Action Center
Featured Action: If You Do One Thing Here, Do This!
Reckless Corporations Can’t Be Trusted to Regulate Themselves
Regulations play an essential role in securing
America’s quality of life and holding reckless corporations accountable.
But Big Business and its lackeys in Washington, D.C., are trying to dismantle
public protections that benefit the people. Sign our petition urging Congress
to stand up for commonsense regulations.
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Democracy Is For People
Join the nationwide, grassroots movement for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend unlimited money trying to influence our elections and take over our democracy.
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Keep Toxic Chemicals Out of Drinking Water
Email your representative and ask him or her to oppose hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and call for the disclosure and monitoring of the chemicals used in the process.
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End Dirty Energy Subsidies
Big Oil gets $4 billion a year in tax credits and incentives. Sign our petition calling for an end to all government handouts to the oil, gas and coal industries.
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Tell Congress to Stand Up to Corporate Influence
Congress must act to stop corporations from using their immense financial resources to take over government of the people, by the people, for the people. Learn more about what Congress can do.
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End Wall Street’s Outrageous and Risky Pay Practices
Salaries and bonuses on Wall Street actually reward the kind of risk-taking that collapsed our economy in 2008. Add your name to our petition demanding that Wall Street stop incentivizing risk.
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Stop the Korea Trade Deal
Call your representative and urge him or her to oppose the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, then record your representative’s position.
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Urge Your Representative to Pass Oil Spill Legislation
The oil spill commission created after the BP disaster has released its final report, which contains a long list of actions that must be taken. Call your representative and ask him or her to support oil spill legislation.
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Senate Must Act on Oil Spills
The oil spill commission suggested critical reforms that would protect taxpayers and make offshore drilling safer for workers and the environment. Email your senators and urge them to act on the commission’s recommendations.
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Stop Job-Killing Korea FTA
Email your representative and tell him or her to oppose President Obama’s NAFTA-style, job-killing trade pact with Korea that explicitly bans reference to strong labor standards.
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Stand Up for Patients’ Rights
H.R. 5 would give immunity to negligent doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, medical device manufacturers and drug companies. Email your representative to ask him or her to oppose the bill.
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Stop Sweatshops, Nukes and the Korea FTA
Email your representative and tell him or her to oppose President Obama’s NAFTA-style trade pact with Korea that would benefit the Kim Jong Il regime’s sweatshops and nuclear weapons program.
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