Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to stop enabling Israel’s occupation of Palestine, reject any Social Security/Medicare-cutting commission, and pass the Food Date Labeling Act. 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.
Both Jewish Voice for Peace and Roots Action help you tell your Congressfolk to stop enabling the Israeli occupation of Palestine. No use saying Hamas started it, and not just because it would take forever to unwind the you-started-it thread – it all comes back to one nation having the power to exterminate another, which Israel can do to Palestine mainly because of our support. No less an authority than Amnesty International has declared Israel an “apartheid regime,” and it’s beyond sad to hear Israel’s Defense Minister call Palestinians “human animals” as if no one had ever called Jews that. We don’t want extermination on our conscience, I trust.
Social Security Works helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any attempt to create a “closed door” commission so Congress can cut Social Security and Medicare benefits without oversight by the American people. That’s their whole argument: the cuts “need” to be made, so we have to give Congress more power to do it. But it’s horseshit – all we need do is start taxing income over $160,200 into the system, and we won’t need any “commissions” to make “hard decisions” about our earned benefits. No, they’re not “entitlements”! Our government didn’t give them to us out of the goodness of their hearts; we fought for them, and we’ll keep fighting for them, because you have to fight for the future every day in this life.
Finally, Penn PIRG helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Food Date Labeling Act, which would streamline our food labeling system so that we throw away perfectly good food a lot less than we do now. Say goodbye to “sell by,” “freshest on,” and “expires on,” and say hello to “best if used by” and “use by,” the former of which tells you when food starts to deteriorate and the latter of which tells you how long you can eat that food. A staggering 40% of the food we make in America ultimately goes to waste, which in turn means we waste a lot of water and energy, too, not to mention there are starving kids right here in America; the Food Date Labeling Act will help us, as they say, waste not and want not.
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