Getting organized - CakeBaker

Signing petitions is good.  So good, in fact, as a far right winger it annoys me I had to go to Moveon.org to sign a petition.  Why isn't my side doing the same?  Why don't we political opponents realize that sometimes we must come to the same conclusion, have the same goals, even if we approach them from completely opposite philosopical point of view?

Anyway, at the end of the thread below I wrote an impassioned plea to all the passive nay-sayers whose only answer to this mess is that a cake can't be unbaked that this just isn't a cake -- besides which you can take a cake and turn it into something quite different such a  bread pudding or an English trifle -- which is all beside the point, because metaphor of baking/unbaking a cake baking and offshoring medical transcription to India and the Phillippines when there are plenty of qualified (and the yet not quite so qualified ambitious young who can be mentored) American MTs to handle the job ford not remotely applicable!

So I would like to offer a practical suggestion as to how to get started to deal with this.  I know we, followers of the MTstars forum,  are just a fraction of the MTs in this country but each and every one of us knows other MTs, and other interested people.  We need to meet face to face, we need to plan what to do, we need to talk to each other, we need a national organization,  best unconnected to AAMT/AHDI or whatever it may be called now.

I live in Reno, Northern Nevada, I would like to connect with MTs in this area (Washoe County and Douglas County) and perhaps northern California, South Lake Tahoe area, El Dorado county, Placer County.)

I propose setting up a meeting place for us to meet.  Since I was just cast off from M-Modal yesterday, a full time employee by the way, only six months from retirement, (recovering from ovarian cancer and really wanting to do something of worth with whatever is left of my life) I can make some free time and am willing to volunteer that time to make this happen here.  I propose that MTs from each and every state in the country do the same.  If you are willing to take on this responsibility, then post from what city and state you are from so that other MTs, coders, other medical professionals, and other interested parties can contact you and arrange to meet.   This is only the first step, but is the necessary first step.  

Or you can just ignore me, I will be leaving this earth soon enough.  But I would like to be a small spark, one small catalyst, that will move us from this passive despair, this un-American inertia, and ready us all for the battle to come, even if I can't be part of it for very long.

Thank you for the honor of reading this post, and giving some consideration to what I have to say.