i love the courage and efforts of people like Rosa Parks. i read that she died while taking a nap (the same way that my grandmother died, in sweet peace - i think that's how saints die). i'm adding a link to a previous article that i had written to commemorate her 89th birthday.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/02/7131.shtml
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Lucy Parsons was a revolutionary. Rosa Parks was a courageous, dedicated reformist.
"President Clinton awarded Park a Congressional Gold medal in 1999."
I always shudder at those kinds of statements. Its not the kind of company I would want to keep - George Washington (1st recipient), Cornelius Vanderbilt, Major General Zachary Taylor, Major General Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Walt Disney, Colin Powell, Gerald Ford, Billy Grahamm Tony Blair, Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II. Not to say their weren't good people who have received it. Its an award presented by the ruling elite to the chosen few who they want to venerate.
The Congressional Gold Medal is just the kind of authoritarian mumbo-jumbo that the original version of "The Wizard of Oz" was lampooning.