Politics & Democracy
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property,
are the rulers. -Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
Headlines
- 07/21/10 - Methane Seeps, Tipping Points Feared as Congress Sleepwalks
- 07/16/10 - Vote for Monsanto in the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame!
- 07/03/10 - EPA Forced to Review Pesticide Testing on Humans
- 07/02/10 - Towards a New Economy and a New Politics
- 06/30/10 - If JBS Gobbles Up Smithfield, Three Companies Will Own the U.S. Meat Market
- 06/28/10 - Obama Makes the World Safe for DuPontcracy
- 06/28/10 - Raw Milk Bans are About Protecting Big Industry
- 06/12/10 - The Inside Story of How Obama Let the World’s Most Dangerous Oil Company Get Away with Murder
- 06/09/10 - Anna Lappé on Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, and Conversion to a Climate Friendly Food System
- 06/07/10 - WHO's Handling of Swine Flu Deeply Marred by Conflict of Interest with Drug Companies, Top Medical Journal Accuses
- 06/04/10 - Survey Shows Wily Biotech Companies are Fishing for Ways to Greenwash GE Wheat
- 06/01/10 - Monsanto & the Supreme Court: Urge Obama to Withdraw Kagan's Supreme Court Nomination
- 05/30/10 - DC Rejects Soda Tax but Funds Better School Food
- 05/28/10 - Criminalizing the Science You Don't Cotton To
- 05/27/10 - Let's Move Needs to Get Real with the Food Industry
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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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