The picture i posted below was very powerful to me in today's paper, and i think should tell us something about the kind of grief (and belief) that Lauren preached about Sunday night. It is very close to home.
here is the link to the LA Times article about Devin Brown's shooting.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shoot8feb08,0,3872370.story?coll=la-home-local

This is some major sh--- and I hope that we who are residents of this city do not stay quiet about it. Whatever happened to 'Freeze, put your hands up and get out of the car' ? Or shooting the tires out? 13 years old, unarmed, shot 10 times and killed by LAPD.

Also.....if anyone has any thoughts on the new budget that Bush has unveiled, please post them up. I am at a loss for words at this point becasue i dont know where to start. It makes me so angry.
Lets go ahead and take billions of dollars away from the poor and working class and spend more money we dont have on building and maintaining weapons, destroying the environment to dig up oil, and more Border Patrol agents to keep 'aliens' out of 'our' country.
And give the rich a tax break, becasue of course, we cant expect them to have to pay for all of this.