Pictures...

All the pictures up until Fall 1998 were taken with a three dollar (canadian currency) camera, which got stolen at the SOA protest (we left our van unlocked), so I upgraded to an eight dollar (U.S.) one.


On the Road
Last summer (1999) I hitch-hiked from Bristol, Indiana (near South Bend) to Seattle.  About 2300 miles.  It took 4.5 days.  I imagine it could take as little as three days if you got lucky and had experience (and were in a rush).  Before this, I'd never hitch-hiked EVER.  I got twelve rides.  Waiting for a ride took from zero minutes to 2 hours.  The longest rides were all from truck-drivers.  I strongly recommend trying it.  Except perhaps for women doing it alone -- which might be too risky (11 out of 12 drivers that picked me up were men, and the one woman driver had never picked up a hitch-hiker before).  I never got harassed by cops, and was only kicked out of one truck stop. Unfortunately I only took a couple pictures.

The one place I had trouble getting a ride was in North Dakota (where you can hitch-hike on the turnpike, instead of the on-ramp -- which is very nice!).  A guy let me out in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park -- which is in the middle of no-where, but very picturesque.  I got caught in a short hail storm and had to spend the night there as night fell without anyone picking me up (there isn't so much traffic there).  Fortunately it didn't rain again as there isn't any cover.  I slept on top of a hill.

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picture 2
picture 3
picture 4  (double rainbow!)

Hitch-hiker post  (Spokane, WA, near the airport, hitch-hiker grafitti, -- I never met any hitch-hikers on the trip, though I saw some people hitching out west and I met a tramp/hobo in Fargo)

Me by the Columbia River  (where the turnpike goes over the Columbia in Washington)



Notre Dame Activism...  (in random chronological order)
Phil Donahue making threatening gestures
Counter-Protestors (people with candles are protesting PSA's efforts to change the non-discrimination clause, praying the Rosary)
Stepan Rally against Discrimination  (11/98)
Phil's Groupie (PSA group photo with Phil)
Gathering in Lafortune (picture #1 from the sit-in, when we heard we'd lost two months ago and weren't told Feb. 5 1999)
Marching-On the Administration (we head-over to Hayes-Healy)
Sitting-In
Discussions
A little media

First Appearence of the Progressive Student Alliance (chalking for our first meeting, 02/98))
Iraq Teach-In at the Center for Social Concerns (02/98)
Protest for Peace in Iraq 1
picture 2
Iraq Protest at Tim Roemer's office
SEA Styrofoam Protest at South Dining Hall
Speakout for Fr. Garrick and Equal Rights #1  (03/98)
picture 2
picture 3



Non-Notre Dame Activism...

SEAC NC Meeting (Aug. 1999 -- playing 'OM-POM')
SEAC NC Meeting  (singing the flying toaster song)
SEAC Office volunteer staff (summer 1999)
SEAC National Council Meeting  (Jan. 1998)

Hopping a Train  (May 1997, me, heading south in a boxcar)

National Peoples Campaign  (Rally Against the Contract On America, Chicago, May 1995)

Torches for Mumia (Vancouver, Aug 10, 1995)
Torches for Mumia II

Paxie Pictures  (Paxie is Goshen College Pax's mascot paper-mache bell)
Paxie Aaron (this is Paxie original, Fall 1997)
Paxie Jeff
Paxie Buy Nothing Day #1
Paxie Buy Nothing Day #2
Paxie Tim (the Hershey Kiss version)
Paxie Roy (Roy Bourgeios, of SOA fame, makes a fashion statement)

Tax The Rich (posters in the Goshen College Union building, Spring 1996)

Columbus, OH   (Jan. 1996)
Rally Against the Klan
Police on Horses
A line-up of police in riot gear