I would like to add that there are important local issues that need your vote too.

I would like to add that there are important local issues that need your vote too.

Originally shared by michael custer

Via Roger Lake
To all the Occupy people, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take some time to register to vote, if you have not done so already, at OCCUPY A VOTING BOOTH.

I know a good many of you folks are jaded about the entire process, but democracy and self-government in general is and has always been a somewhat messy and imperfect process. It took 30 years of social and political DIGRESSION to get to our currently dysfunctional state. It's going to take some years and sustained effort to regain what has been lost and go beyond that to keep moving our society FORWARD.

The Democratic Party is not the standard-bearer of progressive change that it has been and could be again. But frankly, neither is the Occupy movement. For those folks who want to sit on the sidelines and maintain some illusory sense of ideological "purity," all I can say is that if you think it's hard to take on the power and influence of Wall Street now, it will be devastatingly harder with a Romney/Ryan administration intent on plunging us into a new "Gilded Age."
http://anamericanalarmclock.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-amendment-and-your-voting.html
http://anamericanalarmclock.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-amendment-and-your-voting.html