Hey everyone. I finally finished my video for MTV’s Choose or Lose Street Team competition. I was asked to upload the video to THINK, which is MTV’s fairly new social network. Like facebook or MySpace, it allows young, “social activists” to share articles, videos and blogs, each adding to a conversation on a social or political issue. Whether your issue is the environment, discrimination, or gun control, you’ll find a niche of like-minded people from different backgrounds who also care. I think that’s something we can all appreciate.

Thanks to all the contributors to this film, particularly Penn Camera for the rental, Kevin Kiger and Ilir Zherka of DC Vote, Malika Holmes, Taria Nelson and the many other insightful locals I spoke to.

At the end of the day, it’s simple: when 600,000 people take part in the rituals of a democratic society, but are denied a vote in Congress, something is wrong. In September, the Senate fell a few votes short of enacting legislation that would give the District one vote in the House of Representatives. With a broken school system, the hightest rate of HIV/AIDS, and a city of citizens looking for answers, residents want to know why the brutal reality of Taxation Without Representation still lives in the nation’s capital?Use your voice and speak up for them because without a voting member of Congress, they can’t do it themselves.

Click here and you’ll be walked through how to reach your Congressman. If you want to take it straight to the Man, or President Bush as we call him, here’s the number to the White House Comment Line. Go ahead, give ‘em hell. Tell them “I support the D.C. House Voting Rights Act of 2007.”