An activist group to discuss,YES WE DID!
Welcome to 2009. Now the work begins.
Make your voice heard here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Then get involved in your community here:
http://my.barackobama.com
Find your Representative:
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/index.html
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html
Find your Senator:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Issues and Topics:
*Single Payer Healthcare. I know Obama did not campaign on it, but this is where we Make Him Do It. We must push this.
* Use of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up consolidated corporate media, and any private entity that is Too Big To Fail.
* A push for public campaign financing, and education about instant runoff/ranked choice voting.
* More, of course.
Groups for Change:
Democracy For America, founded by Howard Dean:
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/
Progressive Democrats of America:
http://www.pdamerica.org
Books for Change:
* Moral Politics by George Lakoff.
* The Conscience of a Liberal by the late, great Senator Paul Wellstone.
* Taking On the System by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.
* The Limits of Power by Andrew Bacevich.
* The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi.
* The Uprising by David Sirota.
* The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
* The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank.
* Cracking the Code by Thom Hartmann.
* Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen.
Get Active!

Daily Kos
- Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread 4 hrs ago
- Open Thread and Diary Rescue 6 hrs ago
- Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 7/03/09 6 hrs ago
- Top 10 reasons for Palin resignation 7 hrs ago
- Palin secedes from office. Also. 7 hrs ago
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Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print » Election 2008
- Didn’t Drill Baby Drill Lose the Election? 3 weeks ago
- Senate Unanimously Attacks Freedom of Information Act 1 month ago
- Congressional Democrats Continue Silence on Kangaroo Courts 1 month ago
- Sarah Palin Says Republican Leaders Not Religious Enough For Her Prayer Circle 3 months ago
- Race and Homophobia: In the Congress, It’s a NOT-Black Thing 3 months ago
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Vermonters for Obama
- A Message from Organizing for America 3 months ago
- President Barack Obama’s Address to Joint Session of Congress: Video & Text 4 months ago
- Celebrate Our American Renewal 5 months ago
- A Message from Howard Dean 6 months ago
- First Weekly YouTube from the President-Elect… 8 months ago
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Firedoglake
- So long, and thanks for all the moose 2 hrs ago
- Late Late Night FDL: Club Poodle 5 hrs ago
- Late Night: Elephants Palin on Parade 7 hrs ago
- Sarah Palin Resigns To Spend More Time IN YOUR FACE 9 hrs ago
- Palin’s Shot Across Pawlenty’s Bow 10 hrs ago
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Crooks and Liars
- Charles Grassley: We Shouldn't Blame Greed Any More Than You'd Blame Gravity -900780874 secs ago
- Open Thread 6 hrs ago
- C+L's 4th of July Late Nite Music Club 7 hrs ago
- Ode to The Sacred Cow - Proposition 13 - 1978 8 hrs ago
- Glenn Beck gets all worked up about an obscure French book nobody's reading 9 hrs ago
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