As I complained last week , it seemed like Obama's 13 million-person email network wasn't mobilizing around health care, climate change or anything for that matter.  It was particularly discouraging to see that (up to that point) the only major organized effort to combat some of the lies and misconceptions about our health care system was a Facebook boycott of Whole Foods.

But ObamaNerd, you say, it is 12,000 people strong!  Yes, but what are you actually going to do with those 12,000 people? Twelve thousand ain't shit unless they are "doing shit." And yes, for the impending comments thread, I understand boycotting is, in a way, "doing shit," but it's not going to change the health care debate or make much of a dent in the already big pocketbook of Whole Foods looney tunes Chief Executive.

Also discouraging was a Washington Post article I read over the weekend about Obama's post-election grassroots organization, OFA, dispatching their 2 whiz kid organizers to various pockets around the country to drum up support for Obama's health care plan.  The article is a great read and the work is inspiring.  Awesome work, Team OFA.  Super sincerely, I mean it. However, at this rate, we should have health care by 2012.

What is it going to take to get some activity, that high energy-magic we saw in the last campaign cycle, to combat this shit?  What can we do to mobilize our people (and by "our people," I mean the rational, cognitive adults who elected this country's awesome kickass President. Heart you, O!) and get some mojo back?

For one, stop relying on email. I get about 50 emails a week on "Republican Lies" or "The Truth about Health Care."  Pick up a phone and call.  Organizing people means live interaction.  Make people commit live on the phone or face-to-face.

Seize on the Whole Foods hullabaloo and catalyze people around the fact Whole Foods is a bad corporate player and out of touch on health care.  And I mean apart from your laptop.

Oh wait - someone is already!  And that someone is our old friend, the Labor Movement.  Labor has money, they have organization and they have big balls.  And not man-scaped ones either.

Join UFCW Local 21 today at the South Lake Union Whole Foods (2210 Westlake Ave) from 11 am - 1 pm to educate shoppers on the bad business practices of Whole Foods.  Can't make it today?  No worries, it's going on all week, but help them make a splash today.  And they aren't just doing it in South Lake Union, they are taking this shit regional, baby.  And right wing dipshit Michelle Malkin has a copy of the handout on her website .  Anything that makes her panties twist is right-fucking-on in my book.  Awesome leaflet UFCW 21!

Now, that's what you do with 12,000 people.  Keep it up, UFCW 21!