Taking to heart the right-wing ridicule of Tennessean Al Gore as unable to carry his home state in the razor-thin election of 2000, the blog seeks to inform and empower a broader coalition of civil rights activists to be leaders in politics. Despite its ambitious goals, the blog does not pull punches or miss a beat: One post even suggested that presidential aspirant and actor Fred Thompson (dubbed "Frederick of Hollywood") protest his wife's earlier inability to pay her own medical bills by sharing her story with progressive filmmaker and conservative lightning rod Michael Moore, who chronicles Americans' difficulties accessing quality care in the richest nation in history in his documentary "Sicko." This is a different brand of southern charm.
The blug's use of subversive media to circumvent mainstream news filters and readiness to foment street demonstrations are a welcome addition to the progressive movement in Tennessee. Among the successes of that movement, inspiring Mahatma Gandhi and social-justice activists worldwide, is ratification of the 19th Amendment following a cliffhanger vote in the capitol in Nashville in August 1920. Tennessee Guerilla Women do their part to revive celebration of Women's Suffrage Day, on August 26, and recover other overlooked landmarks of feminist and civil rights history.
