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2 Comments | A good part of the reason I started blogging was because I went to a history conference at a UT branch up between Dallas and Fort Worth and found that, contrary to belief, many well known academic historians have found community history projects to be invaluable because of their focus and details. Photos rated high. Photos with details rate high. Interviews with participants in events rated high. Interviews with older people rated high if you cover their experience and perspective.- Prairie Weather
The last place you will hear about the new American labor movement is in big American outlets.
Via lambert, via susie. See them, their blogrolls, Twitter hash tag #1u and just about any other outlet where citizens can get the word out. Such as:
Service Employees International Union and its Fight for a Fair Economy site in Ohio.
Many state and local sites such as the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association and AFSCME Council 8.
The Pragmatic Progressive Forum
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
The CIW is a community-based organization of mainly Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. Via.
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Memo to AP: Don’t be stupid.
Mourn ya till I join ya
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 04:49PM It looks like the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 is going to be voted on in the next 24 hours. Here is a good summary of why it is terrible. Please contact your House and Senate representatives, tonight if possible.
I hate to sound breathless or alarmist about this but it looks like we don’t have much time to make our voices heard. Steny Hoyer seems to want a very quick vote. Please - call, fax, email, do whatever you can. Simon Owens has more on the kind of broad alliance that is starting to unite against it.
UPDATE: You can send two free faxes per day at http://faxzero.com/. Send two tonight and two tomorrow. Some suggestions:
Barack Obama (202) 228-4260
Steny Hoyer (202) 225-4300
Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-8259
Let ‘em hear from you.
Reader Comments (2)
Good morning Dan! Thanks for the numbers. I'll be calling Steny Hoyer today rather than Nancy because I always call Nancy and scream at "her" (her interns). She needs a break. LOL
Today will be a test for Barack Obama. Let's hope he makes the correct decision and goes with the rule of law! No immunity for the telecoms, George Bush/Dick Cheney, or Pelosi & others who helped in spying on Americans illegally BEFORE 9/11/01 (they started in February 2001).
By the way Dan, I tried the numbers above and they're not the right ones. Here they are:
Barack Obama: (202) 224-2854
Steny Hoyer: (202) 225-4131
Nancy Pelosi: (202) 225-0100
I called all 3 this morning. Barack & Hoyer's phone boxes are full and I was able to leave a long message screaming at Pelosi to stop protecting herself and the Bush Regime and to start doing the right thing by protecting us from criminal White Houses!
She hasn't called back yet. LOL
Have a great day Dan!