They Also Serve That Make the Coffee and Stuff the Envelopes

[moon_custafer]

Andrew's watching The Incredibles, still one of the best adaptations of Watchmen. It's been a few years since I saw it, and I find myself worrying about who's going to help people navigate insurance-company bureaucracies once Mr. Incredible goes back to being a superhero

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[browngirl]

Amen.

[heliopausa]

Yes, everything's politics. I don't have inspirations, I'm afraid, but it's good to hear about you and others pitching in.
eta: all the cliches still apply, a luta continua, you in your small corner, etc. Envelope-stuffing, fact-checking, serious analysis - it's all needed.

[sovay]

I may be overly optimistic, but I don't think it's necessarily cowardice that stops people -- it's not knowing where to start.

I think it's many things, but I agree that not know where to start-or even how to go about starting in a way that will actually produce useful action, not just the feeling of it-is one of them. It's one of the reasons that it's been so useful to have people sharing not only causes to call your congressperson about, but the numbers to call and some idea of what to say when you get someone.

There are fewer stories that show an underground being set up from scratch, or someone doing the paperwork so the people being ferried to a free country can apply to stay there and not get deported back.

Do you have any to recommend?

But I'm trying to help some others set up a Canadian equivalent to www.holyfucktheelection.com, and We could do with some nuts-and-bolts inspiration right now.

Not said ironically at all: good for you.

[moon_custafer]

I can't think of any off the top of my head; the best I can come up with is that in Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Rosa Saks' day job is secretarial work for an organization trying to bring children into the country as refugees, but we don't see a lot of what they actually do (fill out paperwork and write letters to Congressmen, probably).