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Group Against the FISA Amendments Act Rising To Become 1st of Obama Groups

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Million Americans for Obama group actually has only 8,541 members. The top group has 13,431 members, but the anti-FISA Amendments Act group is right behind it, with, 12,614 members, and gaining between 100 and 200 members with every passing hour. By the time today is over, the anti-FISA Amendments Act group on Barack Obama will become the largest grassroots group on BarackObama.com.

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Tags: activism · democrats · freedom · homeland insecurity

Congress To Allow Physical Searches of You Without A Warrant!!!

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This is the section of the law that allows physical searches of your home or office at the President’s whim. It starts out looking like a protection from unreasonable physical searches, but please read all the way to the end. There, you’ll find a couple of clauses that strip away all protection from physical search without a warrant, and put the power right into the hands of the President’s top aides and political appointees.

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Tags: activism · freedom

Fossil Fools Day Haiku

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

It’s been a crazy day of environmentalist action around the world, with strong protests against the economic infrastructure that delivers the dirty fossil fuels that are burning into accelerating climate change.

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Tags: activism · economy · environment

Call Your Senators Now To Stop FISA Amendments Govt. Spying

January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This action will only take you two minutes, one minute per phone call, but it means everything for the future of freedom in the United States of America. Please, don’t let the telecom spies take over. It’s time for true patriots to stand up in defense of liberty in the USA.

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Tags: activism · homeland insecurity

How Does Celebrity Global Travel Help The Environment?

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Being an environmental activist is like exercising. Watching an exercise show doesn’t do you any good. You’ve got to do the work yourself. In the case of the environment, a lot of the work has to do with cutting back on the most wasteful luxuries, and figuring out what you really need as opposed to what you’re used to having around.

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Tags: activism · environment

That Barrage of Second Guessing of Clinton Is Democracy

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Hillary Clinton has to deal with the little people, the American people, We The Activists who care enough to vote. No multimillion dollar series of television advertisements is going to buy us off. If Hillary Clinton wants to win, she had better start paying attention to the “second-guessing” coming from the progressive grassroots. If she had listened to our “barrage of second-guessing” back in 2002, she wouldn’t have made that tragic vote in favor of starting a war in Iraq.

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Tags: activism · democrats

Mark Twain Was Wrong About Voting And Brutal Laws

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

We have learned since Mark Twain’s time that having a vote is not enough. People have to actually use their votes. What’s more, people need to use their votes after educating themselves on the relevant issues.

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Tags: activism · freedom

Support Those Who Run for Issues, Not Use Issues to Run

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Representative Robert Wexler has been using outrage surrounding the impeachment issue to funnel traffic to his re-election website, where citizens are told they can sign up for news and contribute to the impeachment cause. But the small print shows that contributions go to the re-elect Wexler campaign, and those who sign up are giving […]

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Tags: activism · democrats · freedom

Greenpeace Activists Shot At in Indonesia

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

The actions of the Greenpeace protesters may have been a form of illegal trespassing, but they were by no means violent. In a free and peaceful society, however, people are not fired at with guns merely for engaging in acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

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Tags: activism · environment

Organization for Business, But Not for Workers? A Penny for Your Tomato.

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Alliances of tomato growers are working together to enforce low salaries for tomato pickers in Florida. The Florida Tomato Growers Exchange is going so far in promoting grower collusion as to enforce it — threatening to extract $100,000 from any tomato grower that pays its workers a penny more. In an atmosphere of […]

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Tags: activism · economy