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Is Congress about to put you out of work?


 

 

 

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Now that the deficit committee failed, war profiteers are scrambling to undo automatic cuts to their profit margins. They’ve re-launched their propaganda campaign focusing on jobs, but our new video exposes the truth: military spending is a job killer. If Washington, D.C. stops automatic cuts to the military budget at the expense of other programs, it will be a disaster for the economy.Send our video to your elected officials and make sure they understand the consequences of failing to make real cuts to the military budget.Super-wealthy war profiteer CEOs rely on massive Pentagon budgets for their wealthy lifestyles. They and their allies in the Pentagon are using huge lobbying budgets in an unprecedented economic fear campaign to convince Congress that war spending is some kind of grotesque jobs program. Nothing could be further from the truth.As our video shows, military spending costs jobs compared to other ways of spending the money. Protecting war budgets at the expense of other job-creating programs will mean more jobless people than virtually any other possible budget plan.Help us put the truth in your elected officials’ hands. Our toolwill let you push your senators and congressmen to do the right thing, despite the war industry’s propaganda push.This is an uphill battle, and we need your help. Please send our latest video to your elected officials now so they understand that military spending costs jobs.

Sincerely,

Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Foundation team

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Washington State don’t let AG Mckenna keep HCR away from the people in Washington State- A reminder to Voters



On March 22nd McKenna announced he will join the HCR lawsuit to  protect Washington citizens against new health care mandates, he will probably do this by using tax payers dollars.
Please Call his office to tell him to STOP   blocking health care reform

CALL Main Office (360) 753-6200

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Rob McKenna today issued the following statement about joining a multi-state lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the recently-approved federal health care measure, once it is signed into law.

“I believe this new federal health care measure unconstitutionally imposes new requirements on our state and on its citizens. This unprecedented federal mandate, requiring all Washingtonians to purchase health insurance, violates the Commerce Clause and the 10th amendment of the US Constitution.

“I’m concerned that the measure unconstitutionally requires all Washingtonians to purchase health insurance and places an extraordinary burden on our state budget by requiring Washington to expand its Medicaid eligibility standards in violation of our state’s rights guaranteed under the10th amendment.”

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Contacts:
Janelle Guthrie, AGO Communications Director, (360) 586-0725
Dan Sytman, AGO Media Relations Manager, (360) 586-7842

360) 753-6200

TGIF … Call the Whitehouse 202-456-1111 …Tell President Obama to go big bold and bad


just another rant …

In my effort to blow off steam, push back, and voice my opinion…

I hope all of us on the left… democrats, libs and progressives will continue to support President Obama we also need him to know we have his back and hope that our President Obama go big bold and badass. … Bring it to the People

What has our President done for you?

I will remind you President Obama among other things got and injected our economy with a 787billion dollar stimulus package even with all the Teapublican obstacles. The stimulus worked; he also implemented the fair pay act, chips, stopped the 8yr ban on stem cell research/treatment, implemented better fuel regulation for trucks , Sonia Sotomayor, 1st Latina was nominated and voted into the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan also voted onto the Supreme Court, got rid of osama, offered a historic health-care bill that passed, reforming immigration. Hey, for a more in depth list and analysis of President Obama’s first two years go to http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/1104_obama_galston.aspx

The facts are right in front of our faces and yes, the last 2yrs have been better than it feels…

I believe in President Obama and his abilities but there is clearly a wall put up against any changes or moves the President has been trying to make for ALL Americans contrary to what and how the Teapublicans want or will govern. We must never forget Rep.Mcconnell’s statement that his job is to make him a one-term president. Now, we have people in Congress doing and saying things about our First President of Colour and it should serve as a reminder of just how the Teapublicans really feel about him and this attitude and behavior is the dark cloud that Presidential candidate Rick Perry spoke of only the cloud is racism. I don’t know about you but a true friend would not say let alone feel that his friend is less than because of the colour of his skin. It was a sad day to hear the words coming from Sen. Tom Coburn.  There is definitely a difference in running for office and governing as Congress, The banks, Wall Street have all shown us they want their piece thus making the road to change a journey of bumps. Our President has said time and time again, he cannot do the work by himself,” We the People,” need to unite in solidarity to push back at Corporate America, because they definitely are not cooperating, we must push our Democratic Legislators, Representatives and our Congress, who are not acting as if we are in the majority. We all know the Administration needs to call for regulation of the banks…Wall Street and AIG types who seem corrupt. We need to demand that the Administration and Congress work and vote for climate change, education and true innovation so America can become a leader once again, the base voted for change we can all believe in, not for what will NOT ruffle some. President Obama needs to know that the base wants bold changes that include Energy and Climate Change, Education, Immigration reform, Bank regulations. Only move forward not what is easy because the fight is on and it is to save the middle class. That Sir takes a lean to the left … a hard left Sir.

We the People need to start speaking out against key nominations held up by Republicans. It is absurd, offensive, reckless and should show voters just how desperate Republicans are to bring President Obama down when both parties should be working together to solve problems instead of playing politics when our American economy and or safety is fragile is beyond me.

Time to forget bipartisanship because it ain’t there anymore

 

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Green companies … Green projects … Green jobs … Green heroes


click on  links for more green info …

**Dow Chemical designed solar shingles that can be nailed to a roof, testing to begin in 2010, initially manufactured in Midland MI

**Chris Campbell,pasadena,CA His most recent venture, www.caligreen.com is an eco-friendly apparel company located in Santa Barbara, California. Prior to Cali Green, Chris was the head of Sales Integration where he developed and lead several high performing teams of developers and designers at GorillaNation.com and AtomicOnline.com that produce revenues of over $8 Million per month.

**Global Star will be supplying the thin-film solar cells, of Tucson, AZ   ( Global Solar )

**Solar Reserve filed an application to build a 150-megawatt solar farm that will store seven hours’ worth of the sun’s energy in the form of molten salt, a Santa Monica company.  (SolarReserve )

**The Rice Solar Energy Project will be built in the Sonoran Desert east of Palm Springs (  Rice Solar Energy Project )

**Taja Sevelle,singer-songwriter, executive dir&founder of int’l non-profit Urban Farming,headquartered in Detroit;oversees 600 community gardens in 5counties&14cities,including Los Angeles&New York

**Bill Mckibben,writer/activist,Co-founder/Dir of 350.org ;is one of the largest groups fighting against global warming

**glenn croston, Ph.D., is a green scientist, author and entrepreneur. He has written five biology and chemistry books and is involved in developing entrepreneurial businesses with a focus on green research. He lives an environmentally-friendly life in both business and at home.

**Omar Freilla,founder of the Bronx umbrella org Green Worker Co-op,helps turn trash into green jobs

**Clean Edge Jobs  …

Clean Edge Jobs specializes in connecting job candidates at every level with a range of clean-tech companies and other organizations leading the transition to a clean-energy economy.  In addition to creating a profile and resume for employers to search, job seekers can use the Clean Edge Jobs website to search their growing database of green jobs by location, industry or job type.  Employers can post jobs free of charge.  Check it out at  http://jobs.cleanedge.com.

**The websites below are also good sources of green-collar job postings:

** Warren Washington,head of the climate-change research section @the Nat Ctr for Atmospheric Res., was one of the first scientist to analyze climate change and it’s effect on the low-lying places in the coastal areas where a lot of African-Americans live.

** Majora Cater,in Hunts Pt Riverside Pk,SBronx,NY,2001 founded Sustainable S Bronx,to create green spaces

** Robert Bullard,sociologist/dir of the Environmental Justice Res Ctr@Clark Atlanta Univ., noticed almost all landfills/incinerators in Houston were located in predominately Black neighborhoods,inequity became his life’s work,Environment,race/politics,are all connected.

** Will.I.AM,song-writer, was inspired by Al Gore‘s inconvenient truth,wrote S.O.S.,Take Our Planet Back to enlightened fans about global warming,says he is brown but lives green

**Kerry Washington,actor lives green,says the green movement is about inequities, making and saving money, promotes going green by taking small step



** Xavier Bishop, Mayor of Moss Pt., Miss. River City,used to be a major industrial city,but the plants there damaged the city/environment,wanted to save his city/our environment,has partnered with groups: Inst for Sustainable Communities,promotes rebuilding with green products,tip: dont litter,most products don’t degrade.

** Kinari Webb,MD,founder,Health in Harmony in oakland CA and Indonesia,advocate for saving rain forests,stopping illegal logging a source of income,but floods/infection from mosquitoes are high as a result of tearing down rain forests.tip:avoid palm oil,major cause of rainforest destruction in Indonesia.

** Daniel Goleman, Phd,writer Ecological Intelligence, asks us to think beyond organic, recycled or  fair trade, think about how the products we buy, use, and discard affects the environment.

** Bryant Terry,Eco chef/food justice activist&author uses cooking to illuminate the intersections among poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity.

** Carole Allen,founder,Help Endangered Animals,involved in saving turtles,started a foundation to save them,the Nat Marine Fisheries Serv invented a Turtle Excluder device to allow turtles to escape fishing and shrimp industry trawls.tip:don’t touch a sea turtle,call 866-Turtles if you see one in distress.

** Ron Gonen, co-founder and ceo,RecycleBank; recyclebank.com based in NYC,operates in 15States,they give recycle containers to every home w/a chip embedded in it. the weight is electronically recorded/points go into recyclebank,worth up to $400 a yr at stores such as target,whole foods,coca-cola,program saves money by diverting waste into recycling.tip:recycle because it costs more to take trash to landfills,our taxes are increased to pay for it.

** Ken Cook,co-founder Environmental Working Group,ewg.org , they investigate products to protect the environment/public health,score it and provide info to their members.

** Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher for the group Skin Deep Web site cosmeticsdatabase.com,W.DC tip: don’t use bottled water,an avg of 8toxic chems are in ea,also the travel to get it to your home produces emissions