Nov 14, 2008 -- Fight the Right-Wing Wackos Links of the Day.

** Greenpeace **
After 8 years of the Bush Administration ignoring global warming, we don't have much time left to act. While President-elect Obama intends to roll back several of Bush's worst policies, we can't wait for January before taking action. We have one last chance to get the Bush administration to do something good for the planet.

The EPA is considering whether or not greenhouse gases represent a danger to public health and welfare. If the agency were to determine that greenhouse gases do in fact endanger the public, it would be required to take a number of regulatory actions.

Take action now >> Write to the EPA and tell them you support bold action on global warming!

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** United Farm Workers **
We expect the Bush administration’s Department of Labor to shortly announce new guestworker (H2A) regulations. These regulations, if adopted, will gut existing protections for both domestic and foreign farmworkers and represent a huge step backwards in protecting the hardworking people who put the food on our table.

The regulations will lower farmworker wages, make it easier for local workers to be discriminated against in hiring, and harder for farm workers to obtain decent housing (click here to see a four-page analysis of the regulations).

Numerous recent media reports document how the Bush Administration is making a last minute push to get these and other horrible regulations our before he leaves office.

Please join us in telling the Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Policy, Leon R. Sequeira not to issue these revised regulations. The American people spoke loudly on November 4th and said they had enough with the Bush Administration's anti-worker, anti-immigrant policies. Tell the Department of Labor to allow Congress and the next administration to address these issues.

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** The Wilderness Society **
The federal Bureau of Land Management has just proposed opening thousands of acres of forests in western Oregon to logging. It's a handoff to the timber industry, a huge loss to endangered species, and to the American public.

But there's still time to object! Your voice is absolutely critical in showing that the public cares about what happens to these forests. The BLM needs to know that Americans will not stand for degrading our streams and rivers, or the sale of some of our last ancient forests to the timber industry.

Tell the Bush Administration that destroying Oregon's coastal forests is unacceptable!

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** Credo Action **
Next week, Senate Democrats will vote on whether Joe Lieberman should continue to chair the powerful Committee on Homeland Security. Our friends at Credo Action have launched a campaign to ensure that Lieberman gets the boot.

Sen. Joe Lieberman supported the war in Iraq from the beginning, and he has continued to support it in the face of its tremendous failure, in the face of evidence that we were misled into war, in the face of increased security threats resulting from that war, even in the face of troops from his home state of Connecticut respectfully asking him to take action to bring them home. Lieberman has used his chairmanship not to improve our homeland security, but to keep our nation mired in pointless, endless war.

Committee chairmanships are positions of immense power. They should go to responsible leaders who will use those positions to serve the American people and protect the Constitution.

Lieberman has also undermined our security on the domestic front by supporting President Bush in subverting the Constitution. The Bush plan for spying on Americans without a warrant and the rules on torturing prisoners both could have been challenged by Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee, but his only move was to be a cheerleader for those plans.

Click here to tell your Senator to do the right thing: Vote to strip Senator Lieberman of his chairmanship.