one more time:
the congressional switchboard is 1-800-839-5276.
numbers for the offices of individual reps and senators are at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov, respectively.
also check out the friends' committee on national legislation for action alerts.

rabi commented, "i did it. then i got really miserable. the hell?"

for me, i think the misery may be located in acting with no affirmation that you're making a difference. when i emailed everyone in creation, i told them exactly how to make contact with their reps and senators and even attached the fliers we've been posting, just in case they want to post them too. but i only got a few answers. nobody emailed back to say that they were going to rush out and stay up all night and put up a bunch of signs. and when i read the times, the same hawkish tones were there today that were there before the emails and the phone calls and the postering began. so is this making a difference?

i hope the answer is yes. if you'll forgive a leap into probability theory (midterm tomorrow! another issue entirely! why minor in something i'm not good at!?!?), i hope that 'making a difference' is like a continuous probability distribution: every individual point has probability zero, but integrating over all of them gives a nice satisfying finite sum. it's just that knowing that doesn't make it all that much easier to be an individual point. the problem is that for some reason, the people who want this war get to be more than individual points. maybe when you have money you can buy whole intervals of visibility. that's an issue itself: why do we let people with lots of money 'take up more space,' physically, socially and politically, than people without?