Long story short: tell California state legislators to pass the OCTO Act, and tell your Congressfolk to pass the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act and enact a paid family/medical leave program for all Americans. 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.
California residents, take note: Eko helps you tell your state legislators to pass the Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (or OCTO) Act, which would ban octopus farming in a state with some 840 miles of coastline (per the Congressional Research Service). Octopi are hella intelligent and hella solitary – know anyone like that? – but octopus farms are as bad as factory farms for chickens, putting octopi in confined spaces until they eat each other out of frustration and misery. If that makes you laugh, navigate away from this page now; it’s not for you. But if you empathize them, and you live in California, maybe help them out a bit.
Free Press helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act, which would stop big corporations from selling our personal data to our government without our government getting a warrant first. That’s all we’ve ever demanded – that our government get a damn warrant like they’d been doing for over 200 years, but which in 2001 suddenly wasn’t good enough for an incompetent Executive like George W. Bush. What happens when our government uses our tax money to buy up our personal data without a warrant? Our government gets yet more power to abuse us, that’s what. And we should always fight that.
Finally, the Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a national paid family/medical leave program, not least so that mothers – who already have full-time, no-time-off, no-pay jobs as mothers – can actually get time off at their paid jobs so they can take care of themselves and their families. Don’t listen to any WHEREZ WILLZ YOUZ GETZ TEH MONEYZ!!!!! rubbish, either – everyone won’t take off at the same time, and Sen. Gillibrand’s bill proposed to take a mere $8/month from a worker making $50,000 annually. Eight dollars a month! And that’s a moderate approach – you know I’d tax the rich to pay for that.
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