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We need your help to tell President Obama that drilling in our oceans is not the answer to our economic or energy woes.

Displaying a remarkably short memory after the epic Gulf oil spill, the Obama government plans to open vast areas of the ocean to oil drilling. The plan doesn’t adequately protect marine life, and burning dirty fossil fuels only contributes to the climate crisis.

We need to move to safer, more sustainable solutions.

Take action here: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8961

Act.ly is reporting that our #OpBlackout petition is their new #1!

https://mobile.twitter.com/actly/status/155490333852057600

Here is the text of the petition.

Petition @google to do a day of #OpBlackout to protest #SOPA @eBay
@amazon @Yahoo @facebook @twitter act.ly/5cz PLZ RT!

When you click the link, you can sign by tweeting from the Act.ly
site. It's really very easy.

Many thanks to everyone who helped this to happen, and expecially to
TheYoungTurks for getting this petition started.

Some of us are more vociferous, and others are more engaged. Be
vociferous by signing the petition. If you have not yet signed, now
is the time to sign and encourage companies like Google to be more
engaged in the fight against laws like SOPA.

Being vociferous and engaged means telling your friends and family
about SOPA and how to fight it, and then fighting it yourself. Set
the right example by clearing a path for others to follow in. If you
want to be more engaged in the fight, one way is to join #OpBlackout.
#OpBlackout has engaged SOPA, and you can too! Here is a link with
some instructions for engaging SOPA.

http://pastebin.com/gnU74Trx

We live in times when money and power determines what is legal, and
what is not. For the most part, the court has been siding with money
and power over the public good. For our own good, we ourselves must
fight against bad legislation, and bad laws. SOPA is surely one of
those.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

Act.ly is reporting that our #OpBlackout petition is their new #1!

https://mobile.twitter.com/actly/status/155490333852057600

Here is the text of the petition.

Petition @google to do a day of #OpBlackout to protest #SOPA @eBay
@amazon @Yahoo @facebook @twitter act.ly/5cz PLZ RT!

When you click the link, you can sign by tweeting from the Act.ly
site. It's really very easy.

Many thanks to everyone who helped this to happen, and expecially to
TheYoungTurks for getting this petition started.

Some of us are more vociferous, and others are more engaged. Be
vociferous by signing the petition. If you have not yet signed, now
is the time to sign and encourage companies like Google to be more
engaged in the fight against laws like SOPA.

Being vociferous and engaged means telling your friends and family
about SOPA and how to fight it, and then fighting it yourself. Set
the right example by clearing a path for others to follow in. If you
want to be more engaged in the fight, one way is to join #OpBlackout.
#OpBlackout has engaged SOPA, and you can too! Here is a link with
some instructions for engaging SOPA.

http://pastebin.com/gnU74Trx

We live in times when money and power determines what is legal, and
what is not. For the most part, the court has been siding with money
and power over the public good. For our own good, we ourselves must
fight against bad legislation, and bad laws. SOPA is surely one of
those.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

Superweeds and superbugs are emerging all over the country. Farmers across the Midwest and South are losing their fields to pesticide-resistant superweeds so formidable and fast-spreading that they break farm machinery.

Instead of abandoning a losing strategy, Dow aims to get us all running faster on the same broken pesticide treadmill by seeking approval for its 2,4-D resistant seed lines. Sign this petition to block their release into the marketplace and head the pesticide industry off at the pass. >> http://action.panna.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9109

Sign our petition now to the House and Senate members of the Defense Appropriations committees, asking them to vote for Obama's proposed cuts AND make deeper cuts too.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=293...

We will deliver the petitions in person to members' offices next month. Now is the critical time, as they're writing the defense budget bills that will be voted on this summer, even as they are getting wined and dined by lobbyists for the huge military contractors. These members are the critical targets, because their committees will be deciding what the 2013 defense budget looks like. They need to hear from you, and they need to know that we are all watching closely what happens next.

Please sign the petition now to cut Pentagon spending.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=293...

I just emailed my federal and state legislators to urge them to support an end to corporate personhood. Will you join me? Just go here: http://bit.ly/yO0xNo

There’s good news: Last week, Montana's Supreme Court upheld a ban on corporate election spending. Los Angeles and New York have just joined the list of cities urging the rest of the country to join Montana. And several bills have been introduced in Congress to amend the Constitution.