Mailbag Monday

Margaret is out of town and away from her computer – performing tonight at the “Bring Em Home Now” Concert. Some of your recent letters: —–Original Message—– Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:25 AM To: margaretcho Subject: More re South Dakota Check the NEW South Dakota state logo at Feministing… —–Original Message—– Sent: Tuesday, March […]

Margaret Gets Letters

Note: Margaret is on vacation and away from her blog. She gets so many nice and touching letters from you folks we thought we’d share some recent ones today (since you’ve all seen the not so nice ones). Thanks for sharing your kind words: —–Original Message—– From: [removed] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 1:00 PM […]

From The Road

Note from webmistress: Margaret is busy on the road, so she asked us to thank you for all of the nice photos and emails and comments you’ve all sent in from the book tour. We love these! Thank you all for making it special! Hope to see you on the rest of the tour. Hello […]

Save Tookie

I want everyone to know about this terrible injustice happening right now in our country. Please call or write the CA Governor and let our voices be heard. Here’s an urgent letter I received: Margaret, Although I could spend this whole email talking about how fab you are, more serious things are on my mind. […]

“They Don’t Know, Who We Be.” But They Will.

Note from Team Cho: We want to thank all of you for being so motivated and passionate and inspiring and uplifting, and to share with you what people are sharing with us. Thank you for your spirit. ________________________________ Margaret, I usually don’t write to people I don’t know (unless they’re my reps in Congress). I’ve […]

Bush Has Got To Go

Note from Team Cho: Margaret’s working 16 hour days in NYC on a project for a friend plus doing tour press up until her shows at The Apollo on the 28th (2 sold out shows!!). She has no internet access. Her entries this week will be intermittent at best. We’ve posted a typical letter fom […]

From Damien

An entry from Death row in Arkansas, our dear friend Damien Echols: Our windows here are these tiny slits from which you can’t see much of anything. Last night I was lying on my bunk when I noticed there was a little more light in here than usual. I started looking out the window, trying […]

Our Man Inside

get a pretty good account of prisoner abuse that doesn’t get photographed, that happens daily, most likely in correctional facilities all over – America. I asked chief correspondent, our man inside, Damien Echols, what it is like where he lives. He has a good sense of humor about his situation, but it makes it nonetheless […]

Response to David

—- Original Message —– From: David To: margaret@margaretcho.com Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:24 PM Subject: The prisoner abuse Hello, I am a 20 year Marine. I am not sure my views make me a Freeper or not, I just hope you get my mail. First of all I cannot agree with you more about […]

Damien Echols II

Here is a portion of the letter I got from Damien Echols today. “…for the past two weeks I’ve been writing non stop. I had started writing my memoirs several months ago, but haven’t worked on it since. I picked up my pen a couple of weeks ago and it began to flow. I’ve been […]

Thank You, Jeff

I know that there has got to be a reason for everything, and the way we come to love one another can be a painful journey. Where it will take us, there is no way of knowing, but when it brings us to the heart, then no matter how tragic the circumstance, when we allow […]

Damien Echols

Here is the first installment of what I hope will be an ongoing dialogue with Damien Echols. We have been corresponding for a time, and I deeply encourage all to learn more about this young man’s story. Until he is free, none of us are free. – 1) How do I feel right now? The […]