Hot on the heels of the news that the NSA can, in fact, wiretap pretty much everything you do on the internet as long it has your email or IP address, Free Press helps you tell Congress to stop blanket surveillance of American citizens. As far as your government is concerned, it doesn't matter that you think you don't have anything to hide -- it only matters that they think you might have something to hide, and if you can think of someone who shouldn't have all that surveillance power (you think a President Jim DeMint, for example, would be pretty chill with your activism on behalf of a higher minimum wage?), then no one should have it. So where's hope, besides in our efforts and our pure hearts? Well, more and more folks are coming around to the idea that this surveillance isn't cool -- and so are some of our Congressfolk. And you could hope for worse things than a Republican House deciding to embarrass Barack Obama for a good reason, for once.

Meanwhile, fast food chain McDonald's has suffered from a wave of quite deserved bad PR lately, partly due to their low wages, partly due to their "coaching" of workers who make those low wages, and also partly due to some of their franchises' new habit of paying their workers not with a check, but with a pre-paid debit card. You can imagine why you wouldn't want to be paid that way, right? Like that banks love to hit you with all kinds of fees every time you use it? And why should a worker have to put up with that? Because a franchise operator has some "right" to save a little money on cutting actual checks? It's the workers' money, and forcing them to take payment in the form of a fee-laden debit card is a way of taxing workers unfairly. And then delivering that "tax" to the banksters, no less! So Free Press helps you tell McDonald's to ban the practice of paying workers in debit cards, versus actual money.