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Please sign a petition to prevent war with Iran. In our current economic crisis,
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Sign the petition to prevent war with Iran! Visit http://bit.ly/yDlbjn to sign today.

The outrage over the crimes committed by Wall Street and the big banks is spilling into the streets.
Citizens are marching and protesting across the country to oppose the bad behavior of the titans of finance.

And there's a growing movement of Attorneys General who refuse to let the banks off the hook, including AGs in New York, Nevada, Massachusetts, Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota, and California.
But Oregon Attorney General John Kroger has yet to take a stand.

Sign our petition to Attorney General John Kroger asking him to fight for Oregon.
California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris was the latest to break from the investigation of Wall Street mortgage and foreclosure fraud, saying that the settlement needs “to bring relief to Californians that is equal to the pain California experienced and what is being negotiated now is insufficient.”[1]  She's right.

But Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is leaning hard on the Attorneys General to just slap a fine on the banks, but give them immunity from any further investigations.[2]
No doubt, Wall Street executives are eager to take such a deal.
When Kroger ran for Oregon Attorney General, he vowed to fight for ordinary Oregonians every chance he got. Now, as the state's top cop, he has a real chance to hold the banks accountable to Oregonians.

If the big banks are able to close the books on the financial collapse -- and the thousand of homeowners they unlawfully foreclosed on without cause -- there's nothing to stop them from doing it again. High financial crime is good business, if you can get away with it.

Kroger should refuse any settlement deal that would give big banks broad immunity from investigation and either civil or criminal liability and instead fight for clear and fair rules for how banks will treat homeowners moving forward. He should fight for a settlement that provides just compensation for all of the economic damage that's been done to individual homeowners and our communities.

It's time to be bold.

Click here to sign our petition: http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4845 Tell John Kroger to take a stand for Oregon.

And let the rest of our leaders know: We, the 99%, are mad as hell
and are not gonna take it anymore! http://www.writingresource.info/actnow.html

Will you join me and President Obama in insisting that Congress get busy fixing our jobs crisis—and pay for it by asking millionaires and billionaires like Warren Buffett to pay their fair share?
Tell your lawmakers to start fixing America’s jobs crisis—
and let them know you’ll hold them accountable.

Tell your Representative: Sign the Price-Welch letter in support of continued Palestinian Aid today! American politicians are tripping over themselves to punish the Palestinian Authority, the UN and even third-party countries over the Palestinian application for membership in the United Nations—all in the name of burnishing their pro-Israel credentials.

They’re even-- we kid you not-- urging U.S. support for Israeli annexation of “Judea and Samaria.” This is yet another symptom of just how broken our politics on Israel are. But this is the problem J Street was created to fix, by giving pragmatic pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans voice.

We have to show Congress just how many pro-Israel Americans – deeply concerned about Israel, its security and even the consequences of a UN vote – oppose cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority.

Thankfully, some members of Congress are urging the President to stop possible aid cuts.

Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Peter Welch (D-VT) are circulating a letter to the President which says that, “the suspension or ending of U.S. aid could undermine the very foundations of a future Palestinian state, undoing the progress that has been made in recent years toward strengthening the PA’s security and governing institutions.”

Please tell your Member of Congress to sign the Price-Welch letter today.

While Israel’s own Shin Bet security agency has said that U.S. security assistance helped make 2010 the most terror-free year in a decade, Members of Congress too often hear that Israel has no partner for peace.

They don’t hear enough from those of us who respect what the PA is doing to make a two-state solution possible.

http://action.jstreet.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4744

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J Street is the political home of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.

We need Amnesty, and Amnesty needs us

All my life I've felt humbled in the face of the suffering of others. It is only that I, by accident of birth, was born in the right place at the right time,and that someone else, not me, huddles in a prison cell, is tortured, and faces the unbearable consequences of having been born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or, as the legendary Phil Ochs song says, there but for fortune, go you or I. Happily for me, I discovered early on that, in the words of Swedish Ambassador Harald Edelstam, "I cannot tolerate injustice." This inability to tolerate injustice has brought me to the roots of human misery, called me to engage in the fight for the rights, freedoms, and the dignity of others. And in so doing, has helped me to maintain my own dignity.

In 1972 I was inspired to devote a year of my life to helping Amnesty launch its first US office on the west coast, and years later, when the organization had grown to worldwide proportions, to perform in both its A Conspiracy of Hope and Human Rights Now! tours.

Today I stand with Amnesty and their Death Penalty Abolition Campaign to fight for the life of Troy Davis, who within weeks could be executed for a crime he may not have committed. There remain serious doubts of his guilt. His death sentence defies all logic and morality.

In matters of life and death, there is no room for doubt. With their death penalty campaign work, Amnesty has long been a leader in the struggle to abolish the death penalty in every corner of the world.

In honor of Amnesty's 50th birthday, please join me in this life-saving work. Become a member during Amnesty's September membership drive and a generous donor will match your gift dollar-for-dollar.

Amnesty has grown into the most powerful human rights movement in history, winning freedom for tens of thousands of individuals jailed for expressing their beliefs, shutting down torture chambers and halting executions. I have a special place in my heart for Amnesty. I hope that you do, too. We need Amnesty, and Amnesty needs us. Please join me as a member today.

Joan Baez MUSICIAN, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

activism

"Simply open up our cities to art, music and dance. Creativity doesn't necessarily mean craziness or negative diversity..Spontanous acts of artistic expression. More of it...Make stands that people can put their equipment on and let the show begin...All day and night long in the business districts."
Will you sign this petition? Click here:

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