Now that the Tax Day Tea Parties are in our rear view mirror, the next big thing for constitutionalists is the End the Fed rallies on Saturday, April 25. Basically the plan is to have rallies at 40 Federal Reserve locations around the nation. Organizers hope for an average of 5000 per rally, which would amount to 200,000 total participants for all locations combined.

The hub of online organizing for the End the Fed rallies appears to be the “End the Fed” website at http://www.endthefed.us/ and its closely affiliated social networking site at http://endthefedusa.ning.com/groups. Times and places for the local End the Fed events are available at the latter site.

Educational tools (handouts, booklets, reprints, and DVDs) for use at these rallies were posted at JBS.org on Monday.

Following hard on the heels of the rallies Saturday will be a “melt-the-switchboard” grassroots activity in support of H.R. 1207 to Audit the Fed on Monday.

Although Ron Paul had already introduced a resolution in the House to abolish the Federal Reserve (H.R. 833), he added a new wrinkle in February by introducing H.R. 1207 to audit the Fed. Paul believes that the best strategy for ending the fed is to work on passing a politically more attractive bill to audit the Fed first, which would help create the pressure for ending the fed later.

Here’s an excellent video to bring you up to speed on H.R. 1207:

Even though H.R. 1207 is getting surprisingly good bipartisan support and has 71 cosponsors in the House as of today, it will still take a massive grassroots impact on Congress to get this "Audit the Fed" bill passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President.

Click here to participate in the “melt-the-switchboard day" on Monday to help pressure Congress into passing H.R. 1207. At this webpage you’ll be able to send a pre-written, editable email in support of H.R. 1207 to your representative and both of your senators. You are also encouraged to help “melt-the-switchboard” on Monday by phoning a specific, toll-free congressional switchboard number, 1-877-851-6437, and asking to speak to the offices of the members of the House Financial Services Committee, and then, asking to speak to those representatives who have cosponsored H.R. 1207 to praise and applaud them.

The strategy appears to be to have everyone phone in through one congressional switchboard number in order to maximize the chances for overloading the phone system.

There you have it. Saturday is for rallying at the 40 Federal Reserve locations to "End the Fed." Monday is for melting the congressional switchboard by massive calling in support of H.R. 1207 to "Audit the Fed."

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