Long story short: tell our government to stop using aslyum-seekers as a whipping boy, protect air quality as vigorously as possible, and legalize marijuana (rather than just move it from Schedule I to Schedule III). Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
HIAS helps you tell President Biden to abandon his draconian plan to curtail asylum-seeking in America. Exactly zero right-wingers have said way to go, Joe! since he announced his intentions, but what’s even more insane than constantly courting right-wing voters who will always spit in your face? Using asylum-seekers as your whipping boy, that’s what. Folks seeking asylum in the United States aren’t looking for a free ride so much as they’re looking for a life where their own government doesn’t kill them. And anyone who whines about “terrorists” or criminals in the context of asylum-seekers knows neither facts nor common sense. We do still value these things when we make policy decisions, right?
The Center for Biological Diversity helps you tell our Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA) to protect air quality as vigorously as possible. Right-wingers act like big corporations will do the right thing if we just leave them alone, but the only reason we have clean air and clean water is that we make big corporations pollute less by enacting laws and regulations. In other words, they use our success to justify not doing what makes us successful! Also too, do right-wingers tend to think people will do the right thing if left alone? Hell no! Otherwise you’d have less of them trying to regulate women’s health care and who can get married and what books you can read.
Finally, VERA helps you tell the Biden Administration to fully-decriminalize marijuana, not merely move it from Schedule I to Schedule III. I won’t lie, moving it from Schedule I (where it most certainly does not belong) to Schedule III will do a lot of good, but I think we know enough by now – and that’s pretty impressive, since Schedule I seriously hamstrings marijuana research – to say pot should be as legal as alcohol. One of the reasons we know enough by now, of course, is we know the cotton lobby wanted pot on Schedule I so no one would ever try to grow or use hemp, ever. We also have John Ehrlichman on record saying the “war on drugs” was really a war on “the anti-war left and Black people.”
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