Well OVER a QUARTER MILLION Faxes Sent Since Last Night to Oppose Alito!

[IndyOp]

PUSH PEOPLE, PUSH! ALL WEEKEND, PUSH!

I received the following email at 1:15 pm, 1/27/06:

PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY January 27, 2006

Since last night, PFAW activists poured well over a quarter-million faxes into the offices of key senators who can provide critical support to a filibuster of Samuel Alito's nomination.

A growing number of senators have joined the effort to stand up for the rights of ordinary Americans. We've flooded fax machines -- now swamp your senators' offices with calls asking them to support the filibuster!

Congressional Switchboard: [phone]

Toll-free numbers for Congressional Switchboard:
1-877-851-6437 or 1-888-355-3588
1-888-818-6641 or 1-800-426-8073

Tell us how your calls go by visiting < http://www.SaveTheCourt.org/CallReport >
Then forward this email to anyone you know who is worried that Alito would likely condone the abuse of power by the president, vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, and help curtail Congress' ability to protect the civil rights, health, safety, and welfare of the American people.

--Your Allies at People For the American Way

Free, One-Step Online Fax to 12 Key Senators!!
http://www.SaveTheCourt.org/AlitoFilibuster

Please contact key senators who can provide critical support to the filibuster effort! Click here for free, one-step faxing to 12 key senators -> EVAN BAYH, Obama, Dodd, Lieberman, Biden, Bill Nelson, Durbin, Snowe, Reid, Schumer, Clinton, Chafee, Feingold.

Sign Senator John Kerry’s Open Letter to All Senators:
http://www.johnkerry.com/action/alito/


One-Step Email to 14 Key Senators
(list above + Senators Boxer & Feinstein):
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ite...


Got 5 more minutes? Email Red State Dems who are currently being targeted by ads created by the folks who brought us the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (AR) 202-224-4843
Webform: http://lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html

Sen. Mark Pryor (AR) 202-224-2353
Webform: http://pryor.senate.gov/contact /

Sen. Mary Landrieu (LA) 202-224-5824
Web Form: http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Sen. Byron Dorgan (ND) 202-224-2551
Email: [email protected]

Sen. Kent Conrad (ND) 202-224-2043
Webform: http://conrad.senate.gov/webform.html

Sen. Tim Johnson (SD) 202-224-5842
Web Form: http://www.johnson.senate.gov/emailform.cfm

Sen. Robert Byrd (WV) 202-224-3954
Web Form: http://www.byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

Sen. Ken Salazar (CO) 202-224-5852
Web Form: http://salazar.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Sen. Susan Collins (ME) 202-224-2523
Web Form: http://collins.senate.gov/public/


Warmed up? Ready to Go For Broke?

Toll-free numbers for Congressional Switchboard:
1-877-851-6437 or 1-888-355-3588
1-888-818-6641 or 1-800-426-8073


Direct Phone Numbers:
Bayh, Evan (Democrat – IN) Phone: [phone]
Obama, Barack (Democrat – IL) Phone: [phone]
Dodd, Christopher (Democrat – CT) Phone: [phone]
Lieberman, Joseph (Democrat – CT) Phone: [phone]
Biden, Joseph (Democrat – DE) Phone: [phone]
Nelson, Bill (Democrat – FL) Phone: [phone]
Durbin, Richard (Democrat – IL) Phone: [phone]
Snowe, Olympia (Republican – ME) Phone: [phone]
Reid, Harry (Democrat – NV) Phone: [phone]
Schumer, Charles (Democrat – NY) Phone: [phone]
Clinton, Hillary (Democrat – NY) Phone: [phone]
Chafee, Lincoln (Republican – RI) Phone: [phone]
Feingold, Russell (Democrat – WI) Phone: [phone]

Help Democrats.com contact the Alito 48
< http://democrats.com/alito-48 >

[Coexist]

1. Holy Guacamole - what font size is that?

Thanks for the update - I am so proud of that number.

[IndyOp]

15. It is the font size you use when you forgot to preview your post:

:blush:

[Coexist]

18. LOL! That's okay - it was a great message

it was just a little shocking at first!!

[Snivi Yllom]

2. dead trees

http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/4-14-00askeds.html

How many pieces of paper will one tree make?

Since trees are different sizes, it would be difficult to say how much paper comes from one tree. According to one paper manufacturer, however, a cord of wood measuring 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet, or 128 cubic feet, produces nearly 90,000 sheets of bond-quality paper or 2,700 copies of a 35-page newspaper.

http://www.greenatworkmag.com/gwsubaccess/03sepoct/special2.html

Some Calculations
* One ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees.
* One ton of 100-percent virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees.
* A “pallet” of copier paper (20-lb. sheet weight, or 20#) contains 40 cartons and weighs 1 ton. Therefore, one carton (10 reams) of 100-percent virgin copier paper uses .6 trees; one tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets; one ream (500 sheets) uses six percent of a tree (and those add up quickly!); one ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines like National Geographic and many others) uses a little more than 15 trees (15.36); and one ton of coated, lower-end virgin magazine paper (used for news magazines and most catalogs) uses nearly eight trees (7.68).

How do you calculate how many trees are saved by using recycled paper?

* Multiply the number of trees needed to make a ton of the kind of paper you’re talking about (groundwood or freesheet).
* Then multiply by the percent recycled content in the paper.

For example, one ton (40 cartons) of 30 percent post-consumer content copier paper saves 7.2 trees; one ton of 50 percent post-consumer content copier paper saves 12 trees.

[Roho]

4. My first thought

was similar to yours.

My second though was of all the wasted paper this cause isn't one of them.

[Snivi Yllom]

6. at least it will be recycled

still wasteful. In this day and age is it really more effective to fax mass message like this? I know they collect them and some poor staffer gets to add them up.

[mom cat]

7. Tell the senators to recycle it!

[fooj]

3. I phoned. Again.

Peace.

[mom cat]

5. No wonder the site was hard to access last night! ...Keep cranking!

[GetTheRightVote]

8. CA Senator Dianne FeinStein will be supporting the filibuster per Dems

This is a great, support the Dems all the way to end Alito nomination !!!

[Peace Patriot]

9. Could someone do a checklist of

Senators who have not committed yet, on Alito

Senators who have committed to yes on Alito, but might vote against cloture (like Bryd, for instance), or might ABSTAIN on cloture

Senators who said they've voting yes on Alito but whose minds might be changed

Senators who have committed against Alito, but have not committed to filibuster

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If we have only limited time, it would be great to be targeting the needed votes, on Alito and on cloture.

We can call someone who has committed against Alito and for filibuster to thank them, if we have time; but not miss the chance to influence a good CHANGE of vote.

[jsamuel]

10. here

http://www.democrats.com/alito-48

[redacted]

11. K&N, and DONE! Thank you IndyOp for the heads up!

Very encouraging!

[Justitia]

12. I am writing the most personal e-mails I have ever sent in my life to

strangers, these Senators. I am reduced to shameless begging. I am calling.
I haven't given up and damn, they better not either!

[faithnotgreed]

14. thank you justitia - you are making an actual difference

isnt that wild to think about
that our senators actually may be listening to the masses and their concern for this country

thank you again

[vireo]

13. Direct link to Act for Change

Here is the Alito action page: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/category.cfm?categoryid=13

[IndyOp]

16. Kick!

[ananda]

17. Let's make it 25 million!

Let's let our senators know who the majority
really is in this country!

Sue

[jenndar]

19. K&R!!! n/t

[Nederland]

20. It's not enough

Over 120 million people voted in the last election, 1/4 million is a drop in the bucket.

[Breeze54]

21. Now I'm blind...gheesh!

but glad about the faxes!
and calls!
and e-mails!

All that info is PINNED at the top of this forum!
or here for RT updates...
http://www.democrats.com/alito-48