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CEOs Hate This Site!

 

Search Working America’s Job Tracker to find corporate traitors in your area.

Every day, more U.S. workers are told “You’re fired!” Not because they did something wrong—and not because the work they do isn’t needed anymore—but because their jobs are being shipped overseas.

So our friends at the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America created Job Tracker—a website that exposes which companies are guilty of outsourcing our jobs. Just enter your ZIP code, and Job Tracker will find corporate traitors near you.

Search your area for companies that have sent jobs overseas, risked the safety and health of workers or violated their rights.

When we see the plant near us closing or mass layoffs in the next town over, it’s hard to know the disturbing scope of the problem—after all, corporations don’t want to publicize unpopular, anti-worker actions, and the government doesn’t track every job lost to outsourcing in one easily assessable place.

I was shocked to learn from Job Tracker that 13 companies right in my area are outsourcing jobs, and a shocking 6,515 companies have safety and health violations! Want to know what things are like in your community? Get the stats on greedy companies near you, and report any missing companies you know about.

By making this information public, Working America is putting greedy CEOs on the defensive. For the first time, working people have one place to see the real impact of outsourcing, bad trade deals and currency manipulation. Every corporate traitor Working America exposes—and every company you and your friends, co-workers and family add—makes a stronger case for holding corporations accountable.

So check out Job Tracker, and if any companies are missing, tell us about them. We’ll research your submissions and add them to the site when we verify the information.

In solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

P.S. Corporations aren’t going to stop moving jobs out of America unless we force them to stop. That starts with compiling concrete information on just how much corporate greed is costing America’s workers. Check out Job Tracker, and help us take the first step by shining a light on outsourcing, safety and health violations and labor law violations.

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Averting catastrophe


Democrats are going to lose Congress and everything will be horrible.*

* That is, unless we all get off our butts, donate, make phone calls, knock on doors, and turn this election around. Can you start today by chipping in $5 (or more!) right now to our big campaign to Stop the Takeover?

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/stopthetakeover.html?bg_id=hpc5&id=23950-17809870-FDuJ1Wx&t=1

Oh, and sorry for shouting. It’s just that this is a really, really serious situation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Michael, Peter, Tim, Duncan, and the rest of the team

Want to support our work? We’re entirely funded by our 5 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

 

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Metropolitan Improvement District Elert for October 9th


—-SEATTLE, WA —-

1.   Permits have been issued for Saturday October 9th , 2010 to the  “March against war in Afghanistan.”  Participants will rally at Westlake Park and at approximately 2:00 PM march on the following route:

  • West on Pine Street to First Avenue
  • South on First Avenue to Yesler Way
  • East on Yesler Way to Dilling Way
  • East on Dilling Way to 4th Avenue
  • North on 4th Avenue back to Westlake Park

The estimated number of participants could be up to 300. Be advised of traffic disruptions while marchers pass by.

Seattle police will monitor the march and rally.

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2.   Permits have been issued for Sunday October 10th, 2010 to the “2010 Double Tenth Parade Celebration.”  Participants will gather at Hing Hay Park and at approximately 1:00 PM the parade will begin on the following route:

  • East on King Street to 8th Avenue
  • South on 8th Avenue to Weller Street
  • West on Weller Street to 6th Avenue
  • North on 6th Avenue to King Street
  • East on King Street back to Hing Hay Park

Estimated number of participants could be up to 200. Be advised of traffic disruptions while marchers pass by.

Seattle police will monitor the Parade.

 

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Tell the DOJ: Investigate the Chamber of Commerce’s campaign spending!


Tell the DOJ: Investigate the Chamber of Commerce’s campaign spending  

We can’t let the Chamber of Commerce undermine our democracy!
Take action!
Clicking here will add your name to this petition to Attorney General Eric Holder:  

The Department of Justice must launch an immediate investigation into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s use of money from foreign corporations to influence our elections.
Click to sign.

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the poster child for corporate corruption of our electoral system.

This year alone the Chamber has pledged to spend $75 million on ads attacking candidates who don’t meekly bow down to the biggest and wealthiest corporate interests.

However, an explosive new report by the Center for American Progress reveals that some of that corporate cash might be coming from foreign entities, which would be a federal crime.

There is already entirely too much corporate cash spent on our elections. It’s intolerable that our democracy would be further undermined by illegal donations from foreign interests.

That is why we are joining our friends at MoveOn in asking Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to open an investigation immediately.

Click here to automatically sign our petition and tell the DOJ to investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately.

The Chamber of Commerce denies that it uses foreign money in any way that’s illegal, but the Center for American Progress has documented how the Chamber aggressively raises money outside the United State from foreign entities — including state-run companies in Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, India and Russia — and deposits that money into the same general fund used to fund the Chamber’s political program.

Because of the Chamber’s tax status as a trade organization, it is able to shield most of its financial information from the public. So without a government investigation, all we have is the Chamber’s woefully insufficient word that it is abiding by the law.

Given the stakes of this election, we cannot settle for nothing more than “Trust us” from an organization with such a huge credibility problem. And we cannot wait as this issue winds its way through a Federal Elections Commission rendered slow and toothless by its Republican members.

That is why we are calling on the Department of Justice to immediately move to investigate this explosive charge.

Tell the DOJ: Investigate the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately. Click here to automatically add your name.

Thank you for working for a better world.

Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

1Click here to read the report from the Center for American Progress.

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Urgent Update: GOP’s Deceptive Ads and Expanding their Ad Buy


 

Rapid Reponse

 

Breaking: Republicans expand ad buys into seven additional districts bringing the total to over 60 races.

With just 24 hours to go before our ad buy deadline, news reports broke yesterday that the Republicans’ campaign attack squad has expanded their advertising blitz.

The claims in Republican ads have already been debunked by the Pulitzer Prize winning PolitiFact. Yet, they now have the resources to EXPAND their false attacks into more districts. It’s Rove-style dirty politics at its worst.

It’s up to us to set the record straight but we have to go all-in before tomorrow’s deadline hits.

We have just 24 hours left before our deadline to wire more money for ads but we’re still $72,179 short.

Please contribute $5, $10 or more to our Rapid Response Ad Fund today and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a group of committed Democrats.

We can stop them — we have done it before. But I need you to help us stand up to their smears.

Onward to Victory,

Jon Vogel
Jon Vogel
DCCC Executive Director

P.S. We have set up a Tip Box to report abusive or deceptive robocalls, mailers, or internet scams/rumors. If you see this kind of widespread abuse in your district, you should send a message to our Tip Box by emailing at dccc@dccc.org. Please contribute to our Rapid Response Ad Fund now so we can continue to keep fighting back.