One day after the first anniversary of Michael Brown's death, St. Louis County filed charges against two journalists originally arrested while covering the Ferguson protests. The charges? Trespassing and interfering with a police officer, officially, but really for covering protests and continuing to film police officers after being ordered out of the McDonald's in which they were working. In Veracruz they kill reporters who oppose the government, but American politicians who twist the law to silence reporters shouldn't congratulate themselves for being so much better. At least one of the reporters works for the Washington Post, which raises the possibility that the "liberal" media might actually get upset about it. In the meantime, Free Press helps you tell Robert McCulloch, the St. Louis County prosecutor, drop the charges against the reporters. You remember that name? That's right, he's the same county prosecutor who somehow couldn't file any charges against the officer who shot Michael Brown. So the chances are pretty good he doesn't care what you think. Tell him anyway.
Meanwhile, H.R. 3041/S. 1713, the Low Income Solar Act, would expand financial assistance (via loans and grants) to low-income homeowners, affordable housing projects, and community solar facilities (though more than half of the assistance would go to low-income homeowners). The bill's price tag is a bit low for my taste -- $200,000,000 annually for the next 15 years, and if the "liberal" media describes that sum as ZOMG THREE BILLYUNZ OF TEH DOLLARZ!!!!!, that would still be one billion dollars fewer than oil corporations will receive in corporate welfare handouts just this year. Still, it's a good thing to direct some money to the kinds of folks who simply don't have money lying around to pay the start-up costs of converting to solar power -- and these folks also include, by the bill's reckoning, folks in rural areas, Appalachian areas, Native American nations, and areas with little sunlight. So CREDO helps you tell your Congressfolk to support the Low Income Solar Act, and bring more energy independence to working families.
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