Should hedge fund billionaires pay lower taxes than working families? Of course not. That’s why a coalition of allies have teamed up on this petition (https://www.signherenow.org/petition/close-tax-loopholes/caf/) to demand Congress close this tax loophole for Wall Street billionaires. We know the … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-09-27/energy-policy/cleaning-the-air-and-boosting-the-bottom-line/a54222-1 September 27, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Industrial energy efficiency alone could reduce carbon emissions by 175 million tons a year in 2030. (Riffsyphon1024/Wikimedia Commons) HARRISBURG, Pa. – States … Continued
From Equality PA (http://www.equalitypa.org): The Pennsylvania Senate has reconvened for its final session of the year. Legislators will only have a few weeks to move forward on several important bills, and we need to make sure they make protecting LGBT … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): In 2014, the U.S. oil and gas industry leaked 9.8 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas methane into our air. That’s the climate equivalent of running almost 225 coal-fired power plants for a … Continued
Doylestown Friends Meeting strongly supports the voices and actions of the Standing Rock Sioux who, together with tribal peoples across the country and their allies, are protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. We particularly decry the use of … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/social-impact-bonds-pay-for-success-yet-another-form-of-privatization/ For those of us who know more about public education than Wall Street investment schemes, Valerie Strauss and Kenneth Saltman (education writer and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) did us a favor last week. In … Continued
September 21, 2016 By Michaela Ross Sept. 20 — After multiple hacks of Democratic Party e-mail systems and fears of Russian cyber attacks on the U.S. election, paper ballots have taken on an unexpected appeal. Online voting software companies are … Continued
Posted at http://fair.org/home/dakota-access-blackout-continues-on-abc-nbc-news/ Neil Young’s song about the Dakota Access pipeline fight is 5 minutes, 39 seconds longer than the combined coverage of the controversy on the ABC and NBC networks. (screenshot: Slate) The Sacred Stone Camp established by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe … Continued
Posted at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11936179/What-are-the-biggest-defence-budgets-in-the-world.html The United States dominates the world when it comes to defence spending – but how do other countries compare? By Ashley Kirk, 8:41AM GMT 27 Oct 2015 The United States’ military spending has dominated the world for years, … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Now, the Arctic Ocean AND the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are in Big Oil’s crosshairs, including places in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a place sacred to the Gwich’in people where polar bears and caribou … Continued