These links
will help you get involvedor be able to contact others who are involved. By ‘involved’ I mean you
are not sitting on your ass, watching your world and go down the toilet before your very eyes. By being ‘involved’
your WORD starts to actually mean something. I need all the backup I can get to stand up to injustices and speak up for all
citizens rights.
Take Action!
Look at these links and issues. Let us all stand up together and
contact our officials, by writing, phoning, singing or what ever it takes to insure that we Want Freedom to Ring!”
Please use the form below to urge your representative and senators to support the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 766 and H.R.
1338) and the Fair Pay Act (S. 1087).
Equal pay has been the law since 1963. But 44 years later, women workers still are paid less
than their male counterparts--even when they share similar education, skills and experience. Wage discrimination based on
sex still exists in the workplace.
The most recent available data shows women are paid 77 cents for every dollar men receive. For
every $100 worth of work women do, that's $23 less to spend on groceries, housing, child care and other expenses.
Tell the House and Senate to support both the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair
Pay Act to help bring justice and fairness to the workplace.
Help us bring investment bank Lehman Brothers to the negotiating
table for strong climate protection safeguard policies. If Lehman Brothers is serious about climate change, they and
their partners who are bidding to be the new owners of TXU must craft a commitment to stop funding new coal power projects.
Send a message to Lehman Brothers climate
director Teddy Roosevelt IV and demand a climate policy that ensures Lehman Brothers won't fund any new dirty
coal plants. A clean enery future is possible in Texas.
TXU is also Texas' largest provider of wind energy, and numerous
studies have show that efficiency measures and renewables can readily meet Texas' energy needs while better
protecting the environment and human health.
To: Theodore Roosevelt IV, Lehman Bros.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt
We need your leadership right now to ensure the finance sector gets serious about climate change. We call on you to use
your new position to announce that Lehman Brothers will be adopting a world-class climate protection policy that will end
financing for the dirtiest climate polluting projects. Today, a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina and amidst irrefutable
and overwhelming scientific evidence of the threats posed by climate change, the American public is ready for action.
As
you well know, respected U.S. scientists like Dr. James Hansen are now calling for a ban on construction of new coal fired
power plants. They know that if we do not level off our greenhouse gas emissions within a decade we run a serious risks of
slipping into a runaway climate change scenario. Financial institutions like Lehman Brothers can no longer ignore these serious
warnings about the very future of our planet.
We hope you'll make the right choice and, along with your peers on Wall
Street, make a commitment to stop funding dirty, dangerous and outdated climate-polluting technologies and help fund and facilitate
the transition to a sutainable future. We say, "No New Coal." We hope you are listening.
The "Bring
the Troops Home and Iraqi Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2007," H.R. 508, was
introduced last week by Reps. Lynn Woolsey (D - CA6), Barbara Lee (D - CA9), and Maxine Waters (D - CA35), with the following
intent: "To require United States military disengagement from Iraq, to provide United States assistance for reconstruction
and reconciliation in Iraq, and for other purposes."
H.R. 508
Click Here To Send Your Email to Your Representive
H.R. 508, the "Bring the Troops Home
and Iraqi Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2007," a bill which Peace Action helped create, is the comprehensive bill
we need to end the war. Please take a moment to use the form below and send an email to your Representative in Washington,
demanding that they co-sponsor this important piece of legislation. If you can take even a further moment to personalize
the message, using your own words in the subject line and first couple of sentences, this has an even greater impact.
PLEASE NOTE: Current
co-sponsors of the bill, along with Reps. Woolsey, Lee and Waters, who introduced it, include Diane Watson (D-CA-33,
James McGovern (D-MA-3), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH-10), Barney Frank (D-MA-4), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY-22),
John Conyers (D-MI-14), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-8), Chaka Fattah (D-PA-2), Bob Filner (D-CA-51), William “Lacy” Clay
(D-M0-1), Donald Payne (D-NJ-10), Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18).
Yes, they did it again. The Senate defeated a clean minimum wage
increase that is nearly 10 years overdue. So, once again, millions of minimum wage workers have to wait for a raise while
the House (which passed a clean minimum wage increase) and Senate work out the differences between their versions of the legislation.
Please use the form below to tell your U.S. representative and senators
to pass a clean minimum wage increase, with no strings attached and no more business handouts.
Unfortunately, PacifiCorp, our second-largest utility,
is trying to move in the opposite direction. They are proposing three new coal-fired power plants for their electric system.
Coal-fired power plants are some of the worst energy choices a utility can make - they are one of the biggest sources of global
warming pollution and other environmental problems. PacifiCorp's plants would be built in Utah, but they want Oregon
consumers to pay 25% of the cost.
I just called AT&T at
866-596-8464 And cancelled my VOIP service As of this very minute!
I informed the rep that I was upset
about them handing over my records I informed them they broke the law I informed them that they should have abided
by the constitutional right to privacy and the telecom laws on record now and have been for many years I informed them
that they are getting sued because of their actions and I did not want to participate with a company that doesn't respect
my privacy I informed them that other phone companies have not co-operated with the request because it was illegal (she
tried to infer that they co-operate with the government) which I mentioned that the government was out of line to even demand
or ask for the records without going through the proper channels
"There are those who look at things the way
they are,
and ask why...
I dream of things that never were
and ask why not."
- Robert F. Kennedy
Quoting Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw
Ohio
election workers
convicted of rigging ’04 presidential
recount By Associated Press Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - Updated: Jan 26, 2007
05:25 AM EST
CLEVELAND - Two election workers
were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio’s
most populous county.
Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board,
and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee.
They also were convicted of one misdemeanor count each of failure of elections employees to perform their duty.
Prosecutors accused Maiden and Dreamer of secretly reviewing preselected ballots
before a public recount on Dec. 16, 2004. They worked behind closed doors for three days to pick ballots they knew would not
cause discrepancies when checked by hand, prosecutors said.
Defense attorney Roger Synenberg has said the workers were following procedures as
they understood them.
Ohio gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen.
John Kerry in the close election and hold on to the White House in 2004.
Special prosecutor Kevin Baxter did not claim the workers’ actions affected
the outcome of the election - Kerry gained 17 votes and Bush lost six in the county’s recount.
Maiden and Dreamer, who still work for the elections board, face a possible sentence
of six to 18 months for the felony conviction. Sentencing is on Feb. 26.
A message left for Elections Board Director Michael Vu was not immediately returned
Wednesday. The board released a statement that said its goal is to restore confidence in the county’s election progress
and pursue reforms in addition to those made since 2004.
at 866-596-8464
And cancelled my VOIP service As of this very minute!
I informed the rep that I was upset about them handing over my records
I informed them they broke the law
I informed them that they should have abided by the constitutional right to privacy and the telecom laws on record now and have been for many years
I informed them that they are getting sued because of their actions and I did not want to participate with a company that doesn't respect my privacy
I informed them that other phone companies have not co-operated with the request because it was illegal (she tried to infer that they co-operate with the government) which I mentioned that the government was out of line to even demand or ask for the records without going through the proper channels
Damn that felt GOOD
I even get money back!