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  • Support Rene Gonzalez

    René González, one of the Cuban Five prisoners, is about to be released and needs your support.

    Go to Support Rene Gonzalez

  • America wants to work

    Add your name to AFL-CIO petition to Congress demanding good jobs now!

    Go to America wants to work

  • Tell Hershey to stop exploiting students

    Students from around the world paid thousands of dollars for a cultural U.S. experience. Hershey gave them the sweatshop.

    Go to Tell Hershey to stop exploiting students

  • URGENT: No to cuts that hurt working people!

    Tea Party Republicans are attempting to hold the country hostage by refusing to allow a routine adjustment in the nation's debt ceiling before August 2.  They are threatening to derail government functioning and the entire economy.

    The willingness of the Republicans to bring the country to the economic brink exposes the fact that they do not really care about the deficit or the vast majority of people in our country.  Their only goal is to increase the transfer of wealth from working people to billionaires and their corporations.

    The only way to shrink the deficit is to create jobs, tax the rich and end the wars to get the economy going again.  If the phony crisis created in opposition to  raising the debt ceiling is successful, working people will be hurt with loss of jobs and cuts in education, health care, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more.

    As thousands of people and their unions, retiree, civil rights, women, youth and environmental groups are concluding, now is the time to act to save our nation!

    Call and call again to your member of Congress and U.S. Senators.  Join delegations and demonstrations being organized in communities across the country.  Help organize your neighbors, co-workers, family and friends to deliver the message: 

    - Hands off our Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. 
    - Pass HR 2663 to raise the debt ceiling without any other measures attached
    - Solve our country's real deficit  —  jobs, infrastructure and social needs. Create jobs and rebuild America.

    To call Congress over the weekend dial 202-224-3121 or call from you computer. 

    The facts:

    • This is a phony crisis — Republicans are using what should be a routine vote (approved dozens of times in past decades, including five times under Bush) to achieve demands that would never pass on their own..
    • Those demands fulfill the wish list of billionaires and Wall Street corporations to grab even more wealth from children, working families and seniors.
    • The demands include measures to end what little power the government has to restrict corporations, in their pursuit of profit, from poisoning air and water, selling contaminated food, and committing financial fraud.
    • The only way to deal with the long-term deficit is by building a strong economy and a prosperous working class. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has the best plan in Congress, including end the wars, tax the rich, close corporate loopholes, and grow the economy by rebuilding essential infrastructure.

    America's real deficit:

    • Jobs — 25 million people are unemployed or underemployed — nearly 1 in 5. That rises to nearly 2 in 5 for African American and Latino workers, and youth. The jobs crisis strikes everywhere. The majority says jobs is the number one priority!
    • Existing infrastructure is deteriorating  —  roads, bridges, water and sewage treatment, public buildings, parks
    • Necessary new infrastructure — high-speed rail, mass transit, broadband internet, renewable energy.
    • Unmet social infrastructure needs: education, public health, research, youth workers, etc. Meeting these needs is vital to our future and our children and grandchildren.


     

    Go to URGENT: No to cuts that hurt working people!

  • New Tax the rich flier

    Download the new Save the nation! Tax the rich! PDF in both Spanish and English

    Go to New Tax the rich flier

  • Become a DREAMer

    Sign on as a citizen co-sponsor to the DREAM Act.

    Go to Become a DREAMer

  • Mr. President, put People's Budget on the table

    Send a letter to the president, saying the People's Budget should be part of budget negotiations.

    Go to Mr. President, put People's Budget on the table

  • Don’t cut a raw deal

    Let Vice Pres. Biden know you don't support a deal with Republicans on the debt ceiling that would hurt working families.

    Go to Don’t cut a raw deal

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