Warrior

"If every American did a small fraction of what she does every day, we would actually have peace by the end of this month."

I was going through this piece in Truthout about the unsung heroes of the peace movement, and found myself reading about my good friend Barbara. Not only is she everything the article says she is, she's a hell of a good freewayblogger too: one of our best. Along with Beachblogger, she's put up hundreds - and I do mean hundreds - of signs along the Interstates in San Diego.

Her modus operandi is the same as mine: paint up twenty signs or so, stick them in the car and go for a drive. Like me she blogs during the day, keeping mostly to peripheral fencing, striking quickly and often. Though most freewaybloggers prefer working at night, hardcore types like Barbara and me know that daytime's really the way to go... just drive around with a bunch of signs and a camera, hitting the usual spots and checking out new ones. It's really quite pleasant, actually, and after a couple of hours of doing you can go home knowing a hundred thousand people saw the word "Impeach" instead of just fencing.

Barbara is a remarkable woman, no doubt about it, and truly one of the hardest working we've got in the peace movement. But she'd be the first to tell you that freewayblogging isn't part of that work: Freewayblogging is how she unwinds.