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Buyer beware: GM's 60-day return offer is wrapped in red tape. #p2 #tcot #auto http://citizenvox.org/2009/11/20/try-a-g
Source: citizenvox.org
GM’s 60-day return offer will close out at the end of November. The message – may the best car win – would be a good way to re-introduce GM to the American people. But the New GM looks a lot like the Old GM: “no strings attached” apparently doesn’t include red tape.
Public Citizen U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Stop Protecting Rapists. Sign the petition below!
Source: action.citizen.org
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was working for a private contractor in Iraq when she was brutally gang-raped by coworkers. Four years later, Jamie is still being denied justice.Jamie can't file U.S. criminal ...
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What should we do with big banks? Break them up. #p2 #topprog #whitehouse
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http://www.citizen.org Public Citizen President Robert Weissman speaks at a rally in front of Goldman Sachs' Washington, D.C. headquarters. Public Citizen, National Peoples Action and Service Employees ...
Public Citizen Watch Public Citizen's president, Robert Weissman, rally the activists at today's protest in front of Goldman Sachs' Capitol Hill headquarters.
Source: citizenvox.org
What a perfect day for a protest! Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman and SEIU’s Andy Stern rallied the crowd in front of the Capitol Hill headquarters of Goldman Sachs. Our message? Break up the banks.
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Source: citizenvox.org
What? You disagree? Well, that’s what came up on last night’s Colbert Report. In an interview with the Times of London,theCEO of Goldman Sachs — acolossal Wall St. firmthat, along ...
Public Citizen Join with Public Citizen's president, Robert Weissman, and hundreds of other fed up consumers and activists in a protest on Capitol Hill this Monday, Nov. 16!
Source: action.citizen.org
Goldman Sachs and the other banksters are back to making record profits and on track to hand out multi-billion dollar bonuses. Meanwhile, back in the real economy, unemployment has risen above 10 percent, millions have lost their homes and the banks keep nickel and diming us.
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Preventable medical errors could be reduced if doctors started policing their own
http://citizenvox.org/2009/11/11/medical
Source: citizenvox.org
In Virginia, there is a special word for being victimized by medical malpractice – being “Plotnicked.” Virginia doctor Stephen Plotnick became so notorious for injuring patients that his name is now the word for what happens when doctors make mistakes. ...
Public Citizen Take action! Urge your representatives today to vote YES for single-payer!
Source: action.citizen.org
Our nation is facing a health care crisis. Single-payer health care is the only reform that will provide universal coverage and contain skyrocketing costs. Public Citizen has been fighting for a vote ...
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"There is only one solution to the twin problems of escalating health care costs and the epidemic of the uninsured: a Medicare-for-All, single payer system."
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In a Medicare-for-All system, health care is available as a matter of right. No one is denied treatment because they can't pay. No one is mandated to buy coverage.
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The Senate needs to stand up to energy lobbyists and put some teeth into its climate change bill. http://citizenvox.org/2009/11/04/senate-
Senate climate proposal won’t wean us off fossil fuels, fails to hold polluters accountable « Public
Source: citizenvox.org
Climate change requires us to rethink and transform the ways we produce and consume energy and the way we transport goods and people. But draft legislation being considered by the Senate Environment and ...
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Will the Supreme Court let the corporate cash flood our elections? (VIDEO)
http://citizenvox.org/2009/11/02/citizen
Source: citizenvox.org
We’ve been spreading the word that the Supreme Court is considering a critically important case this fall: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The case started out as a pretty technical dispute ...
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Sen. Franken's amendment holding defense contractors accountable for crimes such as rape is in conference committee. Tell committee members not to weaken the amendment.
http://citizenvox.org/2009/10/28/urge-co
Source: citizenvox.org
By now, you are probably aware of an amendment to a bill funding the Department of Defense that would prohibit the U.S. government from doing business with defense contractors who deny employees who have ...
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Let's keep the pressure on Congress to deliver true financial reform. http://citizenvox.org/2009/10/27/sorry-b
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Several thousand citizens made their voices heard this week in Chicago at the American Bankers Association convention, telling the banksters that enough is enough. We’re sick of them taking trillions ...
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Listen to the stories of these folks before you start taking away the rights of patients to hold doctors and hospitals accountable for serious medical errors. http://citizenvox.org/2009/10/22/medical
Source: citizenvox.org
Merlyna Adams of Louisiana sported a large round button on her lapel as she addressed reporters at a press conference yesterday. The button simply said: “I am not frivolous.”
Public Citizen Calling all activists in Chicago! It's time to stand up to the banksters.
Source: citizenvox.org
The big corporate banks and Wall Street institutions that took our economy to the brink of collapse are coming to Chicago.
