AvaLowery

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About Me

I'm obsessed with politics, current events, and "deep" discussions. I can ramble on for hours about religion, the war in Iraq, different political issues, and any other interesting topic you bring up. I like to create videos for my website www.peacetakescourage.com and I'm currently working on my first documentary. I also like to watch movies, especially if they have good cinematography. I'm a peace activist and raging liberal working for peace and justice. In December of 2007 I launched this website, AvasArmy.com, to try to help involved and aware young people connect.

Favorite Books

Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Anthem, The Stranger, Lord of the Flies, The Giver, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, Hatchet, The Midwife's Apprentice, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond to name a few.

Favorite Music

The Who, The Kinks, The Clash, Blondie, Franz Ferdinand, Strokes, the Hives, the Libertines, CCR, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Queen, the Cranberries, Greenday, Weezer, the Killers, Coldplay, The Sex Pistols, The Offspring, Johnny Cash, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, NIN, RATM, Jimi Hendrix, Three Dog Night, Bob Marley, Tom Waits

Favorite TV Shows

currently my tivo list consists of: lost, heroes, house, the daily show, the colbert report, myth busters, planet earth, extras, the naked archaeologist, and anthony bourdain no reservations

Favorite Quotes

"No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies." - Mother Jones

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong." - Mother Jones

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth" - Plato

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts, has its own laws.”- Leon Trotsky

"Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed." - Robert F. Kennedy

My Website

http://www.avasarmy.com