The recent national display of tax protesters received horrendously biased coverage in the media.

MSNBC and other news outlets happily referred to protesters with the derogatory and sexually explict term “teabaggers”. Moveover, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi falsely stated that this national uprising of concerned citizens was being orchastrated entirely by wealthy republicans.

The fact is that the tea parties were a truly grass roots effort as concerned citizens stumbled through the process of typing emails, talking to friends, printing flyers, building websites, calling neighbors and slowly came together in a common cause, namely, a fearsome distain for the manner in which our current adminstration is spending money we don’t have to do things that shouldn’t be done.

As a particpant in this wonderful display of patriotic, bottom-up mobilizing, I saw first-hand that those showing up to rallies, including the one I attended in Rome, NY, were kind, thoughtful people who were engaged politically. And yes, most of the folks were likely of the republican or conservative persuasion, but interestingly, there were a number of democrats and independants as well.

If you are concerned with the manner in which your tax dollars are being spent, if you are angered at the debt being foist upon our kids, then participate. The next round of Tax Tea Parties will occur on July 4th.

You can learn more by visiting http://www.teapartyday.com/ There you can learn about all the Tax Tea Party protests happening in your area.

Large turn-outs get noticed by elected officials. This is the second wave and it promises to be very strong.

Please do your part. Talk with your friends and neighbors. Invite them to a Tax Tea Party.