Lobbying Politicians

This is from an e-mail posted by Rights Action -Rick

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Campesinos Pitted Against Military, Police, Mercenaries and Drug Traffickers in Palm Oil Region as Canada and US Strengthen Trade Interests

WHAT TO DO = NO MORE 'BUSINESS AND POLITICS AS USUAL' WITH REPRESSIVE UNDEMOCRATIC REGIMES

Demand that the US and Canada end military and police assistance relations with Honduras;

Demand that the US and Canada suspend the implementation of the "free trade" agreement, and other trade agreements, and prioritize respect for human rights, for justice and the rule of law, and the re-founding of the Honduras State and society

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Tiresiasspeaks is a cool source to check out. This is, in my view, an important under-reported story. Corpomedia won't expose tehir buddies in the private prison industry. -Rick

http://tiresiasspeaks.wordpress.com/

Private Prison Industry Behind Arizona’s New Immigration Law

Arizona seized the international spotlight last April when Governor Jan Brewer signed immigration Bill 1070 into law. The new law requires police officers to arrest any person they stop who cannot immediately prove that they entered the country legally.

Immigrant communities, their sympathizers, and civil liberties advocates have violently condemned the bill as a blatant endorsement of racial profiling that does nothing to address the root causes of illegal immigration.

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WAR IS (S)IN

Bruce and Gene

Oct. 27, 2010

Election Spending by Outside Groups Is Concentrated and Hidden, New Public Citizen Analysis Shows

Just 10 Groups Are Responsible for More than Half the $176.1 Million Spent in Midterm Elections

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Of the $176.1 million spent by outside groups using
large, often undisclosed contributions to influence the current
elections, just 10 groups are responsible for the bulk of the spending,
according to a new analysis released today by Public Citizen.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Recent rollbacks to the Clean Water Act have swept away 30 years of
protections for streams, lakes and wetlands across the country, giving
polluters a free pass to pollute in the streams that feed the lakes and
many of the rivers across our state -- streams and rivers that
eventually lead to the Puget Sound.

It's time to protect Puget Sound, and all of our waterways across
Washington. Join
me
in telling Congress to take action now.

December 17, 2009

Some of these Monsanto-linked appointments are further proof of how dangerous it is to elect a president who the American people trust. The public is deep asleep while a democrat administration legalizes extraordinary rendition, drone bombings of Pakistan, increases in private mercenary warfighting with taxpayer dollars as well as keeping and legalizing civil liberty curtailments of the bush administration. Pandora's box is open and hope is obscuring it's evil outpourings.    -Rick 

Of all the torrent of words that followed House passage of its
version of healthcare reform legislation in early November, perhaps the
most misleading were those comparing it to enactment of Social Security
and Medicare.

Sadly no. Social Security and Medicare were both federal programs
guaranteeing respectively pensions and health care for our nation's
seniors, paid for and administered by the federal government with
public oversight and public accountability.

While the House bill, and its Senate counterpart, do have several
important reform components, along with many weaknesses, neither one
comes close to the guarantees and the expansion of health and income
security provided by Social Security or Medicare.

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Brenda Norrell | November 4, 2009

Indigenous
Peoples from Bolivia, Alaska, and throughout Indian country gathered at
the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum and told the same story:
Uranium mining is a hate crime in Indian country.

"Leave it in the ground," said Native Americans whose parents,
brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles died from cancer, respiratory
diseases, and brain tumors resulting from uranium mining.

Thankfully the struggle of Mountain Top Removal has entered the radar
screen of activists concerned with climate change. The residents
impacted by this very destructive form of coal extraction suffer the
loss of over 3 millions acres of their Appalacian Mountain community.

Last December, over 500 million gallons of toxic coal sludge erupted
over 400 acres destroying homes and spreading pollution larger than the
Exxon Valdez oil spill.

"Tennessee coal sludge disaster ‘shows that the term clean coal is an oxymoron.’

Monday, more than 500 million gallons of toxic coal sludge burst
through a retention wall in eastern Tennessee, causing massive property
and environmental damage and leaving residents holding their breath

Originally printed at http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/67580927.html

WASHINGTON – Leonard Peltier supporters will seek clemency for the imprisoned American Indian Movement
activist during a historic meeting between President Barack Obama and
hundreds of tribal leaders of federally recognized nations.

Oct 27, 2009

Members of Congress wrote a strongly worded letter to President Obama,
urging him to denounce human rights violations under the Honduran coup,
saying it was time to "break the silence." The letter also seeks to
break the impasse that has thrust the Central American nation into
daily rounds of violence and violations under the military coup.

The
letter (full text below) applauds the Obama administration's
condemnation of the coup but notes that over the past months it has
remained silent in the face of human rights abuses, including deaths at
the hands of security forces. It also notes the special role and
responsibility of US influence in ending the de facto regime led by