From Campaign For Liberty:
We are winning!
And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
This morning, Audit the Fed unanimously passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by voice vote!
Only a few short years ago, just the thought of getting a committee hearing on such an issue was considered a long shot at best, let alone achieving such a remarkable victory!
But that was because the Washington establishment and the banking elite underestimated the power of true grassroots activism.
Today’s win is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of petitions, phone calls, faxes, and emails generated by passionate C4L activists like you around the country.
One congressman noted he had been contacted by “scores of constituents” supporting Audit the Fed.
As an example of why I’ve written in previous emails that nothing can be taken for granted, at one point this morning, Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD-7) introduced an amendment that, like the Watt amendment to H.R. 1207 in the 111th Congress, would have gutted Audit the Fed.
But your pressure helped keep it from succeeding!
In fact, it was truly astonishing just how quickly Representative Cummings withdrew the amendment after it became clear there was no support for it in the Committee - even from members of his own party.
Over the last four years, you’ve helped C4L make tremendous strides in bringing the Federal Reserve to the forefront of political debate and pushing the central bank toward transparency.
Of course, ultimately, America shouldn’t even have a Federal Reserve System to create moral hazard, keep interest rates artificially low, bail out friends and favored firms, and manipulate our monetary supply.
Today’s committee hearing was just one small step toward passing Audit the Fed, but also, one giant leap toward ending it.
Now, with a floor vote before the entire U.S. House in July fast approaching, I hope you’ll stand with us again as we look to jump another hurdle and carry this bill into the Senate.
Our chances have never been better.
Thank you for helping make it possible for a strong, full audit of the Federal Reserve to pass a House Committee.
Now on to victory in the House!
In Liberty,
Matt Hawes
Vice President
P.S. This morning, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously passed Audit the Fed by voice vote.
This is a direct result of your efforts and those of hundreds of thousands of other activists across the country.
Now is the time to double-down and ensure the House passes a clean version of Audit the Fed this July.
This is indeed good news as it illustrates how activism will work in getting things to our advantage. Let's stand by Audit the Fed and see it not only pass both houses but for it to also be signed into law by the president.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
MPAA tries to get the courts to implement SOPA/PIPA
From Demand Progress:
Hollywood attorneys are trying to use the courts to circumvent Congress and implement a backdoor SOPA/PIPA scheme.
Fight Back: YOUR FILES ON Google, Dropbox, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, etc. and even your emails are in jeopardy. Demand Progress is fighting back in the courts and standing up for Internet users. We are taking on the United States and the MPAA. Please sign up at right to support our legal brief so the court understands that millions of people will be impacted by this decision. The judge is hearing the case TOMORROW.
BACKGROUND: One day after the Internet staged a massive blackout to protest Congress's Internet censorship legislation (SOPA/PIPA), the United States responded by seizing millions of ordinary user files hosted on the popular website Megaupload.com.
With an aim of shutting down Megaupload and other Cloud-based hosting services (like Dropbox, YouTube or even your email provider), the government is trying to claim website operators should face decades in prison for the misdeeds of some of their users. But while they pursue trumped up criminal charges against the companies' founders, they are shutting down dozens of websites, and leaving ordinary Internet users without any way of retrieving their files.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called the case against Megaupload a "threat to innovation." Wozniak likened the Megaupload site to a highway and those who shared pirated movies and songs to speeding motorists. "You don't just shut down the whole street because somebody is speeding," he said.
Numerous laws on the books already give copyright holders plenty of avenues to stop actual infringement, but that's not enough to satisfy Hollywood's lawyers and lobbyists. The prosecutor in the case, Neil MacBride, previously served as the Anti-Piracy Vice President of the Business Software Alliance, where he represented the intellectual property interests of countless multinational corporations.
Now Hollywood's lobbyists, represented by the Motion Picture Association of America, want him to make it nearly impossible for ordinary Internet users to get their property back.
Stand with Demand Progress as we fight for ordinary Internet users. Sign up to support our action in the Court.
To sign the legal brief:click here
Let's let this judge know where we stand and how SOPA/PIPA are a threat to the American way of life and that we are tired of Hollywood's antics to limit or eliminate the internet and that we will oppose them.
Hollywood attorneys are trying to use the courts to circumvent Congress and implement a backdoor SOPA/PIPA scheme.
Fight Back: YOUR FILES ON Google, Dropbox, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, etc. and even your emails are in jeopardy. Demand Progress is fighting back in the courts and standing up for Internet users. We are taking on the United States and the MPAA. Please sign up at right to support our legal brief so the court understands that millions of people will be impacted by this decision. The judge is hearing the case TOMORROW.
BACKGROUND: One day after the Internet staged a massive blackout to protest Congress's Internet censorship legislation (SOPA/PIPA), the United States responded by seizing millions of ordinary user files hosted on the popular website Megaupload.com.
With an aim of shutting down Megaupload and other Cloud-based hosting services (like Dropbox, YouTube or even your email provider), the government is trying to claim website operators should face decades in prison for the misdeeds of some of their users. But while they pursue trumped up criminal charges against the companies' founders, they are shutting down dozens of websites, and leaving ordinary Internet users without any way of retrieving their files.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called the case against Megaupload a "threat to innovation." Wozniak likened the Megaupload site to a highway and those who shared pirated movies and songs to speeding motorists. "You don't just shut down the whole street because somebody is speeding," he said.
Numerous laws on the books already give copyright holders plenty of avenues to stop actual infringement, but that's not enough to satisfy Hollywood's lawyers and lobbyists. The prosecutor in the case, Neil MacBride, previously served as the Anti-Piracy Vice President of the Business Software Alliance, where he represented the intellectual property interests of countless multinational corporations.
Now Hollywood's lobbyists, represented by the Motion Picture Association of America, want him to make it nearly impossible for ordinary Internet users to get their property back.
Stand with Demand Progress as we fight for ordinary Internet users. Sign up to support our action in the Court.
To sign the legal brief:click here
Let's let this judge know where we stand and how SOPA/PIPA are a threat to the American way of life and that we are tired of Hollywood's antics to limit or eliminate the internet and that we will oppose them.
Let's tell Congress about the Brian Banks situation
From SAVE:
Brian Banks, a star high school football player, was falsely accused of rape by a female acquaintance. Banks served five years in prison and was required to register as a sex offender. The accuser received a $1.5 million settlement from the school.
Last year, Banks logged onto Facebook and had a friend request from his accuser, Wanetta Gibson!
Private investigator Freddie Parish hid two cameras to record statements by Gibson when she met with Banks in the investigator's office. "Did he rape you?," asked Parish. "No," Gibson said, "he did not rape me." "All that money they gave us, I mean gave me, I don't want to have to pay it back, all of it, because that would take a long time," Gibson said on camera.
See the video: click here
A judge overturned Banks' conviction. One month later, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is charging Los Angeles County prosecutors with unacceptable delay in filing perjury charges against Gibson. A vigorous prosecution of Gibson is critical to restoring the credibility of true rape victims.
Tell your Representatives to insist that Los Angeles County prosecutors file perjury charges against Wanetta Gibson, right NOW!
Find your representatives here: click here
JUNE IS FALSE ALLEGATIONS AWARENESS MONTH. TELL A FRIEND.
Sincerely,
teri
Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org
Let's tell our Congressional Representatives that something needs to be done about false accusations of rape so let's let them know that false accusations are unacceptable.
Brian Banks, a star high school football player, was falsely accused of rape by a female acquaintance. Banks served five years in prison and was required to register as a sex offender. The accuser received a $1.5 million settlement from the school.
Last year, Banks logged onto Facebook and had a friend request from his accuser, Wanetta Gibson!
Private investigator Freddie Parish hid two cameras to record statements by Gibson when she met with Banks in the investigator's office. "Did he rape you?," asked Parish. "No," Gibson said, "he did not rape me." "All that money they gave us, I mean gave me, I don't want to have to pay it back, all of it, because that would take a long time," Gibson said on camera.
See the video: click here
A judge overturned Banks' conviction. One month later, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is charging Los Angeles County prosecutors with unacceptable delay in filing perjury charges against Gibson. A vigorous prosecution of Gibson is critical to restoring the credibility of true rape victims.
Tell your Representatives to insist that Los Angeles County prosecutors file perjury charges against Wanetta Gibson, right NOW!
Find your representatives here: click here
JUNE IS FALSE ALLEGATIONS AWARENESS MONTH. TELL A FRIEND.
Sincerely,
teri
Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org
Let's tell our Congressional Representatives that something needs to be done about false accusations of rape so let's let them know that false accusations are unacceptable.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Tell your representative to audit the fed
From Campaign For Liberty:
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is expected to vote tomorrow (Wed, June 27) on H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (“Audit the Fed”).
We’ve received word that an amendment will be offered to extend the time when the audit’s results need to be reported from the end of 2012 to one year after the bill is enacted.
C4L supports this amendment, but I need your help to guarantee Audit the Fed passes the committee without being watered down and makes it to the House floor as the strong, thorough audit the American people are demanding.
I’ll provide a link where you can find the members of the committee in just a moment, but first, here’s how you can help pass Audit the Fed.
1.) If your representative is on the committee, and if they have cosponsored H.R. 459, please call them right away to thank them for cosponsoring. Along with voting “YES” on H.R. 459 in committee, let them know you also expect them to resist any attempt to water down the bill.
2.) If your representative is on the committee but has not yet cosponsored, urge them to not only vote “YES” on H.R. 459 in committee, but to clearly stand with the American people and boldly declare their support for transparency by cosponsoring Audit the Fed right away.
3.) Spread the word! Tell your family and friends to take action and help end the Fed's rein of destruction and secrecy.
You can find a list of committee members here.
Even if your representative is not on the committee, please still contact them to demand their support for Audit the Fed when it comes to the House floor for a vote this July.
After years of hard work, you and I stand on the verge of making history by passing Audit the Fed!
But now is not the time to take anything for granted.
So please contact your representative right away and help C4L finish this fight!
Make government accountable to the people and make it practice transparency by passing Audit the Fed and the best way to do that is to notify your representative in Congress and tell them to Audit the Fed.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is expected to vote tomorrow (Wed, June 27) on H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (“Audit the Fed”).
We’ve received word that an amendment will be offered to extend the time when the audit’s results need to be reported from the end of 2012 to one year after the bill is enacted.
C4L supports this amendment, but I need your help to guarantee Audit the Fed passes the committee without being watered down and makes it to the House floor as the strong, thorough audit the American people are demanding.
I’ll provide a link where you can find the members of the committee in just a moment, but first, here’s how you can help pass Audit the Fed.
1.) If your representative is on the committee, and if they have cosponsored H.R. 459, please call them right away to thank them for cosponsoring. Along with voting “YES” on H.R. 459 in committee, let them know you also expect them to resist any attempt to water down the bill.
2.) If your representative is on the committee but has not yet cosponsored, urge them to not only vote “YES” on H.R. 459 in committee, but to clearly stand with the American people and boldly declare their support for transparency by cosponsoring Audit the Fed right away.
3.) Spread the word! Tell your family and friends to take action and help end the Fed's rein of destruction and secrecy.
You can find a list of committee members here.
Even if your representative is not on the committee, please still contact them to demand their support for Audit the Fed when it comes to the House floor for a vote this July.
After years of hard work, you and I stand on the verge of making history by passing Audit the Fed!
But now is not the time to take anything for granted.
So please contact your representative right away and help C4L finish this fight!
Make government accountable to the people and make it practice transparency by passing Audit the Fed and the best way to do that is to notify your representative in Congress and tell them to Audit the Fed.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Law and Order SVU sympathetic to men's issues
The activism is working. In case I haven't mentioned it before things are getting better,not good it's still a shithole but we are making some progress out of the hole we have dug for ourselves. To give an example a couple of episodes of Law and Order SVU took a serious look at misandric rape and domestic violence. In one a male stripper is raped by three women at a bachorlette party,all the cops but Elliot Stabler are sympathetic to the male victim and another shows a corrupt female judge deliberately ruling against men in domestic violence and divorce cases. Again the man is portrayed as sympathetic.I thank Dick Wolf for taking a serious sympathetic look at men's issues. It shows great things can happen when we get activist. There is another danger,one we haven't faced before but it is very deadly to a movement and that is complacency. We can't afford to become complacent,not now. We've got the momentum on our side,don't let it stop.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Copyright deception
From Demand Progress:
"You've been owned!" That's what product manufacturers are hoping the Supreme Court will tell Americans this fall. The Court will decide if you have the right to resell the very things that YOU OWN -- your clothes, your iPod, even your house:
Please click at the end for more details, and tell the White House and Congress to stand by Americans' rights to resell the things we own.
Product manufacturers are trying to take away your right to resell items that are manufactured abroad, in whole or in part. In this globalized world, that's almost anything you own. Today we're launching YouveBeenOnwed.org to help Americans fight back.
If the Supreme Court rules with manufacturers, we might have to say goodbye to Ebay, Craigslist, and the old-fashioned American yard sale.
Manufacturers will have an extra incentive to off-shore jobs. Re-use and recycling efforts will be undermined, harming the environment.
Your pockets will be empty, and your basement will be a mess of junk you don't want or need.
Petition website:click here
Copyright holders have gone crazy. It's time to stop them. If they want to rent then be open about it. Don't give me the impression that I'm buying to own something when,if this judgement goes in favor of the copyright holders,I'm just renting it. Stop fucking with our freedoms,you wouldn't like it if we fucked with yours.
"You've been owned!" That's what product manufacturers are hoping the Supreme Court will tell Americans this fall. The Court will decide if you have the right to resell the very things that YOU OWN -- your clothes, your iPod, even your house:
Please click at the end for more details, and tell the White House and Congress to stand by Americans' rights to resell the things we own.
Product manufacturers are trying to take away your right to resell items that are manufactured abroad, in whole or in part. In this globalized world, that's almost anything you own. Today we're launching YouveBeenOnwed.org to help Americans fight back.
If the Supreme Court rules with manufacturers, we might have to say goodbye to Ebay, Craigslist, and the old-fashioned American yard sale.
Manufacturers will have an extra incentive to off-shore jobs. Re-use and recycling efforts will be undermined, harming the environment.
Your pockets will be empty, and your basement will be a mess of junk you don't want or need.
Petition website:click here
Copyright holders have gone crazy. It's time to stop them. If they want to rent then be open about it. Don't give me the impression that I'm buying to own something when,if this judgement goes in favor of the copyright holders,I'm just renting it. Stop fucking with our freedoms,you wouldn't like it if we fucked with yours.
Friday, June 22, 2012
A reminder from SAVE
From SAVE:
"False Allegations: A Blight to Families and Society"
"How To" Presentations
Write your own legal briefs.
Draft a bill while avoiding legal fees.
...and more.
Connecting for Change
Brainstorming sessions and networking opportunities.
Who Should Attend?
Educators, academics, legal professionals, law enforcement, individuals interested in false allegation prevention, social justice advocates, activists, victims of false allegations, and more.
Location
901 Fifteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
Metro: Blue-Orange Line, McPherson Square
Date/Time
June 30, 2012
9 am to 4:15 pm
Registration
There is no charge to attend, but preregistration is necessary. Send an email to: info@saveservices.org.
Meet members of the Domestic Violence Legislative Project (DVLP). Join this dynamic group of movers and shakers!
teri
Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org
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