*Sentenced to life for stealing $14: "I needed help, but was given jail."*

This extreme treatment is common in California under the "three strikes" law. *"By design, the law has targeted crimes of poverty, like small-time robbery, burglary, breaking windows, purse snatching".*

Like the War on Drugs, these laws are designed to put a lot of people in prison. At that point, many of them are compelled to do work for private companies at a pittance, and that pushes down wages for Americans who are not in prison.

US citizens: call on the FTC to ban surveillance-based advertising.

This is not enough to make us safe from massive surveillance.

US citizens: call on the EPA to adopt its proposed rule to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances.

In the UK, and probably elsewhere, high earners emit far more greenhouse gases than poor people. This is a reason to establish a carbon tax.

*Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over [Congo] rainforest.* (It is the world's second-largest rainforest.)