“I’m 61 years old and have been active in progressive politics since my teens. I’ve marched for civil rights and against war. I vote and volunteer in almost every election. I write and call my Senators and Congressmen. I’ve published a newspaper and books. I’ve served in the military and paid my taxes and nothing seems to help. Now my beloved America is in the hands of fa[s]cists. And doing what I’ve been doing all these years isn’t going to change that, so there is only one option left. I’m not going to work on Maggies Farm anymore. I’m asking everybody in America that is sick of how things are going, sick of watching our kids die in an illegal war, sick of watching our environment being sold to the highest bidder and raped, sick of nothaving our votes counted, sick of watching right-wing zealots take a woman’s right to controll her own body away, sick of watching the Constitution being ripped to shreads, sick of how long this list would have to be to cover all of the things that we are sick and tired of seeing happen to our country, to join me in calling in sick on Flag Day June 14th 2006.” (03/18/06)