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Will your choice count in 2006?
Understanding the Voting Machine Issue
Helpful Web Sites
Other Issues
1)
USPIRG: Sweetheart deals cost us dearly:
An Independent Ethics Commission
Call 202-224-3121.
Ask to
speak to your Senator's office. * You can also email
all your
repšs at: www.firstgov.gov/contact/elected.shtml
More info: www.uspirg.org ;legislation at http://pirg.org/democracy/democracy.asp?id=82&id3=CFR&
2) Fair Trade
purchases by the NY City government
- :
www.fairtradenyc.org (NYC Fair Trade
Coalition) for fair work and the environment, Call the mayor at 311
3) Employee Rights to Unionize: (www.americanrightsatwork.org)
4) Medicare for All
www.healthcare-now.org
Medicare is the model. We want an enhanced and improved
Medicare for All.
5) Womenšs Health
www.now.org
, recent proposals are meant to undermine contraception, etc.
6) Renewing the Voting Rights Act (VRA) for Civil Rights
www.ACLU.org One of the crucial
civil rights laws to prevent discrimination.
7) Join ACORN
to help Raise the Minimum Wage.
www.acorn.org
Environmental Actions
1) Support Renewable Energy: Union
of Concerned Scientists www.ucs.org ;see
http:
//ucsaction.org/campaign/2_16_06_GreatLakes_National
Curb global pollution
and boost the economy with renewable energy
more below
2) Work with the Environmental Defense Fund for Climate Stewardship
www.environmentaldefense.org
; see also other global warming and conservation information and
letters.
Choose
to Influence Businesses and Corporations by Spending on a
Better World
3) Look into
Renewable Energy Options for your utility bill at www.nypirg.org They
also have a Fuel Buying Group with discounts.
4)
Food Coops: Look into the Health Food Discounts, and
becoming a part-owner of a business through membership in a local NYC food
coop: 1) Park Slope Brooklyn www.foodcoop.com 782 Union St.
(718) 622-0650 2) 4th St. FC (212)
674-3623, 3) Flatbush Food Coop 4) Nationwide
Directory at: http://www.coopdirectory.org/ (651) 774-9189
5)
Find and Support Green Businesses Nationwide: Coop
Americašs
Green Pages Directory (800) 584-7336, Ecomall: www.ecomall.com
, www.buyblue.com
6)
Click Icons On-line: Support Nature Conservancy and
other groups by Clicking Icons on-line (based on advertising with no strings
attached): www.ecologyfund.com
and www.clickandsave.8k.com
7)
Support environmentally sound, non-sweatshop clothing:Organic
Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/action.cfm#fax
Urge The Gap
to follow Timberland and others to use organic fibers in their clothing,
and labor rights.
8)
Join Greenpeace in Waking Up Kimberly Clark on their Ancient
Forest Cutting and Non-use of Recycled Paper
www.greenpeace.org/usa
9) Work
with the Sierra Club regarding National Food Uniformity Labeling to make
sure local areas can exceed national standards
The House of Representatives
passed the controversial "national food uniformity" labeling law, which would
eliminate over 200 high standard state food safety labeling laws. Learn
more at http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/labeling.cfm
10)
Advise the EPA To Keep Tracking Toxic Chemical Emissions
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/3156
Working Assets
and OMB Watch
11) TRI: The Tool For Public Protection Against Toxic Pollution
Approximately
26,000 industrial facilities report some 650 chemicals that they release
in America. The Bush Administration and Corporations want the
EPA to weaken the Toxic Release Inventory.
EPA Telephone:
(202) 272-0167,
and have letters sent from the website of
OMB Watch.
12) Many Species of Great Cats and Rare Canines are
in Danger of Vanishing!
Support Wildlife Conservation Society
www.wcs.org, and
http://capwiz.com/wcs/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=6260486
Support Great
Cats and Rare Canids. Around the world species of great cats and wild
canines, such as jaguars, clouded leopards and African wild dogs, are declining
drastically due to habitat loss, poaching, disease, and human-wildlife conflicts.
13)
Help Prevent Domestic Violence and Social Service Funding
Prevent Child Abuse America was established in 1972
to build a nationwide commitment to preventing all forms of child
abuse.
www.preventchildabuse.org/
More info at:
http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/ , and http://endabuse.org/ Family Violence Prevention
Fund
14) Send a letter to
support Oceana's campaign to Protect Coral from Harsh Fishing Technique
www.oceana.org
15) If you know people in Illinois,
tell them they can support more mass transit in Illinois
Action Network at www.actionnetwork.org
16) Contact TD Bank with
Rainforest Action To Get Them On Board
www.ran.org
legislation at: http://ga3.org/campaign/TD_StopBorealDestruction
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