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UPDATE Washington State news… take Action,Call 202 225 3106 THANK Rep.McDermott for signing the Polis/Pingree letter for Pub Opt


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Tonight,2/1/2010 MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and Rep. Jared Polis will talk about the letter from 81 House members calling for a public option.Can you help get to 100 signers by the time the show airs? Click here to ask Rep. McDermott (one more time) to sign today.

News headlines - Grayson, Polis, Pingree

UPDATE On 2/2/2010, I checked the list of Representatives that have signed the Poli/Pingree letter. I am happy to let you all know that Washington States own Jim McDermott has signed on as  a supporter, Please call him and thank him today !!!

2/1/2010

Big news. Thanks to thousands of phone calls from people like you last week, 81 House Democrats signed the Polis-Pingree letter calling on the Senate to pass the public health insurance option through “reconciliation,” which only needs 51 Senate votes.

Tonight on MSNBC’s Ed Show at 6pm EST, Rep. Jared Polis will talk about the amazing resurgence for the public option. On the show, he’ll announce the latest number of letter signers.

Unfortunately, Rep. Jim McDermott hasn’t signed on yet. Can help us get from 81 to 100 signers today by calling him one more time and asking him to sign the Polis/Pingree letter in support of the public option?

Click here to make a call — we give you a script and the number.

Sometimes, it takes a couple calls to do the trick, so you calling again will have a big impact.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

— Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Adam Green, Brian Bills, Natasha Patel, and the PCCC team

P.S. This letter is definitely affecting the “conventional wisdom” in Washington, D.C. On Friday, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent wrote:

Could the public option make a comeback?…a growing number of House Dems are pushing an interesting strategy along these lines that’s worth a look.

To wit: Now that the idea of passing a fix to the Senate bill via a majority vote is being considered, why not revive the public option as part of that fix? A simple majority of Senators favors one, so such a fix could presumably pass via reconciliation.

But more to the point, such a move would make it easier for the Senate bill to pass the House, because it could win over enough liberals — many of whom don’t want to pass the Senate bill — to make it easier to secure the 218 needed for passage.

Can you help the momentum grow? Click here to call McDermott (one more time) today — we give you a script and number.

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Cancel Haiti’s $1 Billion Debt …


Although the media’s attention on Haiti is starting to wane, the country is still amidst crisis.

Click here to sign your name

Call on Treasury Secretary Geithner to help cancel Haiti’s $1 billion debt.

The incredible outpouring of concern, aid and assistance coming from all over the world continues to offer hope, but for many of us the question lingers: “What else can I do?”

One important way to help Haitians build a better tomorrow is to convince global creditors to cancel Haiti’s crushing $1 billion international debt. Doing so will help make sure that every possible future dollar goes towards rebuilding a stronger Haiti, not to servicing old debts.

Thankfully, the United States has already forgiven Haiti’s past debts and now only gives assistance in the form of grants. We need Haiti’s other creditors – the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and countries like Taiwan and Venezuela – to follow our lead and do the same.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has the power to help make that happen.

Please tell Secretary Geithner to work to secure the cancellation of Haiti’s $1 billion debt and ensure emergency assistance is provided in the forms of grants, not debt-incurring loans. Even before the earthquake hit, Haiti – the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere – faced tremendous challenges. But there was also hope. Recent years have brought a more stable government and tenuous gains in the fight against poverty.

Haiti needs an international effort to make sure that, as it begins the long road to recovery, it is not burdened with un-payable debts. We must also be vigilant that any new aid from the IMF and other sources doesn’t come in the form of loans that would create new debt for Haiti.

It all starts by calling on Secretary Geithner to use his influence to persuade international lending institutions and countries to do the right thing and drop Haiti’s debt.

Take action now.

Thank you for lending your voice,

– The Change.org Team in partnership with ONE



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Tell Chevron to Clean Up Its Toxic Mess in Ecuador




Demand that Chevron to take responsibility for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater.
 Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects.

The tragedy in Ecuador is so profound, it has been compared to the Exxon Valdez spill and called the “Amazon’s Chernobyl.”

In spite of the tremendous suffering caused by this toxic pollution, Chevron has refused to clean up the catastrophe.

Demand that Chevron take responsibility for its actions now >

Within the next year, the outcome of a court case sixteen years in the making will be determined by a court in Ecuador.

Chevron has pledged that even if it is found guilty in court the company simply won’t pay to clean up the site or provide health care, potable water and compensation to affected communities.

Chevron needs to take responsibility. But the company won’t unless it feels pressure from its American customers and the general public.

Send a letter to CEO John Watson and tell him he needs to clean up the toxic legacy in Ecuador >

And tell Watson that Chevron must shift to clean sources energy and adopt sound human rights policies so that what is happening to the people of Ecuador and the rainforest never happens anywhere else.

Thank you for lending your voice,

– The Change.org Team in partnership
with Rainforest Action Network

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

A look at Obama’s first year in office …by the numbers


Robert Yoon
CNN Political Research Director        

President Obama was inaugurated one year ago today.

Here’s a recap on his first year, by the numbers:

124 bills signed into law

39 executive orders issued

3 nationally televised prime-time presidential addresses

4 prime-time press conferences

5 press conferences from the White House

20 countries visited
(Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Trinidad, Turkey, United Kingdom)

28 states visited
(Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)