Be a Freedom Writer for Nader/Gonzalez
In the summer of 1961, a courageous legion of young people boarded buses, trains and planes and headed for the segregated South, risking their very lives to join the civil rights movement and to break the back of American apartheid.
Fearless and utterly dedicated to making the American Dream a reality for all Americans, they were called Freedom Riders.
Today, the Nader/Gonzales ‘08 campaign is launching another vehicle for a new generation of courageous Americans.
This time the mission is to break the back of another kind of bigotry—-a political bigotry willfully practiced by Big Media. A bigotry that discriminates against independent and third-party candidates. A bigotry that censors and suppresses information and alternative political views. A bigotry that rations debate. A bigotry that chills dissent. And a bigotry that keeps the American people in the dark.
Presenting Freedom Writers. It will not require the courage to face brutal beatings or death. But it will take a fresh sense of indignation and determination to send a loud message to Big Media executives that political censorship and information blockades are profoundly undemocratic and un-American.
This time it will not take boarding buses, trains or planes, but it will require using the modes of modern communication: the phone, U.S. Mail, and the mighty Internet. And it will require thousands of Americans to put Big Media on notice by communicating their demand that the information blockade be ended, that the viable candidates’ views be covered, and that the debates be opened.
We invite you to join us to use the power of the pen and the power of the Internet to break through Big Media’s information blockade.
Free-flowing information is the lifeblood of democracy and the heartbeat of free elections.
Let’s tell them in a massive and loud voice: Open the debates!
Welcome to Freedom Writers. Now join us.
