** Service Employees International Union **
( http://www.seiu.org/index.php )
McDonald's isn't lovin' free choice for its employees. The fast food giant is reportedly organizing its restaurant owners to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. McDonald's has reportedly even formed an "internal response team...to actively participate in the opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act."
McDonald's has more than 600,000 employees in the US, many of whom earn less than $10/hour. But last year its CEO took home more than $13 million. Now McDonald's leadership is actively organizing to prevent its employees from standing up for themselves at work.
Write to McDonalds and say employees need the Employee Free Choice Act - we'll send your letters to McDonald's headquarters to make sure they get the message.
( http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/mcdonalds )
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** TrueMajority.org **
( http://www.truemajority.org/index.php )
Last month, Bank of America accepted $25 billion in taxpayer funds as part of the Wall Street Bailout. Now they're refusing to release lines of credit and causing hundreds to lose their jobs. In Chicago, workers making energy efficient windows and doors at the Republic Windows and Doors plant came to work only to be told their factory was shutting down and they would not be receiving the pay owed to them.
Hundreds of these laid-off workers have occupied their factory and are refusing to leave without receiving the benefits they rightly deserve — they're staying in the office day and night in their quest for justice.
Tell Bank of America and Congressional leaders to ensure that the Bailout Program be used to provide workers and companies with lines of credit to save jobs.
( http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/7002/campaign?campaign_KEY=1557 )
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** ApolloAlliance.org **
( http://www.apolloalliance.org/ )
Here's the good news: President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to invest in clean energy and good jobs – he's asked Congress to have a bill ready for him on the day he takes office.
The bad news: A small group of powerful legislators, backed by Big Oil lobbyists, is bent on derailing our new energy future.
Leading them is Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who's called global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and labeled clean energy supporters like you "extremist".
As the top Republican on a key Senate committee, Sen. Inhofe wields enormous influence in deciding our energy future. But so do you.
Tell Sen. Inhofe and his buddies not to stall the clean energy plan America voted for in November.
( http://ga0.org/campaign/inhofecampaign_1208/ )
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sept 16, 2008 -- Fight the Right-Wing Wackos Links of the Day.
** Public Citizen **
The auto industry has created a nice little mess for itself.
For years, Detroit automakers have fought tooth and nail against federal measures to improve the fuel economy of their fleets. They disregarded rising gas prices and lessons learned from the oil embargoes and shortages of the 1970s.
Now these corporate giants are descending on Washington, D.C., hat in hand to request that the taxpayers bail them out. They want as much as $50 billion in loan guarantees, making us pay for their past mistakes.
Don't let the auto industry get its way with no strings attached!
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** Apollo Alliance **
Don't Let Big Oil Control Energy Reform!
Congress is on the verge of passing a new energy bill that begins to move us toward a clean energy-good jobs future, but oil companies are trying to stop the energy reform America so desperately needs.
Despite record-breaking profits and a landmark agreement from Congress to allow offshore drilling, Big Oil wants even more. They're trying to kill the new energy bill to protect tax giveaways that have helped their profits reach into the billions.
We need to act immediately – the new energy bill will come to a vote this week.
America can't wait! Tell your Senator to stay strong and pass the bill.
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** The PEW Environment Group **
Now is our chance to set the rules to permanently end overfishing. In December 2006, with broad public support from people like you, Congress passed a law that requires an end to overfishing by 2011.
In June 2008, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed rules to put this law into effect and achieve its bold goal.
While the NMFS proposal takes great strides toward meeting this important goal, critical loopholes remain.
Before the September 22nd deadline, ask NMFS to close the overfishing loopholes!
The auto industry has created a nice little mess for itself.
For years, Detroit automakers have fought tooth and nail against federal measures to improve the fuel economy of their fleets. They disregarded rising gas prices and lessons learned from the oil embargoes and shortages of the 1970s.
Now these corporate giants are descending on Washington, D.C., hat in hand to request that the taxpayers bail them out. They want as much as $50 billion in loan guarantees, making us pay for their past mistakes.
Don't let the auto industry get its way with no strings attached!
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** Apollo Alliance **
Don't Let Big Oil Control Energy Reform!
Congress is on the verge of passing a new energy bill that begins to move us toward a clean energy-good jobs future, but oil companies are trying to stop the energy reform America so desperately needs.
Despite record-breaking profits and a landmark agreement from Congress to allow offshore drilling, Big Oil wants even more. They're trying to kill the new energy bill to protect tax giveaways that have helped their profits reach into the billions.
We need to act immediately – the new energy bill will come to a vote this week.
America can't wait! Tell your Senator to stay strong and pass the bill.
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** The PEW Environment Group **
Now is our chance to set the rules to permanently end overfishing. In December 2006, with broad public support from people like you, Congress passed a law that requires an end to overfishing by 2011.
In June 2008, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed rules to put this law into effect and achieve its bold goal.
While the NMFS proposal takes great strides toward meeting this important goal, critical loopholes remain.
Before the September 22nd deadline, ask NMFS to close the overfishing loopholes!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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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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.
--
** 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.
--
** 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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