so here i am laid up with this stinking busted wrist, with one project to spearhead — getting chi-sage back up and running, including putting together a rudimentary site at chi-sage.org and finding cheep meeting space for january — and i just had an awesome idea i really want to implement, that wouldn’t take a whole lot of effort really but…broken wrist! ugh!
anyways, the idea is this — well, so i’m the chicago coordinator for
VoterMarch.org, and have been since 2000, when i sort of stumbled into it because no one else was willing to do it. anyways, i have considered resigning it in light of
the be nice pledge, but i don’t consider being nice incompatible with political activism. yes, some will (do) view votermarch as shitstirring, and maybe it is, a little, but really, the more attention that is focused on election fraud the better for everyone, and a one-woman crusade to bring decency back to political discourse (assuming it was ever there to begin with, which really i doubt, but let’s give dead people the benefit of the doubt) won’t do much good if all that one woman actually does is bitch about how mean people suck on her blog.
but i digress.
anyways, i got my first inquiry today from someone wondering if voter march is planning anything at the moment. and this made me think, hey, wouldn’t it be great if there was a single web site people could list their political action events on for all of chicago? so you could just go look and see if whatever your topic of choice was had anything going on? and it wouldn’t have to be, like, just for liberals or progressives or whatever. it could just be one-stop shopping for everyone.
i wish i had the time (er…ability really, to put in the time) to do that. it would be really cool. maybe in a little while, when i’m feeling better.
