Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Can anyone spare some change...for the next 365 days or so?

Ch-ch-ch-changes...

Gandhi sez:
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Warhol sez:
“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

Bono sez:
“Nothing changes on New Year’s Day.”

Zack sez:
“Everything can change on a New Year’s Day.”

What can change on a New Year’s Day?
Jan. 1, 1804 - Haitians defeat French colonialists, declare new nation
Jan. 1, 1831 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, begins publishing The Liberator
Jan. 1, 1892 - Ellis Island opened to immigrants
Jan. 1, 1959 - Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Batista

Jan. 1, 1994 (the day of NAFTA’s inauguration) - A group of mostly indigenous Mayan rebels, calling themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) after the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, rose up against the Mexican gov’t
Jan. 1, 2006 - ????