 There is some good news in terms of what canvassing can accomplish and do the NDP the third largest party in Canada They just made a statement after receiving according to them 100,000 letters include myself in there 100,000 letters thousands of phone calls. They have not only called for a ceasefire They're demanding an end to all military sales to Israel by the Canadian government So that's like that's a direct result of a whole bunch of canvassing action So please if you do have two minutes of your day go to ceasefire today if you're an American There's resources to do it in you know parts of Europe all that kind of stuff There's a whole bunch of resources on that website to show you how you can email your lawmakers sign petitions If you want money, you can donate to doctors without borders near the end of it stuff like that And yeah, keep keep calling Congress members as we're gonna be doing live on the show We wanted to call on on camera because I always Hear from people who are they feel like they're socially awkward or don't know what to say So the website makes it easy. There's a script, but you don't even have to follow it. It's just very basic I'm gonna call my Representative she is fairly progressive. This is a progressive district, but she does not support the ceasefire And I'm sure who's your rep? Suzanne Bonamici Yeah, so she is she's kind of like an Elizabeth Warren type progressive and Yeah, I think that also by the way, there's March on DC 11 for there's also a petition highly encouraged you to sign over 100,000 people have signed this There's a lot of resources here. You can donate over so ceasefire today.com. It's 200,000 now. Oh, very nice It's 237 was like last year. Wow. Oh very nice. So yeah, I'll call. We'll lead by example I already there's already one u.s. Senator not Bernie Sanders, but one u.s. Senator has called for a ceasefire Yeah, I think it's gonna be a domino effect keep applying pressure the more Derbin came out Not the first person I would have guessed I will say though that whenever there was an attack on Ilhan Omar or Rashida to leave He was usually one of the people to jump to their defense. Hmm. Oh weird. So, you know Who knows but I'll say it was surprising that he was the first but I'm not surprised that he did it Because I remember him being You know the first to come to their side to defend them from attacks whenever, you know People will try to paint them as anti-semitic or hit them with attack them with Islamophobic remarks and stuff Good for him Let me share the link in all of our chat. So if you guys are cool, I'll call right now I'll put on speaker one quick secret before you do if you are a Canadian who's watching and you're one of the fans of David Dole here for the thirst trap picks before you go to his Instagram be sure to check out our commons We're talking about our commons dot ca slash members slash en. That's our commons dot ca slash members slash en That's how you find your local MP and that's how you contact. That's how I did it You contact your local MPs including their phone number for their office their email address their physical address to mail letters And I just also want to reiterate very strongly never send threats in message Multicians you will not only be put on lists you will have police officers visit your house I'm not even fucking around with that That wasn't the case it's not going to convince anyone to do what you And it's against the law so don't do that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah be be responsible We're just making phone calls nine times out of ten. You're just gonna talk to a Enhancering machine. You're not gonna talk to a real person, but if you do it's not a big deal You're gonna get a staffer they're gonna jot down your comments And that is something that they'll deliver to the representative or your MP. So never never in the history in history has a congressperson come out and Changed their mind on something and when asked about it, they said oh my constituents said they'd kill me if I Well, I asked Republicans though, I don't know I'm afraid of Meg over there. All right, I'm gonna call. I'll put it on speaker so you can hear it's not a big deal All right, everybody here's how you do it. This is how it's done folks leading by example In Oregon's first congressional district. We're sorry. We missed your call Please leave us a message including your name phone number and email address if you need help with a federal agency Please let us know which agency if you are calling to leave a comment for the Congresswoman Please do so after the tone. Thank you for calling and have a wonderful day Hi Congresswoman Baman Michi, my name is Mike Figueredo. I'm a constituent of yours and first I want to thank you for voting against the $14 billion age aid package to Israel And I also want to highly highly encourage you to sign on to Cory Bush and Rashida to Leib's ceasefire resolution It's really important that you do this as soon as possible. This is really important Please sign on again to the ceasefire resolution currently We need all hands-on deck and if you want my continued support This is something that I really really want you to do so do it. That's it Didn't didn't add or else which is good job There's gonna be consequences if you don't know Where did you where did you call you just use the ceasefire today number and I can actually I just googled my congresswoman Yeah, you can call me now Hi Congresswoman Ming, my name is Matt Binder I'm one of your constituents in Flushing, New York, and I'm calling first Let me thank you for over the summer you had a number of passport Events to help people get their passport to help my kids get their passport for the first time So thank you for putting those events together, but I'm gonna ask for for another thing Hopefully you can do for your constituents here and that is Call for a ceasefire And also, you know in order to it in Gaza in order to not only, you know Stop what's happening there in terms of the number of innocent civilian casualties many of them children but also so we can focus on Negotiating getting those hostages out of there as well Thank you so much for your consideration. I hope you can support the ceasefire Have a nice night Hi, my name is Rebecca Azor congressman. I'm asking that you demand for a ceasefire We want you to support and be on the right side of history to save people's lives And we demand that you support Cory Bush and Rashida to leave on this effort So ceasefire now, please and thank you Hi senator Sanders I am so disappointed that you have not signed on to the ceasefire resolution or it really introduced a resolution That is a companion piece to the one that congresswoman To like to leave and Cory Bush have introduced It's so disappointing that you're calling for a humanitarian pause because what happens after you get the humanitarian aid in the bombs Continue and it's a half measure and so I want you to be on the right side of history as you usually are I voted for you twice. I think you have a lot of great foresight, but on this issue I really am so disappointed that you haven't done this yet So I'm begging you to please reconsider and actually call for a ceasefire Specifically because this is what human rights organizations are calling for and this is what Gazin's are calling for So please Bernie reconsider Thank you Hello, Hedy Fry or most likely Hedy Fry's I'm guessing Team that would be answering this call. My name is Lance I'm one of your constituents and I just wanted to call and please ask for you to support an effort to demand for a ceasefire The federal NDP has already called for one and I think it's time the Liberals did as well at this point There's over 3,000 children who have died already in Gaza and it's horrifying to witness every single day But it's even more horrifying to know that we as Canadians are directly funding this and we spent $22 million last year on military shipments to Israel alone Can you please put an end to the violence and the suffering and please demand a ceasefire? Thank you All right, I'll call. Let me call Kirsten Gillibrand. That probably will have more movement than yeah But maybe call Schumer and bring up Dick Durbin. Yeah, I'm gonna do both. Let's do this There you go. By the way, I want every we should give time to our listeners to do this while we're still in the air So some of them are telling me that they're calling right now in Call right now This isn't just just us. I'm gonna I didn't eat dinner. So what I'm gonna do after this calls I'm gonna eat a sandwich and you guys are all gonna call okay Also, I like that some people are saying that they're calling to thank their representatives as well Positive reinforcement goes a long way honestly. Yeah, absolutely I've been thanking senators that aren't my or not senators, but Representatives that aren't mine just on Twitter when they say that they sponsored it I think that's really good because they're gonna get attacked for doing this. So let them know that we have their backs as well I'm calling the Christian Gillibrand Wow Hopefully that's all people calling for this Yeah, I'm looking for her too. So they probably like where are you? Yeah? I mean if her mailbox is full, I gotta assume Schumer's is definitely gonna be let me uh It probably makes more sense to call your rep because your local the yeah The it's much smaller than the entire state. You'll get through but let me check Schumer because I'm not gonna if it's if there's room for my Voicemail, I will certainly leave it. You cannot record a message or And then this mailbox is full. Wow Cisco unity connection I mean Schumer Schumer makes sense as the you know the head of the Dems in the Senate I mean he's but but the fact that Gillibrands was full, too It's very interesting the local office might be I'm just gonna call my senator's local office because I feel like that might be Better chance as long as they get the message, you know I'm gonna call I'm gonna go ahead and dial that Hi senator Merkley, my name is Michael Figueroa. I am a constituent of yours And I just first of all want to thank you for co-sponsoring Medicare for all legislation I think that overall you've been amazing on the issues But one thing that I want to request is that you join senator dick Durbin and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza immediately There is not a companion resolution that has been sponsored for the one in the house So if you could sponsor a resolution or at least vocalized support for a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza immediately I think that would really go a long way and I would really appreciate that as your constituent So please make sure you do this immediately because we cannot wait 3000 plus children have died in Gaza and I think that you're in a position to where you could really make a difference if you used your voice So please please please make sure you do this as soon as possible. Thank you Some people are emailing like like the the voicemail said you can also email some people in my stream are saying that they've they've done some email And that was a better option for them. So Whatever you can do like whatever you can do if you don't want to leave a voicemail you can email or whatever else that's that's good too Yeah, yeah, whatever you could yeah, even it like tweeting at them asking them politely It's it's a very easy thing to do, right? We're not this isn't Revolutionary praxis shit that we're doing. It's very basic. We're just trying to now that dick Durbin I think has has done this It really opened the door, right as who was it? It's like a domino effect. Yeah So like now is the time for everybody to pounce on this opportunity