Please forward widely!
Date and place set for local member meeting,
but we need a time, and you!
At the last North Bridge Alliance for Democracy/BCA meeting we set a date for our regional member meeting. It will be held on Sunday, November 8, at Mary and Bob White's house, 221 Monsen Road, Concord. Mark your calendars!
Now we'd like your feedback on what time you'd like to get together. Plan on three to four hours for a meeting, pot-luck meal, and some socializing. Would your ideal start time be 3 p.m. or 5 p.m.? Later? Please email Barbara in the AfD office (afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org) with your preference, and with any questions. We'll try to accomodate as many people as possible!
As you remember, this summer, AfD national members voted to give the National Council the option of organizing decentralized local or regional member meetings as an alternative to a single, centralized national convention. Members agreed that local meetings would be more accessible and environmentally responsible, and several are planned so far. For times and places of other regional or local member meetings, see this post on the Alliance for Democracy blog: http://afd-e-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/latest-on-our-regional-meetings-october.html. Check back to see report-backs through October and November.
We hope to see you on the 8th! More information on agendas & speakers coming soon!
Upcoming Events:
Thursday, October 8, 7 p.m.
Friends of Ashland Public Library Documentary Film & Discussion Series presents "Money-Driven Medicine"
Ashland Public Library, 66 Front Street, Ashland
In Money-Driven Medicine, Dr. Donald Berwick, president of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, explains: "We get more care, but not better care." Our fee-for-service system channels resources into the high-tech, high-cost "rescue care" patients need after they become critically ill, while it skimps on the preventive primary care which could keep them out of the hospital in the first place. As a consequence, emergency rooms overflow while family practitioners are becoming an endangered species. Medical students explain that these perverse pay incentives drive them away from primary care into higher-paying specialties.
Medical ethicist Larry Churchill doesn't mince words: "The current medical care system is not designed to meet the health needs of the population. It is designed to protect the interests of insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, and to a certain extent organized medicine. It is designed to turn a profit. It is designed to meet the needs of the people in power."
Learn more about the "medical-industrial complex" and how to take control of American medicine back from profiteers. Universal coverage is just the first step in a long and arduous battle for comprehensive reform!
Sunday, October 18, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
2009 Massachusetts Relocalization Conference
Reggie Lewis Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury, MA
A day-long conference on relocalization featuring speakers, workshops, discussion, local food, music and action. Speakers include Mel King, Frances Moore Lappe, and Bill McKibben. Alliance members are organizing and facilitating a workshop on democracy and localization. Pre-registration strongly recommended; register online at www.relocalizemassachusetts.org
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Tell the FDA to stop cattle companies from feeding chicken waste to cows.
Did you know that cattle are routinely fed the waste from the floor of commercial chicken houses? That's feces, feathers, spilled feed, straw, dirt and anything else on the floor under the cramped birds.
Tell the FDA that we don't want cows eating chicken feces! »
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Chicken farmers have more chicken waste than they know what to do with. And cattle feedlots are always on the lookout for cheap feed. In fact, an estimated one billion pounds of chicken waste are shoveled in front of cattle on feedlots each year.
The practice of feeding chicken waste to cattle is both disgusting and unsafe. It must end.
Tell the FDA to stop cattle companies from feeding chicken waste to cows. »
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Thanks for taking action!
Samer
ThePetitionSite
Stop Feeding
Chicken Waste to Cows!
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Take Action!
Forward to a friend >>
Read the petition >>
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Tell the FDA that we don't want cows eating chicken feces! »
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Chicken farmers have more chicken waste than they know what to do with. And cattle feedlots are always on the lookout for cheap feed. In fact, an estimated one billion pounds of chicken waste are shoveled in front of cattle on feedlots each year.
The practice of feeding chicken waste to cattle is both disgusting and unsafe. It must end.
Tell the FDA to stop cattle companies from feeding chicken waste to cows. »
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Thanks for taking action!
Samer
ThePetitionSite
Stop Feeding
Chicken Waste to Cows!
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Take Action!
Forward to a friend >>
Read the petition >>
Tell the FDA you want this practice to stop.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Single-Payer Now
Max Baucus. Know the name? Max Baucus is the Democratic senator from Montana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Public Health Enemy Number One in Congress.
How so, you ask? Well, all health care reform legislation this year will go through Max Baucus. And Max Baucus has taken single-payer - also known as Medicare-for-all - off the table.
Six people huddling under a large umbrella that represents universal, single-payer health care.Support Public Citizen today!
This is unacceptable. Single-payer is not just the best answer - it's the only answer.
That's why Public Citizen is working to pass single-payer health care reform and needs your immediate help.
Please make a generous contribution today.
Contribute Now
Every other proposal now being floated in Washington is mere piecemeal tinkering and will fail. The American people get this. According to recent polls, the majority of Americans - and the majority of doctors - want a single-payer health care system in the United States.
Over the past two election cycles, Max Baucus has received more campaign contributions from the health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations than any other current Democratic member of the House or Senate. Big Corporate Money issues the order: "Take single-payer off the table." And Max Baucus takes single-payer off the table.
So, it has come down to this: the American people versus the health insurance and drug corporations. That's why Public Citizen needs your immediate help to fight for single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care reform.
Contribute Now
There is no legitimate opposition to single-payer. That's why corporate interests can't argue the facts against single-payer. Instead, they say it's not politically feasible. Translation: The drug and health insurance companies have a stranglehold on Congress.
So, what are we going to do about it? The momentum is building for single-payer in the United States. But time is of the essence. Every day, roughly 100 Americans die from lack of health insurance. Every day, hundreds go bankrupt from medical bills.
This is a disgrace that must end. Now.
Contribute Now
Now is the time. Push has come to shove on health care. Help us muscle up to defeat the health insurance industry. To defeat the drug industry. And to deliver universal health care-single-payer, everybody in, nobody out-to the American people.
Contribute Now
Onward to single-payer!
Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen
president@citizen.org
Stay informed and speak out when it counts.Sign up for the Public Citizen Action Network or other online announcements.
How so, you ask? Well, all health care reform legislation this year will go through Max Baucus. And Max Baucus has taken single-payer - also known as Medicare-for-all - off the table.
Six people huddling under a large umbrella that represents universal, single-payer health care.Support Public Citizen today!
This is unacceptable. Single-payer is not just the best answer - it's the only answer.
That's why Public Citizen is working to pass single-payer health care reform and needs your immediate help.
Please make a generous contribution today.
Contribute Now
Every other proposal now being floated in Washington is mere piecemeal tinkering and will fail. The American people get this. According to recent polls, the majority of Americans - and the majority of doctors - want a single-payer health care system in the United States.
Over the past two election cycles, Max Baucus has received more campaign contributions from the health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations than any other current Democratic member of the House or Senate. Big Corporate Money issues the order: "Take single-payer off the table." And Max Baucus takes single-payer off the table.
So, it has come down to this: the American people versus the health insurance and drug corporations. That's why Public Citizen needs your immediate help to fight for single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care reform.
Contribute Now
There is no legitimate opposition to single-payer. That's why corporate interests can't argue the facts against single-payer. Instead, they say it's not politically feasible. Translation: The drug and health insurance companies have a stranglehold on Congress.
So, what are we going to do about it? The momentum is building for single-payer in the United States. But time is of the essence. Every day, roughly 100 Americans die from lack of health insurance. Every day, hundreds go bankrupt from medical bills.
This is a disgrace that must end. Now.
Contribute Now
Now is the time. Push has come to shove on health care. Help us muscle up to defeat the health insurance industry. To defeat the drug industry. And to deliver universal health care-single-payer, everybody in, nobody out-to the American people.
Contribute Now
Onward to single-payer!
Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen
president@citizen.org
Stay informed and speak out when it counts.Sign up for the Public Citizen Action Network or other online announcements.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Say no to unlimited corporate $$$ in #politics!
Staging a funeral for U.S. democracy. Picketing a member of Congress' local office. Holding a satirical "Corporations Are People Too" demonstration at state capitol. These are just a few of the inspiring protest ideas we've heard activists like you are planning for tomorrow. It's not too late to ask your friends to pledge to protest and organize a street action -- or protest in whatever way you're able!
A corporate titan driving a giant steamroller that is about to crush the U.S. Capitol building, showing corporate influence in elections.
Don't Get Rolled!www.DontGetRolled.org
Tomorrow, on 9/9/09, the Supreme Court begins hearing re-arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission at 10 a.m. As you've heard from us, what is at stake is more than one hundred years of limits on corporate influence in our political system. A bad decision in this case could open the floodgates of corporate money in our elections.
Corporations already have outsized influence over our political process. Corporations are not voters and should not be allowed to roll over the public interest with their economic interests! In fact, this is settled law. But, the Supreme Court is going out of its way -- holding a special session tomorrow -- to revisit the rights of corporations to spend from their treasuries to influence our elections.
That's why we need you to protest and help us show that Americans want less corporate influence -- not more!
Please visit www.DontGetRolled.org to sign our protest petition and learn more about what others have pledged to do tomorrow.
We look forward to making a lot of noise with you! Please send us your photos, videos and stories to share at action@citizen.org.
Thank you for all you do!
Rick, Angela and Glenn
Your Advocates at Public Citizendonate
action@citizen.org
P.S.: Keep spreading the word on Twitter: RT @Public_Citizen: Say no to unlimited corporate $$$ in #politics! Sign the petition & pledge to protest Sept 9 on www.DontGetRolled.org. And visit us on Facebook.
A corporate titan driving a giant steamroller that is about to crush the U.S. Capitol building, showing corporate influence in elections.
Don't Get Rolled!www.DontGetRolled.org
Tomorrow, on 9/9/09, the Supreme Court begins hearing re-arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission at 10 a.m. As you've heard from us, what is at stake is more than one hundred years of limits on corporate influence in our political system. A bad decision in this case could open the floodgates of corporate money in our elections.
Corporations already have outsized influence over our political process. Corporations are not voters and should not be allowed to roll over the public interest with their economic interests! In fact, this is settled law. But, the Supreme Court is going out of its way -- holding a special session tomorrow -- to revisit the rights of corporations to spend from their treasuries to influence our elections.
That's why we need you to protest and help us show that Americans want less corporate influence -- not more!
Please visit www.DontGetRolled.org to sign our protest petition and learn more about what others have pledged to do tomorrow.
We look forward to making a lot of noise with you! Please send us your photos, videos and stories to share at action@citizen.org.
Thank you for all you do!
Rick, Angela and Glenn
Your Advocates at Public Citizendonate
action@citizen.org
P.S.: Keep spreading the word on Twitter: RT @Public_Citizen: Say no to unlimited corporate $$$ in #politics! Sign the petition & pledge to protest Sept 9 on www.DontGetRolled.org. And visit us on Facebook.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
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Ingredient Details:
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See package for complete ingredient lists.
Suggested Use: CleanseSMART l: 1 to 2 capsules in the morning.
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Buy Cleanse Smart Advanced Cleansing 30 Day System
A natural formula of herbs, vitamins, minerals and amino acids which support detoxification and cleansing.
Milk Thistle Seed supports detoxification of the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs and skin.
Ashwaganda Root, Beet Leaf, Bupleurum Root, Burdock Root, Celandine Leaf, Chlorella, Corn Silk, Dandelion Root, Hawthorne Berry supports cleansing of the colon.
For thousands of years mankind has used cleansing and detoxification to maintain health. Today, more than ever, we are exposed to a vast number of toxins in our homes, workplaces, air, food and water.
Buy Cleanse Smart Advanced Cleansing 30 Day System
CleanseSMART Part I supports detoxification of the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs and skin. Part II supports cleansing the bowel.
CleanseSMART is easy to take, just two capsules in the morning and two at night, and it is formulated to be taken in harmony with normal daily activity.
The Inside Scoop:
2 part morning and evening formula.
Comes in easy-to-swallow capsules.
Contains no cascara sagrada, senna or added fillers.
Ingredient Details:
CleanseSMART l
Proprietary Blend: Artichoke Leaf, Ashwaganda Root, Beet Leaf, Bupleurum Root, Burdock Root, Celandine Leaf, Chlorella, Corn Silk, Dandelion Root, Hawthorne Berry, Larch arabinogalactan gum, Milk Thistle Seed, silymarin Mullein Leaf, Red Clover Leaf & Stem, Turmeric Root.
See package for complete ingredient lists.
Suggested Use: CleanseSMART l: 1 to 2 capsules in the morning.
CleanseSMART II 1 to 2 capsules in the evening.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Opponents of health insurance reform have power. Some reap huge profits from the status quo.
Opponents of health insurance reform have power. Some reap huge profits from the status quo. Others take large campaign contributions from those who profit.
So they'll do anything to keep the current system in place. When fact-based arguments don't work, they attack President Obama with outlandish lies about a government takeover and euthanizing the elderly. And once that doesn't work, they'll go even further.
We don't know what they'll do next. What we do know is that we'll have to be prepared for anything -- ready to set the record straight, ready to make sure the media and Congress see the overwhelming support for reform, and ready to pass real reform this year.
But we'll need the resources to do it -- to pay for rapid-response ads in key districts and states, organizers to put together large rallies and grassroots events throughout the country, and the best technology available to empower volunteers -- all at a moment's notice. Can you chip in $25 or more to help us pass real reform, this year?
Please donate
This was never going to be easy. As candidate Obama said just three days before the election: "Don't think for a moment that power will concede without a fight." Now, we're seeing how true that really is.
These same well-financed forces have killed reform in the past, and they're aiming to do it again.
But here's why this time can be different: There are folks like you, all around the country, who are ready to go toe-to-toe with the special interests, even when they're not fighting fair.
And we'll keep at it, because we know that the work we're doing together right now can make the lives of hundreds of millions better for decades to come.
But we need your help to keep it up. Can you donate $25 or more to beat the special interests?
There's too much at stake for any of us to sit this one out. Please chip in. Click Here to Donate
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
Donate
So they'll do anything to keep the current system in place. When fact-based arguments don't work, they attack President Obama with outlandish lies about a government takeover and euthanizing the elderly. And once that doesn't work, they'll go even further.
We don't know what they'll do next. What we do know is that we'll have to be prepared for anything -- ready to set the record straight, ready to make sure the media and Congress see the overwhelming support for reform, and ready to pass real reform this year.
But we'll need the resources to do it -- to pay for rapid-response ads in key districts and states, organizers to put together large rallies and grassroots events throughout the country, and the best technology available to empower volunteers -- all at a moment's notice. Can you chip in $25 or more to help us pass real reform, this year?
Please donate
This was never going to be easy. As candidate Obama said just three days before the election: "Don't think for a moment that power will concede without a fight." Now, we're seeing how true that really is.
These same well-financed forces have killed reform in the past, and they're aiming to do it again.
But here's why this time can be different: There are folks like you, all around the country, who are ready to go toe-to-toe with the special interests, even when they're not fighting fair.
And we'll keep at it, because we know that the work we're doing together right now can make the lives of hundreds of millions better for decades to come.
But we need your help to keep it up. Can you donate $25 or more to beat the special interests?
There's too much at stake for any of us to sit this one out. Please chip in. Click Here to Donate
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
Donate
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Public Health Care Option is Not Optional
Recently, the Obama administration indicated that it might be open to passing health care reform without any provision for a public option. In fact, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, went so far as to say the public option was not an "essential" part of reform.
Tell President Obama when it comes to health care reform, the public option is not optional! » Read the petition >> Click here Take action link
During the presidential race, Obama campaigned on change and on a health care plan that included the public option. But the recent comments rhetorically pave the way for the Obama administration to cave on meaningful health care reform.
Now is the time to remind President Obama that part of the reason he won the presidency was because of his plan to enact major health care reform that included a public option, a provision that 76 percent of Americans support
Americans have gone too long without the proper health coverage. Sign the pledge and urge President Obama to support a bill with a robust public option similar to Medicare. »
Thanks for taking action!
Andrew
ThePetitionSite
Read the petition >> Click here Take action link
President Obama: We Voted for Change!
America Needs a Public Option
Take Action!
A health care bill without a robust public option is just more of the same.
Forward to a friend >>
Read the petition >> Click here Take action link
Tell President Obama when it comes to health care reform, the public option is not optional! » Read the petition >> Click here Take action link
During the presidential race, Obama campaigned on change and on a health care plan that included the public option. But the recent comments rhetorically pave the way for the Obama administration to cave on meaningful health care reform.
Now is the time to remind President Obama that part of the reason he won the presidency was because of his plan to enact major health care reform that included a public option, a provision that 76 percent of Americans support
Americans have gone too long without the proper health coverage. Sign the pledge and urge President Obama to support a bill with a robust public option similar to Medicare. »
Thanks for taking action!
Andrew
ThePetitionSite
Read the petition >> Click here Take action link
President Obama: We Voted for Change!
America Needs a Public Option
Take Action!
A health care bill without a robust public option is just more of the same.
Forward to a friend >>
Read the petition >> Click here Take action link
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