The battle to preserve the rights of minority political factions – and the public interests those factions represent – is about to be fully joined. Here are the simple steps you need to take to gear up for the fight to save the filibuster:
- Sign up for text message alerts on your cell phone with People for the American Way. This way, you’ll know instantly when we need to take action and what you need to do.
- Regionalization is becoming increasingly important – elected officials always respond more eagerly to their constituents, and good local media coverage is key. BlogPAC is helping to organize state-by-state efforts, so if you haven’t yet signed up there, do so by clicking here. If you have a blog of your own, be sure to input that in the appropriate field. (Non-bloggers should sign up as well.)
- MoveOn PAC is organizing citizen filibusters – along the lines of the tremendously successful Princeton filibuster – tomorrow at noon. Click on over to their site to find a location near you. If you go, be sure to take a digital camera or a camcorder and post pics or videos online when you get home. Thanks to inflation, pictures are worth even more than 1,000 words these days.
- When things really, finally go down, everyone needs to be able to contact as many people as fast as possible. We need people to hear our unfiltered message from friends and family and co-workers and neighbors before they hear the sterile and misleading he-said/she-said version on the news. So people need to pull together email addresses for everyone they know before it happens so that our message can immediately spread virally.
We don’t know exactly when Frist will try to go nuclear, but people need to plan to drop everything and get in front of a computer. The process of breaking the rules to end the filibuster won’t take that much time. We need instant mobilization and widespread distribution. With everyone’s help, we can win this in the Senate – and on the local level.
All hands on deck!
(Originally posted at DailyKos and the Swing State Project.)
for posting over here. It’s all hands on board…
My pleasure! Thanks for inviting me to do so.
David, Crooks and Liars has the screenshot of your diary being featured on MSNBC today. You have to scroll down the page. Again: Congratulations!
David, over on the Kos diary about this a week or so ago, someone asked if there’s a way for us to get instant messages if we don’t have a cell phone (I’m allergic to them).
Can we get instant e-mail? Will you post instant info here?
Hey, Susan. The bottom line is that no, you cannot get text messages if you don’t have a cell phone BUT you should still sign up anyway because PFAW will also be sending out an e-mail as soon as things go down. So as long as you’re in front of a computer, you should be able to get the necessary info very quickly – but PFAW’s e-mail may not get sent out until they send their text messages first.
DAVID! You were just on MSNBC … via Daily Kos, sigh. BUT THERE YOU WERE! “All hands on deck,” and he explained what you were doing.
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!
Who was “he”? Markos? Awesome!
He was the blog commentator person — one of the people who looks for stuff on the blogs and tells Connected’s hosts and viewers about interesting stuff.
And there you were! Sadly, I don’t think their show is reaired and I don’t think they have transcripts. I looked for a transcript the other day but couldn’t find one.
Do you know if this was the early show or the late show?
Late show — look at the time I posted / i posted it just a minute or so after I heard it.
Here’s the link to Barbara Boxer’s ACTION / CALL THESE DUDES NOW page.