Thursday, January 22, 2009

After the Inauguration

We had an amazing, exhausting, emotional, inspiring, unifying, educational, freezing, energizing experience least last 5 days at and during our journey to the inauguration. We ended up performing on MLK day 5 times including once at the Emergency Community Arts Collective where we were staying, once for students of Aliso High School from Salinas, CA (who had also made the journey to DC), in front of the Capitol Building where we were interviewed by women from Pitzer doing a documentary, in the hallway of the Barbara Lee Reception at the Rayburn house and then finally in front of the MSNBC live news studio. An experience that at times felt like political Disneyland with souvenirs at every turn was still an experience of a lifetime. Our commitment to a people's White House and our call to inaugurate the people,the earth, love, peace, education, housing, immigrants, choice, health and truth will continue as soon as we get much needed and deserved rest and our pocket books recover. Our next goal is to call on our community allies to help us organize a report back and to raise money to finish our documentary about our experience. Much thanks for all your support. One Love

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Maya,
Glad to hear it went well. Sorry we couldn't reconnect after the performance at B. Lee's, but I'm going through all the emotions that you described. Finally getting through all my pictures and such. We should connect when things slow down!
-Daniel