Politics & Democracy
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property,
are the rulers. -Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
Headlines
- 06/30/09 - The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture - Time to Fight Back
- 06/29/09 - Wal-Mart's Big Problem: Climate Change
- 06/29/09 - EPA Says Monsanto Mine Violates Law
- 06/28/09 - A List of Corporate Lobbying by Jill Richardson
- 06/28/09 - I Want My Money Back! (Pres. Obama!)
- 06/11/09 - Tell Coca-Cola to Protect Customers From BPA
- 06/04/09 - Europeans Demand Investigation of the CAFO/Swine Flu Link
- 06/01/09 - Nader: Avoiding Corporate Liability
- 05/31/09 - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
- 05/27/09 - Alert: Tell American Public Media to Stop Letting Monsanto Leverage Its Reputation!
- 05/20/09 - Mistakes Were Made: Little Has Changed Since Barack Obama Assumed the Presidency
- 05/19/09 - Coming Soon: The Truth About Starbucks
- 05/10/09 - Populism is Not a Style, it's a People's Rebellion Against Corporate Power
- 05/05/09 - Companies Look to Swine Flu to Drive Profits
- 04/28/09 - The Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians to support:
- Eliminating the distorting effect of special interest money on our elections and politicians by providing full public funding for all federal, state, and local elections, as well as banning paid political advertising in the media.
- Do you support the declaration of Election Day as a national holiday, instant voter registration, publicly managed open source code for voting machines, laws ensuring that voting machines are secure from tampering, as well as local, state, or federal versions of Senate Bill 1980, requiring that voting systems produce a voter-verified paper ballot.
- Legislation mandating Instant Runoff Voting in city, county, state and federal elections along with the revision of the Electoral College to reflect the popular vote.
- Legislation mandating the FCC to require major TV, newspapers, and radio stations to allot each party and/or candidate free and equal media prime-time to broadcast their message.
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Resources
The Score
This website lists, to the hour, the schedule of both houses of
Congress, along with reports on floor activities and news.
Weapons
of Mass Deception
Book by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber
examines the use of propaganda in the build up to the Iraq War.
What
is the SPP?
The Security and Prosperity Partnership is an overarching and little
known initiative by both U.S. government and corporations dealing
with security, energy and agribusiness autonomy.
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