TAKE ACTION!

Reach your Senators and Representatives: www.senate.gov www.house.gov
(202) 224-3121
Sign the petitions, and follow up with your own email and calls for
these critical items today. Follow the links for details.
Contacting local media with your letters:
http://www.democrats.org/media/index.html

1. Don't Let Frist Eliminate the Filibuster! ( 2 actions)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/780690458
As it stands, Republicans have a narrow Senate majority that's not big enough to get their extremist judges approved. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's (R-TN) solution to this "problem" is called the "nuclear option". What it is is a badly conceived scheme to change Senate rules and silence Democrats by eliminating the filibuster.
2. Call Senator Harry Reid's office and urge him to defend us from this right-wing assault on our Minority rights and on our Judges! He is under tremendous pressure and we don't want him to cave in ! Then call your own Senators. If Dems, tell them you expect them to stand strong. If Repubs, tell them you do not approve of the strong-armed tactics their party is using! http://www.senate.gov/ Sen Reid: 202-224-3542 / Fax: 202-224-7327
3. Write letters to national media denouncing this power grab. See email addresses at end. Just remove the blanks around the @. To send to several at a time, place the addresses in the BCC field (sometimes found after clicking the cc field) of your email program. The bcc field hides the addresses of your distribution list, and you can just place your own address in the TO: field.

niteline @ abc.com , NETAUDR @ abc.com , wnn @ abcnews.com letters @ msnbc.com , cnn @ cnn.com , Colmes @ foxnews.com , Jack.Cafferty @ turner.com , jconason @ observer.com , LarryKingLive @ turner.com , Lateedition @ cnn.com , letters @ charleskrauthammer.com , PeterJennings @ abcnews.com , sidney_blumenthal @ yahoo.com , Ted.Koppel @ abc.com


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Here are 2 more ways to fight the right-wing judicial power grab:

4. Sign the PFAW petition:https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp?c=feIJKQMEF&b=297997&sid=63224440&kntaw3935=ABA6325ED7EE40CC9980B67C7BE55A02

and donate if you can, to run their ads: https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?c=feIJKQMEF&b=483125&sid=63224440

5. Urge your Senators to defend the filibuster: http://truemajority.kintera.org/filibuster

6. Oppose Bolton nomination to represent us in UN!

This thug and liar is dangerous to our security as he has lied and coerced subordinates to distort intelligence! Email, FAX, call Senator Voinovich of Ohio to not be pressured and to defend and protect us from this dangerous nomination! Email to his helpers and make it clear "Vote NO on Bolton!" (remove the blanks around the @) on these:

Aric_Newhouse @ voinovich.senate.gov,
Marcie_Ridgway @ voinovich.senate.gov,
Dana_smullen @ voinovich.senate.gov,
Scott_Milburn @ voinovich.senate.gov,
Phil_Park @ voinovich.senate.gov
PHONE: (202)224-3353, or(513)684-3265, or (216)522-7095
FAX: (202) 228-1382

You can directly call each of the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Bolton nomination at:

Majority Phone (R)Sen Lugar: (202) 224-4651

Minority Phone (D) Sen Biden: (202) 224-3953

If you can't contact them all, urge Democratic Senators Russ Feingold (Wis) and Bill Nelson (Fla.) to stand their ground and vote NO for the good of the American people. And ask Republican Senators Lincoln Chafee (R.I) and Chuck Hagel (Neb) not to rubber-stamp this nomination for the safety and security of the American people. FAX, call, and mail them your message. Contact forms for the other committee senators: http://foreign.senate.gov/about.html


7. Add-on issue- sign the petition to stop the wanton destruction of our old-growth forests for Kleenex: http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=42

8. Prevent drilling of our national treasure- the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=41

9. Say NO to oil! http://action.ourfuture.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=25828

From NARAL: 10. Tell pharmacies: Dispense our meds, not your morality! ( http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/792375278?z00m=23087&z00m=23087)

11. Mad cow madness? Urge Congress to maintain the ban on Canadian beef ( http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/951031226?z00m=23089 )

12. Demand the restoration of a REAL Ethics Committee: http://www.commoncause.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=457525&action=1984&template=x.ascx

Follow the link to the list of Delay's transgressions and the gutting of the Ethics Committee: http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/03/tx22_tom_delay.html

13. Co-sponsor DCCC efforts to clean House: http://www.houseofscandal.org/signup.html

and chastise Pat Robertson's rabid remarks about our judges: http://action.dscc.org/campaign/robertson

14. Demand that Tom Delay resign: http://ga3.org/campaign/withoutdelay/

15. Here's another letter you can sign: http://www.moveonpac.org/delay/

16. The House has improved the House ethics rules after public outcry, but the Ethics Committee is still riddled with Tom Delay cronies and supporters. Read about them here: http://www.commonblog.com/story/2005/5/5/95833/13109

All 5 Republican members of the Ethics committee have either contributed to Delay's defense or have taken money from Delay. All 5 should remove themselves from this committee. 2 have recused themselves. The remaining three: Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA), Judy Biggert (R-IL), and Melissa Hart (R-PA) have received donations from Tom DeLay's political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority. Hastings and Biggert both received more than $1,000 in donations in 1998, and ARMPAC gave Hart a whopping $15,000 for the 2000 and 2002 elections.Only 2 of the 5 have removed themselves from the committee.

Sign the petition to appoint an outside counsel to investigate Tom Delay at: http://www.commoncause.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=620305&action=2327&template=x.ascx

17. Still have a job ? Can you donate $10 ? Keep the heat on Delay
http://www.commoncause.org/KeeptheHeatonDeLay

18. Sign the petition to protect Social Security ( http://www.moveonpac.org/socialsecurity/ ) and tell them to remove the cap! Why should salaries above $90,000 not be taxed?

19. Play the Privatization arcade! ( http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/{E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}/SSGAME_FLASH.HTM )


Play our Privatization Arcade


20. Dairy worker fired for speaking out on discrimination. Speak up for justice: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/dairyfiring/7s7wkx4v7bijti

21. Protect the environment from invasive species. Send a letter here: http://www.ucsaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=25883

22. Watch the MoveOn Elephant Rampage ad: http://www.moveonpac.org/rampage-QT.html and contribute to air the ad: https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/gavel.html

23. Click this link again and again to sign the various petitions to Downsize DC and reclaim our democracy: http://www.downsizedc.org/index.shtml

24. Tell your Senators you don't want polluter-friendly activist judges like William Myers. These other 3 may come to a vote this week: William Pryor, Terrence Boyle, Brett Kavanaugh. They are threats to civil rights, freedom of religion, and judicial integrity. They are all politically active and subject to Bush's influence and will vote for the benefit of corporations instead of for citizens. Priscilla Owen, William Pryor, and Janice Rogers Brown are anti-choice and will move to restrict women's rights. Please urge your Senators to oppose these nominees at: http://action.lcv.org/campaign/myers02 and: https://secure2.convio.net/lccr/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=243&autologin=true&AddInterest=1128

25. Support students to Fillibuster Frist! Pass this on to college Democrats in your area: http://www.newleaderscouncil.org/advocacy/filibuster_frist.html

26. No on CAFTA! Like NAFTA, CAFTA will undermine American jobs and ship them to workers in other countries who are paid peanuts for back-breaking labor. CAFTA will undermine workers' rights everywhere and give windfall profits to the corporations who ship our jobs to other countries: Say NO to CAFTA! http://www.usalone.com/cafta.htm

CAFTA and other PDA action alerts:
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7348276

Bring the troops home: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7071606

27. Co-sponsor John Kerry's Kids First Initiative for healthcare: http://www.johnkerry.com/features/kidsfirst.html

28. Ask car manufactures to cooperate with Californians, not oppose us - Click here and sign our petition urging they drop their lawsuit against the Clean Car Bill. ( http://www.care2.com/go/z/23626 )

29. Yet another Bush assault has been heaped on us. One that will outlast him! Read about it here and then contact your Senators ( www.senate.gov ) and DEMAND that they strike all language regarding the "Sunset Commission" from the budget.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7265052?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1114114700265&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1059


30. Stop New Nuclear Weapons! http://www.fcnl.org/nuclear

posted by Joshua P. Angell  @ 12.5.05

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