US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign the Grijalva-Huffman letter in support of pipeline protesters.

I don't call the protesters "water protectors" because, important as it is not to pollute rivers, not burning more oil is even more important in the long term.

The campaign for a UN treaty against abuses by corporations.

Everyone: call on Sempra Energy to compensate and aid the poor residents of Eight Mile just as it did the wealthy residents of Porter Ranch.

US citizens: oppose the "21st century cures act" which would create longer monopolies on medicines.

Many children are becoming addicted to proprietary software games.

The games are designed to make users keep playing -- and, in many cases, keep paying. Unlike the games of 30 years ago, you don't just buy a copy once and use it as much as you like. In many games, players are pressured to pay to advance.

The fact that the games are proprietary, not free (libre) software, is a crucial part of the problem, because that enables the designers to maximize the amount they draw out of people, and gives them an incentive to make the games addictive.

The technology-industrial complex shows a general dynamic of designing things to be increasingly addictive.