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  <subtitle>Much ado about the usual nothing.</subtitle>
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    <title>...and in Prairie View, they march</title>
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    <updated>2008-02-20T15:51:48+00:00</updated>
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      <name>domesticat</name>
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    <category term="election" />
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    <category term="voting" />
    <category term="youth" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Seen on <a href="http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5040">this article at the Burnt Orange Report</a>:</p>

<blockquote>1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning [Tuesday, Feb 19] walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today.</blockquote>

<p>Or see yesterday's aerial shots <a href="http://media.myfoxhouston.com/news/2008-02-19/pvamuvote/index.html">of them walking</a>. </p>

<p>Larger article in <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5552259.html">the Houston Chronicle</a> here.</p>    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Seen on <a href="http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5040">this article at the Burnt Orange Report</a>:</p>

<blockquote>1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning [Tuesday, Feb 19] walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today.</blockquote>

<p>Or see yesterday's aerial shots <a href="http://media.myfoxhouston.com/news/2008-02-19/pvamuvote/index.html">of them walking</a>. </p>

<p>Larger article in <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5552259.html">the Houston Chronicle</a> here.</p>

<p>I don't know the history here, but this is what I see:  the decision not just to speak, but to <em>act.</em>  To quote a Farkism:</p>

<p>THIS.</p>

<p>To quote from Ana Marie Cox's election blog, <a href="http://time-blog.com/swampland/">Swampland</a>, Texas' "<a href="http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/02/the_texas_primacusuh_caucary.html">Caucary/Primacus</a>" is about to get really interesting.  Have I mentioned how glad I am that Jeff got the old laptop fixed so that I could be productive on the couch while keeping up with primary coverage?</p>    ]]></content>
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