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• Once again the president and congress are not including any discussion of the only real solution to America's health care problems - expanding and improving Medicare to cover everyone in America. On February 25th, the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care will be holding a "Sidewalk Summit for Improved Medicare for All" outside the Blair House in Washington, DC before the Democrats and Republicans have their session. If you are able to be in Washington, DC meet us at 9 AM at the White House. Specific meet up details will be announced as the event gets closer. Find out how an improved Medicare for All system will meet Preident Obama's goals for a health care system that works for the American people.
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• Money is not speech, and human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Sign the motion to amend the constitution
"Citizens United" Disaster Spreads, Resistance Builds
Mar 9, 2010 — KZeeseBy David Swanson
Free Speech for People
The damage from the Supreme Court's decision in "Citizens United v. FEC" continues to spread as feared. Newly emboldened corporations are suing to overturn state laws that restrict corporate spending on politics:
"A pro-natural resource development group [how's that for spin?] and a Bozeman painting company asked a Helena District Court on Monday to strike down Montana’s 1912 ban on corporate donations and expenditures to political campaigns to comply with a January U.S. Supreme Court ruling."
Free Speech for People, Not Corporations!
Feb 17, 2010 — KZeeseMarylanders are responding to the shocking new Supreme Court ruling that corporations, for the first time, can spend unlimited funds to influence any local, state or federal political campaign, a ruling the state Senate president called "offensive" and "devastating to democracy."
Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeeseBy TODD WOODY and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
NY Times
SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first.
The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations.
Floridians protest offshore oil drilling
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeeseReuters
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of Floridians demonstrated against moves to allow offshore oil drilling on Saturday along the east and west coasts of the state in a protest dubbed "Hands Across the Sand."
Organizer David Rauschkolb said about 80 demonstrations took place at beaches from Pensacola on the northwest coast of Florida to Key West in the south and Jacksonville in the north.
Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy
Feb 15, 2010 — KZeeseBy MATT JOYCE
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind farms to its wind-swept plains and plateaus.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal made the wind energy tax a centerpiece of his legislative agenda, drawing surprise and alarm from some in the state's fledgling wind industry. The proposal cleared its first hurdle Thursday when the state House voted to introduce the bill.
Study boosts notion of offshore wind production
Feb 9, 2010 — KZeeseAbell Foundation says turbine operation could generate jobs, too
The Abell Foundation report envisions three types of turbine: monopile, which rests on a single pile driven into the ocean floor; jacket, which would be built on a broader base; and floating. The turbines would begin outside a visual exclusion zone of 8 nautical miles.
By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun reporter
Lobbying industry booms in recession Updated
Feb 5, 2010 — KZeeseBy Fredreka Schouten
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The recession has battered the U.S. economy, but the lobbying industry is humming along in the nation's capital, even for companies that have shed thousands of jobs in the past year.
The 20 trade associations and companies that spent the most on lobbying increased their spending by more than 20% in 2009 to $507.7 million, up from $418.2 million a year earlier, according to a USA TODAY analysis of reports compiled by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Obama, governors announce 'clean coal' proposals
Feb 4, 2010 — KZeeseBy Halimah Abdullah
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and high-ranking administration officials met Wednesday with Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and the governors of other coal-producing states and announced a series of sweeping "clean coal" proposals in the hopes of shoring up support for the White House's beleaguered energy policy.
Obama urges greater use of biofuels
Feb 4, 2010 — KZeeseThe EPA gives corn ethanol a larger share of the renewable-fuels markets, and the administration moves to speed the development of technologies that reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants.
By Jim Tankersley
LA Times
Reporting from Washington - The Obama administration gave a boost to the corn and coal industries Wednesday, announcing a series of moves to accelerate biofuel use and deploy so-called clean-coal technology on power plants.
Reps Edwards, Conyers Introduce Constitutional Amendment to Block Corporate Election Dollars
Feb 2, 2010 — KZeeseCongresswoman Donna Edwards has just introduced a Constitutional amendment, together with Congressman John Conyers.
HTTP://FREESPEECHFORPEOPLE.ORG
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http://freespeechforpeople.org/edwardsvideo
PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS APPLAUD REP. DONNA EDWARDS FOR FILING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BILL TO OVERTURN US SUPREME COURT RULING ON CORPORATE MONEY IN ELECTIONS
HOUSE JUDICIARY CHAIR JOHN CONYERS, JR JOINS FILING
"Free Speech Rights Are For People, Not Corporations"
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