Long story short: tell your Senators to confirm Gwynne Wilcox to our NLRB, and tell your Congressfolk to end qualified immunity for police officers and ban cyanide bombs from our public lands. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
More Perfect Union helps you tell your Senators to confirm Gwynne Wilcox to our National Labor Relations Board. Ignore anything right-wingers say about how our NLRB is waging a “war on employers” or something – they’re just shilling for their big corporate donors, as always, and those big corporate donors would vastly prefer to pay their workers in dung pellets and then prevent them from ever organizing for better pay and working conditions. If they stonewall the Wilcox nomination, our NLRB won’t have a quorum of members to get things done. That’s what right-wingers want. Don’t let them have it.
Both the Daily Kos Liberation League and Defending Rights and Dissent help you tell your Congressfolk to end “qualified immunity” for law enforcement officers. “Qualified immunity,” a doctrine born entirely of a Supreme Court decision, gives police officers too much immunity from wrongdoing, by requiring the circumstances of their wrongdoing to be exactly the same as previous instances of wrongdoing before we can do anything about it. That makes them too protected from accountability. Do we want anyone too protected from accountability? Particularly if they have the power to arrest us and shoot us?
Finally, the Endangered Species Coalition helps you tell Congress to outlaw cyanide bombs on public lands. Cyanide bombs supposedly aim to kill predators, but truth is they’re indiscriminate killers – they maim and kill animals that don’t do any harm to the circle of life, plus they maim and kill people, too. Civilized people don’t accept that as the eggs we must break to make an omelette. I trust I don’t have to argue this point any further.
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