SOLIDARITY (PO/PO)

Some good folks have only half-way understood my PO/PO initiative (see prior entry) to be a letter-writing campaign. That's only a part of it. (Do these senators read letters anyway, I wonder?) The more important part, as I envisioned it, was about community action, demonstration, solidarity… Remember "Solidarity"--the movement that led to the liberation of Poland from Soviet domination?

So I'm asking the more than 70 percent of us who say we believe in significant health care reform to be "solid" with our friends, our neighbors, our families, ourselves--and yes, our online contacts. I'm looking for access to bigger platforms, more active support... Facebook (follow the link to the PO/PO facebook group), Twitter, big circulation blogs and political sites. Can you do this?

AND I want us all to show up at our local Post Office, letters or cards in hand, at HIGH NOON ON 09/01/09.

Will you help me? Will you broadcast this? Will you be there? Will you shake my hand?

Let's Do This For Ted

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Let's not let the great liberal tradition die with Senator Edward Kennedy. Now that he's gone, let's not let him down. Let's honor his memory and return something of the gift he gave to all of us by ensuring the passage of a health care bill--with the public option. We can do it, if we all pitch in. My own initiative is outlined below. It's a simple and effective way to pay this man the tribute he has earned.

Just Popping In...

(I'm on sabbatical, honest!)

...to say thanks you to all those who wished me well on my break. The book is moving along nicely. And to those who were kind enough to send birthday wishes for today, some via email, some via Facebook, etc. I was sitting yesterday at an outdoor cafe, enjoying a mrning cup of coffee with Ellie, and gazing over to an adjacent table where a couple were sitting at breakfast with their one-year old. And I was wondering what kind of a world this will be when he reaches my age. That will be, er... 2082!

Love to everyone out there. I'll be back when the book is done...