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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Urgent: Call on elected officials to speed decarbonization

lundi 1 août 2022 à 02:19

US citizens: call on elected officials to speed decarbonization and make the greenhouse gas emitters pay.

Urgent: Extend and expand social security

lundi 1 août 2022 à 02:19

US citizens: call on Congress to extend and expand Social Security.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

Urgent: Urge senators to vote for Equal Rights Amendment

lundi 1 août 2022 à 02:19

US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to vote to allow the Equal Rights Amendment to take effect. The Equal Rights Amendment says,

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

Republicans made deal to improve veteran care, then killed the deal

lundi 1 août 2022 à 02:19

Republicans made a deal to improve medical care for military veterans who were poisoned by toxic substances while deployed. Then they demanded to change the deal, and ultimately killed it.

Military veterans used to be politically untouchable in the US, but in 2016 the wrecker started started showing public contempt for veterans and their families. Maybe that made them less sacrosanct.

New Deal-style regulation can be reinstated and strengthened

lundi 1 août 2022 à 02:19

Noam Chomsky: *Even without fundamental changes in prevailing state capitalism, the kind of New Deal-style regulation that was dismantled by the neoliberal assault can be reinstated, and strengthened.*