MoveOn's Virtual March on Washington and a note on the 1-27 rally

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Americans marched on Washington to stop the escalation and end the war. Now, we're launching a national effort that everyone can join from home—bringing our message directly to Congress through a massive Virtual March on Washington.

On Thursday, February 1st—just days before the Senate votes on the escalation—we're going to let them know where their constituents stand by flooding their offices with 1 million messages. We need your help to make this really big. Can you join us by signing up for a time to call your senators?

Click below to sign up for a "shift"—a time-slot when you'll call (we're trying to spread out the calls over the course of the day).

http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch

All you need to do to participate is schedule a time to call your senators, Sens. Bond and McCaskill, and urge them to block escalation. We'll take care of the rest. We'll even send you a text message to remind you before your shift starts if you want.

We're not just calling Congress. The virtual march is much bigger than that. All through the week we're building energy towards the big day:

We're organizing MoveOn members to call other MoveOn members in key states—whose senators could determine whether the resolution passes—and getting them involved in the march.
We're pledging to get our friends and family involved in the march.
We're organizing MoveOn members in Washington, D.C. to deliver close to 600,000 messages to the Senate opposing escalation in person.
Thursday is going to be a huge day of action all over the country. MoveOn members, along with members of True Majority, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, USAction, CampusProgress and many others are working together to make sure Congress gets the message: Americans not only oppose escalation, but are counting on Congress to block it. And if enough of us get involved, we can really win this vote.

Passing a bipartisan resolution opposing escalation will be the strongest stand the Congress has taken on the war since it began. It's more than symbolic. If we can convince a majority of senators to vote against the president's plan, the momentum from that vote will affect the way the House of Representatives votes—and set us up to stop the escalation completely in the coming weeks.

Most importantly, passing this resolution will give our leaders in Washington the support they need to take action to stop the war.

Thursday is going to be a critical day in the fight to end the war. Can you join us?

http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch

Thanks for all you do,

–Nita, Tom, Eli, Jennifer and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Monday, January 29th, 2007


By the way, I had an AWESOME time in DC this past weekend, despite having been in a wreck on I-44 on the way home. Fortunately, no one was hurt. We all made it home safely. If any of you have any footage or pics you wouldn't mind sharing, I am going to be making a documentary about the rally this past weekend. I got a bunch of pics and footage myself, but with over 400,000 in attendance, I know I didn't catch everything! You would, of course, receive credit for your contributions. Please just drop a line in my DU box.
Guys, this was absolutely the most amazing thing I have ever been involved in (besides the births of my children, of course). The energy flowing on the Mall was phenomenal. As I was marching, I was overcome with emotion that I was a part of something so historic. For the first time in history (so I've been informed-have not been able to independently verify at this point), a protest march completely encircled the Capitol. Being in the vanguard of the march, by the time we got all the way around and back into the Mall, we could see the tail of the march was still filing out. It was a truly moving experience. It gave me so much hope for the future. All we have to do is stick together.

The people, united, will never be divided!