Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
From Jim Hightower
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.
But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
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