Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves!

I chanced upon this firsthand account of the Alaskan women’s rally against Palin’s nomination. It was heartening.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.  The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).  This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state.  I was absolutely stunned.  The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.  And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.  This just doesn’t happen here. – ‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE!

Alaska Women Say She Be Failin’

A couple of hours after Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Outside, as Alaskans call the Lower 48, her local critics swarmed an Anchorage intersection to correct the widespread impression that the whole of the Last Frontier endorses her candidacy.
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“The whole thing grew out of frustration,” said Charla Sterne, one of the organizers, who like several people at the rally declined to say where they worked (several said they were state employees and feared retribution). – In Anchorage, an Anti-Palin Protest – Washington Post

I couldn’t resist including a sample of the signs:

• Bush In A Skirt
• Palin: She Be Failin’
• Jesus Was a Community Organizer
• Palin: Thanks But No Thanks
• Smearing Alaska’s Good Name One Scandal @ a Time
• Candidate To Nowhere
• Rape Kits Should Be Free
• Voted For Her Once: Never Again!
• Community Organizers are the Real Patriots
• Barbies for War
• I Shall Not Be Pandered To
• Give Palin Your Vote AND Your Draft Age Child
• Sarah Palin: So Far Right She’s Wrong
• Coat Hangers for McCain
• Sarah Palin, Undoing 150 Years of American Feminism
• Hockey Mama for Obama (on a hockey stick)