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US citizens: call on your state officials to adopt automatic voter registration.
Note that this will not in and of itself put an end to gerrymandering and Republican voter suppression. But it will work against them.
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An interview with Daniel Ellsberg about his career as a whistleblower, starting from the crucial night when he heard President Johnson lie on TV about the fabricated "Gulf of Tonkin incident". Ellsberg knew, from his job, that Johnson the incident was fictitious.
" With the benefit of hindsight, I now see the Cold War as, in part, a marketing campaign for the continual, massive subsidies to the aerospace industry."People sometimes ask me how I separate truth from lies. An important part is that I believe people like Ellsberg, and disbelieve whoever contradicts or disparages them. Likewise, I believe Edward Snowden and disbelieve whoever contradicts or disparages him.
In these areas, the pressure to lie is very strong. Ellsberg and Snowden have demonstrated they can resist it, while most people can't.
How factory farms and corporations swallowed the America's family farms.
They have done more than take over farms; they have reshaped the economy to leave hardly any space for smaller farms.
US citizens: call on Bank of America and SunTrust to stop financing private prisons.
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US citizens: call on the US government to drop its latest subpoena against Chelsea Manning.
If she holds out for the maximum 18 months, she will be hit with half a million dollars in fines. I don't suppose she has the money to pay that, or that she would agree to work to get the money to pay that.
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