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All Anti-Alito, All The Time!

by Cedwyn
Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 07:00:01 PM EST

The man is a menace.  I really think we could go 365 days and we'd still miss a few items. But who says we can't try?  Now that our twelve-day run is complete, it seemed like a good idea to provide a bit of a recap.

This will be a reminder to some, and hopefully an introduction to many others:

A group of Booman Tribune members and nascent cyber activists have developed a letter writing campaign to oppose the nomination of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court.  Here's a description of their 12 day program from the project's ringleader herself, Tampopo:

There will be 12 letters/days of action total.  A great additional action item is to collect the whole set and distribute them as booklets.

If you haven't been following the series, that's okay; you can easily go back through the list and catch up.  We want to flood the Senate offices with our letters in opposition to Alito before they get started on the hearings.  So, the question on your mind at this point (I hope) is probably what am I supposed to with these letters?

Well, it's simple really.  Take each day's letter, edit to suit your own style and send it off via snail mail, email or fax via the web to your Senators and especially the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Your Senators

The Judiciary Committee

We're also including the House of Representatives in this campaign, because of Alito's wanton disregard for Congress and its role in our government.

Other steps you can take (care of judybrowni):

For instance, Save the Court has already gathered nearly 55,000 signatures that will be presented to Senators:

Save the Court Petition

And while you're at it: sign Planned Parenthood's anti-Alito petition, too:

Planned Parenthood Petition

NARAL is shooting for 500,000 signatures, please add yours:

Naral Anti-Alito Petition

Campus Progress' "Stop Alito's America" Campaign:

Stop Alito's America Petition

And don't forget: urge Congress to support Plan B:

Plan B Petition

Also check out groups like Rolling Justice who are taking a road tour 'round the states to talk to ordinary Americans about what Alito would mean to the country.  And don't miss Barbara Boxer's petition demanding that spygate be investigated before the Senate even looks at the Alito nomination.

So, please help us out by taking the time to read each day's "For Justice" diary, and send it out to your Senators. And feel free to spread the word about the campaign by sending this commentary to everyone on your email lists, or by posting the letters at any blogs/communities to which you post.

Thank you.

And now, without further ado, the letters:


Day one:  The Coming Alito Attack on the Legislative Branch by tampopo.

Day two:  Alito Hates Old People and Those with Families by AP.

Day three:  Alito Is Ethically Challenged by Steven D.

Day four:  Alito Hates the Disabled by susanhu.

Day five:  Say Bye-Bye to the Right to Choose by Connecticut Man 1.

Day six:  Church and State Are Like Two Peas in a Pod by Alice.

Day seven:  Alito's a Threat to the Establishment Clause by Alice.

Day eight:  Alito Hates Girls by Teacher Toni.

Day Nine: Is a lovely letter brought to us by Boston Joe, and the letters C, A and P.

Day Ten:  So much for diversity on the nation's highest court.  

Day Eleven:  Alito's consistent advocacy for corporate interests over workers' rights and the environment.  

Day Twelve:  Alito's dangerous deference to presidential power.  



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Cho requested a summary of the Anti-Alito efforts so she could frontpage it at epm.  

how else can we keep focus on this in the coming weeks?

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham

by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 07:02:20 PM EST
Perhaps a countdown to the start date of the hearings.  That would give people a solid date for sending this letters.  Perhaps an avalanche of letters in the few days before the hearing would wake up a few senators.

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by Teacher Toni (tacoralatyahoodotcom) on Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 09:33:42 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Cedwyn - you are amazing me!

Arriving home from holiday weekend, I find this diary - a definite gift! Thank you.

What to do next?

Go local. I'm checking into local organizations that represent people who will be touched by Alito's opinions, i.e., seniors and those touched by disabilities come to mind.

I am going to contact them via phone and mail. I don't know how much web presence they have for contacting.

College students are home for break. I spoke with a few. I plan on giving instruction on how to contact our senator and the judiciary committee, including actual phoning.

One other thought, I'm going to have my cell phone with me and anyone I share info with who expresses any kind of interest, I am going to give them my phone (with numbers to call) to make their call right then.

Show it is important and provide the means to make contact - in the moment!

Thanks so much.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. (George Carlin)

by tampopo on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 12:55:18 AM EST
all i did was edit together a mish mash of several diaries.  LOL

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham
by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 02:22:27 AM EST
[ Parent ]
sign it and share it!

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham
by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Thu Jan 5th, 2006 at 01:35:30 AM EST
[ Parent ]
The hearing is scheduled to begin on Monday, Jan 9.  Cedwyn, you should repost this diary every day, somehow we have to keep those links handy.  This is a battle we can win.
by Alice on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 06:42:34 AM EST
i can do that!

; )

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham

by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 07:50:36 PM EST
[ Parent ]
this Alito guy came along.  Always so charming, happy, and generous and then one fine day you showed up for coffee dressed in camo.

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by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 10:27:32 AM EST
...getting us out of Iraq, probably the most important there is at the moment.

But, no reflection on you, why isn't there an entire Web site devoted to taking this guy apart? A place where people from various bloghomes can join together for the single purpose of keeping the world informed about this guy and what his ascent to the High Court would mean? With a task force assigned to working on possible fence-straddlers in the Senate.

"We're trying to give the illusion of due diligence." --Bennett Holiday to Jimmy Pope in Syriana

by Meteor Blades (tleelange@hotmail.com) on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 02:06:21 PM EST
alas, i'm no webmistress.  the best i could do was try to collect all the dirt in one diary!

: p

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham

by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 07:50:03 PM EST
[ Parent ]
i just posted a new diary about church and state.  it may not sound like it at first blush, but it's about alito, too.  most everything is.

then there's some more info on his activist tendencies

and more info on his support of unchecked executive power

not that i'm focused on the man or anything...goodness no!

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham

by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 08:08:05 PM EST
[ Parent ]
fascism is a full-time job

Foes cite Alito's stance on liberty
Say he targeted issue key to Roe
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff  |  December 27, 2005

WASHINGTON -- During his years on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. repeatedly tried to limit the court's interpretation of the 14th Amendment's protection of ''life, liberty, and property" -- one of the key legal underpinnings of the Roe v. Wade abortion case.



Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham
by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 11:20:02 PM EST
dream this morning just before I opened my eyes.  A few months ago after school I noticed that all the children left on the bench outside were black.  It was haunting to me.  I asked another mom why it was so.  If my children would have gone to school here for years I would have understood what I was seeing.  She was very factual though.  The first children picked up in front of the school everyday are the children headed to daycares who each have their own special bus.  We parents don't even attempt to cut in and pick up until they are all finished, it is how we do things.  The neighborhood that the elementary school is in is a very nice neighborhood, children are walking home as we who live outside of it and aren't working pick our kids up by car.  The teacher out front instructs all the kids to scoot together on the two benches and eventually two benches becomes one bench of kids.  One bench of kids waiting for at least 10 minutes alone, all black, waiting for the district school buses.....all our latchkey kids.  Professional childcare costs a fortune these days and not all working parents can afford it obviously.  I haven't seen thusfar where Affirmative Action has outlived its need here.  This morning I dreamt that I took pictures of the kids all sitting there on the benches at the sound of the bell and then thirty minutes later.  I realized when I woke up that that probably wouldn't be legal to do though if I wanted to show everybody else but I could be wrong.

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by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 11:18:18 AM EST
http://media.pfaw.org/stc/alito-final.pdf

a mountain of alito dirt!

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate - William of Ockham

by Cedwyn (cedwynn at gmail dot com) on Thu Jan 5th, 2006 at 10:20:06 PM EST


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