THE NEXT 30 DAYS

So all of us who live in America know what we’ve got to do in the next 30 days, right?

A) Vote. Get everyone else to vote. Vote for everyone in America whose vote has been taken away from them. Vote for everyone on the planet who lives at the mercy of the American Empire.
B) Get Bush out. Get progressive candidates and progressive legislation in. Local elections are just as important as national ones – the measures and propositions on our ballots will directly affect our daily lives and our communities in the next 4 years.
C) Commit ourselves to keep working on issues. The day after Kerry wins, we need to get back to building an effective progressive movement: a movement for peace, social and economic justice, environmental sanity and the dismantling of the military-industrial complex across the globe.
D) Recharge our souls with art that makes us laugh and think and shout and cry and dance – and then get back to A), B) and C). Check out my performances this month, and Aya de Leon’s amazing new show!

Stay hopeful, people. We CAN take our world, and our lives, back from the psychopaths – corporate and human.

In community,
Shailja