Saturday, August 24, 2013 March on Washington

It's time for another March on Washington - Common Cause:

• In 1963, hundreds of thousands marched on the National Mall, demanding equal treatment for all Americans. Two years later, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were signed into law. When the people spoke, Washington listened.
• Fifty years later, special interests have captured our democracy and used it to pass extremist laws like “Stand Your Ground”, while the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act has opened the door to unprecedented partisan assaults on voting rights.
• Join us as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. With your help, we'll make sure they listen this time too.
• What: March on Washington
• When: Saturday, August 24, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Where: National Mall Washington DC

RSVP at Common Cause.

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EPIC Renews Call for Suspension of NSA Domestic Surveillance Program

EPIC - EPIC Renews Call for Suspension of NSA Domestic Surveillance Program:

• Almost 2,000 members of the public have joined EPIC's petition to the National Security Agency, urging the suspension of the NSA domestic surveillance program pending public comment.

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May, 2013 Global Square International month of action

Details: Call Global May 2013 | GlobalSquare:

• A [international] group of activists have been meeting lately, in order to organize actions starting on the 1st of May (MayDay) like demonstrations, assemblies, workshops, conferences, flashmobs and open spaces in the squares of our ciites.
• We think that it would be just great to take this opportunity to get connected through these actions all over the planet and to work together building this Global May 2013.

GlobalSquare

Monday, April 15, 2013 Global Day of Action Against Military Spending

April 15: Third Annual Global Day of Action Against Military Spending

• On 15 April 2013, people all over the world will again come together for the third Global Day of Action on Military Spending. We urge you to join us.
• It is a traditional time for awareness-raising actions on how much of the US budget is spent on its defense and supporting war overseas while it is cutting back on taxpayers’ social services. And given the ongoing budget crisis, there could be a lot of potential media coverage.

Occupy Washington, DC

CISPA bill to be voted on soon. Help support an ad.

Help Stop CISPA and Government Overreach | American Civil Liberties Union

• 50,000 ACLU supporters signed a petition opposing CISPA and its far-reaching consequences for our online privacy. Now, we're taking their message straight to the White House and Capitol Hill with a full-page advertisement in Politico.
• Chip in to help us defeat CISPA.

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April, 2013 ~ The April Days of Action to stop US drone warfare

KNOWDRONES:

• Organizing is now underway for The April Days of Action 2013, a coordinated, national campaign of the Network to Stop Drone Surveillance and Warfare* to generate a public uprising to STOP U.S. DRONE WARFARE.
• We urge you to select one or more of the days in April listed below to organize programs and actions in your community or region to focus on institutions where you live that are the under-pinning of the U.S. military’s drone fleet that is spreading around the world.
• Dramatic Productions
• Graphic Arts
• Video Resources
• Counterrecruitment
• Books

Know Drones

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April 4 to July 3, 2013 Tour de Peace bike ride across the United States

The Action - Tour de Peace: the road less taken:

• Cindy Sheehan and others are in the beginning stages of planning a bike ride from Casey Sheehan's grave in Vacaville, Ca to  WashedUp, DeCeit (Washington, DC) to demand true and positive change.  The ride will begin on the day that Casey was KIA in Iraq (April 04) and end in DeCeit on July 3rd.

• WAY PAST TIME TO ACT: To End Wars, To End immunity for US War Crimes, To End Suppression of our Civil Rights, To End the use of Fossil Fuels, To End Persecution of Whistle blowers, To End Partisan Apathy and Inaction

• We are hoping that MANY riders will join us for all or part of the way, but especially join us for a convergence at Arlington Cemetery on July 3rd, to ride on the  White House to present our demands.
• We are also hoping that activists and groups along the way will sponsor meetings, rallies (with vegetarian potlucks), comfy beds, and support, to help us organize for PEACE, to help us to raise money to help fund the tour AND raise money for good causes to help the devastated people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Please sign the Petition

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Show support for the NATO5 and all other targets of state repression

International Week of Solidarity | nato5support:

• May 16–21, 2013
• We are calling on comrades around the world to help raise awareness of the NATO 5 cases and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests. Please read the call-out and start planning your action or event today!
• Many of these prisoners need your financial support and solidarity. The Pacific Northwest Grand Jury resisters are calling for a week of solidarity actions from April 24–May 1 (http://saynothing.noblogs.org/call-for-coordinated-week-of-solidarity-actions/) and the Tinley Park 5 are calling for a day of solidarity on May 19 (http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/one-year-anniversary-arrest-tp5). And don’t forget about June 11th, the International Day of Solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners Eric McDavid and Marie Mason (http://june11.org/).

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This is Stop CISPA "Week of Action" -- keep long-standing civil liberties and protections

Daily Kos: Stop CISPA "Week of Action" Begins Today: What You Can Do:

• A coalition of Internet advocacy organizations (including the ACLU, DailyKos, and my own, the Government Accountability Project) and individuals are launching a week of action to combat the CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
• We aim to leverage popular outrage to oppose this dangerously broad bill, which is cloaked as a beneficent-sounding "cybersecurity" law. Legislation that is supposed to enhance our computer and network security must not sacrifice long-standing civil liberties and protections, and this bill is riddled with flaws that threaten our right to privacy.

DailyKos.com

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Occucards are educational outreach cards for activists

Occucards.Com:

• Hello. We are a collective of Occupy activists who came together to produce educational outreach literature for the movement. On this site you can download free, hi-res versions of our 4″x6″ info cards to print yourself, or you can purchase glossy, card-stock versions from us. (The text is on the back of each card.) Our prices are below what we pay to produce the cards, and thus we rely on donations to keep going. Unlike Wall Street, our finances are open and transparent.
• Current Cards: Goldman Sachs Corporate Personhood Health Care The Military Industrial Complex The Monetary System The National Defense Authorization Act Monsanto The Prison Industrial Complex Climate Change Wells Fargo Drone Attacks Student Debt Fracking ALEC Republicrats Walmart Austerity NEW!!! Tar Sands NEW!!!

Occucards.com

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March 16-23, 2013 Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers video invitation

Ethan's testimonial video on why he blockades, presented on his birthday 2-28, and an invitation to join Tar Sands Blockade in the March 16th-23rd Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers.

"Why We Blockade" 2-28 YouTube video

For more info:
www.tarsandsblockade.org/weekofaction
www.twitter.com/kxlblockade
www.facebook.com/tarsandsblockade

Actions you can take to fight gridlock in Washington, DC

Make Congress Work Toolkit | No Labels:

Check out how to help No Labels make America work again by ensuring our Make Congress Work! action plan and the No Budget, No Pay Act get passed in Washington.

No Labels

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Donate to help an Avaaz.org operation fight corruption across the world

From Avaaz - The best antidote to corruption:

• Shady business interests, crooked politicians and criminal networks are spreading a massive toxic spill of corruption through our democracies, hijacking key public and private institutions, destroying our environment, and bringing the global economy to its knees. But we can change that if we launch the biggest people-powered clean-up operation ever.
• If just 25,000 of us donate today, we could grow the team and hugely scale up campaigning.

Avaaz.org

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Sign the Keystone XL Pipeline Pledge of Resistance

From Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance:

"I pledge, if necessary, to join others in my community, and engage in acts of dignified, peaceful civil disobedience that could result in my arrest in order to send the message to President Obama and his administration that they must reject the Keystone XL pipeline."

Credo Action

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March 16-23, 2013 Join the Tar Sands Blockade Week of Action

From Week of Action (March 16-23) » Tar Sands Blockade:

Sign up to host an action/event in your community as part of the Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers, March 16-23.

Show up at their offices, public events, and extraction sites to demonstrate that we won’t stop until they do.

Find a TransCanada or investor's office in your community: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/local_action

Tar Sands Blockade

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Today, March 4, 2013 Join a collective day of action to March Forth for climate justice

From MARCH FO[u]RTH ON CLIMATE | We’re calling on divestment campaigns across the country to join us in a collective day of action to MARCH FORTH for climate justice.

This weekend at the PowerUp Student Convergence, we saw the power of the growing youth movement for climate justice. And in order to be a movement, we need to MOVE! We’re calling on divestment campaigns across the country to join us in a collective day of action to MARCH FORTH for climate justice. This March 4th, 2013 let’s come together for a day of direct actions, demonstrations, teach-ins, rallies, dance parties, and whatever other creative actions your group wants to use to propel the movement forward.

March Forth for Climate Justice

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March 10-16, 2013 is Sunshine Week. March 15, 2013 is National Freedom of Information Day.

From Register Now: OpenTheGovernment.org’s Sunshine Week Event on March 15 | OpenTheGovernment.org:

Sunshine Week 2013 will take place March 10th to 16th, throughout Washington, DC, and across the United States. On Friday, March 15th, OpenTheGovernment.org and the First Amendment Center will host a Sunshine Week celebration of National Freedom of Information Day at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

OpenTheGovernment.org

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In May, 2013, 350.org will be hosting a massive day of action and training at venues across the country

From 350 | When you're in a hole, stop digging. Day of Action, May 2013:

350.org

If you’re keen to hit the streets in your community to stop the KXL pipeline, take on the fossil fuel industry, and train to grow our movement, sign up to get planning with us.

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Speak out against the latest attempt by the Right to fix elections and drown out the voice of voters

Speak out against the latest attempt by the Right to fix elections and drown out the voice of voters. - People For the American Way:

Action Alert by People for the American Way

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Monday, December 10, 2012 is Human Rights Day

From: Human Rights Day 2012:

This year, the spotlight is on the rights of all people — women, youth, minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, the poor and marginalized — to make their voices heard in public life and be included in political decision-making. 

These human rights — the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, to peaceful assembly and association, and to take part in government (articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) have been at the centre of the historic changes in the Arab world over the past two years, in which millions have taken to the streets to demand change. In other parts of the world, the “99%” made their voices heard through the global Occupy movement protesting economic, political and social inequality.

Go to the United Nations article for ways to get involved on the web starting today.


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