  SOAPBOX! SOAPBOX!... Yeah ... well, here comes another blog ... blong - bong entry that no one will ever read. Just so you know, I am VERY afraid of the Totalitarian route our USA has been taking in the past few years. The rebirth of McCarthyism really freaks me out and I have become quite the armchair activist. These are some sites worthy of checkin out if you reall care about your "freedoms": www.alternet.org - The REAL news reports. Not CNN. Not Walmart. Not Clearchannel. http://truthout.com http://www.bushtax.com - huh? Taxcuts - what the fuck? http://www.truemajority.org - Great mailing list to keep you posted http://moveon.org - Great mailing list to keep you posted and probobly the most successful internet activist site.
They have get money to run ad campaigns to tell the masses what's 'really going on' on Capitol Hill! The internet makes it SOO easy to get yourself heard ... write to your local reps. Vent about stuff to them ... thats what they are there for. If we stay passive, the right-wing will slowly creep up and take away things that we've worked do hard to achieve as a nation/people, (such as a Women's Right to choose: www.plannedparenthood.org). Speaking of Planned Parenthood, since Bush has come into office, there's a three hour wait JUST TO PICK UP A PACK OF PILLS. No funding. Other things that have been plaguing me lately ... LARGE GIANT CORPORATIONS buying up everything ... including media!
Yikes. These folks have a lot of money invested in certain companies/people/etc. If these investments do something wrong, why ruin a good thing and REPORT on it on the hundreds of radio/TV stations that they own: Just the Facts: What the Media Won't Tell You The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) surveyed more than 300 major news networks' interviews during the build-up to the Iraq war. Less than 1% presented an anti-war viewpoint. FAIR’s review of ABC, NBC, and CBS nightly newscasts in 2001 found that 92% of all US news sources interviewed were white.
(worldsocialist-cwi.org) HEALTH Insurance anyone? HA! I don't think so. Many companies don't even offer it anymore. Pharmaceutical companies have TONS of lobbiests and throw millions of dollars into politics a year ... its a big business that depends on sick people. If you are a politician, whyfix it? They just donated money your campaign. How do we fix it? FUck. I don't know. That is the one cause that makes me feel completely hopeless. Okay. That is all for now. 
