A copyright lawsuit demanding royalties for a small sample of music has been defeated, but the judge's criteria seem to favorable to the plaintiff, leaving copyright still an impediment to remix.

Everyone: Write to Saudi Arabia calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Raif Badawi.

Republicans threatened to shut down the US government again, and won small acts of sabotage: cancelling out Washington DC's initiative to legalize marijuana, and a little deregulation for banksters to cause future financial havoc.

The banksters were aiming for more than this. If they don't get all that now, they will try again soon enough. They have lobbyists and lawyers who will work full time for years to be able to create bubbles and pop them, swindle their clients, and fraudulently foreclose millions of people's homes.

Their first victory was blocking the US from imposing adequate regulations to prevent another crisis.

6 years of CIA attempts to obstruct the investigation of CIA torture.

Obama withheld almost 10,000 CIA documents from the Senate torture inquiry.

Everyone: sign up to boycott Amazon.

I gave this as my additional statement.

There are additional reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon. It keeps a database of what people buy, and does not accept cash. Amazon ebooks are a surveillance system and Amazon can erase them remotely: see stallman.org/ebooks.pdf.

See also stallman.org/amazon.html for more bad things Amazon does.

Thus, I agree to boycott Amazon, but it won't change anything, since I'd never consider buying from an organization that treated me that way, even if it didn't abuse its workers and evade taxes.