End the Violence
Compassion. Peace. Love. Liberty. Freedom.
Bait and Switch Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Ask your representative to support H.R.5052 Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Services Act which requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to:
(1) promulgate rules prohibiting persons from advertising with the intent to deceptively create the impression that such persons provide abortion services; and (2) enforce violations of such rules as unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.
Even if you are pro-life/anti-choice, you should support this bill. There is no reason that CPCs can’t proudly advertise what they do offer. How about something like: “Thinking about an abortion? Come talk to us about the alternatives.”
Thanks to an investigation by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), we know exactly what they’re telling women. Female investigators called, saying they were pregnant, and recorded their conversations. 87% of CPCs provided false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion.
These centers, which are easily confused with full reproductive health and planning services, use neutral-sounding names and ads – but their agenda is very clear. They spread misinformation (let’s say “misinformation” instead of the more straightforward word, just to be nice) in order to dissuade women from having an abortion. They don’t offer abortion services at all.
It’s a services bait and switch.
Did you know that anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) have received $30 million of our tax dollars? According to the Guttmacher Institute, there are 2,500-4,000 centers nationwide, compared with about 1,800 abortion providers.
Take action to stop these clinics from deceiving women at their most vulnerable moments:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/crisis_clinics
(Planned Parenthood)
American Understanding Dawning
We are an optimistic nation, a hopeful nation. Whatever our politics, we hope that our political and corporate leaders value our lives. This is a wonderful thing about America. But it does leave us somewhat open to manipulation, deceit, and betrayal. I think this Administration is disastrous to us in ways that are have been sufficiently transparent for some time but that many people don’t want to see or believe.
Fellow Americans, I do believe that more of us are beginning to understand. More information will only show how deep the damage goes.
Read, please. Read more. Ask questions. Find out. Pick an issue and find out everything you can about it – from different points of view. Put together your own ethical judgment – whatever it is. Become truly informed to your very best ability. Only in this way can we have a functioning democracy again.
Here are a few links to articles that I think are worth reading.
- Top ten power brokers of the American theocracy machine. View income, players, goals.
- George Lakoff on the meaning of freedom (progressives vs conservatives)
- Fifteen Things to Remember about Ken Lay and Enron– Joseph Palermo
- Garrison Keillor on Ralph Reed – still running for office in Georgia
- Bush Thinks he Can Rule by Fiat (Helen Thomas)
- Victory for Mexican President Blank-o (Greg Palast) – Election brought to you by ChoicePoint Inc. and the American Republican Party
- How America Lost its Way (Noam Chomsky) – Defining traits of a failed state: inability to protect its citizens, belief that it is above the law, lack of democracy.
- Who Owns What? – Columbia Journalism Review’s online guide to what major media companies own
- Infiltration of the Military by Hate Groups – We’re training and arming our own terrorists…
Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman’s war, he wrote. It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and ‘cleansed.’
As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks of the United States Army with skinheads. As street brawlers, you will be useless in the coming race war. As trained infantrymen, you will join the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood.
Victims of Child Abuse Hotline
Do you know a child who is being abused or molested?
If the crisis is now, please call 9-1-1!
Call the National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)
Do not listen to any counsel that tells you to be silent. Everyone matters.
All calls are anonymous and toll-free. The hotline is staffed 24 hours daily with professional crisis counselors who utilize a database of thousands of emergency, social service and support resources.
The Childhelp hotline counselors can…
- discuss signs and symptoms of abuse with you.
- help you decide a course of action.
- prepare you as to what to expect when reporting child abuse.
- provide the number of the local reporting agency you should call.
Hotline counselors can look up the local reporting telephone number and give it to you. They can also stay on the phone line and make a 3-way call if you are nervous about doing it alone.
Law enforcement agencies (the police or sheriff’s departments) and child protective services are the ones who decide what will happen when there is child abuse. If a child is in immediate danger, however, counselors can call the local police to go to the child’s location if the hotline caller gives the address and the name of the child or teen who is being abused.
Other Hotlines
If you are in immediate danger call 9-1-1.
- United States Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
Spanish Language: 1-800-942-6908
TDD: 1-800-787-3224 - United States Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673
- Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-800-448-4663
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: 1-800-843-5678
TDD: 1-800-826-7653 - United States Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-2433
- Hotline For Parents Considering Abducting Their Children: 1-800-A WAY OUT
- United States Missing Children Hotline: 1-800-235-3535
- United States Elder Abuse Hotline: 1-866-363-4276
- Find a Therapist: 1-800-865-0686
9/11 Loose Change
9/11 Loose Change Second Edition
It is the duty of every American to consider this information.
Phil Jayhan and Korey Rowe
1 hr 21 min 50 sec – Feb 5, 2005
Stop AT&T Merger with BellSouth
AT&T and BellSouth plan to merge into a single colossus (it also includes Cingular wireless). The merger is the largest yet among U.S. telecom players. AT&T, already the nation’s largest telecommunications company, will become the largest broadband provider with nearly 10 million subscribers. This deal must be protested and stopped.
It would resurrect the Ma Bell monopoly that was busted up in 1984 with even more drastic results. We are still in the days of partially-connected media systems, but are moving into a convergence of all digital media – television, telephone, internet, etc. No one company can be allowed to take control as the gatekeepers, and no one company can be allowed to set the policies and prices. This deal would leave consumers with fewer choices, higher prices and less control over their communications.
AT&T and BellSouth have a poor track record serving Americans. They have stifled competition, eliminating choices in the marketplace. They have not kept up with global competitors. They have not bridged the “digital divide.” They appear to have little if any interest in protecting network freedoms that keep the Internet an open road for all. This is a bigger issue than many realize.
Both AT&T and BellSouth have publicly discussed pricing plans that undermine the freedoms that keep the internet open to all.
Take action! One easy form sends a message to the Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), your Congressperson, and your Senators. It’s still a democracy, speak your piece.