Writing articles and opeds is
great, but not for everyone, nor is it necessarily best. Oftentimes, the
comment you read at the bottom of a major article will be what you actually
remember, or it might redirect you to something as important--in this case, such
as what the Justice Party would do once in office.
Looking for articles that
involve social, economic, and environmental justice, or lack thereof, is an
excellent place to work from. It takes little effort to accomplish this, once
you're familiar with the JP platforms or links to JP sites you like, be it
videos, articles, blogs, or just the sites mentioned above.
Comments on progressive
websites, easily Googled if you don't already frequent a few, may seem like
"preaching to the choir." But in fact a huge number of progressives still are
not aware of or familiar with the Justice Party. Given that JP platforms are
"correct" more than politically motivated, these positions may well draw in
folks from other parties, presently disgusted with the status quo. I would also
note that folks on progressive sites are often the ones most active in further
spreading the word, in actually voting, or even running for local or national
offices.
Local and state newspapers
are often online and have comment sections that can be extremely valuable in
spreading awareness. Ditto college papers, where students are inclined to be
thinking about their own long-term future. It is a simple matter to make
comments in these sections of online papers, even easier than short letters to
the editor, though the latter can be most valuable too. People are starving for
"good news" and how they can help.
Reaching out to major papers across
the country is a hundredfold easier today than even five years ago. Many folks
with different but similar letters in all these places can be extremely
powerful. For example, two positive comments on a site such as Alternet.org,
advocating JP solutions to issues raised by an article, might turn a good many
heads, in spite of two or three hundred other comments. Much like teaching,
which I did for twenty years, or as I believe Spinoza said, every movement made
spreads ripples through the universe; you never know where they'll go or the
impact they may have. Our goal should be to just keep spreading those ripples
in whatever ways we can come up with. I encourage you to start your own
personal campaign to study up on the Justice Party and start spreading what you
learn wherever and whenever you can--keeping your own sanity in check at the
same time!
Learning and using Twitter,
Facebook, Stumble Upon, Reddit, Digg, and the like can also be automatic echo
chambers, accessible with a few mouse clicks, and they are quite easy to learn
with a little patience (Disclaimer: I admit to still getting stumped on
Facebook, with it's seemingly ever-changing format--but I still use it, knowing
those ripples are going somewhere!).
The JP is in tremendous convergence
with OWS, and anyone who checks Rocky's Wiki site will see that Rocky was
espousing these ideas long ago. Ponder the size of the OWS movement and you
have some idea of the number of people ready for real structural change in our
government and institutions.
Let us operate from the
highest possible place to the greatest extent possible. How refreshing if we
avoid mud-slinging and the circus of clowns who have already cast their hat in
the presidential ring. Let us firmly state our positions, and not spend too
much time responding to criticism, other than what seems legitimate, and then
just briefly, professionally, and with a sense of humor when possible.
You want a revolution? Then
please join us in getting JP ideas out and moving, wherever and whenever
possible. Give them legs and wings, bikes and rollerblades too, with words that
even third graders can relate to.
Connections to fresh news that
can be tied to our principles is a great way to stay motivated, and be on the
lookout for places to advance those principles. Countless articles appear daily
that can often be responded immediately after reading. If you're serious about
that revolution, Do it!
Also keep an open mind to groups
we might reach out to; the worst they can say is no. A five minute phone call
can have amazing results, even knowing they are all "stabs in the dark" I've
talked with Friends of the Earth in San Francisco, ACLU in Salt Lake, the LA
Progressive. No results. But Rob Kall at Opednews had actually been trying to
get hold of Rocky for some time and promptly did an hour long interview, that is
now an article and a podcast. My one minute call to Sheri Quinn, a radio person
here in SLC, got her to a meeting that led to an interview with Rocky and most
likely other contacts. We have far more power at our fingertips than we usually
tend to think about.
My handful of online articles
led to contacts from people who want to help, from
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