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Ukraine war is about democracy

mercredi 27 août 2025 à 22:40

*[The bully] needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about. It's not about NATO or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracy.*

I think the bully already understands that, but he wants to do away with democracy.

Urgent: Abortion care for veterans

mercredi 27 août 2025 à 10:40

US citizens: call on Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to protect access to abortion care for all veterans.

Urgent: Costco pharmacy mifepristone

mercredi 27 août 2025 à 10:40

US citizens: tell Costco’s Board of Directors and CEO Ron Vachris: Don’t cave to extremists. Allow your pharmacies to carry mifepristone nationwide now.

Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue matters.)

First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in.

I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without JavaScript!"

They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.

To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.

Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:

First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.

This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort for the result of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.

Urgent: Stop AIPAC money

mercredi 27 août 2025 à 10:39

US citizens: call on politicians to stop taking AIPAC money: demand your representatives reject AIPAC's right-wing billionaire brand of politics.

26 Countries demand press access to Gaza

mardi 26 août 2025 à 10:39

27 countries, including UK, Germany and Australia, demanded that Israel open Gaza to foreign journalists. That is a start, but to make Israel do that, they will need to put pressure on.

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