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From: moveon.org
Will you march?
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Will you add your voice to the Virtual March for Health Care Reform? Tomorrow,
people from coast to coast will be sending a million messages to Congress to get health care reform done, and done right.
Click here to sign up and we'll automatically send a fax to Sens. Graham and DeMint in your name:
Click here
to sign up for the Virtual March and send a fax
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Last week, we announced the Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform—and
the response has been incredible. From labor unions to progressive blogs, from California to Florida, hundreds of thousands
of people are ready to take action tomorrow.
The timing couldn't be more critical. With the president's health care
plan unveiled yesterday and his congressional summit coming up, all eyes are on health care.1 This could be our last, big chance to make sure Congress hears our message loud and clear:
it's time to get reform done, and done right.
But to hit our goal of one million messages to Congress and truly make
this the biggest, movement-wide action of the health care fight, we need more people—like you!--to sign up today.
Will you join the Virtual March? Just click the link below—we'll
sign you up and automatically send a fax in your name to Sens. Graham and DeMint. Then on the day of the march, we'll email
you to remind you to call your senators as well.
http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch10/?id=19053-7961579-j5TJZ5x&t=3
A million messages in one day—from MoveOn members, labor unions,
blog readers, members of the Health Care for America Now coalition, Democracy for America, TrueMajority, and other progressive
groups—will send an unmistakable message to Capitol Hill.
And we've got to make it huge. With health care reform—including
the public option—regaining momentum,2 there's going to be intense pushback from conservatives and Big Insurance opponents
of reform this week and in weeks to come. But as we have for the past year, we've got to break through their noise and make
sure Congress remembers that regular folks both want and need real reform.
This is going to be huge—and a lot of fun. But we need as many people
as possible from across the country to speak out to make it work. Can you join the Virtual March today? Click the link below
to sign up and we'll automatically send a fax to Sens. Graham and DeMint:
http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch10/?id=19053-7961579-j5TJZ5x&t=4
Thanks for all you do.
–Kat, Michael, Ilyse, Lenore, and the rest of the team
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Support David Mack and Progressive Radio!
Lowcountry Democrats and Progressives often complain about the vicious conservatism of local talk radio.
Now they can pick up a phone on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and do something about it by calling Rep. David Mack’s new
show on WLTQ AM 730 at 843-225-7307.
The callers on WTMA have become so extreme an ugly continent of fear, prejudice and anger can now be
seen to the right of Rush Limbaugh and Fox. It’s a landscape no decent person would want to visit, often frankly racist.
It’s no longer recognizable as the lively community forum station I grew up listening to and whose studios I sometimes
visited to go on air. That’s OK, WTMA has the right to broadcast what they like. What we end up hearing says more about
our community than the station. That terrifying noise is coming from people who are really out there. We need to make sure
that other people are heard.
David Mack, pictured left, (a member of the SC State Legislature) and Claudia Collins like taking calls,
but their first few shows have required them to fill up a lot of air time between when the phones are ringing. They do a commendable
job talking about local and national issues and supporting community initiatives, however the progressive, liberal and Democratic
Lowcountry is not fully utilizing the opportunity to connect and be heard. Now that the holidays are over, it is time to make
those phones ring.
If we want social justice, decency, fairness and understanding on the air in the Lowcountry, this show
needs our support starting next week. Call in for yourself, your candidate or your cause. If you are a candidate, make a call
yourself. It’s unreasonable to expect people to staff phone banks for you if you won’t call in for yourself. |
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Call David Mack's Radio Show Mondays 6-8 pm |
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In your call bring a few facts, some current gossip or some lively speculation. Disagree about Obama?
That’s OK. It’s already a theme of the show. The show claims a broader variety of views in its calls than right
wing radio.
David and Claudia do all the hard work. They’ve mastered the complex business of putting phone
calls in the radio, which I’ve done myself. It is more complicated than you think. All you have to do is pick up your
phone or flip open your cell phone and call 843-225-7307. How many things can you do for a more just society in South Carolina
which work from your sofa at home and cost nothing?
The goal of the right wing sledgehammer which pounds us daily in local media is to obtain silence from
the left. This is what DeMint is talking about when he talks about "breaking" Obama. It isn’t "Waterloo" that the right
wants. It is the surrender which follows.
We need to support this show through it’s developmental period with tweets, emails and facebook
activity. We need to talk it up to friends and at events. Once we get the chatter started, it won’t stop David is on
Facebook and if you "friend" him, he will update you on the show. If you have friends out of state that are active on our
issues, invite them to call in as well. The station doesn’t have an internet signal yet, but the calls can still contribute
to the discussion.
Connect with David Mack on Facebook
David Mack and Claudia Collins have an excellent time slot, positioned at 6-8 pm Monday evening when
we can discuss, preview and pick apart all the political activity ahead for that week, including meetings, projects, the state
legislatures activities and city politics. This will work well if we use it and we need to start using it next Monday evening.
Get out your cell phone now and put in an appointment to call in next Monday to 843-225-7307 between
6 and 8 pm. Be heard. Make a difference by helping reclaim local talk radio for peace, justice and decency. |
Patrick C. Labbe
SC PDA State Coordinator
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What's in a name?
For Glenn Beck, the answer, it appears, is everything
Beck was revisiting one of his favorite subjects:
the hidden history of Barack Obama. Reflecting on how Obama had, as a young man, gone from calling himself Barry to using
his given name of Barack, Beck said this:
He chose to use his name Barack for a reason -- to
identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify
with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical?
Beck's history regarding discussions of race speaks
for itself. He has said Obama possesses "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
Soon after, he defended those remarks, stating once again that, "I think the president is a racist."
He has suggested that Obama is seeking to become a "slavemaster." He
has pushed the idea that Mexican immigrants want to "reclaim" California
and Texas. He called Justice Sonia Sotomayor a "racist" on at least three separate occasions. Beck has portrayed the Democratic health care reform effort as "the beginning
of reparations," a theme he has repeated on both his Fox News and radio shows, saying that Obama plans to "settle old racial scores through
new social justice." During a discussion of former White House green jobs official Van Jones' past, he baselessly juxtaposed Jones' picture with footage from a riot. He hasclaimed that India lacked "flush toilets" and said that the
Ganges sounded like "a disease."
All of these examples are from the last year. The
deeper you dig, the worse it gets.
And yet, when Media Matters accused Beck of racial insensitivity, he responded indignantly that "nothing could be further from the
truth."
"If you don't see why some people would get upset
that you accused the president of adopting his African name in order to repudiate his American identity and connect with his
father's radical Kenyan heritage," wrote Media Matters' Simon Maloy yesterday, "then
I'm afraid you might be a lost cause."
Indeed, he is -- and he's not interested in being
saved. Though he portrays himself as an average Joe just trying to make sense of the world, Beck is actually a wildly successful
broadcaster with decades of experience. Everything he does and says is deliberate, and by now, it should be overwhelmingly
obvious that he routinely crafts his rhetoric to appeal to the worst impulses in his audience. He insults minorities, and
uses racially provocative language and imagery, because he wants to stir resentments among viewers and listeners. There is
simply no other way to explain the racially charged content he has made a staple of his work.
Is it any wonder why at least 80 advertisers have
fled his Fox News program and civil rights groups have condemned him over his latest comments?
Click here for Glenn Beck Boycott information.
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