Last week, the Colorado Division of Insurance announced they are looking into health insurance premium hikes by Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield in excess of 33% on individual coverage plans, after a marked increase in the number of consumer complaints (Denver Post, 2/25/2010). This comes on the heels of reports that Anthem's parent company has raised rates by almost 40% in other states.

The cost of health care is spiraling out of control and threatening the economy.Sign our petition to state and federal lawmakers, telling them to get serious about protecting the public interest by passing health reform now.

http://progressnowcolorado.org/HealthReformNow

A "sweetheart" deal working its way through Congress could allow a single corporation, Sealaska, to clearcut some of the best, oldest, most biologically-rich areas left in America's Rainforest, the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

More than 22,000 mercenaries are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, and these unaccountable hired guns have shot civilians and participated in torture at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities.

The Stop Outsourcing Security Act, just introduced by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, would prohibit hiring private mercenaries like Blackwater to perform tasks traditionally done by the military.

Please urge your representative to co-sponsor the Stop Outsourcing Our Security Act.

We've come to you before about Giumarra--the nations' largest table grape grower. Last week we were able to give a strong message to Giumarra thanks to more than 16,000 of our supporters signing a petition. It condemns Giumarra for the alleged sexual harassment of a 17-year old girl.

This huge conglomerate accepted the petition and said they'd release a statement to the media after they reviewed the petition, but did not promise any action to ensure this could not happen again.

The workers need more than words. This is why we're asking you to pledge to go to your local supermarket and take this downloadable flier to the produce manager.

Last fall during the height of the H1N1 outbreak, Walmart was exposed for its track record of giving employees "demerits" that can lead to termination when they call in sick. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/03sick.html)

Since then Wake Up Walmart has joined a coalition of advocacy groups, including MomsRising.org and the Labor Project for Working Families, to bring attention to Walmart’s sick day policy.

On Wednesday, February 24th we will join with this coalition to bring the message directly to Walmart.

Please join us in giving Walmart a Demerit and let them know that their sick leave policy is unfair to worker and customers alike.

Thank you,

Wake Up Walmart
www.wakeupwalmart.com

If the final health care reform bill doesn't include a public option, it'll be because of conservative Senate Democrats like Blanche Lincoln.

After taking more than $700,000 from Big Insurance and HMO interests, she was one of just a handful of senators who vowed to filibuster health care reform until the public option was removed—and just Friday, she denounced it again.¹

But now we've got a huge opportunity to replace her, and to send a powerful message to Washington that obstructing progressive legislation has heavy political costs.

She's up for reelection this year, and Bill Halter, the state's progressive lieutenant governor, is deciding right now whether to challenge her in the Democratic primary.² Can you sign our petition to Bill Halter telling him we'll have his back if he decides to run?

http://pol.moveon.org/billhalter/?id=19043-17252443-CF1Wfvx&t=3

Well, that's exactly what's going to happen next week. On February 24th, together with allies from labor unions, progressive blogs, Health Care for America Now, and others, we're organizing a massive day of action: the Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform.

We're aiming to send one million messages (!!) to Congress that day. We'll call, fax, email, tweet, blog, Facebook—everything we can think of—to make sure Congress knows voters want health reform this year.

It's going to be huge—and fun. But to make the biggest impact and hit our one million goal, we need as many people involved as possible from coast to coast. Can you sign up today to join the Virtual March? It's simple to sign up—and when you do, we'll automatically send a fax in your name to Sens. Bennet and Udall. Click the link below—it'll sign you up and send a fax in your name to your senators.

http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch10/?id=19006-17252443-7B2N7Gx&t=3

They claim Senator Bennet has "a tin ear for what most Coloradans and Americans want" but then insinuate he should oppose the public option.

The irony is that a recent Research 2000 Colorado poll of likely voters found that 58% of Coloradans want a public option. Broken down by political party, it's a full 85% of Democrats, 59% of Independents, and 29% of Republicans who support a public option. So even moderate, independent constituents of Senator Bennet's — the ones the Denver Post says he's ignoring — are squarely behind his charge for the public option.
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Next week, 3,849,376 people could be on their way to ending an abusive relationship with big banks.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles City Councilmember Richard Alarcon is introducing a bill that would set high standards for banks to meet in order to do business with the city of L.A. The message to bankers is clear: if your bank continues to ravage our communities, you don't get a dime of taxpayers' money. Period.

Los Angeles is the second biggest city in the country. If this bill passes, it will send a message so loud, they'll hear it all the way on Wall Street.

Senators McCain and Dorgan have just introduced yet another thinly 
veiled attempt to criminalize ordinary vitamin pills, proposing give 
the FDA the power to preemptively and without cause restrict their 
distribution, deceptively entitled the Dietary Supplement Safety Act, 
S. 3002. This is the same FDA that routinely waves through dangerous 
synthetic drugs that kill hundreds of thousands, hardly a 
recommendation for their administrative prowess. Yet millions of 
people take natural vitamins and other food supplements in complete 
safety already. Where is the epidemic of vitamin pill fatalities? 
There is none. 

Reject S. 3002 Action Page: 
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1032.php

It's time we remind the banks who bailed them out when they crashed the economy - and of the promise they made to use our money to help get Main Street back on its feet: http://action.seiu.org/mnjanitors

Right now, executives from Wells Fargo and US Bancorp are at the Minnesota Bankers Association convention in St. Paul. While they're all in the room together, we're going to deliver your messages right to their Blackberries. We need to let them know the entire country is holding them accountable for what they do with our money.

The FDIC is taking public comments on the proposed new rule until this Thursday, February 18. But banks are pushing hard against it, and many of the comments so far are from bankers. The FDIC needs to hear from regular Americans who got stuck with the bill when these bankers wrecked the economy. Can you let the FDIC know you support the new rule by submitting a comment?

Click here to send your comment

As the tragedy in Haiti unfolds, Americans are generously donating millions of dollars to aid organizations.

But when Americans donate to charity with their credit cards, the credit card companies get rich. In some cases they keep 3% of the donation as a "transaction fee," even though that's far more than it costs them to process the donation.

It's outrageous and wrong—and it needs to stop. 

Can you sign this petition to the CEOs of the major credit card companies demanding that they waive their processing fees for all charitable donations? Clicking here will add your name:

http://pol.moveon.org/nofees/o.pl?id=18596-1280456-2go6CHx&t=3

Yesterday, at the national extreme-right "Tea Party" Convention, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo said that "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House." He added that President Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote." (NY Daily News, 2/5/10)

Tancredo praised the radical 'Tea Partiers' for launching a "revolution," and told the audience gathered that "it is our nation."

Click here to tell Tancredo he doesn't speak for you.

In one of the worst decisions in U.S. history, the Supreme Court recently ruled that big corporations have the same First Amendment rights as people. This decision has opened the floodgates to unlimited political spending by big corporations.¹

To fully undo the damage, Congress must pass a constitutional amendment overturning this terrible decision.

So, we're aiming to send thousands of faxes to members of Congress urging them to close the floodgates of unlimited corporate cash. Can you send a free fax to Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today? Click here to send a fax now:

http://pol.moveon.org/fax?tg=FSCO_2.FSCO_1&cp_id=1260&id=18848-17252443-ZTo55Qx&t=4

This is what happens when the Democratic leadership plays nice with bullies. The country loses.
Sen. Richard Shelby is blocking 70 important niminees until he gets $40 Billion in PORK for his state.

At least 70 nominees to important positions at the White House, the federal judiciary, and crucial cabinet agencies — including those charged with keeping us safe from terrorism — cannot move forward until this hold is ignored or lifted.
Sign the petiton to force ther GDop to filibuster Senator Shelby

Ken Lewis may need to clear a spot on his retirement schedule for a court date.

The New York Attorney General's office announced today that they're charging Bank of America and its former CEO Ken Lewis with fraud. The charges stem from BofA's disastrous merger with Merrill Lynch and their alleged failure to disclose important information about the deal to shareholders or the federal government.

These are the people who wrecked our economy. And AIG still owes taxpayers $182 billion.

Their priority should be paying us back—not giving out obscene bonuses.

But unless Congress acts—by blocking bonuses at bailed-out banks or imposing heavy taxes on them—they'll keep wasting our money. Can you sign our petition telling them that serious action to rein in bonuses is long overdue? Clicking below will add your name.

http://pol.moveon.org/aigagain/o.pl?id=18831-17252443-EDdIGQx&t=3

The petition says: "Bailed-out companies shouldn't be allowed to waste money on bonuses until they've paid back their debt in full."

Senator Mark Udall
Phone: 202-224-5941

Senator Michael Bennet
Phone: 202-224-5852
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The Supreme Court 5 must be impeached 
before they go even further off the deep end. Whatever else within 
the law that Congress can do to counteract this decision must be 

Corporations Are NOT The People 
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1029.php Action Page: Impeach The Supreme Court 5