CREDO Mobile is the only phone company fighting for a robust public option in any healthcare-reform legislation. We’re also the only one supporting Rep. John Conyers’ H.R. 676, which would create a single-payer system.
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CREDO Mobile Sen. Shelby (R-Ala.) is reportedly dropping all but two of his holds on Obama nominees. That's good news. We should celebrate by continuing to hold Harry Reid's feet to the fire and insist that Democratic Leadership fight back early and often.
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, is dropping most of his holds on Obama administration nominees, saying thisevening through a spokesman that he has succeeded indrawing the White ...
CREDO Mobile Meet retired Maj. Gen. Clifford Stanley. Sen. Dick Shelby of Alabama has been blocking his confirmation as the Pentagon official in charge of readiness in order to force the Pentagon to change it's rules to reward Northrup Grumman. What kind of a senator would do that?
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President Barack Obama has nominated retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Clifford Stanley as under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness — the Pentagon’s top personnel official.
CREDO Mobile Saturday Night Live had a hilarious send up of FOX News and Don't Ask Don't Tell this weekend. If you missed it, why not take a break and watch it now?
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SNL opened with a parody of "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren," last night as the Fox News host (Kristen Wiig) welcomed a panel consisting of Karl Rove, Col. Oliver North, and an attractive blonde lady.
CREDO Mobile Happy Birthday to Lisa Jackson, head of Pres. Obama's EPA who turns 48 today. Let's give her a birthday present and stop Republican and conservative Democratic senators from taking away her power to fight climate change under the Clean Air Act.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is launching a potentially devastating attack on the Clean Air Act. Along with 35 other Republicans and three Democrats, she has introduced a "resolution of disapproval" ...
CREDO Mobile Thanks to Bill Moyers, at least his viewers now have a better understanding of why single payer healthcare, or Medicare for All, is the best way to provide universal coverage. While this Congress will not even consider single payer, understanding a real alternative makes it easier to keep track of what is at stake in the health care fight. Please watch and then share.
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While many in Congress, the press and the public have given up on the idea of even a limited public option in health care reform, Flowers and her group, Physicians for a National Health Program, are standing firm for a single-payer plan. ...
CREDO Mobile This is hilarious. We need more progressive comedians like Wanda Sykes who not only make us laugh but are also staunch activists for choice and marriage equality.
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Wanda Sykes took on CBS this week, mocking the fact that the network is going to allow a pro-life ad to run during the game, while squashing a gay dating site's commercial. Sykes recommended that Man ...
CREDO Mobile Happy Birthday to Mike Farrell, who turns 71 today. A tireless activist, Farrell is almost as well known for his work to end the death penalty as for his role as Dr. B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H.
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Long before M*A*S*H was a household word, Mike Farrell was involved in issues that were of concern to him. This involvement stems from his belief that being a responsible citizen means being willing to see conditions improve for the ultimate benefit of all.
CREDO Mobile You know you're doing something right when the NRA attacks you (http://bit.ly/cRJx9K). And for the record, CREDO brews Peet's Fair Trade Blend in our offices.
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Starbucks must stand up for the safety of their customers and adopt a nationwide, gun-free policy in all Starbucks stores. It's everyone's right to be able to sit in a restaurant or coffee shop with their families without intimidation or fear of guns, either concealed or openly carried.
CREDO Mobile Shame on Sen. Shelby who is holding up every single one of Pres. Obama's appointees. Enough is enough. It's well past time for Harry Reid to stop playing nice with bullies.
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Tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Sen. Shelby's blanket hold on all of President Obama's nominees is nothing more than extortion -- fight back and make the Republicans filibuster and suffer the consequences in the court of public opinion.
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On the this day in 1994, justice was finally served to the white separatist - Byron De La Beckwith - who murdered civil rights leader Medgar
Evers in 1963. When Evers died, only 28,000 blacks were registered voters. In 2008, over 17 million were.
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Mississippi is a much-changed place since civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers was murdered there 40 years ago this week. The civil rights leader refused to leave the state he loved. He believed conditions would improve. ...
CREDO Mobile Welcome news to all of us who stand with Tibet.
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President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama later this month, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters today.
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Who knew that Walmart and others have been selling RAYON clothes and misleading consumers by calling it bamboo to make people think the clothes were hip and green?
Let's hope the FTC keeps up the attack on greenwashing.
FTC Warns 78 Retailers, Including Wal-Mart, Target, and Kmart, to Stop Labeling and Advertising Rayo
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Seventy-eight companies nationwide have received Federal Trade Commission letters warning that they may be breaking the law by selling clothing and other textile products that are labeled and advertised as “bamboo,” but actually are made of manufactured rayon fiber. ...
CREDO Mobile Good news. This makes it much easier for other retired generals to step up and harder for those homophobes who have long said that they will respect the views of military leaders.
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The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff throws his support behind new efforts to undo the policy against openly gay members of the military.
CREDO Mobile Today we celebrate the birthday of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks. A leader in the local NAACP and trained at the Highlander Folk Center, Rose was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the whites only section of a Montgomery, Alabama bus. The long bus boycott that followed brought massive national attention and... the Supreme Court eventually ruled that racial discrimination on public transit was unconstitutional.
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Learn more about Rosa Parks and the Rosa Parks Biography.Find all information on Rosa Parks and the Rosa Parks Biography at Africanaonline.com
CREDO Mobile Hurray for "Food, Inc." a progressive film that received an Oscar nomination in the documentary category!
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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
