One of the things I've noticed here on Kos is how effective people can be when they join in here together to accomplish some goal. Here on Kos you can be transformed from a solitary pissed off person into an important component of a finely tuned, well-oiled, society fighting machine.
The way life is structured these days, it's hard for people to find the time to do something about the numerous injustices that face us today. This got me to thinking, "If Jane Fonda can provide us with a good abdominal workout in eight minutes, why not use the same principle to try and change the world?"
Since this is the first installment of
:08 Minute Activist, I want to start with something simple, just to see if this bird even flies.
In order to keep track of participation, I've used the poll question as a sort of a tally. That way we can won't have to clutter up the comment section with the usual "Done" and "I did it!" type posts common to these activism threads. You can just indicate what you've done by using the poll question (below). In this way we can measure the effect we are having with a given campaign.
I'd love it if people used the comments section to provide some suggestions for future cause du jours. Or if you have an idea that's just burning to be done, post it here and perhaps people will join your cause as well.
So without further delay, I give you this weeks Cause Du Jour:
Let's Nag Congress
Before the election, Robert Scheer of the
Los Angeses Times came out with a report entitled
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket Mr. Scheer had uncovered the fact that the CIA was illegally withholding a CIA report that
would have been very embarrasing to the Administration and could conceivable cost them the election. Full article linked here
Well the report was supressed successfully, and Bush is safely re-elected. Now that the election is over, I'm starting to get the feeling that the Bush Administration is hoping that we all just forgot about this report.
So for our first order of Business, I was thinking it might be cool if a bunch of us got together and simontaneously launched a barrage of emails upon our representatives, inquiring into when this report will be coming out.
In the spirit of the Eight Minute Activist, I have tried to make doing this extremely easy to do.
I've provided a Link to a very simple page that you only need enter your zip code into, and you will immediately be taken to a page where you can send an email to all of your local representatives at once.
Click Here to go to the Write Congress page. ( Will open in a new browser window )
If I have figured correctly we should be about two minutes in right about now.
Now all you have to do is type the content part of the letter.
I suggest something along the lines of this:
I was just wondering, now that the National election is over, whatever happened to that CIA report that was requested by Congress and completed in June 2004 by the Inspector Generals office? Three thousand people were killed on 9/11 and I find it very disturbing that at this late date this report has still not been made available to the public.
If you'd like to add more to this letter yourself that would be great. Although if you'd like, just cut and paste the text above and use that. I think the most important thing here is volume.
It will be nice to let our Congresspeople and Senators know that we are still paying attention.
That's it. You are done. If my calculations are correct, we should be approaching about 7:38 on our timeclock for this mission.
This gives me just enough time left to say,
"Thanks for participating. I'll see you next week".