President Barack Obama, holding the previous record (in 2008) for campaign funding from Wall Street, is out to set a new mark in 2012. With unemployment, foreclosures, and health expenses shattering the lives of millions, Obama is pursuing cuts to human services and massive spending on wars. How will that win an election? Perhaps by raising enough Wall Street funding to purchase every advertisement on every television network.
Sign an open letter to the President right now that tells him we'll be thinking for ourselves, and reminds him that our government was formed in the name of We the People, not We the Wall Street.
When you click on a RootsAction alert (click on any headline in this article), the letter that you end up sending to Congress or the President or whatever target is involved reads like the alert you were Emailed, not some watered-down version that misses the point. In this, too, RootsAction is unique.
RootsAction is even seeking to keep the power of impeachment alive in our Constitution:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been very busy accepting gifts from organizations that file briefs before the court, attending political fundraisers, ruling on suits in which he or his wife have a conflict of interest, and hiding income. No wonder he hasn't had time to ask a question from the bench in five years. Ask your U.S. Representative to move to impeach him.
These progressive leaders have strongly endorsed the launch of RootsAction:
* Jim Hightower, publisher and author
* Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine, columnist
* Cornel West, Princeton professor and author
* Daniel Ellsberg, released Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, author
* Barbara Ehrenreich, author Nickel and Dimed, activist
* Glenn Greenwald, civil rights attorney and blogger
* Bill Fletcher Jr., labor and racial justice leader
* Laura Flanders, GritTV host
* Former U.S. Senator James Abourezk
* Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent and whistleblower
You can join and ask all of your friends to join. It's free. You don't get more than one or two Emails per week. And it will bring our public discussion up to the level of our public. See you there: http://rootsaction.org
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