SOPA

Information:
http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-17/sopa/
https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/One-Page-SOPA_0.pdf
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
http://dyn.com/sopa-breaking-dns-parasite-stop-online-piracy/
https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link

ACT!!
Contact US elected officials.
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

This Miracle Brought to You by America’s Unions

As reported on Emptywheel:

They're calling it a miracle--the successful landing of a US Airways jet in the Hudson and subsequent rescue of all 155 passengers. They're detailing the heroism of all involved, starting with the pilot and including cabin crew, ferry crews, and first responders. What they're not telling you is that just about every single one of these heroes is a union member.

Check out the whole story and read about how these union brothers and sisters truly are heroes!

This shows why the Employee Free Choice Act is so important. These brave men and women were able to save all 155 passengers due to the skills and training they recieved as union members.

Michael Moore's Letter about the Big 3

Michael Moore has a proposal for Congress regarding the Big 3:

Members of Congress, here's what I propose:

1. Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. And because we are facing a massive economic, energy and environmental crisis, the new president and Congress must do what Franklin Roosevelt did when he was faced with a crisis (and ordered the auto industry to stop building cars and instead build tanks and planes): The Big 3 are, from this point forward, to build only cars that are not primarily dependent on oil and, more importantly to build trains, buses, subways and light rail (a corresponding public works project across the country will build the rail lines and tracks). This will not only save jobs, but create millions of new ones.

2. You could buy ALL the common shares of stock in General Motors for less than $3 billion. Why should we give GM $18 billion or $25 billion or anything? Take the money and buy the company! (You're going to demand collateral anyway if you give them the "loan," and because we know they will default on that loan, you're going to own the company in the end as it is. So why wait? Just buy them out now.)

3. None of us want government officials running a car company, but there are some very smart transportation geniuses who could be hired to do this. We need a Marshall Plan to switch us off oil-dependent vehicles and get us into the 21st century. 

Here is what Michael Moore had to say about GM's proposal:

In contrast, yesterday General Motors presented its restructuring proposal to Congress. They promised, if Congress gave them $18 billion now, they would, in turn, eliminate around 20,000 jobs. You read that right. We give them billions so they can throw more Americans out of work. That's been their Big Idea for the last 30 years -- layoff thousands in order to protect profits. But no one ever stopped to ask this question: If you throw everyone out of work, who's going to have the money to go out and buy a car? 

What do you think??