Wake Up!

I think I spent 2000-2004 asleep on some level, well, not asleep, just in shock (from the election, and from 9/11), and then legitimately occupied with growing, birthing and raising a new person. If there's any silver lining to the outcome of the 2004 election, it's as a wake-up call to activism. Would I have been lulled into complacency if "my team" won? So, this is a call out to wake up, to do whatever you can to speak out against bad policies on a local, state, and national level. We don't have the time to march on the streets, but we can do something. An email to our senators and congresspeople, a quick phone call, our choices as consumers.

Links of the day:

• If I Were a Rich Man: The elite few benefit from the Bush tax agenda. The rest of us get stuck with the bill. by David Cay Johnston (At Sojourners).



• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities



• Jim Wallis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart