Here are some things individuals can do:
1. Vote and encourage other to vote. Carry voter registration forms in your car to share with others who are not registered. We need to vote the corporatists out of office.
2. Contact your state and national elected officials regularly yourself. It is easy! Click HERE!
3. Go to MegaVote (HERE) and sign up for weekly update on how your national officials vote.
4. Go to Progressive Punch (HERE) for congressional voting records in 14 categories!
5. Start your own online petition on a subject of interest to you or support the petitions others have started. Click HERE for details.
6. 'Move Your Money' from a 'big corporate' bank to a local credit union. Click HERE for info.
7. Check out the Stand Up 4 Democracy website (click HERE) and share it with others.
8. Keep progressive ideas front and center with a letter to the editor. Click HERE for ideas for such a letter. Click HERE for newspaper contact info for your area!
9. If you have a website, put links to progressive daily/weekly newsletters on your site. Click HERE for an example.
10. Put a 4-6 sign in your car window supporting a state or national progressive action.
11. Here is a list of other specific thing you can do! (please help add to the list)
* Spread the word about this web site and the ideas listed.
* Donate a progressive magazine subscription to a friend or local library. Yes Magazine; The Progressive Populist; and The Nation are great choices.
* Donate a progressive book to the local library.
* Demand that cable systems carry Free Speech TV with Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, etc. For sample email and links, click HERE!
* Turn off Fox News and encourage other to do so, especially in medical offices, etc.
* Start a small local once a week/month email list to spread progressive info and support our local groups.
* Start a Progressive Events Calendar online. Click HERE for an example!
* Host, attend, and support progressive events (house parties, rallies, demonstrations, forums, conferences, etc) in your area which are sponsored by local, state, or national groups.
* Check out the pages on this site to learn more about the ways to rebuild our democracy. * Start a Progressive Events Calendar online. Click HERE for an example!
* Host, attend, and support progressive events (house parties, rallies, demonstrations, forums, conferences, etc) in your area which are sponsored by local, state, or national groups.
* Get involved in progressive politics with Progressive Democrats of American (click HERE), the Green Party (click HERE), or Democratic Socialists (click HERE).
