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[DapperButch]

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...655363-Fy2Gzmx

[SoNotHer]

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...059182-NhkJuWx

Tell Congress: Only people are people.

We deserve a country where our elected officials are not bought and paid for by big corporations. But the Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court decision overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system.

Shockingly, the court came to this decision based on the notion that a corporation is legally a "person" entitled to First Amendment rights, and by equating a corporation's right to spend unlimited amounts of money influencing an election with our right to free speech.

Tell your senators and member of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and end corporate personhood. Even before the Citizens United decision, we too often saw the interests of Main Street subverted in favor of the interests of Wall Street.

But with the Citizens United decision now the law of the land, large corporations have the power to spend unlimited amounts of money from their general treasuries to buy elections. To put things in perspective, the roughly $745 million Barack Obama raised to run for President in the 2008 election cycle (which was the most money raised by any candidate ever to run for office in the U.S.) is dwarfed by the $45 billion in profits a single company (ExxonMobil) made in 2008.

What's more, Citizen United opened loopholes that allow corporations to hide their campaign expenditures by laundering the money through non-profit advocacy organizations. Tell your senators and member of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and end corporate personhood.

The Supreme Court recently indicated that it would hear a challenge to Montana's campaign finance law. While it's possible the Court could narrow the scope of Citizens United, it's very unlikely that the Supreme Court will fix the issue any time soon. And because Congress cannot pass a law that supersedes a Supreme Court ruling, it may take a constitutional amendment to undo the worst aspects of the Citizens United decision and end corporate personhood.

Clearly, the bar to successfully amending the Constitution is very high. But with 85% of the public opposed to the Citizens United decision, there is a potential for a broad coalition of Democrats, Republicans and Independents who all want to restore our democracy. And let's remember, the stakes are too high to allow inaction on this issue. It's no exaggeration to say that the Citizens United decision fundamentally threatens the integrity of our democracy.

We need a government of, for and by the people. And sadly, we might need to work really hard to re-establish the common sense and democratic view that only people are people, not corporations. Your senators and member of Congress need to hear from you, regardless of where they stand on this issue. We need to show them that their constituents are part of a broad movement demanding action -- not only to convince them that overturning Citizens United is the right thing to do, but also that it's possible.

Today, take a step to be part of that movement.

Tell your senators and member of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and end corporate personhood.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...059182-NhkJuWx

[Andrea]

Give Bully a PG-13 rating....

http://www.change.org/petitions/mpaa-dont-let-the-bullies-win-give-bully-a-pg-13-instead-of-an-r-rating?utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert

[Cin]

“Robocalls” made were apparently designed to stop non-Conservative voters from casting ballots in key ridings during the 2011 elections in Canada.

We demand a full and independent public inquiry to expose the facts about the robocall scandal and ensure that the penalty for this election fraud matches the consequences of the crime - including possible by-elections in the affected ridings.
http://leadnow.ca/robocall-fraud

[Andrea]

A legal petition (Docket # FDA-2011-P-0723-0001/CP) has been filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling on the FDA to label genetically engineered (GE) foods.

http://justlabelit.org/takeaction

[SoNotHer]

An historic victory for activism and the fight to end dirty coal pollution in Chicago communities



http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/...d/?rc=homepage

The long history of two of the oldest and dirtiest coal plants in the nation is finally about to come to an end. After polluting Chicago's air and making residents sick for more than 100 years, Midwest Generation announced a deal late Tuesday evening to retire the Fisk and Crawford coal plants.1

This victory took years of campaigning by the Chicago Clean Power Coalition, national groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, and heroic activism by the communities who were most effected by the pollution from Fisk and Crawford, including groups like the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) and the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (PERRO).

CREDO was proud to support their efforts by putting pressure on Mayor Emanuel to finally take action, and I want to thank the thousands of activists who helped make this possible.

Last spring, more than 3,500 CREDO activists in the Chicago area called and wrote to Mayor Emanuel, telling him to do everything in his power to protect local residents from pollution from these two filthy coal plants. And on the Mayor's very first day in office last May, our friends at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and Greenpeace delivered our petition signatures in person to Mayor Emanuel's office.2

Since that time, Mayor Emanuel has been negotiating with Midwest Generation to reach a deal on retiring the plants. Finally, after months of negotiations and an ultimatum from Mayor Emanuel, a final agreement has been reached. Under the terms of the deal, the Fisk plant will be retired this year, and the Crawford plant will be shut down by 2014.

This is a huge victory for the power of local activism, which would not have happened if Mayor Emanuel hadn't heard our voices and taken action on this issue. Going forward, Mayor Emanuel's continued attention to this issue will help ensure that the agreement is enforced, and that the plants are retired in the agreed upon timeline.

Tell Mayor Emanuel: Thank you for working to shut down the dirty Fisk and Crawford coal plants. Please ensure that Midwest Generation fully complies with the agreement. Today, we celebrate this historic announcement. Thank you for your activism, and our thanks and heartfelt congratulations go to the local groups and residents who worked so hard to make this happen, and will soon live in the cleaner, safer communities they deserve.

1. Emanuel brokers deal to shut two polluting coal fire plants, Chicago Sun-Times, 2/29/12
2. Here's a photo of Ian from the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization delivering CREDO activists' petition signatures on Mayor Emanuel's first day in office last May.

http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/...d/?rc=homepage

[weatherboi]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/Fir...Back-To-Mexico




Target: Arlington Independent School District
Sponsored by: Concerned Citizens
Shirley Bunn, a teacher from Arlington, Texas, has been on paid leave since she told her student to "go back to Mexico" after he asked for a Spanish language version of the Title 1 forms she was distributing to the class. She will soon be reinstated.

Bunn says that she didn't mean to say what she did -- that she had just been having a bad day. But Bunn has been a teacher for 24 years. It is reasonable to expect her to be able to control saying inappropriate remarks to students. Also, this isn't the only time she has said racist remarks. She referred to a group of male Mexican students as the "Mexican Mafia".

The examiner for the case said he didn't think it was meant to be racist, but if this isn't racist, what is?

Please tell the Arlington Independent School District to fire Shirley Bunn, not reinstate her. Racism is not acceptable anywhere, but especially not by a teacher who is supposed to support her students, regardless of their race.