

16. I used to live in Alabama and I can tell ya...

...that AIN'T no easy place for a progressive to be. Especially a young, female progressive.

GO AVA GO!!!!!!!!!

Don't you EVER let those bastards keep you down. You have supporters worldwide!

[Ava]

17. thank you so much!

:hug: :pals:

[jeff30997]

20. You're so welcome !

You don't know how much I admire you.I did a little research and I discovered that you're almost alone were you live to have a brain.I support what you're doing and most of all the way you're doing it.(I'm better with animations and photoshoping than words.I guess I'm a little shy so if I had to talk on radio I would have sound like a mumbling idiot.But you did very well.)I'm very glad that you're a DUer(DUerette?:)).

Love,Jeff.

:pals:

[leftofthedial]

19. Ava's the best

and you can tell her I said so.

[Vidar]

21. Continuing to applaud Ava.

[nicknameless]

22. Hear hear! She's awesomely courageous, well-spoken and talented.

:patriot: Ava Lowrey

[Nikki Stone 1]

23. War supporting adults writing rape threats to a 15-year old?

Some family values that.

Or maybe it's just a fraternity prank?

[ShortnFiery]

24. She recently posted a Republican Questionnaire

With her laudable responses written in JUST FOR Ken Melman's perusal.

It was amusing - gave me a smile for the day.

Yes, she's excellent! :applause:

[Libby2]

25. She's my hero too.

I'm so impressed and proud of her work.
She's an "it" getter.

[sonias]

26. k&r for Ava

You can never give too much encouragement or support to a young activist.

Sonia

[hwmnbn]

27. I personally think.......

she rocks too!! :yourock: