US citizens: call on Congress to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

This bill by itself is not enough to protect voting rights. A few years ago there was another voting rights bill to do the rest.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

That's to put an end to corruption that we have plenty of evidence of.

The vinyl chloride spill from Norfolk Southern's preventable train wreck is part of the consequences of our massive use of plastic. Its costs — in lives and hundreds of millions of dollars -- are part of the cost of plastic, which the plastic manufacturers don't have to pay. Instead, we all pay.

Mexico is trying to end the use of genetically modified corn and the the weedkiller glyphosate. The US is applying harsh pressure to prevent this.

In effect, the US is once again acting as the tool of specific big businesses.

Someone's sweetheart was killed by robbers while driving a gig taxi. To prevent such things from happening again, perse calls for imposing surveillance on millions of customers, in case one might be a thief.

Of course we would like to stop these robberies, but massive surveillance is itself a bigger injustice.