Your Fight The Right-Wing Wackos for July 24, 2008

** Food and Water Watch **
Today, nearly a billion people are on the brink of malnutrition or even starvation because of the global food crisis. Encouraging local food production is key to resolving the crisis, however, global trade bureaucrats meeting in Geneva this week are pushing yet another misguided trade deal.

Ask Congress to support local production by sending food aid in the form of cash instead of crops.
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** Apollo Alliance **
Every day, Americans pay more and more at the pump, while oil companies bring in record profits.

Now, those same oil companies and their congressional allies are proposing more drilling - even though nearly every energy expert agrees this is one problem America can't drill its way out of. The oil companies say they're doing it to help lower the cost of gas. But scratch the surface, and you'll find it's the oil companies that truly benefit from new offshore drilling.

Don't let them continue to make money off of high gas prices while working Americans remain dependent on the energy of the past.

Instead, tell Congress we need a real, comprehensive solution to America's energy crisis.

Let's invest in clean, renewable energy and homegrown fuels, that will create millions of high-quality, green-collar jobs and reduce our dependence on oil.
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** Environmental Defense Fund **
he era of cheap oil is over. Lifting the offshore drilling ban will not bring it back.

The only way to free ourselves from expensive oil is to get off oil. And the best way to do that is to support market-based policies that unleash clean energy innovation.

Take action now -- Tell your members of Congress that you oppose lifting the ban on offshore drilling and that you support energy innovation to get us off oil.
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** People for the American Way **
The Monkey King Bush administration's at it again -- denying reality that doesn’t fit its political agenda (as it's done with global warming, the war, the economy and so much more).

The press this week reported on an offensive protocol by the Census Bureau for how it intends to handle married same-sex couples during the 2010 Census. The Bureau will NOT count legally married gay couples as married, and will instead EDIT the data submitted by married gay couples to change their status to "unmarried partners."

Please sign on to our petition to the Census Bureau urging them not to do this.
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