Long story short: tell big chocolate corporations to stop relying on child labor, tell states to stop ticketing the homeless for public sleeping, and tell your Senators to reject the nomination of an aspiring Social Security privatizer to a Social Security advisory board. 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 Senators’ phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
The Daily Kos Liberation League helps you tell big chocolate corporations Hershey’s, Nestle, and Mars to get the child labor out of their supply chains. Two-thirds of all cocoa comes from Africa, where over two million children do back-breaking cocoa-harvesting. What’s that, you say? You heard these corporations pledged to end their involvement in child labor back in 2005 so why are we talking about it now? Because they have failed to keep their promises, that’s why – kids are still out there, not getting to be kids. I sure hope it doesn’t matter to anyone that they’re foreign kids.
Care2 helps you tell American states to stop giving out tickets to homeless folks for sleeping in public spaces. For sleeping! Everyone should know by now that the best way to fight homelessness – you know, besides bringing back the 91% tax bracket that would curtail the rich’s ability to help create more homeless people – is to put homeless people into inexpensive homes, because that’s actually cheaper than constantly providing emergent services. But ticketing people who can’t pay tickets to begin with? Only people who love swinging their dicks around do that, and they shouldn’t get all the say about everything.
Finally, Social Security Works helps you tell your Senators to reject the nomination of Andrew Biggs to our Social Security Advisory Board. Because Mr. Biggs has worked to privatize Social Security, advocated for raising the retirement age, advocated for reducing the benefits you’ve worked for, fought for, and paid into your whole life, and supported Donald Trump’s attempt to defund Social Security in 2020. Would you put a burglar in charge of law enforcement? No, you would not. So let’s not put a guy who’d wreck Social Security in a position to advise our government on how to preserve Social Security. I mean, duh.
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