so my high school readers are telling me that they're writing their senators. 11 of them also called their senators. what are my older readers doing to stop alito from getting crowned as a supreme court justice?
i hope you're being active and that it's just that this is something you're used to doing. my high school readers are amazing me with their e-mails. courtney wrote about how she called and was put on hold and she was nervous and almost hung up but kept telling herself she could do this.
a staff member got back on the phone and courtney read from the piece of paper she'd written her thoughts down on. that was a big deal courtney and i'm so proud of you!
there are so many great e-mails and i need to note jackie too because she's circulated 2 petitions, 1 for each of her senators, at her high school and her mother's picking her up from school early friday so that they can deliver it to the offices of their senators. good for you jackie! and good for your mother too!
i'm going to go into this in the roundtable tonight that will be in friday's gina & krista round-robin and i'm also going to write a thing about the 1st time something moved me enough to get active because my high school readers' excitement has made me remember what that felt like.
let me say it again, i hope my older readers are being as active as the younger 1s.
this is so important. i think we can force them to filibuster in the senate.
but that's going to mean reaching in and pulling out all the stops for the next days. we have between now and the 24th to move a mountain and i think we're shaking it.
i'm going to join c.i. and elaine in noting this good news from the feminist wire because if there's any 1 thinking 'well if we stood a chance, i might do something . . .' maybe this will get you off the couch, futon, et al:
January 19, 2006
No on Alito Momentum Building
The momentum to stop the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court is growing. Several Democratic Senators have already announced their intention to oppose Alito.
These Senators include Patrick Leahy (VT), Ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee; Judiciary Committee member Ted Kennedy (MA); Barbara Mikulski (MD); and Max Baucus (MT). Senators Leahy and Baucus had voted to confirm John Roberts in September. The option for a filibuster to block Alito is still on the table.
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Call your Senators and urge them to oppose Alito
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we can do this if we all dig deep. if you haven't done anything yet, get motivated and get active. if you're some 1 who's done everything this week, do it again. or do the 10 people each day that c.i.'s been stressing. that's where each day you tell 10 people about this. you have your senators' phone numbers with you and when some 1 says, 'yeah, i should do something,' you dial the number and hand the phone over.
people always mean to get involved. you need to make it as easy for them as you can. and if you don't have a cell phone, use your home phone. invite some people over and use the home phone or use a pay phone. but the point isn't just that you get the word out, the point is that when some 1 says 'no i haven't done anything but i should' you're right there ready to help them at that moment.
i'm not just tossing out things for other's today. t saw c.i.'s thing and we were talking about so tomorrow i will be at her salon talking to every 1 who comes in and i'll have the cell phone ready.
we're shaking the mountain. can we move it? not if we sit on our butts and wait for our senators to come to their senses or for some 1 else to do the work. get active. for those who already have gotten active, stay active.
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