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Create Topic/Group Dedicated Entirely to Impacting Elections and Voter Registration
  • dave86 November 2011 +1 -1
    Regardless of our plans and goals for the future none of it can be accomplished without voting for particular candidates and reforms on every level of government.

    Here are some resources -
    http://electionland.com/
    http://www.votesmart.org/
    http://www.factcheck.org/
    http://www.opensecrets.org/

    The cynics who argue nothing can be accomplished by voting should look to history to see how social movements changed the fabric of this country throughout the twentieth century. (Read Howard Zinn.) Things are bad now, but they have been much worse. It took brave people who marched, fought, and VOTED for ideas and people that mattered.

    I have been surfing all of the Occupy Movement sites and I am disappointed that voting and talk about elections has taken up a very small presence, if at all, on most of the Occupy websites. I think it needs to be the key effort if we want to succeed in seeing the reforms we believe in come to light.
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