Long story short: tell Alabama’s Governor to commute Rocky Myers’s death sentence, tell our FTC to block a proposed fertilizer merger, tell Delta to stop subjecting its employees to anti-union propaganda, and tell big corporate pharmacies to dispense abortion drugs. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Amnesty International helps you tell Alabama’s Governor to commute Rocky Myers’s death sentence. Because Alabama no longer has a death sentence (Mr. Myers received his in 1994), because his lawyer abandoned him without giving notice and thus prevented Mr. Myers from exercising his right to an appeal, and because the case against him has always suffered from recanted (and possibly coerced) testimony. These aren’t mere “technicalities” – any one of these things should prevent us from killing a man. Yes, even if he’s actually guilty of murder! Maintaining a civilization is hard, as is anything worth doing, and all the folks who claim they’re “tough on crime” ain’t the tiniest bit tough at all. They’re whiners, frankly.
More Perfect Union helps you tell our Federal Trade Commission (or FTC) to block the proposed merger of Koch Ag & Energy Solutions/Iowa Fertilizer Company merger. And yes, that’s “Koch” as in “brothers,” but that’s only icing on the cake – the merger would kill jobs and raise prices like all mergers do and would also reduce options for small farmers trying to grow the food we all eat. I know, I know, a foreign chemical corporation owns the Iowa Fertilizer Company now, but where is it written that our only choices are “a foreign corporation owns it” or “the Koch brothers own it”? I’d rather the employees owned it! That’s not outlandish – even Ronald Reagan supported employee-owned corporations.
More Perfect Union also helps you tell Delta Airlines to stop its union-busting tactics. These include (and you won’t find very many surprises on this list) “anti-union videos and leaflets in break rooms, meetings with new hires that discourage unionization, managers telling workers to remove their union pins, and taking union fliers from workers’ personal belongings” but hey, there’s an idea! Let’s stuff every single worker’s backpack with, like, 200 union fliers! You best believe the underpaid flier-confiscation technicians will complain to their bosses right quick, and then maybe join the union effort. In the meantime, why let Delta tilt the playing field even more in their favor?
Daily Kos helps you tell big corporate pharmacies (like Walmart, Costco, and Safeway) to dispense abortion medications. Almost a supermajority of abortions in America now occur via medication, meaning almost a supermajority of abortions in America now can occur, at least in theory, without some idiot screaming in your face that you’re going to hell. It might be better to have legislation mandating pharmacies to do this – particularly since the Comstock Act still sits out there like a bomb waiting for Sam Alito to set it off – but the Big Stick of Bad PR also works, particularly when most people agree with its use, as most Americans will do about abortion drugs.
Yes, I heard that the greatest President of my lifetime just dropped out of the race after being hounded by Democratic leaders and our “liberal” media for the last few weeks. The challenge for us now? Same as it was before: to demand what we deserve from our leaders, and since we Americans are basically a good lot, regardless of how politicians and corporate executives act, we still deserve what our civilization has always promised us, and which the New Deal era came closest to delivering: freedom from want and fear and bigotry, freedom to dream bigger and accomplish bigger, freedom to create and sustain communities, freedom to maintain and nourish a heritage that we can pass down to our children and our children’s children. I’ll fight for all of that to my last breath, and I bet you will, too.