We Are The Body Politic
Susie at Suburban Guerrilla -- using three of my all-time favorite tunes, particularly Volunteers.
A hundred thousand dead in Iraq. A little girl, drenched in her family's blood and screaming into the night. Naked men made to crawl like dogs, forced to listen to the cries of their wives and sisters being raped in the next cell. Icebergs melting, workers sickened and dying of poison at their jobs, bodies of the elderly floating in the chemical soup that used to be New Orleans and one f**king lie after another.
These greedy b**tards. These immoral motherf**kers.
If you're not outraged, there's something wrong with you. And if you're outraged, you need to do something. It's a moral f**king imperative.
We are the body politic.
Start small, but goddamnit, start! Turn your friends on to blogs, or write one yourself. Don't back down when a wingnut makes a public assertion in line at the supermarket: challenge their immoral insanity. Write letters to the editor, call talk radio, sign petitions. Become an advocate and pay your dues in the fight against the forces of global destruction. There are many wonderful groups that offer political training, and it's cheap. (My best friend is off at a Democracy for America training this very weekend.) Affiliate with likeminded citizens, because there's more power in the network than there is in one lonely individual. Go to your local Drinking Liberally, or start one yourself. Join hands - and join forces.
Thanks, Susie. I needed that. As one of your commenters says, "Crank up the volume."
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