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There is rare bipartisan consensus on one thing: America’s immigration system is broken. No one believes the current system is a good thing for our country, economy, or human rights. Although the Senate-passed bill is not perfect, it goes a long way to provide a fair and just path to legal status for immigrants, promote policies against human trafficking, honor an earlier deal with Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) authors to include battered immigrant provisions, and provide a long-term solution for growing our domestic science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce. The Senate bill would
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Tell the SEC to make Corp. disclose political spending
Did you know your hard-earned money could be funding an anti-minimum wage TV ad or paying the salary of a pro-fracking lobbyist?
Yep, that’s right. If you’re investing money in a 401k or another retirement account, corporations are counting on you to ignore how they spend your money — and are doing everything they can to avoid disclosing it.
Corporations are spending more money now on political activity than ever and they’re making it nearly impossible for us to use our financial leverage to fight back.
But it doesn’t have to be this way — and the solution is surprisingly simple:
The Securities and Exchange Commission has the authority to force corporations to disclose all of their corporate spending to shareholders and to the public. All they have to do is issue a rule requiring it.
Add your name now: Tell the SEC to make corporations disclose their political spending.
Americans overwhelmingly oppose the vast amounts of corporate cash currently being spent to influence our government. That’s why Democracy for America is working with our allies to build the movement to force corporations to disclose their spending — and to overturn the Citizens United and McCutcheon Supreme Court rulings.
With the support of several organizations, nearly 900,000 Americans have already sent comments to the SEC demanding that they step in and stop corporations from secretly using our own retirement accounts against us.
Our goal: 1 million comments to the SEC — and you can be the tipping point. Add your name now and tell the SEC to stand up for real transparency in political spending.
Thanks for helping us fight the corporate takeover of politics,
– Eden
Eden James, Political Director
Democracy for America
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You helped make this powerful message unavoidable
If you were in D.C., this ad was all over news sites, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Basically, all the places political offices have to monitor.”
That’s how our ad team described MoveOn members’ powerful ad campaign targeting decision makers in Washington, D.C. and state capitals across the country. The ad featured a call for action on gun violence from Richard Martinez, whose son was killed in the recent shooting at UC Santa Barbara.
This ad generated 8.1 million impressions in capital cities across the country in a week, including nearly 1 million in Washington, D.C. While not all of those “impressions” mean that someone watched the entire video, we do know that it was viewed thousands of times by government staffers and more than 600 times by members of the media.
Together, we’re working to make this powerful message unavoidable—to demand action in the face of the continued scourge of gun violence in communities across America. Sadly, in just the past few weeks, there have been multiple mass shootings since UCSB and countless individual gun deaths.
But passionate messages like Mr. Martinez’s can break through. As this video was being shared from coast to coast, MoveOn member and UCSB student Kyley Scarlet started a petition on gun violence to the Obama administration, and Vice President Joe Biden responded with a personal video message for students at the school.1
That’s why, no matter how frustrating this effort can be, we have to keep lifting our voices. If you haven’t already, please share the ad with everyone you know.
Thanks for all you do.
–Garlin, Jo, Nick, Alejandro, and the rest of the team
P.S. Have an idea for reducing gun violence in your community? Start your campaign today.
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1. “Vice President Joe Biden’s video message for UCSB graduates,” KCBX, June 11, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=299639&id=97504-17809870-5iignsx&t=4
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