Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can't count on the corporate media to get the word out.