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Congress, Stand Firm Behind the RESTORE Act!

2008-10-17T15:30:43Z

Tell House Members to Stand Firm Behind the RESTORE Act! The FISA bill passed by the Senate is a disgrace. By legalizing warrantless spying on Americans and granting retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, the Senate seeks to ensure that the Bush administration's illegal spying programs are never investigated or subjected to the rule of law. The Senate bill is a profound betrayal of the votes of millions of Americans who voted in 2006 to put Democrats in control of Congress in order to increase, not eliminate, checks and oversight on this administration, and to restore the rule of law to our country. The House's RESTORE Act is an infinitely superior bill. It provides real safeguards on the President's spying powers while providing him with the surveillance powers he needs to protect the country. It enables the issue of the legality of the President's spying programs to be decided where it belongs -- in a court of law. And it preserves the crucial balance that has existed for decades between enabiling necessary surveillance on Americans and ensuring that our political leaders do not abuse that power. In the wake of the discovery of the Watergate crimes and decades of surveillance abuses, the Congress of the mid-1970s acted on a bipartisan basis to put into place safeguards to ensure that even our highest political officials must adhere to the law and can only exercise eavesdropping powers with real safeguards. The RESTORE Act continues that tradition, while the Senate bill eviscerates it. We urge Democratic House members to stand firm behind the bill they passed and not capitulate once again to the bullying, manipulative demands of the Bush administration for ever-greater unchecked power, as embodied by the warrantless eavesdropping and telecom immunity provisions of the Senate bill. Sign Petition: action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/RestoreFISA

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Saving America in 10 minutes

2008-10-18T09:29:52Z

Discovering the obvious Most citizens would be amazed at the personal benefit we would all derive if we simply elected a president that upheld our Constitution. All we need to do is vote for a presidential candidate in the primary election that has a proven record of upholding our constitution, and stop voting for the lesser of two evils. All too many times we have actually been electing criminals. Which makes us accomplices to their crimes. Since the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913, not one president since has upheld our Constitution. Mainstream corporate media marginalizes and excludes those who would uphold our Constitution insuring that they do not get elected. You can now change that. We could not have a greater motivation.

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Capitol News Service: Voting Rights for Former Felons

2008-10-27T12:27:45Z

A report by Capitol News Service on People For the American Way Foundation's Restore My Vote project, which aims to help Florida ex-offenders reclaim their right to vote. Video posted by PFAWF with permission of CNS. Learn more about the project at www.restoremyvote.org.

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Headzup: Republicans Filibuster Habeas Corpus

2008-10-24T09:32:06Z

Republican Senators have filibustered a bill to restore America's right of Habeas Corpus. Find out more here.

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Rebuilding Bamiyan - 23 Jul 07 - Part 1

2008-10-14T11:17:54Z

In 2001 the Taliban swept through Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. Their target was the colossal stone Buddha statues which had stood for over 1500 years. The world watched powerless as one of its true wonders was lost. In Rebuilding Bamiyan Al Jazeera's Nadene Ghouri travels to Bamiyan to explore the restoration work being done on the site, and to talk to those planning to rebuild the statues.

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