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Action Central2 Federal Activism Action Alert - Support HR 1207 - Audit the Fed!
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Support HR 1207June 2nd Update: 179 co-sponsors!!
Continue to call and write your Congressman or woman if they are yet to co sponsor this legislation.
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HR 1207 text at thomas.loc.gov GovTrack - HR 1207 status and progress.
In a major breakthrough for our Liberty movement, Ron Paul's bill H.R. 1207 to Audit the Fed has been referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.. That's a HUGE step forward. Most bills begin by being considered by one or several congressional committees which may "report" the bill favorably or unfavorably to the Senate or House as a whole allowing it to receive consideration by the full body and move forward. We need to influence the House Financial Services Committee to give a favorable report on H.R. 1207 There are 71 members of the House Financial Services Committee with Barney Frank as Chair. Please go to this link and PLEASE contact these members encouraging them to Support H.R. 1207. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?id=HSBA Draft a simple email and let them know we want transparency and their favorable support of H.R. 1207 to Audit the Fed and. Send an email and/or call each of the members on the committee right away! http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?id=HSBA Let's focus first on the members of the House Financial Services Committee. NOW is the time to bring all of our efforts to bear on the situation. If we can get the bill out of Committee with a favorable report it will go to the House floor for a vote! Please copy and paste this Action Alert to fellow Americans asking them to contact the Members of the House Financial Services Committee right away! Alanna Grimm kicked this alert off over on C4L, and we'ver kind of cabbaged on to it.... so we want to make sure we give credit where it's due! Thanks Alanna!! Click here to check out Alanna's blog at the Campaign for Liberty.
Click the Take Action tab for more information and instructions on taking action on HR 1207! Take Action!Phase 1: Contact the members of the House Financial Services Committee. If 70 names are too many for you to call then try this angle. Find the 10 to 20 representatives whose names are closest to your last name and call them. Also call any representative who is from your home state and call them. Lastly call Chairman Frank. Forward and repeat.
2. Spread the word, stay involved. This is a grassroots effort. We will probably need your help again. Diligence, persistence and tenacity are three factors we CAN control and affect that have proven results. Tell your neighbors, family and friends. Help distribute literature and fliers in your community.
3. Future focused action. Our strength is our numbers and in organized, coordinated effort. So please signup for our email updates or RSS feeds (for our homepage or this category by clicking the RSS symbol at the top in the left pane) to stay informed, engaged and available. > National Day of Action!Please support the folks over at the EndtheFed.us website in their Nationwide day of protest.
If you can't make it to a Federal Reserve facility, please consider gathering up a few friends and staging a short protest at your local post office or better yet, the busiest intersection in your town or city. Or decorate your car and drive around and honk like you give a dam. Call up a few friends, surely it shouldn't be to hard to find a couple of folks po'd at the fed.... and head out to vent some, and then grab a bite to eat and a beer afterward.
 The End Began on November 22nd, 2008... April 25th, 2009 Rally at Every Fed Bank and Office "Audit the Fed! Repeal The Fed!" Support HR 1207 and HR 833 links, articles and flyersRon Paul.com - http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/ The Daily Paul - http://www.dailypaul.com/node/85929 JBS.org - http://www.jbs.org/index.php/inflation-taxes-economy-blog/4569 JBS Campaign at voter voice - email your representative http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&SiteID=0&IssueID=16611 Aids for ActivistsBelow are a number of excellent references to assist you in writing letters and communicating with elected officials. Remember to keep written correspondance to under 1500 characters for maximum effectiveness. Make sure to remember to insist on a response. Communicating with Elected Officials - Congress.org Congress.org also has a section called 'Letters to Leaders', that features letters that others have submitted and selected to share with the general public. It's an excellent resource that you can refer to for form and content ideas. Google: writing letters to politicians Political Activism - The American Tradition - From: http://politicalactivistsonline.homestead.com/ Ways to make your views known:
1. Pace yourself, be patient but consistent and firm. Activism Fundamentals To a elected official you can be a pleasure or a pain. Pick and focus on one. A thorn in the side, or their best friend. Remember, you catch more flys with honey than vinegar. Pleasure for politicians: money or votes. Pain for politicians: Angry voters, bad press, no money, loss of party support, challenged in primary, public humiliation.
Most effective method of moving politicians (other than big bucks): Write letters, insist on a reply. Share and track replys. Write follow-ups. Get the word out.
Notes from Real Politics Seminar with Mike Rothfeld, August 31, 2008, Brooklyn Center, Mn. Politicians suborn humanity for ambition.
They are predictable and understandable. They are manipulatable Politicians have a Pavlovian Response. Two forms of stimuli, Pain and Pleasure. PLEASURE Can't handle real time actions, or losing. Best way of pressuring them is with these two items. Easiest way to get votes, is to buy them, hence entitlements. Of all sorts. PAIN #1 ANGRY VOTERS Bad Press Public humiliation (getting common, less effective of late) Loss of party support. Getting challenged in primary as an incumbent Greatest force in politics - Inertia. Easiest, safest thing for a politician to do, is nothing. To move, need to mobilize and confront, apply force vectors to move the status quo box.
Morton Blackwell, Founder of the Leadership Institute. "Political Success is determined by the effectiveness and number of the activists on either side." Politicians responses to Mobilization and Confrontation: Ignore Respond Responses: Threaten, many direct and indirect ways..... powerful people with the ‘law' on their side. May approach you to 'Explain' the facts' or reply with: "If I don't follow the crowd something worse will happen". May try to buy you off with prestige, privilege or entitlement. Can be very good at sucking you in and then pigeon holeing you. (hence sugar is better -jt)
Articles on the same subject by Mr. Rothfeld (same material as above): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078859/posts http://www.nationalgunrights.org/realnatureofpolitics.shtml More ActivismSPREAD THE WORD - FURTHER ACTIVISM
More links and resources Activism.net - LOTS of resources - left, green - globalist. Activism 101. - dead link.. Activism.net excellent list of articles, guides and material for the activist, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Activism another excellent site with LOADS of information. Personal liberties and freedom idealogy. Political activist online - very nice site. How to be a Political Activist - Andrew Paterson 8/2003 GWU - Political Management Master's Program Courses - Syllabus and required reading. Saul Alinsky - Wikipedia - Know thy enemy. Alinksy's Rules of Power, Use their tactics against them More Quotes from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals How to Plan an Advocacy Campaign apta.com Activist's Grass Roots Handbook (not really, kinda short. But good.) heall.com Test of nested tabs
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