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Public Citizen Take action! Urge your representatives today to vote YES for single-payer!
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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
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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
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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
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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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San Antonio, Texas: Rate-payers have been asked to trust our city-owned energy company to provide the best energy plan for us. The energy company, CPS, kept the $4b increase a secret, even from the mayor, for about two weeks! CPS likes nuclear energy, coal, fossil fuels, and is only minimally interested in renewable... energy. Rate-payers want renewable energy and local green jobs.
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San Antonio City Council delays vote on $400 million bond issue for expansion at South Texas Project nuclear complex until January, 2010, after Toshiba releases new "substantially higher" cost estimate. Execs from City-owned CPS Energy are booking flights for Japan to negotiate.
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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
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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.
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The big corporate banks and Wall Street institutions that took our economy to the brink of collapse are coming to Chicago.
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Just remember, Google has no problem throwing you under the bus. It's not your friend. It's a corporation. http://citizenvox.org/2009/10/21/in-goog
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How much of your personal information is Google willing to turn over to a third party without a fight? We’ve asked a California federal court to unseal a report that would give customers of the world’s largest Internet company an answer to that question.