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Jill Stein Arrested: Green Party Nominee Faces Charges After Bank Protest

Thursday, August 2, 2012


The bare minimum we should be doing is voting third party.  What's needed is different on any day or week or month given the time it is in the election cycle.  It doesn't have to be the equivalent of an 80-hour work week, but pinpoint action at the time when they do the most good can be as little as dedicating one day every few months.  Some different things, from volunteering to register new voters and driving voters to the polling booths on election day to working for a candidate or a party.

Right now in the election cycle, these few months before an election, is when the deals are being made between candidates and those most important to getting them elected.  When voters are resigned to voting the "lesser of two evils", then candidates are making their deals with those who can give them the money they need for commercials.  Meaning, as long as you're silent, as long as Obama knows he's got you no matter what, you are on the menu.  One example: Obama needed the Hispanic vote so he announced he would stop being the 'deporting-est president' of all time.  For now.  It got him some press on the subject and an immediate bump in the polls among Hispanic voters.  That drove money his way.

Make your demands known and stick to them.  Go attend an OWS event.  Volunteer to work for a party or candidate you believe in.  Network and keep active and in the loop.
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