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December 24 "IMPEACHMENT UPDATE" =PLEASE HELP=SIGN=Note: If the link doesn't work, please copy and paste it into your browser.
Each week we try to highlight the most urgent pressing policy issues with focus on the ones we're supposed to win, and can win, if only we mobilize enough people to speak out. We are asking all of our participants to make it part of their weekly routine, to call their members of Congress on one of the tested working toll-free numbers 800 828-0498, 800 614 2803 or 866 340 9281, and/or also to follow up by submitting the email action pages below that you feel strongly about. 1) No Retroactive Immunity For The Telecoms Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/no_telecom_immunity.php Facebook Version: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum745 (must be a member of Facebook at www.facebook.com and logged it) Coming to a head quickly will the fight to beat back the corporate lobbyists seeking to grant all the law breaking telecoms retroactive immunity. At the moment there are two different versions of a bill to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The one passed by the Judiciary Committee does not grant retroactive immunity to all the telecoms for possibly spying on Americans without warrant, but the one passed by the Intelligence Committee does. It is critically important that the Senate start off on the correct foot by bringing forward the version that does NOT grant unwarranted retroactive immunity to the telecoms, for their unwarranted caving in to the Cheney White House on rule of law. Not only would blanket absolution of wrongdoing set a bad legal precedent, they still will not tell us what the telecoms actually did. Qwest, who refused to collaborate with the Cheney White House criminals, knew right from wrong when they refused to break the law. Congress needs to compel the rest of them to come clean, not signal "Congressional acquiescence in an illegal course of conduct." Senators Feingold, Dodd and others have declared they are prepared to filibuster if necessary to make sure the law remains the law, and we need to voice our support in that. 2) Don't Let The FCC Lock In Media Monopolies Forever Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php Facebook Version: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum738 (must be a member of Facebook at www.facebook.com and logged it) Already more than 18,000 of our participants have submitted the action pages above, which also sends your personal comments to all five of the FCC commissioners. We only have until Dec. 11 to register our vocal opposition to allowing even further control of our national media resources to the same insufferable, unaccountable corporations, who have trivialized our policy debates and suppressed the real news at the direction of the Cheney White House. The determination of the current FCC chairman Martin to plow ahead with a complete unraveling of any kind of meaningful regulation in the waning months of the 8 years of unmitigated greed, must be countered with the voices of the real people, that's us, telling them "no mas". Congress is preparing to consider S.2332, the Media Ownership Act of 2007, which would stop the FCC fast one in its tracks. Please make a particular point of speaking out in favor of this true bipartisan bill while there is time before the deadline. 3) Grounds For Cheney Impeachment Mount Day By Day Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php Facebook Version: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum709 (must be a member of Facebook at www.facebook.com and logged it) It seems like every day there is a new revelation, sometimes two, demonstrating the urgency of getting on with impeachment of the Vice President. Monday, the New York Times reported that the new National Intelligence Estimate concludes that Iran is nowhere close to having a nuclear weapon, and in fact is believed to have mothballed any such program. But still, Cheney has been out there pounding the drums louder and louder for an attack on Iran, just exactly the way he intervened to cook the intelligence books to con the American people into invading Iraq in the first place. This time he did not get away with the deception. But the fact that he tried is impeachable enough, and just emphasizes the necessity of holding him accountable for all the horrendous damage to our national security he has already done, by removing him from office immediately, and Constitutionally. If you have already submitted the action page above, please do it again, because our members of Congress need to hear from us again and again on this. If not, please make your voice heard. There is no telling what kind of stunt Cheney may yet pull unless Congress confronts him directly, working with rogue elements in Israel to launch an Iran attack anyway, as he is reported to have done, or other malfeasance. And only your impact, joining with your fellow constituents to speak out will force Congress to act on this one. A Note About The Facebook Versions: What we have done by creating a Facebook version of all action pages is open up the possibility of engaging their entire member base of 50 million in direct policy activism. At the current time, as noted above, you must be a Facebook member AND logged in to use the Facebook version action links. If you are not already a member you can go to www.facebook.com and register. Or must keep using our regular action pages. We'll always be there for you. Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible. If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at http://www.usalone.com/in.htm December 17 CONSUMER UNION ACTIONS AND ALERTSTips for buying safe products this year Don't let the FCC give a big gift to big media It's Always Christmas Time for Visa! December 06 OUT OF IRAQ & IMPEACH =PLEASE HELP=
America Cannot Afford Bush's "Success"
Bush whined, "It's unconscionable to deny funds to our troops in harm's way because some in Congress want to force a self-defeating policy, especially when we're seeing the benefits of success." The "benefits of success"??? Bush's "success" unleashed chaos that murdered 1 million Iraqis and drove 4 million more out of their homes into desperate poverty. Bush's "success" created a sectarian Shia government that ethnically cleansed Baghdad of Sunnis and Christians and corruptly lined its pockets with our tax dollars. Bush's "success" killed nearly 4,000 brave young Americans and maimed tens of thousands more, both physically and mentally, leading to 120 veterans' suicides each week. Bush's "success" broke our military, corrupted our intelligence agencies, and embraced torture as official U.S. policy. Bush's "success" empowered Osama Bin Laden and handed half of Afghanistan back to the Taliban. Bush's "success" empowered dangerous dictators in Russia, Pakistan, Burma, Iran and Venezuela. Bush's "success" increased global terror and hatred of the United States. Bush's "success" wasted $500 billion on Iraq, with trillions more to come. Bush's "success" added $4 trillion to our national debt and trillions more in future debts. Bush's "success" drove the price of oil from $16/barrel to nearly $100/barrel, and tripled the price of gasoline from $1.06 to $3.11.
America - and the world - cannot afford any more of Bush's "success." Tell Congress no more funds for Iraq: And send a message Democrats cannot ignore by joining the Democratic Donor Strike against the DCCC and DSCC
_________ Impeachment: Congressional Silence = Constitutional Death Bush signed an agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki for permanent bases in Iraq, in defiance of the explicit opposition of both the U.S. Congress and the Iraqi Parliament. Yet Congress is utterly silent. Bush issued his first signing statement since Democrats won Congress, and gave himself the right to steal all the money he needs to invade Iran. Yet Congress is utterly silent. Bush knew a year ago that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003, but threatened World War III with Iran just weeks ago. Yet Congress is utterly silent Bush formally advised a British Court last week that he is fully entitled to kidnap foreigners (i.e., Britons) off the street around the world for any reason at all and carry them off to secret prisons. Yet Congress is utterly silent. Bush's former press secretary Scott McClellan admitted he lied about the role of Scooter Libby and Karl Rove in destroying the career and urgent work of Valerie Plame. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison but Bush commuted his sentence under orders from Cheney to shut Libby up. Yet Congress is utterly silent. Bush rehired Iraq War Criminal Paul Wolfowitz as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board. The Board includes Robert Joseph, who put the Niger Uranium Big Lie in Bush's 2003 State of the Union, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, who helped mega-liar Ahmed Chalabi defraud the U.S. into a $1+ trillion disaster. Yet Congress is utterly silent. Bush is still contemptuously defying dozens of subpoenas. Yet Congress is utterly silent. The people are not silent. Impeachment activists continue to organize from coast to coast. In the northeast, 60-year-old John Nirenberg is marching along Route 1 from Boston to DC to see Nancy Pelosi, and needs your support along the way. In the West, Los Angeles activists will protest at the Rose Bowl parade on January 1. And Rep. Dennis Kucinich is not silent. He continues to advocate impeachment everywhere he goes. Tell Congress to Impeach Cheney and Bush:
_________ "The Real News" Interviews David Swanson on Impeachment
Senior Editor Paul Jay recently interviewed David Swanson about Rep. Dennis Kucinich's effort to impeach Dick Cheney. Watch the excellent interview: _________ National PR Conference for Progressives Progressive activists can sharpen their communications skills at a "national conference on media relations for progressives," Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2008, in Denver. The True Spin Conference will include 25 workshops, lectures, and panel discussions by some of the leading progressive PR practitioners in the country. The faculty includes: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; Andy Bichlbaum, Yes Men!; Kathy Bonk and Emily Tynes, Authors, Strategic Communications for Nonprofits; Beach Codevilla, Spitfire Strategies; Lori Dorfman, Berkeley Media Studies Group; Alan Jenkins, The Opportunity Agenda; Martin Kearns, Green Media Toolshed; Robert Perez, Fenton Communications; Rashad Robinson, GLAAD; David Sirota, Author, Hostile Takeover; and others. The first True Spin Conference in 2006 sold out with 200 registrants from around the country, including PR people from all types of progressive organizations. Session topics include: How to Deal with EDs Who Just Don't Get it; YouTube: Show and Tell; Strategic Media Planning; Be like GLAAD; Demystifying the Interactive Web; Theatrical Protest: A Case Study in Pink; How to Collaborate with the Netroots and Bloggers; Connecting PR to Fundraising; and How to Work with Hollywood. http://www.truespinconference.com/program.html _________ Winter Soldiers: Iraq and Afghanistan On the weekend of 13-15 March, 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War will assemble history's largest gathering of US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Iraqi and Afghan survivors. They will provide first hand accounts of their experiences and reveal the truth of occupation. We support Iraq Veterans Against the War and their Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation. Join us in supporting their efforts to reveal truth in the way that only those who lived it can, by signing the statement of support: #####
Forward this message to everyone you know! December 01 OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH "GONE"!!!Dear friends, Please read the following and be sure to watch the video at the bottom of this important message. PLEASE forward this to all you know. Its imperative that people know whats going on. Thank you for your time!! Ron G. The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline and I could be arrested as a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check yourself here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h1955_rfs.xml The bill states: ‘...ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs... Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political or social belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all hinges on the definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use of logic in Washington these days, and the slippery interpretation of the meaning of words, "force" could mean: • A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes • A non-violent street protest • A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail • A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization • A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of any government department or agency. PLEASE SEE THIS>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc MORE HERE>> http://www.newstarget.com/022308.html ________________________________________________________________________________ NEWSWIRE.... 'Patriot Act Lite' Could Threaten Civil Liberties, Dissent Green Party USA: McClellan Bombshell Demands Impeachment Amy Goodman | Have They No Shame? |
Remember when Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq? Now he's calling Iraq a "success."
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