This is a great e-mail I received from activist.com today...
It is interesting that they said we should be calling local offices as well as the DC offices.
Thanks!
Dear Friends and Activists,
Please note the updated action link below. Now that an Alito
filibuster is looking increasingly likely, this new action deals also with the
threat of an abusive Senate rule change, the so-called nuclear option.
Please distribute this inspirational piece as widely as possible.
BE YOUR OWN HERO, DEMAND A FILIBUSTER OF ALITO NOW
Even if you have already sent emails or made calls, the most powerful
way for you to follow up is by calling and faxing the LOCAL district
offices of your senators. You can get all their numbers in an instant with
one click at
NEW ACTION PAGE:
http://www.nocrony.com/no_nuke.phpThe national toll free numbers are 888-355-3588, 888-818-6641 and
800-426-8073, just ask for any senator by name.
From time to time people will arise with the vision and the passion to
inspire other people, and the bravery to take a stand for justice even
if they have to do it alone. Sometimes tyranny maintains its power only
by a kind of mental intimidation, a threat that would collapse entirely
if it were just challenged. And whether those people are celebrated or
not, all who take a stand against tyranny, in any way they can, deserve
to be recognized as heros.
So it was with Rosa Parks. She was a simple seamstress who did not set
out to be a hero. While she worked as a volunteer secretary for the
NAACP, she did not see herself as a national leader. But on that day in
Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, she decided she would no longer suffer the
humiliation and surrender her bus seat because of her race. In her own
words, "The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could
stand to be pushed I suppose."
That one simple act of resistance precipitated the Montgomery Bus
Boycott, perhaps the key pioneering event in the creation of the whole civil
rights movement.
Today we have a Congress controlled by a numerical majority who operate
as bullies. They hold votes open for hours at a time while they
browbeat and threaten even their own party members. They disrespect and
disregard long established rules of procedure and decorum. They exclude the
participation of those representing at least half of the American people
from any kind of meaningful decision making. And if ever opposed, they
threaten they will not hesitate to further abuse their power by moving
to abolish the right to filibuster.
Do they not fear the American people? Thousands and tens of thousands
and hundreds of thousands of our citizens are calling and emailing and
faxing their senators right now to demand that Samuel Alito not be
allowed to run our Supreme Court into some right wing ditch. And if you are
asking, "Who will lead the filibuster that will stop this?" If you are
asking yourself, "Who will stand up against the intimidation and the
fear and expose those bullies for the fringe minority that they truly
are?" The answer is . . . YOU are doing it right now.
With every personal message you send, you are telling our senators that
it is time for we the people to take a stand. With every phone call you
make, you are telling them it's time to take our country back. With
every fax, YOU are a hero for democracy. The majority of the American
people no longer believe in done deals. The other side has already lost,
and the proof of it is that they are reduced to making empty verbal
threats. They'll clean our clock one Republican senator was quoted yesterday
as saying.
But privately the other side is telling its own few supporters that
something dreadful has happened, that we actually think we can win, and
that we will succeed unless they redouble their own lobbying efforts. And
it's not working for them. On the Ed Shultz show yesterday, and Ed does
not screen his calls, EVERY person who called in was demanding that
there be a filibuster if necessary to save our Supreme Court from Samuel
Alito.
There is only one way to deal with a bully. You must stand up to them.
And we must keep standing up to them. We must keep calling our senators
to tell them that the American people support them for taking a
courageous stand. They must stand alone on the floor of the Senate, but we
must continue rallying to their side. If the other side declares war on
the filibuster we must call and call again to express our outrage. Each
of us in our own way must find the courage to stand individually and
declare, "The time has just come when I've been pushed as far as I can
stand to be pushed."
NEW ACTION PAGE:
http://www.nocrony.com/no_nuke.phpAs more and more of us raise our voices together we are seeing the
dawning of a new political day. And on this day, no longer will we have to
live under the tyranny of intimidation and fear. Indeed, we have
nothing to fear but defeatism itself. It's up to us alone.
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.
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