A recent decision by the Supreme Court now allows corporations to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Sign the petition to amend the constitution to prevent corporate control of elections at www.DontGetRolled.org.
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Shocking news: The Feds have raided more than two dozen medical marijuana dispensaries across California and Montana. Armed agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, and ATF swept through 28 stores and greenhouses, detaining the workers there and seizing computers, plants, and other items. More than 20 states have decriminalized marijuana or legalized its use for medical purposes: There's no telling where the next round of raids will take place.
Will you urge Obama to put an end to these raids? Just click here:
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According to one worker, "They came in, guns drawn, got us down on the ground and in cuffs as fast as they could."
The raids represent a swift change in law enforcement policy: When Obama took office, Attorney General Eric Holder promised to end the Bush-era attacks on sellers of medicinal marijuana and the patients who use it. Obama made the same promise on the campaign trail: "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources." (August 21, 2007, event in Nashua, New Hampshire)
Now the Feds are even refusing to say why they conducted these raids, and if and when they'll be pressing any charges: There's no telling what state will be next. This shift in policy puts medical marijuana sellers and patients across America in jeopardy. Will you tell Obama and Holder to keep their promises and end the raids?
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/medicalmarijuana/?referring_akid=419.45919...
Thanks!
The conditions under which presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are being held have been tightened again. Even US politicians believe they're illegal. In the latest development, a key State Department official has resigned over critical remarks he made about Manning's detainment.
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Thanks so much!
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proclus
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Dear Madam, Sir
The harsh conditions in which Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks leaker, are being held have helped make him a cause celebre on parts of the left, but the complaints have generated little official government sympathy -- until now.
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Breaking news: Demand Progress has obtained documents that reveal a radical shift in how law enforcement is policing the Internet. Brian McCarthy ran a website that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. A couple months ago, the government seized his domain name and on Friday they arrested him and charged him with criminal copyright infringement -- punishable by five years in prison. We just dug up the complaint, and you can view it here.
Click here to tell the government that there's nothing illegal about linking to another website -- and that they need to drop the charges right away!
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/dhscomplaint/?referring_akid=351.45919.V-X...
The complaint reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) don't even allege that McCarthy made a copy of anything! Just that his site linked to various sites with copyrighted material. Under that sort of thinking, everyone who's sent around a link to a copyrighted YouTube video is a criminal!
This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE -- a steamship-era department that's proving once again that it doesn't understand the Internet.
We need to push back -- and fast -- before they try to lock up more Americans. Will you click here to tell DHS and ICE to back off?
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/dhscomplaint/?referring_akid=351.45919.V-X...
Thanks for fighting back!
Dear Michael L.,
I'm Christina Simeone, Policy Director here at Repower
America, and I wanted to share an important piece of news
with you.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning
to limit global warming pollution from big fossil fuel
industries like power plants and petroleum refineries. These
industries alone account for about 40% of the global warming pollution in the U.S. -- making them the two largest sources
of emissions.
Here's where you come in. The EPA is charged with developing
rules called New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) that
will protect public health, reduce the pollution that causes
climate change, and send a signal to polluters that they
need to invest in clean energy technologies.
It's crucial that the EPA sticks to its schedule and develops
strong rules. Between now and March 18, the EPA is accepting
comments on their plans. They will definitely be receiving
comments from the coal, gas and oil industries. Make sure
they hear from you, too.
http://acp.repoweramerica.org/contact-the-epa
These rules are common sense. The EPA was created to
understand our impact on our environment and protect the
health of our people. An overwhelming majority of scientists are united in their understanding of the effects of global warming pollution and the EPA is charged with developing rules based on that science. Yet strong special interest groups are working to derail that process.
The EPA needs to hear that you support their efforts to
limit global warming pollution from these industries. That's
why you need to encourage the EPA to issue strong New Source
Performance Standards without delay.
The science is clear: Climate change is happening.
Unfortunately, big polluters will make big profits if they
mislead the American public about that fact. We need you to
counteract and counterbalance their money and their voice by
sending a comment to the EPA today.
Fill out the form below, and we'll deliver your comment to
the EPA before the March 18 deadline:
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Thanks,
Christina Simeone Policy Director Repower America Paid for by the Alliance for Climate Protection To unsubscribe go here: http://acp.repoweramerica.org/page/unsubscribe?email=proclus@gnu-darwin.org
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Not only would this move leave approximately 1,400 wolves in Montana and Idaho vulnerable to slaughter by public hunting and trapping, but it would also expose them to greatly increased aerial gunning by federal trappers. The three wolf packs roaming Oregon and Washington will be similarly persecuted.
If it passes, this new law would also prevent re-listing northern Rockies wolves as "endangered" -- even if their numbers plummet toward zero.
Please contact your U.S. senators today to tell them to sponsor or vote for an amendment to the Continuing Resolution budget bill stripping it of Section 1713, the wolf extermination provision.
Visit http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6099 to take action now.
A 'sarcastic quip' that a U.S. Army private made about his predicament at a Marine Corps brig may have led to orders that he strip naked each night, the soldier's attorney said Saturday.
Beginning on Wednesday night, Pfc. Bradley Manning, who's facing preliminary charges related to massive leaks of classified information to the online publisher WikiLeaks, was forced by authorities at the Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Va. to sleep naked in his cell and remain naked through a jail roll call in the morning.
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The Upper Hoback Basin in the rugged Wyoming Range of western Wyoming is just 50 miles away from Grand Teton National Park and provides critical habitat and a vital crossroads for migrating wildlife in the Yellowstone ecosystem. Yet, the U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to allow oil and gas mining in this sensitive area. Tell Bridger-Teton National Forest Supervisor Jacqueline A. Buchanan to protect Grand Teton's famous air quality and wildlife from the impact of this harmful development.
To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
http://my.npca.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=XpnRhfmXmzI5RsCXibuz3w..&id=483 If the text above does not appear as a link or it wraps across multiple lines, then copy and paste it into the address area of your browser.
If you no longer wish to receive email messages sent from your friends on behalf of this organization, please follow the link below:
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Their budget contains draconian cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission – three federal agencies charged with implementing crucial Wall Street reforms.
These cuts will increase America’s vulnerability to another financial crisis and make the marketplace less safe for consumers.
Send a message to your senators urging them to oppose these cuts:
Public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon are ground zero for a new uranium mining boom. Foreign uranium corporations have staked thousands of new mining claims, have re-opened one old mine, and are trying to open three more.
Uranium mining threatens to industrialize iconic wildlands surrounding the Grand Canyon with dozens of new mines, damage wildlife habitat, and pollute and deplete aquifers feeding the Grand Canyon's biologically critical seeps, springs and caves.
The Obama administration is now analyzing a 20-year "mineral withdrawal" that would protect up to 1 million acres of the canyon's watershed from new mining claims and prohibit new mines on most existing claims.
We need your help urging protection for the Grand Canyon's entire 1-million-acre watershed, not just part of it. Please send an email to the administration and, if you're in Arizona or Utah, attend a public meeting. Tell them that uranium mining near Grand Canyon just isn't worth the risk.
Visit http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6027 to take action now.
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