Urgent: National Popular Vote Act
dimanche 15 janvier 2017 à 01:00US citizens: support the National Popular Vote Act.
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US citizens: support the National Popular Vote Act.
Multinational megacorporations can used the forced arbitration of business-supremacy treaties to overturn even convictions for crimes.
They also
invest
in potential lawsuits to be arbitrated under these treaties.
With the help of business-supremacy treaties, corporations that made a
deal with a corrupt dictator
can
force a democratic successor government to pay whatever the dictator
promised. This encourages dictators to cheat their countries.
We need to change the legal system at all levels so that corrupt deals
can be cancelled and even undone. For instance, a predatory
privatization should be cancelled, and the privatizer should be
compensated with the money it paid minus whatever profit it
has extracted.
Most privatizations of state operations are
predatory.
More U.S. Workers Have Highly Volatile, Unstable Incomes.
That means they are at risk of homelessness, hunger, and dying from lack of medicine. Their children are at risk of growing up under stress that will impair them for their whole lives.
US citizens: call on senators Warren and Murphy to resist bipartisan pressure for military confrontation with Russia.
Putin is a smarmy tyrant, who has crushed opposition and the free press in Russia. He engages in military aggression, though in a more measured way than the US does. I think it is sick to suck up to him as the troll does, but that doesn't mean we need a military rivalry with Russia.
Everyone: call on Senator Murphy to stop criticizing the UN resolution in support of Israeli annexationists.