We come in peace (shoot to kill): 
Some actions for my fellow armchair activists. Click on the links for more information and to take action.
- Don’t Give Alberto Gonzales the Power to Speed Up Executions. You’ve got to read this just to believe they are even considering it.
- Demand the immediate release of renowned Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, who is imprisoned for the 100th day in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, a location infamous for the torture and detention of political prisoners. Dr. Esfandiari, 68, is the director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
- As a consumer, support workers’ rights at the Tar Heel, North Carolina, Smithfield Foods plant, the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world. The mistreatment of injured workers - and the conduct of Smithfield Foods in past union elections at the Tar Heel plant - is completely unacceptable (and perhaps unlawful too).
- Fat lot of good that it will do, but go tell the Bush administration to reject the proposed Desert Rock power plant. Oppose the plans for a dirty, coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that would release mercury and other toxic contaminants into the environment, pollute waterways and threaten human health. A “global energy company” and the Dine Power Authority want to build the plant on the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation.
- Sign the petition for an independent investigation that would seek to establish whether the Bush Administration intentionally delayed the capture of Osama Bin Laden in order to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.
Roberta Genini on 
5:09 am on August 16th, 2007 1
Jeesh. I’m not sure which one disgusts me more. I guess Gonzales being judge, jury and executioner.
2:03 pm on August 16th, 2007 2
I’ve said the thing about Osama from day one. Why?
We have spy satellites that can read the license plate of any vehicle on the planet from a gazillion miles up…how the hell can they (of them incorporated) not know where Osama is and has been from the beginning?
His family is friendly with Bushie’s family, his family was transported out of our country on 9/12, we’re in a war that has nothing to do with him or his alleged actions…what more evidence is needed?
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find out that Bushie et all had foreknowledge of 9/11 and allowed it to happen for whatever convoluted reasons they hold close to their vest. At the risk of being hunted down and made to disappear, it wouldn’t surprise me if Bushie et all planned and executed the whole thing and made a lucrative arrangement with Osama et all to take the blame and never be found.
Cynical you say? That would be me.
2:46 pm on August 16th, 2007 3
Thanks for this, Vi!
I signed and also posted to my own blog and to my Care2 page.
Hope you’re having a swell summer.
I enjoyed your message on Care2 a few weeks ago!
Cheers,
Todd
12:17 pm on August 18th, 2007 4
With the jellyfish CONgresional “leadership” we have, I don’t hold much hope out for anything meaningful to happen.