Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, the Right to Contraception Act, and the Protecting the Right to Organize (or PRO) 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.
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act. You like that, banksters? Just wait until you all get to Ayn Rand Heaven and she calls you looters, too! Not just her, of course, but the good Americans who work at Red Lobster, as well. The Stop Wall Street Looting Act would force banksters to take care of workers first during bankruptcy proceedings, stiffen penalties when they break the law, and prohibit dividend payouts from an “acquired asset” for two years. Oh, the bill would also treat “carried interest” as income — you know, like it actually is — and thus end that particular tax-cut-for-the-rich. So, yeah, Congress should do all of that, because it’s the right thing to do.
Both UltraViolet and the National Women’s Law Center help you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Right to Contraception Act. Because Clarence Thomas explicitly said our Supreme Court will be coming for that! The Right to Contraception Act would generally prevent governments and corporations from impeding anyone’s access to contraception, and would only allow said governments and corporations to defend such an impediment only on the grounds that it actually doesn’t impede access to contraception. In other words, it wouldn’t let them claim BUT OURZ RELIGIZZ CONSHENCEZ!!!!! After all, your conscience is for you, not for everyone else. Why is it so hard for wannabe fascists to understand that? Oh, wait, that question answers itself.
Finally, Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the PRO Act. You recall how Mercedes workers told us that they were constantly being pulled into anti-union propaganda meetings (“hey, we’re a family here!”) during that unsuccessful union drive? And how Oregon Labcorp workers reported (during their successful union drive) that they, too, got pulled into these propaganda meetings – and they really resented it because they were already understaffed and overworked? Well, the PRO Act would put a stop to a lot of these shenanigans, and let workers unionize, if they want, on a more level playing field. Level playing fields are sort of why we’re America, right?
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