On a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher (which I had previously given up due to my feminist principles...), Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel Elizabeth Warren, who is always eloquent, passionate, and a light of hope among thousands of corrupt people, stated that she would be clear about why health reform isn’t happening like we’d like it to: lobbyists. The people simply don’t have the lobbying power that corporations have—sad, unfair, but true—and are not being heard over the throbbing dollar signs.

Today, it’s your turn to be a lobbyist.

Tibet Lobby Days are March 1 and 2, and Tibetans surely don’t have the dollars that corporate lobbyists have. The International Campaign for Tibet is asking citizens of the world to become lobbyists for the Tibetan people—and to ask members of Congress to support Tibet in 2010.

We’re already off to a good start. President Obama recently met with the Dalai Lama, and the United States was the first country to give His Holiness his first parliamentary forum in the 1980s. Millions of dollars come from the U.S. to support the Tibetan people every year as well.

But we have to continue this momentum if we ever want to truly see the people of Tibet free. The International Campaign for Tibet is hoping to get the issue placed on the table as a firm constituent issue—one with plenty of people support behind it; one that the Chinese Embassy cannot crush easily.

If you wholeheartedly support the freedom of the Tibetan people, please make your voice heard during these important early days of March. Spring is around the corner; what better way to ring it in than with hope and help for the people of Tibet?

You can go to Washington, DC to lobby your member of Congress, which is an extremely powerful way to make a statement. It’s the campaign’s second annual lobby day, and organizers from the campaign will be gathering with Tibetan-Americans and other supporters to gain Congressional awareness and support. But if you are not in the DC area and simply cannot make it, you can still be a virtual supporter by calling, emailing, and faxing your member of Congress on March 1 or 2 (or both!).

Please click here to get involved. You can immediately send a message to your member of Congress (the more personalized, the better—although a pre-written letter is there for you to use if you choose to do so) and learn how to take further action.