Little Activist

In the evening, grandma and I took D to an Obama rally. Women for Obama sponsored a rally to turn Arizona blue. After some talking at the Arizona State University campus, we walked across the bridge over a major street carrying blue lights. It was an amazing blue river of over a thousand people. D had wanted to go. The speakers weren’t too exciting for him but hearing a fantastic trumpet player from only feet away was very cool. Once we got to turn on our lights and start walking through campus he got into the spirit. How often do kids get told to get loud and have fun. This is the only video I can find, you can imagine how fun it was to cross the bridge.Once we were on the other side there was more speaking but D prefered to stand by the road and chant while waving his light. As we were ready to leave we ran into some friends that were passing out some flyers against Prop 102. D, who’s already made posters against it, helped me at a polling place two years ago and been up on another website, was happy to help pass out flyers. I’m not sure whether people didn’t want to turn down the excited 8 yo or whether this was the right crowd but everyone he approached said they were voting No already.He had a great time and wants to go with me when I do some volunteering. 8and his first big rally, not too bad . . .