Cause Caller — Get in touch w/ Democracy
Sweet. Caught this cute little wiki-app from Boing Boing called…err, Cause Caller, that allows you to create and dial phone lists for congress-critters based around certain bills, interests, laws, concerns, etc.
From the site:
Cause Caller uses open source technology to deliver on the promise of a participatory democracy by taking the hassle and difficulty out of organizing phone banks. Users of Cause Caller can create individual causes and associate new politicians to those causes.
You basically pick whatever cause your interested in (say, Border Control Laptop Searches) or you create your own from an extensive list of politicians and the committees that they sit on. After that, you simply enter your phone number and you’re on your way to giving politicos a piece of your mind.
Cause Caller will call you and ask you to press 1 to be connected with the first politician associated with the particular cause you’ve selected. The phone will ring, and you’ll be connected to the front desk of that politician’s office. You won’t have to worry about remembering phone numbers or keeping track — Cause Caller will take care of all of that for you. Once you’re done speaking with the first politician, don’t hang up on them, just press the * button. This will move you on to the second politician associated with the cause, and you’ll move down the list.
Oh, this is going to be fun…
Curtiss P. Martin grew up in a geodesic dome on the side of a mountain in Southern Appalachia. Now he serves as ScribeMedia's clean technology editor in a tall building in downtown Manhattan.
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