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Take Action – Progressive Activism

Take Action – Progressive Activism

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Here are some of the progressive actions that you can take today. Please consider each of these carefully, and take action if you agree. Oppose Attack on Iran Join Gold Star Families for Peace, CODE PINK, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, Traprock Peace Center, Global Exchange, Velvet Revolution, Democracy Rising, Truthout, OpEdNews, Backbone Campaign, Consumers For Peace, Campus Antiwar Network, and The Young Turks in signing a petition to Bush and Cheney opposing the launching of a war of aggression…

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Take Action: Genocide is news

Take Action: Genocide is news

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Genocide is news Genocide is the ultimate crime against humanity. And a government-backed genocide is unfolding in the Darfur region of the Sudan. As the horror in Darfur continues, our major television news networks are largely missing in action. … The vast majority of Americans continue to rely on broadcast and cable television as their primary source of information. No other source of information, including newspapers, radio and the internet, comes close to the power of television. For many of…

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Take Action – Protect Health

Take Action – Protect Health

New Air Pollution Rules Threaten Public Health Take action now Disregarding and misrepresenting recommendations from their own scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed new air pollution standards that do not sufficiently protect public health. The new rules apply to particulate matter pollution, sources of which include agricultural activity, vehicle exhaust, and emissions from coal-fired power plants. Over 2,000 recent studies have linked particulate matter exposure to heart disease, respiratory ailments, and premature death. The EPA needs to hear…

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Stop Forced Relocation Black Mesa AZ

Stop Forced Relocation Black Mesa AZ

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Oppose Senate Bill S.1003 Native people’s lives and livelihoods are on the line! Traditional Navajo (known in their language as Dineh) would be forcibly evicted and dispossessed of their homes under this bill. I support the right of these families, who are among the few remaining American Indians who still speak their traditional language and practice their traditional culture, to remain on their lands and strongly oppose Senate Bill 1003. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) “estimates that enacting S. 1003…

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Hiding Monetary Policy Now?

Hiding Monetary Policy Now?

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It has been standard modus operandi of this administration that when it doesn’t like the facts, it stops the flow of information. Here’s yet another example. We all know that the government prints money, and regulates the amount it prints to help control some factors of our economy. Whatever your theories or ideas might be about the Federal Reserve, this is public information. We deserve to know. A number called M3 exposes the full extent of the Federal Reserve money…

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Stop AT&T Merger with BellSouth

Stop AT&T Merger with BellSouth

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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…

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