News & Action Alerts
April 22, 2008
For Fair Pay
Call your senators immediately to urge them to vote yes on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act! The vote is expected Wednesday, April 23. There is not a moment left to lose! This toll free number, 866-338-1015, will be available Monday through Wednesday. Call now!
The House has already passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to correct the recent Supreme Court decision that guts the ability of women workers to sue for wage discrimination. Celebrate Equal Pay Day by calling your senators toll-free at 866-338-1015 today!
Lilly Ledbetter worked at Goodyear for nearly 20 years before she discovered that men in the same job were paid more. The Supreme Court ruled that wage discrimination complaints must be filed within 180 days of the initial discriminatory salary decision, even if the victim is unaware of the discrimination until much later. This 5-4 decision by the Bush Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent on wage discrimination cases decided under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
It is imperative that the Senate pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Call your senators toll-free at 866-338-1015 today! Tell them to reverse the Supreme Court's assault on women's right to sue by voting for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Hillary Clinton for President
From MoveOn
You've done it again. We asked for positive, persuasive Obama ads, and MoveOn members across the nation responded—sending in more than 1,000 creative and amazing videos.
We also just got some powerful new polling results connecting the Iraq war and the recession. We're ready to go big with a campaign to get this message out there—using ads, events, and more. Can you chip in so we can take this important poll public? |
Now, help pick a winner: watch some of these ads today, and tell us which ones you think are most powerful. The finalists will be seen by a panel of top film professionals, artists, and netroots heroes—and the winning ad will be aired on national TV. Can you start voting in MoveOn's Obama in 30 Seconds contest today? Just click here to begin.
We commissioned it earlier this year. It shows that voters in all 50 states see a link between the war and our sinking economy. Folks across the country think getting out of Iraq is one of the best ways to help fix our deepening economic crisis.
This message is political dynamite. If the link between Iraq war spending and the recession was in the headlines, John McCain and other pro-war politicians wouldn't get away with their endless war strategy.
From the Democratic Party
John McCain believes we're better off economically today than we were eight years ago.
The American people know that's not true -- they're feeling the effects of high gas prices, lost jobs, and a housing crisis. Voters continually rank the economy as their biggest concern.
So this week we're planning to release our first national television ad of the presidential race to show the American people just how wrong John McCain is on the economy. We're also strengthening our local organizing efforts to make sure the American people really know how little John McCain understands the economy.
We need $500,000 to help pay for ads like the one we plan to air this week, fund organizers in your state and build a national infrastructure to help Hillary or Barack win the White House.
Can you help us raise $500,000? If you can, then millions of Americans will get to see and hear the real John McCain in his own words -- and we'll be building for victory in November.
Seneca 2 Forum
Co-sponsored by the WVSU Political Science Dept.
Wednesday, April 30th, 7 pm WVSU Student Union
An Insider's Story
Veteran CIA Analyst, Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern is one of our country's most respected and informed critics of US foreign policy. During the Reagan Administration, he prepared daily security briefs for President Reagan, Vice President Bush, the National Security Advisor, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Cabinet. Later, he served as a senior CIA analyst and prepared the President's Daily Briefs for the first President Bush.
FREE TO THE PUBLIC AND FREE PARKING ON CAMPUS
Upcoming Films
Wednesday April 23, 6:30PM
Taxi to the Dark Side
Documentary, 2008, USA, 106 minutes
R for disturbing images and content involving torture and graphic nudity
www.taxitothedarkside.com
Written and Directed by Alex Gibney
This Academy Award winning documentary probes into the controversial and often tragic interrogation practices of the US Military. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. 2008 Oscar Winner Best Documentary Feature.
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