I urge both my readers to read this article by Van Jones, author and activist. I believe we are at a genuine crossroads in America — a cliché, but accurate in this case.
Your country needs you now, in whatever way you can help, to keep some more of the first-world infrastructure that we take for granted, the infrastructure that sustains us and allows us to get on the with the rest of our lives. What do I mean? We take for granted, nowadays, that a job means 40 hours a week; anything over that is overtime (whether you find yourself paid extra for it or not); workers expect vacations, sick time, timely paychecks with appropriate deductions and contributions, reasonable breaks, safe working conditions, freedom from exploitation in ordinary employment, and much more — all won for us over many decades by unions able to take collective action.
If you care at all about what is happening in Wisconsin right now, and I hope you do, read this article. Then think carefully about what you may be willing to do — whether it’s gather on statehouse steps or Twitter, Facebook, or just talk it up, or perhaps donate to organizations such as MoveOn.org or Democracy For America, or an organization of your choice — or perhaps pray hard, if you are moved to do so.
