Dear Dkos People,
I am about to give one of my favorite online pep talks. I eventually end up giving it where ever I post. I can't help it, I am bossy and I think action is important, as important as discussion.
So follow me through the looking glass.......
Really, it's not big deal. I just get frustrated time after time reading diaries, some excellent, some mediocre and they often seem like "posterbation"...even the good ones. Why? Because there is often a very logical and obvious action item or suggestion which could be added to the diary with just an added minute's worth of effort.
I have been inspired, educated, touched pissed off and just bored reading dkos some days. But I would click on a link and sign up for e-mail, look for a local chapter of some organization or send off a nastygram (polite of course) to Congressman Yokel McDumbass who just called Murtha a coward.
Are you pissed off at Walmart and their lousy labor practices? Here is the perfect organization to support to stick it to Walmart... SEIU
For instance we might have 6 diaries about some news article or set of articles on a topic. To me the logical addition to any of those diaries whould be the email address for LTTE.
5 Diaries about the way republicans twisted Murtha's plan and NOT a single link to the RNC or the speaker of the house...or the media....
I was, unlike others this morning, kind of upset with Kerry's appearance on the morning show. I thought he failed to correct the record on Murtha's proposal and instead used the time to promote himself. Flame the hell out of me, I don't care. But here is the link to his contact form.
Disguested with the vigilante border patrol? Did you write a diary about it? Did you include a link to the [Southern Povery Law Center]?
Did you write a diary about some great appearance of Howard Dean on sunday morning TV? How about a link to the DNC page so that people can join to get the email or send him a thank you...OR DONATE. DNC
Here are some important links contact congress
Contacting the Senate
DFA link
DNC
Wellstone Action
take back america
NAACP
How about 25 threads about Alito and not a single link to {People For the American Way (they fight for separation of church and state http://www.pfaw.org/...]. PFAW is also a good link to add to any rant about the evil Christians who want to run the world.
I know, I know, you are thinking that if people wanted to join or email or call they would look the information up themselves. But it is ALWAYS a good idea to make things easier for them. Remember how the Dean campaign raised so much money on the internet? It was because there was a big bat on every page of the website and in all the email. It worked.
If you have anymore links you would like to add to the diary please do. I am planning to keep this diary as reference.