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Stand up for victims of sexual assault and discrimination
Urgent action needed! We helped pass Sen. Franken’s (D-Minn) amendment to bar defense contractors from forcing employees with sexual assault and discrimination claims into arbitration. But now, as the House and Senate negotiate a final version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (DOD Appropriations bill, H.R. 3326), Senate leaders are considering weakening the amendment by leaving discrimination victims unprotected.
Tell Congress to focus on patient safety
Instead of focusing on real reform in the health care bill, members of Congress have been distracted by health industry lobbyists. The Senate is considering "alternatives" to our right to hold negligent providers accountable when they cause severe, permanent injuries or death. Tell them to say no to health industry lobbyists seeking more immunity for negligent providers.
Testify for cleaner vehicles
The Obama administration has proposed new fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles could result in the most significant climate action ever in this country. We need you to tell the federal agencies to keep the standards strong!
Support accountability and transparency in government
Tell Congress: Protect Whistleblowers and Taxpayers. We are closer than ever to ending retaliation against those who speak up to protect us!
Don't get rolled!
Soon, the Supreme Court could strike down a century of modest limits on corporate influence in politics, allowing unlimited corporate money into our elections. Pledge to protest if the Supreme Court allows more corporate influence in our elections!
Ask Congress to support real financial reform
Congress is considering legislation to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (H.R. 3126) to guard us against misleading and unfair credit cards, loans and mortgages. Tell Congress that you want a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency and a strong economy that works for all of us.
Petition for financial accountability, security
Team up with millions of other Americans to loudly call for the federal government to put consumers and workers first, and to restore transparency, oversight and fairness to the financial marketplace.
Watch the Sunshine Week 2009 Webcast
We need Sunshine laws to protect our right to access government information. Sunshine Week 2009 is focused on generating a set of actionable goals to increase accountability and transparency in the Obama administration. Join us for one of Sunshine Week's key events: an interactive webcast between citizens, activists, journalists, technology experts, and members of the government transition team about how we can achieve a more open government. The speakers will take live questions and comments from you and others watching the webcast around the world.
Support Accountability in the Stimulus Spending
The stimulus bill signed by President Obama will spend billions of tax dollars in an effort to dig us out of the financial crisis. Initially, the stimulus bill contained critical protections for federal employees and civilians who bravely blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending. These measures were created to ensure that every tax dollar spent is accounted for and used for what matters most: lifting our nation out of economic turmoil. However, many of these protections were stripped out of the bill before it was approved by the President. We must act quickly to ensure that Congress passes measures to expand whistleblower protections before stimulus spending begins.
No More Taxation Without Representation
More than half a million people live in Washington, D.C. without voting representation in Congress. D.C.citizens pay U.S. taxes, fight and die for the U.S. during wartime and yet, shockingly, they have no vote in the Congress that governs them. Please join concerned citizens from around the country in flooding the Capitol with calls and emails to push through this critical and historic civil rights legislation!
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