Long story short: tell our government to better protect workers from extreme heat, tell President Biden to better protect seniors from privatized Medicare, and tell world governments to ban any products that come from octopus farming. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
More Perfect Union helps you tell our Department of Labor to do more to protect good American workers from extreme heat, while Civic Shout helps you tell our Occupational Safety and Health Administration (or OSHA) to do the same. President Biden has already directed our Department of Labor to issue hazard alerts related to the heat, but our DOL could be doing more. And OSHA has yet to issue a standard protecting workers from extreme heat, even though we’ve told them to do that before. Folks are dropping dead in the Texas heat, and going to burn wards in Arizona just for falling on the sidewalk, so ignore the politicians who seem to be objectively pro-heat death.
Public Citizen helps you tell President Biden to protect our seniors from the greed of private health insurers who have too many grubby hands in Medicare. President Biden has moved a bit slowly on this matter, which is why we’re getting in his grill about it now. Our government has privatized more and more of Medicare over the last 20 years, even though, frankly, anyone who still thinks government couldn’t do better than private corporations in delivering health care is a fool. At least half of all seniors on Medicare Advantage switch back to traditional Medicare in their last year of life, but we don’t want so many seniors to get out of the claws of private health insurers so late.
Finally, Eko helps you tell world governments to ban any and all products that come from farmed octopuses. You don’t need to have seen an octopus squeeze its way off a boat to know that these creatures deserve better – frankly, we shouldn’t wait for animals to impress us with their intelligence before we treat them better! Octopus farms shine a constant light on animals that obviously prefer darkness, plus these farms kill octopi by putting them in freezing water; think you would like that? No, you would not. Doesn’t matter that some corporation thinks they can make a profit doing this, because profit doesn’t justify torture. I can’t believe I still have to say that.
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