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For those of you who don’t know who Granny D. is, she’s an amazing 93-year old activist and speaker. For the whole year of 1999, she walked 3,200 miles from California to D.C., giving speeches along the way about the meaning of true patriotism and the need for campaign finance reform. And she didn’t stop speaking out once she reached Washington.

Alternet posts a terrific speech of hers from last Tuesday: Worthy Dreams. I loved this part:

I love my little house in the woods of New Hampshire. I am comfortable there, next to a bright stream. But I will be happy to run an errand, and I will do it very soon. I will travel to work sites where women work to bring them what they need to vote. I will walk through many towns to do this, finding as many workplaces as I can, and I am going to buy a little red wagon for my voter supplies. I will be happy to be driven between towns so that I can cover the ground more quickly than when I walked the nation. My friends have helped me map it out. We will cover 36 states and, with the help of my friends, we will visit 100,000 workplaces.

She means it; starting next month, she’ll be touring the country for a year to encourage and help enable America’s working women to vote. If you go to GrannyD.com like I did tonight and sign up, you can be a volunteer along her way. This means that when her “get out the vote” team comes to your area, you can help take voting registration supplies to workplaces, etc.