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Defining and rekindling a common purpose among communities, families, workers, parents, students and the Democratic Party. Come and join us! Consider these important issues when making a choice for your Senators and Congrassmen and woman in 2006. International Civil Liberties Environment Education The Economy Labor Health Care |
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| George Bush thinks exporting American jobs is good for business! | |||||||
| Eliminating the right to overtime pay The Bush Administration's Department of Labor proposal means lower pay, longer hours for millions of workers. | |||||||
| United Farm Workers Helping to bring justice to farm workers and much more . . . | |||||||
| Teamsters Union Building better lives together ~ that's what the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is all about. | |||||||
| AFLCIO America's Union Movement - Working people in all walks of life join together in unions to gain a voice at work. | |||||||
| IWW Industrial Workers of the World Organizing a union sounds like a great idea, but how does one do it? | |||||||
| Jobless Rate hits 6.9% - 9 year high - Published in the Oregonian 7/3/2003 by Leigh Strope AP labor writer | |||||||
| High Tech Workers and Age Discrimination - IEEE | |||||||
| Oregon Jobless Rate hits 6.9% - 9 year high - Published in the Oregonian 7/3/2003 by Leigh Strope AP labor writer. | |||||||
| Local Area Unemployment Statistics - US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics | |||||||
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |||||||
| Tax Cuts for the Rich, Health-Care Shaft for Poor - Published on Saturday, May 24, 2003 by the Boulder Daily Camera | |||||||
| National Budget Simulation! | |||||||
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President
Clinton paid
off the federal budget deficit in 1999. After a decade of Republican
spending, both parties worked together and, in October 1999 under Bill
Clinton, a $122.7 Billion budget surplus was created! President
Clinton's record budget surplus Bush's
Economic Development Plan:
AND THEN IN ONLY SIX YEARS TIME, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED CONGRESS HAVE RUN THE UNITED STATES INTO THE BIGGEST BUDGET DEFIT IN AMERICAN HISTORY; BIGGER THAN ALL OF THE DEFICITS CREATED BY ALL OF THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS COMBINED! George W. Bush's $8.4 Trillion! DEFICIT! ve and questionable war in I We |
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| WomensHealth.Org | |||||||
| Physicians for a National Health Program "Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right." - Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Chicago Archdiocese | |||||||
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Natioinal Coalition on Health Care The National Coalition on Health Care's diverse membership is united in support of the following principles as a framework for improving our nation's health care: * Health Insurance for All * Improved Quality of Care * Cost Containment * Equitable Financing * Simplified Administration |
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| Patients Bill of Rights information from democrats.senate.gov | |||||||
| Prescription Coverage for Seniors senior citizens struggling to pay prescription costs - about improving prescription drug benefits for seniors, especially those with a fixed incomes. | |||||||
| The Science of Medical Marijuana "It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance" -DEA Judge Francis Young | |||||||
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Medical Marijuana Research MAPS 2105 Robinson Avenue Sarasota, FL 34232 USA E-mail: info@maps.org |
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| Project Inform Project Inform has been at the frontlines in the fight against HIV and AIDS since 1985—when reliable information about the disease and its treatment was nearly impossible to obtain. | |||||||
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Civil
Liberties
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on Sun, Feb. 08, 2004 - Miami Herald Feds Win Right to War Protesters' Records RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press |
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Federal Data Searches on Hit List Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has introduced the Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act. |
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| American Civil Liberties Union | |||||||
| NAACP | |||||||
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Action Center | |||||||
| USA Patriot Act: A Dreadful Act II Secret proposals in Ashcroft's anti-terror war strike yet another blow at fundamental rights by Jack M. Balkin / LA Times / Common Dreams | |||||||
| ReclaimDemocracy.Org | |||||||
| National Organization for Women | |||||||
| People For the American Way | |||||||
| Feminist Majority | |||||||
| National Council of Jewish Women | |||||||
| Human Rights Campaign | |||||||
| National Security Archive HISTORIANS, PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS SUE TO STOP BUSH ORDER | |||||||
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Environment
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| Evironmental Working Group and all that relates to environmental issues. Lots of great data. | |||||||
| Sierra Club Blasts Republican Energy Policy Act The Energy Policy Act of 2003 introduced by Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) threatens the environment and takes us backward by increasing our dependence on polluting and dangerous sources of energy such as coal, oil, and nuclear power. | |||||||
| League of Conservation Voters Political Voice of the Environmental Movement. | |||||||
| Sierra Club Founded in 1892 - Explore, enjoy and protect the planet/ environmental update / my backyard | |||||||
| U.S. EPA on Global Warming Pages the Bush Administration has seemingly not yet censored. | |||||||
| Circle of Life Foundation Founded in 1999 by Julia Butterfly Hill - live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life. | |||||||
| GreenPeaceUSA Leading independent campaigning organization that uses nonviolent direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions essential to a green and peaceful future. | |||||||
| Apollo Alliance Lets switch our energy dependence from the Middle East to the Mid West | |||||||
| Big Agribusiness Farm Subsidy Database | |||||||
| Tobacco, Cancer, Big Business and Politics | |||||||
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Energy
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| An Invonvenient Truth | |||||||
| Wind Power | |||||||
| Solar Power | |||||||
| Hydrogen Power | |||||||
| Global Warming - Climate | |||||||
| Global warming | |||||||
| Climate Hot Map | |||||||
| Honda Scooters - get around get around I get around! | |||||||
| Tesla Motors - and you say elecric cars aren't sexy? | |||||||
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Education
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| National PTA front lines for the future of public education. | |||||||
| National Education Association (NEA) To fulfill the promise of a democratic society, the National Education Association shall promote the cause of quality public education and advance the profession of education; expand the rights and further the interest of educational employees; and advocate human, civil, and economic rights for all. | |||||||
| National Center for Education Statistics(NCES) Primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations | |||||||
| Educause - a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. | |||||||
| Head Start Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs that serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. | |||||||
| Back to School, Neocon-Style | |||||||
| Senior Vote! | |||||||
| Senior-Site information on prescription drugs, health insurance, housing, legal matters and more. | |||||||
| First Gov I'm feeling lucky! | |||||||
| Social Security or Lonely Risk? Republican scheme which would funnel social security funds into crony's deep pockets! | |||||||
| Social Security Administration | |||||||
| Wired Seniors Hub for online groups and activities. | |||||||
| Patients Bill of Rights information from democrats.senate.gov | |||||||
| Tax Cuts for the Rich, Health-Care Shaft for Poor | |||||||
| Physicians for a National Health Program "Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right." - Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Chicago Archdiocese | |||||||
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Medical Marijuana Research MAPS 2105 Robinson Avenue Sarasota, FL 34232 USA E-mail: info@maps.org |
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Religion
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| Interfaith Alliance People of faith and good will restoring healthy democracy. | |||||||
| Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State | |||||||
| Democrats rarely cite religion in policy debates, but nation split . . .say the press | |||||||
| George Bush's Theology: Does President Believe He Has Divine Mandate? | |||||||
| Democrats wrestle with religion . . .or just practice privately? | |||||||
| Theocracy Watch - The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party, a public information project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy at Cornell University | |||||||
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U.S.
History
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America's Founding Fathers Who were the founding fathers of our country? Where they mostly priests and preachers or primarily lawyers and judges? This site is a must check. Other info here as well on United States in the miid to late 1700's. |
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| CIA World Fact Book | |||||||
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African
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| All Africa.com Global Media is a multimedia content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide | |||||||
| Congo-online ConGO Online News provides global news coverage of social sustainability issues including indigenous people, land rights, human rights, corporate responsibility and indigenous rights. | |||||||
| Liberia News | |||||||
| Bush's Lost Chances to Help Africa | |||||||
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Iraq
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| Senate report rejects Bush Iraqi claims - Palm Beach Post.com/LA Times Story 9-9-06 | |||||||
| The New Pentagon Papers . . .high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department Republican extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war. | |||||||
| Media's role in American public misperceptions about Iraq--PIPA Web Site Check this out! | |||||||
| Why Bush, GOP can block all inquiries - Very disturbing USA Today report. | |||||||
| Second journalist told about Campell's role in Iraq dossier | |||||||
| Immunity for Iraqi Oil Dealings Raises Alarm ~ Some contend Bush’s order grants U.S. firms a broad exemption, a view the government rejects. - LA Times | |||||||
| The Cost of the Iraq War | |||||||
| ZNET Iraq Watch Commentary, links for related articles and activist materials in the USA. | |||||||
| Iraq - CIA 2002 World Factbook Facts and statistics on Iraq presented by the CIA as of 2002 | |||||||
| Iraq Body Count A Survey of projects counting civilians killed by the War in Iraq. | |||||||
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Selective Intelligence Rumsfeld's paper shuffling warriors of BS |
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| WMDs And The Psychology Of Fanaticism - Arianna On-Line June 18, 2003 | |||||||
| Bush's Mis-State-Ment Of The Union Fiasco - Arianna On-Line July 16, 2003 | |||||||
| Church Leaders Address President Bush on Iraq - September 12, 2002 | |||||||
| The Petitioin Site Petition to Investigate US Motive for Invading Iraq! | |||||||
| All the Shaw's Men By Stephen Kinzer ~ Turmoil in the Middle East? Check. US- and British-led regime change? Check. Unexpected consequences? Check. Stephen Kinzer is writing about the 1953 IRANIAN coup - but it might as well be today. | |||||||
| The Hidden Costs of War A Report commissioned by Howard S. Brembeck and the Fourth Freedom Forum | |||||||
| 60 Minutes: Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq? | |||||||
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Afghanistan
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| Afghanistan Online | |||||||
| What? You think there is a war on terrorism in this country? And so what about the popy industrial complex that goes on here with littlle impunity? | |||||||
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North
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| North Korea Special Weapons Guide | |||||||
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War
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| Congressional Reports: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 | |||||||
| The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that Bush and his cronies have hampered from the get go! | |||||||
| Mark Gasiorowski - LSU Political Science Professor Sheds Light On Misunderstood Culture | |||||||
| Steven Emerson- Author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us | |||||||
| Gilles Kepel The trail of political Islam 3 - 7 - 2002 Open Democracy | |||||||
| The Middle East Institute 1761 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20036-2882 (202) 785-1141 | |||||||
| A Bigger Defense Budget Is Not Needed to Win the War on Terrorism | |||||||
| Akbar Ahmed Islam Under Siege | |||||||
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