Americans Taking to the Streets and other News

Veterans Chain Themselves to White House Fence- Not Covered by MSM

 1. Americans are rising up and taking to the streets, but you would never know it from the mainstream media.
 From TruthOut.

Also, happening now- a 12 day action in DC by the group Witness against Torture. The Daily Vigil and Fast for Justice  demands accountability over torture and closing Guantanamo.  Thanks to all who are fasting for 12 days, donning orange jumpsuits and hoods, blocking the entrance to DOJ and standing at an entrance to the Pentagon...they are the conscience of the nation.

 2. Check out the new, populist online group that goes beyond the Democratic or Republican parties.  "RootsAction will never be silent as Congress and the president squander billions on foreign wars while failing to meet crucial domestic needs."

3. Subject: Save the honey bees!  We all know our bees are in trouble. Now we find a leaked memo suggests that the EPA has ignored the science linking the bee die-off to the pesticide clothianidin. Demand action here.

4. Thanks to the FCC "Comcast-NBC will now control one in every five television viewing hours." Bad for democracy! Read about it here and speak out!

5. Chase Bank, with $2.4 trillion is assets, may have overcharged 4,000 troops and improperly foreclosed on the homes of fourteen military families.

"...spending on arms and armies is inherently undesirable. Even when seemingly necessary, it constitutes a misappropriation of scarce resources. By diverting social capital from productive to destructive purposes, war and the preparation for war deplete, rather than enhance, a nation’s strength." Andrew J. Bacevich speaking about Eisenhower's warnings of our country's militarization. "The Tyranny of Defense, Inc"