Events and Action Alerts
Joanne O'Neill
[Please Forward Widely and Sorry for any Duplicates]
Have a Great Weekend !
EVENTS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 - MEDICARE FOR ALL!
“SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE RALLY”
12 noon at Journal Square - Jersey City, NJ
Across from the Loew’s Theatre – By the Kiosk
Find out why a national single-payer system–Medicare for All–is the simplest and the only logical, cost-effective, and moral solution to our healthcare crisis.
For rally information, contact Bill Armbruster billarm...@comcast.net 201-435-1169
Parking, see http://loewsjersey.org/alt/visitor-info-mainmenu-33/parking-information-mainmenu-37.html
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Tuesday, November 24th - Must see: "Money Driven Medicine"
When: 7:00pm
What: For free screening of "Money Driven Medicine "
Where: Collingswood Library - 771 Haddon Ave.
Admission is Free - Refreshments will be served - Goodwill Donations Appreciated
Guest Speaker : Tom Knoche
‘Money-Driven Medicine” provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform.
Hosted by: PDA/DFA Progressive Democracy So. Jersey progressivedem...@gmail.com
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Wednesday, November 25th - Newark’s Seven Court Date
The 7 arrested on October 28th during the sit in at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in Newark.
Their hearing is set for 8:30am on Wed. Nov. 25th at the Newark Municipal Court, 32 Green St, Newark , NJ 07102. Map Google Map
· We are looking for people to show up in support of them.
· There maybe further actions taken afterwards , please stay tuned for updates.
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Action Alert ! Five ways you can help win marriage equality in New Jersey
1. House a Garden State Equality volunteer for however long you can. Volunteers are coming from all over and they're unbelievable assets to our campaign - but several volunteers have no place to stay and we don't want to lose them. This is a HUGE ask, we know, but if you're game, contact Garden State Equality's field director Hannah Johnson at Joh...@GardenStateEquality.org or mobile phone (920) 222-1878.
2. We're looking for certain members to join us in talking to legislators:
Are you a labor union member who supports marriage equality?
Are you a Catholic who supports marriage equality?
Are you a Republican who supports marriage equality?
If so, email Steven Goldstein at Gold...@GardenStateEquality.org to let us know which of these constituencies you belong to (and if labor, which union), along with the best phone number for you, preferably your mobile phone.
3. Garden State Equality has opportunities for you to volunteer in our offices in Montclair, Asbury Park, Collingswood and Trenton. If you come to our offices, you'll find an atmosphere as exciting as in any campaign you've ever seen. It's electrifying! Fill out our volunteer form on our website at www.gardenstateequality.org/volunteer.html and one of our staff members will get back to you quickly.
4. If you can't come to our offices, you can help us from your home or office during weekdays by giving us just three minutes from Monday through Friday to call state legislators. Fill out our Three Minutes a Day form on our website at www.gardenstateequality.org/three.html and one of our staff members will get back to you quickly.
5. As fast as we're growing, Garden State Equality is the little engine that could, compared to our national right-wing opponents who are flooding New Jersey with money and dwarfing us in size. The greatest donation you can ever make to us is not by waiting to buy a ticket to one of our grand events that have huge overhead. It's making a donation to us online at www.GardenStateEquality.org because you want to win marriage equality and you believe in our organization. We are desperate for more resources right now.
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Lighting a candle for hope. Earlier this week Barack Obama and the leaders of some other large nations announced that they weren't going to reach any kind of legally binding climate agreement in Copenhagen--declaring that they need more time, despite the five years of preparation they've already had.
Help Plan a "Vigil For Survival" http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1216408928&url_num=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.350.org%2Fvigil
Mid-way through the climate talks in Copenhagen, people around the world will gather in solemn solidarity with the nations and peoples for whom delay on climate action could mean extinction. Can you help plan a vigil?
What: A candlelight vigil.
Why: To send a clear message to world leaders deciding the fate of the planet's future.
Where: Somewhere in your community that is iconic (beautiful and picturesque) or strategic (like U.S. Senate offices, consulates, and embassies)
When: The night of Friday, December 11th or Saturday December 12th.
Who: You, your family, friends, neighbors and people all over the world.
Click here to get started and register your local vigil: www.350.org/vigil http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1216408928&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.350.org%2Fvigil
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Clean/Fair/Transparent Elections
Take Action ! Help Make Calls for a Progressive Candidate - At this point, PDA is focusing on electing candidates who are not beholden to corporate interests and are running against the Blue Dogs, not replacing incumbent progressive members of Congress.
We all need to work for candidates like Marcy Winograd( running for Jane Harmon’s seat) and Mike Capuano and wherever else they may be, in the upcoming election--true progressive candidates. We need to get out the vote, or we could lose our majority.
We are looking for people willing to volunteer over the next couple of weeks to make calls for Mike Capuano, who is running in the Senate race in Massachusetts to fill the seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy. Its easy to do, just contact Conor at co...@pdamerica.org and he will set you up with the phone number access the self dialing voter databank.
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Media Reform
Take Action ! Free Press : Bring the Noise. Pass the LPFM Bill!
House floor vote coming soon! Is your representative a co-sponsor?
Click here to find out. http://www.freepress.net/lpfm/cosponsors
Then take action! http://www.expandlpfm.org/?page_id=39
Learn who benefits and why : http://www.freepress.net/lpfm
Summary of H.R. 1147: Local Community Radio Act of 2009
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA14] cosponsors (86) (enjoys actual bipartisan support)
To implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.
More Background Information on HR1147
· Low-Power Radio and What the Media Won't Tell You About the Media The real story is a national movement of grassroots groups who are claiming the airwaves - after all, we lease them to broadcasters to serve the public interest. If they aren't doing the job, we can take the airwaves back and do it ourselves. http://www.truthout.org/110709E
· Democracy Now- Watch Video : House Advances Measure to Create Hundreds of New Low Power FM Radio Stations http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/28/house_advances_measure_to_create_hundreds
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Healthcare Reform
Tell Them Straighten Up & Give Us Medicare for All ! Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying to say Rush and Glen Beck are responsible for stopping reform, so far the Dems have given away more to insurance companies and have done nothing to provide relief for the majority of Americans plus stomped all over women’s rights. http://www.dscc.org/obamaspeech?petition_KEY=187&track=SEM-G-C-HC-HR-2
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Action Alert ! Stop Abortion Coverage Ban -
http://mail.democrats.com/CT00039101MjA3MTIxMwAA.HTML?D=2009-11-13
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From PDA :
Thanks to everyone who participated in our last Healthcare for All/Single Payer conference call.
We also want to thank our special guests—
· Terry O'Neill http://www.now.org/officers/to.html , President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) www.now.org , who updated us on the Stupak/Pitts amendment http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2009-11-10-09-45-42-news.php that was included in the Health Reform Bill, HR 3692,
· and Mary Grace Farley, who will be heading up our new Repeal Hyde Action Group.
· Listen to what these guests had to say to PDA's members. http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/11/iot-healthcare-for-all-november-call/
Actions you can take
· Call your senators today to support single-payer healthcare and women’s reproductive rights. http://www.healthcare-now.org/call-today-support-single-payer-and-womens-rights-in-the-senate/
· Join our Repeal Hyde Action Group. http://groups.google.com/group/repeal-hyde-action-group
Healthcare NOT Warfare update:
Until we officially launch our Brown Bag Lunch Vigils in January, there's still something you can do to stop the escalation in Afghanistan. Let the White House know that progressives want what's best for the Afghans and Americans—No Escalation in Afghanistan.
For fun!
Enjoy and forward this video: What if health insurance companies told the truth ...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZF6xKaHfA
For networking
Join our Facebook Fan Page! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Progressive-Democrats-of-America/164462034235?ref=ts
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Global Warming/ Renewable Energy/Environment
Action Alert ! Chrysler abandons electric vehicle commitment, reneging on bailout promise
Chrysler, the recipient of $15.3 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout money -- granted in part because of its promise to invest in electric vehicle technology -- has just announced it is scrapping its plans for producing large volumes of electric cars. Join us in telling Chrysler this is unacceptable. Pledge not to buy any Chrysler vehicles unless the automaker reinstates its electric vehicle program. Sign the petition today!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RN7PuwUce%2BxqdhsPU%2FciHKhQrpzBxVW7
AlsoTake Action ! The Obama administration has proposed new standards that would require new cars sold in the U.S. to average 34.1 mpg, cutting our greenhouse gas emissions and saving us money.There's just one problem: loopholes in the new standards would allow automakers to dodge the new regulations instead of meeting them...
BUT we have a chance to close the loopholes and strengthen the rule if we act before Friday, the 27th!
Please write the EPA and the Department of Transportation (DOT) right now, and urge them to close the loopholes that would allow automakers to evade the new standards.
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Take Action ! Babies Everywhere Are Saying NO to Toxic Chemicals
I am on this soapbox because I am fed up. There are hazardous chemicals in our toys and household cleaners. And this injustice can not stand! Our voices must be heard.
Where we are going baby monitors cannot track us! To Washington, to demand a law that will eliminate toxic chemicals found in household products. Nothing is going to stop us, not naptime, not baby gates !
Say No to Toxins! Join the Crawl - http://www.seventhgeneration.com/million-baby-crawl/?id=1202http://www.seventhgeneration.com/million-baby-crawl?id=1202
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Support
Federal Regulatory Reform! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pFo%2FVoOP7FFsUsfYDUhiJEVtnzCT0OIX
In response to
increasing consumer demand for safer products, the federal government is gearing
up for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). These reforms would
phase out the most dangerous chemicals from the manufacturing process; require
industry to take responsibility for the safety of their products; and use the
best science to protect vulnerable groups. Please
send a message to your legislator. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4SBQ1g5bk0s9Ijdzl6vqpEVtnzCT0OIX
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Take Action ! American Wind Power, "Made In China"?
Our stimulus money is paying to send green jobs to China. With unemployment in America just having surpassed 10%, that is economic malpractice.
Click here to tell Energy Secretary Chu: Don't spend stimulus dollars to ship green jobs overseas.
A planned $1.5 billion dollar Texas wind farm -- seeking financing with US stimulus money -- will create only 30 permanent jobs here, but 2000 jobs in China manufacturing wind turbines.1
Sen. Chuck Schumer is pressing Energy Secretary Steven Chu to take action. Yesterday he sent Dr. Chu a letter saying, "I urge you to reject any request for stimulus money unless the high‐value components, including the wind turbines, are manufactured in the United States." http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=68
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End The Wars
Paul Craig Roberts: America's
Dismal Future
Nov 12, 2009 ... How the Lobby Made
Mincemeat of the Obama Administration. America's Dismal Future. It did not take
the Israel Lobby to make mincemeat out of the Obama administration’s “no new
settlements” position. http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11122009.html ..
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Naomi Klein: Bush admin
created 'free-fraud zone' in Iraq | Raw Story
By David Edwards
Naomi
Klein: Bush admin created free fraud zone in Iraq A U.S. military contractor has
been indicted by the Justice Department of defrauding the United States
government of “tens of millions of dollars,” Rachel Maddow reported Tuesday on
MSNBC. ... Klein, a guest on Maddow's program, said the prevalence of war
profiteering and corruption can largely be attributed to the Bush
administration's embracement of privatizing government responsibilities. ...
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/klein-war-profiteers/
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Economic & Social Justice
Take Action ! Ask Your Members of Congress to Support the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Legislation to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (H.R. 3126) to guard us against misleading and unfair credit cards, loans and mortgages. In addition to giving consumers a much-needed watchdog, the bill would protect whistleblowers who will warn us of wrongdoing by the big banks and others in the financial industry.
Thanks to help from activists like you, the bill recently passed out of the House Financial Services Committee. But the big banks are spending hundreds of millions of dollars—from the billions they got in taxpayer-funded bailouts—on lobbyists and public relations firms to oppose real consumer protections,& the bill still needs to be passed on the floor of the full House of Representatives. Make sure Congress hears from you! http://action.citizen.org/t/6693/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27546
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Take Action ! BREAK 'EM UP
A bill to make the Treasury secretary identify too-big-to-fail financial giants and break them up picked up support. "When it comes to understanding the real economy and the struggles of ordinary Americans, Bernie Sanders always seems to be ahead of the curve," The Nation said. Bernie's bill "makes a lot of sense" to Rachel Maddow. To read more from the editor of The Nation, click here. To watch Rachel, click here. To sign the petition, click here.
http://aiss.enews.senate.gov/t/83494/3510117/2411/0/
http://aiss.enews.senate.gov/t/83494/3510117/2386/0/
http://aiss.enews.senate.gov/t/83494/3510117/2355/0/
MSNBC News Junkies Beware: Comcast's Likely Acquisition of NBC May Threaten Your Access to Independent Media
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 12:30pm. by Meg White
Business sections across the country are all abuzz this week over the expected announcement that Comcast Corp. will acquire a controlling share of NBC Universal. But should MSNBC viewers be particularly concerned about the nation's largest cable provider and second largest Internet service provider obtaining one fourth of the media content available to U.S. audiences?
Take Action ! New Opportunity to Protect Women -
Between World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) and International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), PHR is launching the 10,000 in 10 Campaign, mobilizing 10,000 Americans, including students nationwide, to ask their US Senators to support US ratification of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 2010.
Why
Now?
The US remains
one of only 7 countries
in the world who have yet to ratify this critical treaty, along with Sudan and
Somalia.
We need your help to meet our goal.
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Accountability & Justice
Take Action ! Closing the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay-
National Religious Campaign Against Torture website dedicated to closing Guantanamo - visit the page. It contains a number of tasks you can do (like sending an email to your members of Congress and gathering signatures for a petition) to help close Guantanamo. It also contains a link to a copy of a letter endorsed by 46 heads of faith groups and other religious institutions that was sent to Members of Congress to urge their support for closing Guantanamo. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W3hKo2jWs7KRTvmHVsouju8Lewxhiic5
URGENT! JOIN US: GARDEN STATE EQUALITY IS HOLDING AN URGENT LOBBY DAY THIS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, BEGINNING AT 8:30 AM - MEET AT OUR TRENTON OFFICE ACROSS FROM THE STATE HOUSE, 110 WEST STATE STREET.
PLEASE ATTEND. NO RSVP NECESSARY.
THE LEGISLATURE IS BACK IN SESSION ON MONDAY. WE HAVE JUST LEARNED OUR ANTI-MARRIAGE EQUALITY OPPONENTS ARE DOING A LOBBY DAY ON MONDAY AND ARE TURNING OUT IN DROVES TO TRY TO INTIMIDATE LEGISLATORS. IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME TO TAKE OFF FROM WORK TO HELP MAKE HISTORY, THIS IS IT.
PARKING IS AVAILABLE AT THE TRENTON MARRIOTT PARKING LOT AT 1 WEST LAFAYETTE STREET, AT THE CORNER OF WEST LAFAYETTE STREET AND SOUTH WARREN STREET. IF NEEDED, GARDEN STATE EQUALITY WILL REIMBURSE YOU FOR THE PARKING. DON'T GO LOOKING FOR FREE STREET PARKING IN TRENTON: IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AND/OR YOU'LL HAVE TO FEED A METER CONSTANTLY.
FOR A MAP TO WALK FROM THE TRENTON MARRIOTT PARKING LOT AT 1 WEST LAFAYETTE STREET TO GARDEN STATE EQUALITY'S OFFICE AT 110 WEST STATE STREET, ENTER THE LOCATIONS AT www.Mapquest.com/directions
AGAIN, PLEASE JOIN US THIS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd BEGINNING AT 8:30 AM AT GARDEN STATE EQUALITY'S TRENTON OFFICE, 110 WEST STATE STREET. ON SITE, WE'LL HAVE FREE DONUTS AND JUICE TO GET THE DAY STARTED. AT LUNCH TIME, FREE PIZZA AND SODA.
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, ORGANIZATIONAL COLLEAGUES AND LIST SERVS. ANY QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT GARDEN STATE EQUALITY'S FIELD DIRECTOR HANNAH JOHNSON AT Joh...@GardenStateEquality.org OR MOBILE (920) 222-1878.
THANKS FROM ALL OF US AT GARDEN STATE EQUALITY.
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