CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY!!!
866-544-7573
Tell them to hold the big Wall Street Banks accountable and support the creation of Consumer Financial Protection Agency
You can also keep these for future activism:
Gov Track Helps you keep tabs on the U.S. Congress.
Contact your US SENATORS Email and phone numbers to call your elected senators and make your voice heard.
Every wonder about disease? Care about your child’s health? Do something about it! This is 2009 and we are still acting like stupid primates or worse.
– marvelous mouth
from the GoodGuide Transparency Manifesto
We start from a simple premise: People have the right to know what they’re putting in, on, and around their bodies.
There are three simple things everyone should know about their food but don’t:
Where did it come from? How was it made? What’s in it?
In the United States, manufacturers of processed foods are still not required to label where a product came from, whether it contains genetically modified organisms, or was produced using synthetic hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides.
Additionally, government agencies, such as the FDA, continue to face criticism for falling short (marvelous mouth – they suck!) of their responsibility to protect the public from contamination and other food safety scandals.
GoodGuide and consumers around the world have launched the “What’s In It?” Campaign to demand transparency from our food producers.
We call on food manufacturers to disclose the following information about all products:
1. Where it came from:
* Disclosure of where ingredients were grown and processed. For meats, this should include where the animal was born, raised, and slaughtered.
* Tracking and labeling throughout the supply chain, with a process for tracing contaminant issues.
2. How it was made:
* The use of synthetic pesticides.
* The use of hormones.
* The application of antibiotics.
* The presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
* Animal cloning in meat and milk production.
* Food Irradiation
* USDA Organic production standards.
* Explanation of a company’s food tracing and contaminant control program from farm to table.
3. What’s in it:
* Complete ingredient lists, with details of common allergens, applied to restaurant items as well as store-bought foods.
* Nutritional information normalized to a standard serving size.
* Explanation of levels of nutrients that may be harmful (such as saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and sugar).
* Contaminants such as pesticides, methyl mercury, or PCBs that remain in the product, even in trace amounts.
read more HERE and join the campaign
A New Way Forward
12 million unemployed. Foreclosures up 81%. Wall Street has taken over. We must break up the banks and never again let them get so big that they distort our politics and take down the economy.
? from A New Way ForwardGet up off your couch! Sign up for your city HERE
Read more about their idea(s) HERE
Someday, and I hope it is soon, this t-shirt design will not be relevant. When will the madness stop? Don’t forget to make your voice heard. Be active!
In the mean time you can show the wankers what you think and wear it OUT LOUD! We designed this like an album cover with a song list and of course in Dolby. See the shirt here.
How these people get elected is ridiculous. I don’t care who they are. How they act, supposedly on our behalf, is obviously sickening. The idea is we elect people to represent OUR VOICE. Whether this happens or not, it is your responsibility to participate in our society, process and government. You have no right to bitch if you don’t. They get paid all too well for poor work. We would be fired if it were us in our work place.
GET UP! and STAY STANDING! Tell them continually what you want represented. Tell them what kind of job they are doing. Tell them they are YOUR VOICE. Don’t just sit on the bus and let the drivers run you over the cliff. Take control and responsibility. This is your country and the insanity needs to stop! Below is a link to the list of the US Senate and contact information. You can email, call, or write letters. You can send petitions. Whatever it is, do something! Don’t sit on the sidelines or you are no better than they are. NOW IS THE MOMENT!
Poor weather in Rome fails to deter members of the left-wing General Confederation of Italian Workers from staging a protest against the government’s economic policies. (from the BBC)
Could Americans ever care enough to do such a thing today? This is a great example of Getting UP! and Standing UP!
