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Suspension of civil liberties in Tunisia

mercredi 8 juillet 2015 à 14:00

Tunisia's president declared a state of emergency, apparently to suspend civil liberties.

I am skeptical that there is any valid justification for this.

Urgent: Minors in adult prisons

mercredi 8 juillet 2015 à 14:00

US citizens: call on Attorney General Lynch to investigate the practice of trying minors as adults and putting them in adult prisons.

Urgent: Pay for overtime work

mercredi 8 juillet 2015 à 14:00

US citizens: call on the Labor department to cover more Americans with required extra pay for overtime work.

European Union exposed

mercredi 8 juillet 2015 à 14:00

The Greek crisis has exposed the European Union for what it really is, invalidating the ideas on which it depends for moral legitimacy.

However, I think those ideas were initially more than a fiction. 30 years ago, social democracy and human rights played an important role in EU policies and law. Then the plutocrats and banksters took advantage of other changes to grasp increasing control. The rejected EU constitution, and the non-constitution (the Lisbon treaty) adopted in its place, are insufficiently democratic, which provided the banksters with a great opportunity. (This is why I called on voters to reject it and block it, where they had the chance.)

Nowadays the EU is a pliable instrument for plutocrats to subordinate human rights with. For freedom and democracy, a country must get out of it.

Urgent: Oppose coal mine

mercredi 8 juillet 2015 à 14:00

US citizens: oppose starting a coal mine near Bryce Canyon.