Google and Verizon have proposed a deal that, according to the New York Times, would allow "Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."
We need to keep the Internet free, open and neutral for everyone. This concept, sometimes referred to as net neutrality or Internet freedom, is vital to ensuring that everyone can connect and share information, free from discrimination or interference.
Please tell the FCC to block the Google/Verizon framework.
Michelle Obama, take spent hens off the menu!
Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.
Known as "spent hen" meat, the poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.
I think it's time we appealed to our country's most powerful advocate for child nutrition. As first lady Michelle Obama frequently points out: Our kids need, and deserve, better.
It's time to put health care to a vote
"The truth is, we have debated health care in Washington not just
this past year. We've been debating it for 70 years. Harry Truman was
pushing health care reform!"
- President Barack Obama, 3/10/2010
We can't leave the future of our health care system in the hands of insurers like Anthem.
Tell Congress: It's time to put health care reform to a vote -- and pass it.
If we do nothing, insurance premiums will keep growing at four times the rate of wages. Employer health care costs will continue to crush job creation, and long-term deficits will reach the stratosphere.
There's no reason to wait.
Stop the Ticketmaster merger
Ticketmaster wants to merge with Live Nation (Ticketmaster's leading competitor), meaning that most of the tickets we could buy would be coming from the new mega-ticket conglomerate.
Ticketmaster
already adds around 30% to the cost of a ticket in junk fees. And from
past experience we know that the less competition, the worse these guys
get with their handling, processes and other nonsense fees.
Help us stand up to the merger. Please use the form below to send a message to Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, head of the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice. If you can, please add any personal experience you have had with over-priced tickets, or an inability to purchase tickets from alternative vendors.
Did
you know that more than 80 percent of America's biggest banks and
corporations, including some of those we bailed out, don't pay their
taxes?
Instead, they park their money in offshore tax havens like
the Cayman Islands. As a result, the average Iowa household, a.k.a.
you and me, is paying $373 a year to cover for $100 billion they don't
pay.
Why should we have to pick up the tab for tax dodgers? Sign
our Tax Day Declaration and tell Congress to close the corporate tax
loopholes.
Safe Food, Healthy Kids
Stop our tax dollars from subsidizing the BP spill
BP announced $6.1 billion profits in April for
its first quarter -- double last year's number and roughly six times
the amount it has spent on the cleanup so far.
Over the next
ten years, the oil and gas industry will receive $40
billion in subsidies -- courtesy of the American taxpayer.
By improving
the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid can stop sending our tax dollars to subsidize Big Oil's
mistakes.
The Senate votes this week, and we are working with our federation to gather signatures from Americans across the country, demanding that Sen. Reid hold BP accountable.
Sign the
petition below to make sure that BP is paying for spill clean up.
Michelle Obama, take spent hens off the menu!
Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.
Known as "spent hen" meat, the poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.
I think it's time we appealed to our country's most powerful advocate for child nutrition. As first lady Michelle Obama frequently points out: Our kids need, and deserve, better.
Tell our senators to make food safer
Each year,
about 76 million Americans get sick from the food they eat. Each year
5,000 people die from foodborne illness. Recently, more than half a billion eggs
with a high risk of salmonella were only recalled months after people started getting sick.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) will give FDA the authority to recall unsafe food; to inspect food processing facilities; and to require imported foods to meet the same standards as food produced in the U.S.
S. 510 passed the House of Representatives in July 2009, but the Senate has not yet brought it to a vote.
Sign the petition below to urge our senators to support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510).
Tell our senators to make food safer
Each year,
about 76 million Americans get sick and 5,000 die from a foodborne illness.
Recently, more than half a billion eggs
with a high risk of salmonella were finally recalled months after people started getting sick.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) will give FDA the authority to recall unsafe food, inspect food processing facilities, and require imported foods to meet the same standards as food produced in the U.S.
S. 510 passed the House of Representatives in July 2009, but the Senate has not yet brought it to a vote.
Sign the petition below to urge our senators to support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510).