What do you write? This week in writing

This week has been very productive for banging the keyboard. Not pay wise, but advocacy wise. Does it make a difference? I like to think so, and doing nothing is not an option.

Everybody’s a writer, but not everyone writes what others want to read, you know, on the beach. Or a long flight. Or waiting in line at parent pick-up.

This week, for example, I put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard on a variety of subjects, none of which will get me on Oprah.

• Press release announcing candidacy for a local Newtown woman, smart, successful, local community organizer and professional fundraiser Rebekah Harriman-Stites, running for Connecticut state representative because act local, think global and we women need representation in office. Any office. Especially an office filled with middle aged, mediocre white men.

• Email to Amazon slamming them for supporting, and promoting fear-driven NRATV, even when another school gets shot up and families destroyed and communities devastated because of:

Choreographed marketing of fear by the NRA.
Bought and paid for Congress who offer nothing but hopes and prayers each and every time this happens. Note to Congress: hopes and prayers ain’t working.

• Thank you letter to Dick’s Sporting Goods on behalf of Newtown Action Alliance, families, communities impacted, and gun violence survivors, for doing what Congress will not: instilling limits on who can purchase what weapons of war.

• Thank you note, on behalf of Newtown Action Alliance, to major Florida GOP fundraiser, Al Hoffman, Jr., who decided he will no longer support candidates who do not support a ban on assault weapons. Period. Well done, Al. Can I call you Al?

Calls to action to email, call or somehow “Contact your State Representative”

• I do it. When I can and when I care. I emailed my current state rep here in Connecticut, Tony Hwang, and my town rep Mitch Bolinsky (who, for locals keeping score, the above mentioned candidate Rebekah Harriman-Stites is running against), about the hate slandering of a Chief Justice nominee Andrew McDonald in CT who is the target of ultra-conservative smear campaign focusing not on his experience, but instead on his sexuality. Can you even believe this is necessary in 2018? WTF.