Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to repeal the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs, reject any attempt to create a “behind closed doors” commission to cut Social Security and Medicare, and pass legislation mandating disclosure of real ticket prices. 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.
Upon hearing that Congress plans to replace the notorious 2001 and 2002 Authorizations to Use Military Force (or AUMFS) with yet another AUMF that would authorize yet more military adventures across the planet, you may want to call your Reps and Senators and tell them to repeal the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs, full stop. Don’t brook any hysteria about “terrorists still wanting to hurt us,” because an honest appraisal of American history will tell you that foreign terrorists hurt us after we’ve hurt their countryfolk. An honest appraisal of recent American history will tell you that most actual terrorists are right-wing bigots. Also too, our Constitution reserves war-making power for Congress, not our President. This, too, is not hard.
Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any attempt to create a commission that would meet “behind closed doors” to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits. It’s too important to be left to the people is the sum of the fascist argument favoring putting such cuts to your earned benefits “behind closed doors” and then fast-tracking those cuts through our House and Senate without adequate debate. The only reason anyone would want that? Because they know they’re forcing shit down your throat. Do you want your Congressfolk to force shit down your throat? No, you do not. But word on the street is they’re not hearing enough from us, so we’ve got to fix that right away.
Finally, Consumer Reports helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the TICKET Act, which would force ticket-selling corporations to advertise real ticket prices up-front, rather than do what they do now, which is put a fake ticket price in front of you and then add on all kinds of “handling” fees and “convenience” fees and “fuck you because we can” fees afterward. If we make them do this, then anyone who wants to enter the ticket-selling market – which is currently a monopoly, of course, hence their tendency to hide their real prices – might actually have a chance at competing, and maybe even winning. Remember: monopoly anywhere is a threat to competition anywhere, not least because bad people cite the “good” monopoly to justify the bad ones.
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