If you want to know what actual tyranny looks like, ask poor women in Texas

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34. Update:

http://occupydemocrats.com/bigoted-texas-anti-choice-bill-fast-tracked-by-rick-perry-and-texas-gop/

http://occupydemocrats.com/about/

And the same ALEC bill was passed by adding it to other bills in two red states this past week. With no debate. The GOP are suspending the rights of not only women, but every other group in the country, state by state.

Or in the case of the HoR, nationally with the bill the GOP passed that is either identical to the one in Texas. I have been involved in this for nearly half a century, marching, organizing voters, going into legislatures and working with coalitions for the rights of women, workers, minorities and environmental causes.

I was just going over some pictures to scan that are over 40 years old of our coalition getting arrested after months of organzing and preparing ourselves. That was on our environmental actions. I'm filing it with video of us in anti-war demonstrations that we traveled coast to coast.

Some of us came out of Austin, TX., some out of Orange County, CA. The largest was in D.C. with a quarter million according to park service records, followed by one in L.A. that I will never forget. Solidarity was high at both events, but more so at L.A. It's important to feel emotional support, and there are few things to strenghten one's spirit and resolve more than being in a crowd of tens of thousands of like minded people, but they are more of celebratory events than changing the system. You have to do what we called 'going into the belly of the beast' to do that.

We learned that earlier, but also that day we heard Kerry who with VVAW members were leaders in our groups. Only one Democratic representative made a public appearance with that one demonstration, it all was our own groups speaking for the most part. Although we had the support of Democrats and community groups throughout the states and helping us get into where we needed to be, not as Democrats, but anti-war activists.

Kerry testified in the Winter Soldier hearings, and told them that if elected officials did not end the war now, they would return again to 'transform' the government to do so. That is exactly what happened and we won many victories on civil rights of every kind and the environment.

Now we have people getting out the vote in Texas as it was predicted last year. Now to 2014, to put these Koch puppets out of office. Go through the list of ALEC legislative supporters in your region. No one should let the Kochoctopus write their laws. This is exactly what Nordquist said they intended last year. They put Romney on the ballot to be Grover Nordquist's Robosigner-in-Chief:

All we have to do is replace Obama... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget...

We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team,to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.

~ Grover Nordquist

The bills being passed which the GOP refuse to debate, cannot be argued by them because they did not write them. I've seen these and they are written up just like legislation, but not by any legislator. They are complete when they arrive to be read on the floor to be voted on, and the GOP will pull any trick to match sure they're passed. They don't believe in consensus.

ALEC wrote all these bills, RTW, SYG, voting restrictions, taking away health care, food and housing to the poor and destroying the 4th amendment rights of women and LGBTs. They do not listen to any reasoning or expert testimony, they are simply putting into effect the plan.

Don't just talk about them in the street, meet them in their faces, but more importantly, find allies to take them down. Then inform and register people to vote them out of office. The GOP are more afraid of that than anything else. Occupy tactics do not work behind closed doors, which is how these things were passed with GOP majorities without public voices. The public method of Occupy needs to register voters to put these people out of office. They will not stop, their script has been handed to them and they are well-funded and rewarded for carrying it out.

Good luck.