Activism Across America

No, it’s not what you typically might think of when it comes to the phrase anti-family, but it’s the best description I can think of to describe the bill that Tennessee’s US Representative Marsha Blackburn has proposed.

H.R. 381 would force substantial cuts in funding to hospitals, early childhood education, and health care for kids. It would also require cuts to programs like WIC, which supports pregnant mothers by giving them access to the adequate nutrition that their unborn children need.

It’s cruel to attack American families, especially at this time, when many Americans find themselves out of work, through no fault of their own, only because their employers couldn’t stay afloat. If you live in Representative Blackburn’s district in Tennessee, please call her office through her congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask her to rescind this bill. We don’t need Marsha Blackburn to kick American families when they’re down.

Once again, Barack Obama supporters are showing that the Obama campaign is really about much more than just electing Barack Obama President of the United States. The campaign is really about promoting a better way of life, founded upon a more positive vision of what it means to be an American.

That vision includes finding a cure for breast cancer. Why? The progressive ideals that fuel support for the Obama campaign include the idea of health care for all people, as well as the more general idea that people in our communities should care for one another.

That’s why in Syracuse, New York, supporters of Barack Obama are using the Obama campaign infrastructure to organize their involvement in the local Race for the Cure - to take place on Saturday, May 17.

For more information, see the events calendar on the Barack Obama campaign site.