Menu of Volunteer Activist Activities
Learn:
★ Take COS University courses to learn about Article V and Convention of States.
○ Go to www.cosuniversity.com
○ If you have an account at conventionofstates.com use that login/password, otherwise create one now.
○ Start with COS100 Introduction to Convention of States
○ Next, take the COS200 Responding to Opposition course to become familiar with answers to common misconceptions
★ Attend the Tuesday Training webinars held every Tuesday at 9 pm ET or view recordings of past webinars.
★ Watch Mark Meckler’s BattleCry Sunday nights at 8 pm ET on the COS FaceBook page
★ Watch COS Live on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 pm ET on the main COS FaceBook page
★ Download the COS Pocket Guide
★ Spend some time on www.conventionofstates.com learning about COS so that you are comfortable discussing the basics of Article V.
★ Sign up to attend an online Constitution class with Mark Meckler and Rick Green.
★ Attend a local government, school board, or political party meeting to observe and learn what is going on in your area
Action steps:
★ Download the COSAction app for your mobile phone.
○ Sign in using your COS account login and password
○ Consider joining the COS TelePatriot call team!
★ Follow the Convention of States on social media and share the posts
○ 8-minute video: How to Share COS on Social Media
★ Ask your state team/District Captain what activities are happening in your area, and ask what help is needed.
○ 4-minute video: How to Connect with your State team
★ Join your State Team conference calls to learn what is happening
★ Develop a short (30 second or less) ‘elevator speech’ to tell people about COS
○ 3-minute video
★ Tell your family/friends about COS and ask them to sign the petition
★ Order COS printed materials to distribute
★ Invite a small group to attend a meeting in your home, or to breakfast or discussion over coffee about COS
○ Video: How to host a COS home meeting
★ Set a goal to get 5 new petition signers in the next month
★ Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper
Contact your legislators:
★ Call or email your state legislators to let them know you support COS
○ Easy Lookup: Click here, scroll down to find your state flag, then enter your address to be provided with contact information for your legislators.
○ Video: How to call your legislators (even if you are afraid to!)
★ Send a handwritten letter to your legislator
○ Why You Should Hand-Write a Letter to Your State Representatives
★ Set up a meeting with your legislators to talk about COS
★ Follow your legislators on social media 2 minute video
Physicians for COS
The diagnosis is clear.
We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.
Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.
This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.
The treatment is also clear.
The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.
I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.
Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA