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Knowlegde is power.: 33 minutes ago · ViewAlliance for Retired Americans has published Congressional Voting Record for 2012 – You can also see the previous years reports.
http://www.retiredamericans.org/issues/congressional-voting-record
Interesting to see whether or not our reps are TRULY representing OUR wishes –
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Take Action: 38 minutes ago · ViewPublic Citizen – Hold Chevron Accountable
At the peak of the 2012 elections, Chevron dumped $2.5 million into a super PAC devoted solely to running negative ads against Democrats seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chevron’s super PAC spending, enabled by the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United ruling, will further entrench politicians who deny the existence of climate change and refuse to cut corporate welfare. Such political positions create the conditions for Chevron’s record profits, even as they destroy the conditions for life on Earth.
Chevron’s spending was a business investment, made because GOP hard-liner positions — like denying climate change and subsidizing Big Oil — create the conditions for Chevron’s record profits (even as they threaten the conditions for life on Earth).
Chevron’s spending also appears to be illegal.
Earlier this week — with allies at Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Oil Change International — Public Citizen filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission.* It appears that Chevron may have violated laws designed to prevent corruption in the federal contracting process, which prohibit contractors from directly or indirectly supporting candidates for elected office.
Demand that Chevron keep its corporate profits out of the people’s politics.
https://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12143
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Alison posted an update in the group
News Discussion: 51 minutes ago · ViewWhy the OAS Report on Alternatives to Drug Prohibition is Such A Big Deal
It’s the first time that any multilateral institution anywhere in the world has critically analyzed the war on drugs, and considered new approaches.
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Take Action: 58 minutes ago · View5 Most Horrifying Things About Monsanto—Why You Should Join the Global Movement and Protest on Saturday
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News Discussion: 1 hour ago · ViewThe Free the Press efforts is making headlines slowly but surely
http://www.alternet.org/activism/time-take-newspapers-billionaires-and-return-them-people
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Medical related Discussion and Helpful Info: 5 hours, 37 minutes ago · ViewInforgraphic: 21 Medical Kit Must Haves
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Take Action: 5 hours, 40 minutes ago · ViewDebbie Wasserman Schultz -Congress MUST step up!
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, Super PACs and special interest groups can collect unlimited amounts of cash and spend it to influence elections with virtually no oversight, no restrictions, and no transparency.
Join Debbie Wasserman Schultz and urge Congress to take immediate action to reverse the damaging effects of Citizens United!
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News Discussion: 5 hours, 44 minutes ago · View911 calls go unanswered in some Oregon counties
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/us/oregon-public-safety-shortage/index.html
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Alison posted an update in the group
News Discussion: 6 hours, 24 minutes ago · ViewI am certainly NOT an engineer but it seems to ME it is TIME to quit waging war and FIX our infrastructure!
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/24/us/washington-bridge-collapse/index.html
it does not take an engineer to see the infrastructure is falling apart i had a friend who used to play music with us lose his life because of the claiborne bridge collapsing. a few years back i had went to pittsburg and the roads were horrible. there is no reason we do not have a high speed railway system in this country other than greed by the oil companies.the high speed railway system would be SO much more efficient that the airways and a whole lot cheaper and faster, not to mention the savings on cost and enviroment..
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Day of Action: 1 day ago · ViewJuly 4, 2013
#OpJuly4th Educational Operation to restore unity among the American Public
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Operation OK More info
Occupy OKC Official FB Page https://www.facebook.com/OccupyOKCOfficialPage
WePay https://www.wepay.com/donations/occupy-ok-tornado-relief-fund_1
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News Discussion: 1 day ago · ViewFederal prosecutors are urging a judge to send a former Michigan Supreme Court justice to prison for bank fraud.
Hathaway admits she concealed assets and misled a bank as she tried to negotiate a short sale on her home in Grosse Pointe Park. The government says she had assets of more than $1 million but still wanted to be free of a $600,000 mortgage debt.
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Take Action: 2 days, 17 hours ago · ViewCode Pink’s latest newsletter is calling for all Women Occupy to reoccupy Wall St this summer from June 1 -Oct 1 – and to bring families!
https://www.facebook.com/events/314432145348912/
”This is going to be a Peaceful Protest designed to speak truth to power and wake people up. Everyone is welcome regardless of your skin color, your gender, your sexual preference, your religious beliefs, or political affiliation. We are all uniting as one to Protest Corporate Greed over Human Need and Wall Street International Globalist Banksters that are robbing us blind via Quantitative Easing and Tax Payer Dollars going to Banker Bailouts. WE ARE THE 99% AND WE ARE TOO BIG TO FAIL!!!!!!!”
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News Discussion: 3 days, 21 hours ago · ViewGREAT idea but how much?
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News Discussion: 3 days, 21 hours ago · ViewRare Peak into justice Dept leak probe
Sorry too tired to shorten it.
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Interesting site – Sustainable development and so much more
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Listing the Sins: 4 days, 9 hours ago · ViewOh HOW funny! ”Outrageous” tax cheats – Now some of these are low but when u compare these to the GAZILLIONS hidden in offshore accounts (to CHEAT paying the taxes), these seem TAME in comparison
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/pf/taxes/2013/05/20/tax-cheats/index.html
I think what bothers me the most is that the IRS is going after these ”outrageous” tax cheats while the others are ignored!
you are right about that everyone i know do not have any or hardly any disposable income left when the irs gets through with them. when general electric only pays 3.4 cents on the dollar the working man pays 35 cents on that same dollar something is wrong with that picture. and that does not take in the individuals who park their money in overseas accounts. good on alison.
wow i just got through looking at the site and why even bother these people, sure they had a little bit of money but to bother these people when they could go after the gazilionaires who are the real tax cheats but not only that they are the ones hurting america the most by shipping jobs overseas, paying the workers they do have here as little as possible and in many cases will not even give them a full time job just so they can save money on insurance and other benefits. it sure was a bunch of doofuses in that group though, something what greed does to people.
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News Discussion: 4 days, 18 hours ago · ViewAs requested! US seeks proxy war with Syria
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/17/304017/us-seeks-a-bloody-proxy-war-in-syria/
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The Smiley and West Show – Guest Controversial activist Bill Ayers, author of the upcoming text Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident, reflects on the link between education and democracy.
Happened to catch this on PRI 2night. Very good discussion concerning activism, our history, current affairs, future reference by a long time activist
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