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Help Maintain Organic Food Standards
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The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) needs your immediate help to stop Congress and the Administration from seriously
degrading organic standards. After 35 years of hard work, the U.S. organic community has built up a multi-billion dollar alternative
to industrial agriculture, based upon strict organic standards and organic community control over modification to these standards. Now,
large corporations such as Kraft & Dean Foods--aided and abetted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are moving
to lower organic standards by allowing a Bush appointee to create a list of synthetic ingredients that would be allowed organic
production.
Take action now at http://www.democracyinaction.org/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1242
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Demand Accessible & Verifiable Elections
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Dale Kildee is a Co-sponsor of HR550 (cheers), but HR3910 will pervert the system. Sign the petition put out by Vote
Trust USA that will be delivered to Committee members (Candice Miller and Vernon Ehlers are on the Committee, and are NOT
co-sponsors of 550) demanding that they take HR 3910 off the table and do the people's business by acting on HR 550.
Link to new petition is here: http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=VTUSA&hotissue=1
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House Republican Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay has a pattern of repeated legal and ethical scandals. Yet he remains in
one of the most important positions in our government—deciding what legislation Congress considers. In response, MoveOn
members have been running ads against seven members of Congress who come from vulnerable districts and fundraise with DeLay’s help, topped out the
“Fire Tom DeLay” petition at more than 480,334 signers, organized 195 events, attended by thousands, to deliver these signatures to Republican members
of Congress and others
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Demand Karl Rove's Resignation
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Sign on to a letter to the President demanding Karl Rove's resignation for involvement in the leaking
of a CIA officer's name to the press. When the scandal first broke, White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said “If
anyone in this Administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this Administration.” (9/29/03, White House
press briefing). What the President does now, in light of Karl Rove’s involvement will speak volumes.
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Sign on to a petition demanding an Audit in Iraq. To date $9 billions dollars (and counting) have disappeared
or been wasted while Republicans in Congress have done nothing to get to the bottom of this horribly worsening problem. Join Congresswoman
Louise Slaughter's call for an Audit in Iraq by creating a Truman Commission that would monitor and investigate every penny
being spent there.
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Help Reform Election Laws in Ohio
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Sign up to volunteer to help an Ohio group get election reform proposals on the ballot. Send the website
link to friends and family (registered Ohio voters) in Ohio to sign. If this can happen in Ohio, it can spread across the
country and we won't have to depend on our legislators to enact fair election laws.
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Support Truth Telling Media
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The Star Tribune in Minnesota has one of the toughest editorial boards in the country. They have been early critics of
the Bush fiasco. They came out in support of Richard Durbin and his comments about torture and were one of the early papers
reporting on the Downing Street memo and demanding answers in their editorials. They are under attack by right wing-nuts now
and are losing subscribers and possibly advertisers. Subscribe to the paper and show your support for media that reports
the news.
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Join the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming
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This group is marching across America for one year, via the internet, to bring everyone together in one loud
clear voice of concern to urge our leaders to address global warming now. Please join the march and make your voice heard
too.
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Help Reduce Canadian Trash Imported Into Michigan
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Every year, Canada and other states send more and more trash into our beautiful state: 6 million tons in 2004. More than
400 trash trucks come into Michigan from Canada every day. Imported trash harms our land and our water, destroys the quality
of life in our neighborhoods, crumbles our roads, strains our public safety resources and threatens our health.
Michigan House Democrats have a plan to stop the trash: A $7.50-per-ton dumping charge, tougher enforcement, tougher penalties
and a ban on expanding landfills.
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Tell Big Oil - Don't Drill in the Arctic
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Through a back room deal, Congress has included language into the
annual budget that allows for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. However,
there is still another way to protect the Arctic from drilling -- by pledging to boycott any oil company that drills in the
Arctic.
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Sign on as a Citizen Co-Sponsor of the Student Privacy Protection Act
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Where children are concerned, it's time to
make it a family decision (not a federal mandate) to release our home phone numbers and home addresses to military recruiters.
US Representative Mike Honda’s Student Privacy Protection Act does
just that. It makes a simple change to No Child Left Behind ensuring schools release private information to military
recruiters only if families request it, rather than the other way around.
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