Big Ag Writes Michelle Opposing WH Organic Garden

Daily Kos
by Jill Richardson
Sun Mar 29, 2009

OMG, funny stuff. A chemical ag organization (Mid America CropLife Association) got its panties in a twist over Michelle Obama's organic garden. So they wrote her a letter.

Support the Employee Free Choice Act!

What would you say to people who don't support even allowing a debate about leveling the playing field with the Employee Free Choice Act?

To date, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter and Penn State University President Graham Spanier have not expressed public support for giving employees a free choice at work. But if we're going to get out of our current economic mess, Pennsylvania and other states will need secure jobs now more than ever before! If the Employee Free Choice Act becomes law, it will help almost 1 million Pennsylvanians and pump more than $2 billion into the state's economy every year.

The Employee Free Choice Act is a vital component of the overall recovery plan to restore our economy, an economy that must work for everyone, and lead to prosperity for all, instead of just for a select few. Allowing workers the freedom to join together, free from intimidation and harassment, to bargain for job security, better wages and health care, will stimulate our economy and allow working people to better support their families

Can you believe Senator Specter and President Spanier would work to block something that would do so much to benefit the working people of Pennsylvania and the rest of the United States? Especially in these times, shouldn't they be rushing to support efforts that will help strengthen our nation's economy?

We need our public leaders to act as swiftly on real economic recovery for working people in America. Senator Specter and President Spanier can provide the leadership to bring about change that works, but they need to hear from you now.

The Big Takeover

MATT TAIBBI Mar 19, 2009
Rolling Stone

The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover

Elizabeth Kolbert: Donating to the Deniers

New Yorker, March 18, 2009

There’s green and then, of course, there’s green.

Two years ago, a dozen of the country’s major corporations, including Caterpillar, Duke Energy, and Dow Chemical, banded together with several of the nation’s leading environmental groups to form a group called the United States Climate Action Partnership. According to the group’s Web site, USCAP’s mission is to encourage “the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” That’s a nice thought and by signing onto it USCAP’s members got a lot of nice press (including in The New Yorker). But a recent analysis of campaign giving by the non-profit group Clean Air Watch suggests that USCAP’s corporate members do not take USCAP’s goals terribly seriously. In fact, they seem to be devoting considerable resources to undermining them...