May I ask your opinion regarding this idea?
The gist of it is to bombard government officials' offices with these individual cases in which their constituents are suffering due to the system being rigged against the average person, creating more and more poverty.
On one hand I obviously promote we citizens coming together at a grassroots level to help one another in various ways, but there is only SO MUCH we can do when the resources are hoarded by so few. There are only so many fundraisers we can have to help people with mortgage/rent crises, healthcare crises, education crises, etc.
I want to lay these real examples at their feet, in a very public way, to 1) appeal to any sense of humanity and compassion, and/or 2) shame them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023385076
Thanks for any thoughts.
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While I completely agree with what you're saying and agree that we have to do that along with other things as activists, I'm looking for thoughts as to whether or not it may be a good idea to bombard existing local politicians with specific constituents' stories of hardship, laying this hardship at their feet, as it were -- right now -- forcing them to see these individual stories and how their policies are manifesting in their district and maybe engaging them very directly at a grassroots level with the stories of hardship.
I'd have to limit it to the stories being posted via Wishadoo's Wishlist post, but you get the idea. Hopefully.
Sorry if my question still isn't clear. Thanks for the reply. 
for them to see what these policies are actually doing to people and encourage them to become more informed citizens.
It puts a face on the horrible, failed policies rather than talking about it in the abstract.
Anyway, thanks again, and of course I agree.
Your idea will work on many, but those such as Walker in Wisconsin will have to be removed or forced out through direct action (non-violent but direct). He's having anyone in a group larger than 20 in the capitol arrested, having anyone singing arrested, and people have been breaking his made-up-on-the-spot rules for two years now. Some of these monsters care not one whit what the people do and as such must be ousted using something more than appeals, sit-ins, singing, and signs. They will continue doing what they do so long as they are literally allowed.
Occupy Fights Foreclosures showed up protesting at the home of a bankster and demanded he shut down his foreclosure mill. He replied "Which one?" and drove into his (gated) garage. He called the cops and they showed up with large weapons of some sort. The report and pics are here on DU somewhere.
Choose your tactic by your target. Some shall be swayed. Some shall give not a shit and continue business as usual until stopped. But as always, I support and applaud you for DOING SOMETHING, anything, and for not giving up, which is critical because destruction never stops, never gives up, until made to do so.
