The EFF asks you to run a WiFI net with no password. It also provides free software to put in the router so others can connect through it without slowing or seeing your own traffic.

The copyright industry doesn't want you to do this, and that's exactly why you should: to avoid being conscripted as an enforcer in the War on Sharing.

How to find out if your US congresscritter is a capitalist crony (i.e., for sale).

I am not sure this criterion will catch every capitalist crony in Congress. It is a sufficient condition but not a necessary one.

Obama launched a "task force" to think about how to protect bees.

It seems like an excuse to delay taking the necessary action

US citizens: support continued protection of the endangered red wolf.

Everyone: call on the Chicago City Council to make reparations to the people who were imprisoned after thugs tortured them into false confessions.

I think those thugs should be prosecuted, too.