Is anyone on ILX involved in politics?

This might be ILE, but I was a member of student socialists, student democrats, student libertarians and student republicans back in Michigan. (I joined them all because I was poor and they all had free food at the meetings)
-- David Allen (earwhig...), January 12th, 2005.

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Is anyone on ILX involved in politics?
Yeah, soz, ILE for this.

-- Miles Finch (do...), January 12th, 2005. (tracklink)

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"The resistance of Cultural Studies to the foreign (as that which almost by definition it cannot study) is far more worrying than any residual investment in a preference for Kultur over mass culture and for both over politics. The methodological preference of Cultural Studies will almost always be for some narrowly national archive, since the thick description that it pursues almost demands that we stick to what we think we know best."
People this affectless are not worth listening to.

-- O Henry (o_henr...), January 12th, 2005.

you rock, hal!

ilxers in politics... come on.... i am sure they all have very strong ungrounded opinions though.

i was a deaniac then campaigned for kerry, though hardly very involved - volunteer at local demhq, bought paraphenalia (kerry ringer t with pride), went to meetups when i could, ye olde bumpersticker. for all my doubts about the effectiveness of protest i go to them anyway. i posted signs for becky vaughn, john barrow, made phone calls for vaughn. i haven't made up my mind between mark taylor and cathy cox.

I have volunteered for several campaigns in the past three elections, but mainly did phone-banking and get-out-the-vote sorts of things.

I was paid to attend a three-day seminar on how to run a campaign, where I learned quite a bit of the nuts and bolts of campaign management for local races, but I have never been in charge of a campaign - largely because of unfavorable circumstances in my personal life for devoting the amount of time it would take.

I worked with the philly independent media center, which I would consider political involvement.

yeah.

my flatmate works for an MP.. if that counts.

i'm a political advisor

i used to be a lot more involved back in the states...at michigan i organised some protests, ran some groups, all that. i was on the board of the national organisation for women in chicago, and also volunteered on loads of dems campaigns in the 2000 election. involved in democrats abroad a bit over here, much less so once dean was booted from the race.

haven't even been paid for my work, that would actually be an interesting career for me, but wouldn't know how to go about that. also, feel a bit removed from politics here in london, so haven't been involved as much. but i miss it. people that attended the dean thanksgiving thing can probably tell i love organising that kind of stuff.

oh, and to work at ken's level, i've apparently got an ex that's running for state house sometime in the next couple years, and is already a 'big name' in the state party. so i'm told.

we have a state election approaching here and not only am i trying to pretty up the current govt i am also going to be working in the tally room counting 'n' stuff!! i'm very excited. which is quite a good indication of how incredibly daggy i actually am.

yep, but it's all canadian, so you'd not know the references. helped organize our end of a national-day-of-action last year against tuition fees, also, and am a senator at my university, etc. etc.

I moonlight as Barrack Obama.

It's funny because it's true!

I used to work for an environmental group, and now I work for a political consulting firm that works for assorted leftie causes. But I wasn't doing any real political work myself in them, just the admin, making the trains run on time and all that.

I've applied to be a Lord.

I want to be a Lord. But I'd probably have to kill a cousin first or something. :-(

or buy people mercedes-benzes