No complaints about this traffic cop (CBS News) LOS ANGELES - Nobody likes to see a motorcycle cop in the rear-view mirror. But we happened to run into a cop who holds the record for civilian complaints. So where did he find him? "On the Road," of course. Stop Syrian surveillance Privacy Policy Last modified: November 11, 2011 This Privacy Policy is continually under review to ensure your privacy and security. The Anti-Corruption Pledge Call on your lawmakers to take the pledge Determining your location. Could not determine your location, try again?
About Public.Resource.Org Contact Information Supporting Public.Resource.Org Public.Resource.Org is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and your contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Checks may also be sent to the above address. Thank you for your support. Our Supporting Paperwork No immunity without investigation No immunity without investigation In America right now, small crimes get punished, but big crimes--committed against the whole country by the 1%--get free passes and bailouts. Federal and state negotiators—including top members of the Obama administration—are days away from striking a bad deal that would let the banks off the hook for illegally foreclosing on millions of homeowners.
Write Your Representative - Contact your Congressperson in the U.S. House of Representatives. Not sure of your congressional district or who your member is? This service will assist you by matching your ZIP code to your congressional district, with links to your member's website and contact page. Please review the frequently asked questions if you have problems using this service. Yes, Trees Are a Viable Climate Solution If there was one unlikely buzzword to come out of the most recent gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, it was “tree-planting.” WEF launched a global initiative to “grow, restore and conserve 1 trillion trees around the world,” with the support of leaders like United States President Donald Trump, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, and Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff. Claire O’Neill, the chair of this year’s UN climate conference, praised the campaign and tweeted, “we will put the power of natural climate solutions at the heart of COP 26.” But this surge of support for reforestation and natural climate solutions brought with it accusations of corporate greenwashing and misinformation about what natural climate solutions can accomplish. One headline read, “Global Elites Have Found A Way To Do the Absolute Minimum For The Climate.”
Anonymous - Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2011? Anonymous has been called many things, mostly in relation to computer hacking — hackers, hacktivists, an international hacking collective — but the so-called group is really more of a way of life than something that's easily definable. Anonymous has changed the way the world thinks about hacking by turning it into a form of social activism. A fixture with the Occupy Wall Street protests, Anonymous has also been linked to nefarious hacks, like the one that took down Sony's PlayStation Network this year. Yet it has reportedly been engaged in vigilante justice as well, including the takedown of a massive child-pornography ring.
Forest Landowners Guide to Tree Planting Success Planting trees is visionary Imagine a forest where there was once pasture, or woodland where there were once crops. Imagine a healthy, diverse forest, resistant to insects, fire, and disease, that will contribute to the property for generations. Occupy the world At the weekend my twitter feed was alive with news of the hundreds of thousands of people around the world, including in my adopted city of Amsterdam, taking a stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is a movement that has quickly spread far beyond the shadows of Wall Street’s skyscrapers, and the reason is simple - all over the world, citizens are tired of profit being put before people and the planet. Greenpeace is tired of polluting corporations with vested interests dictating policy to governments, without concern for the consequences for those who have to live with them. We are tired of corporations controlling the quality of the air, people’s access to food and the availability of clean, safe energy.
AmeriCorps Partners with Up With Trees A team of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) members is planting trees and clearing unkempt public land along the sides of roads and freeways across greater Tulsa. The group of nine young adults arrived April 12 and will be serving Tulsa through May 27. While in town, the AmeriCorps NCCC team is partnering with Up With Trees, working on their 700+ sites to plant, preserve, and promote Tulsa’s urban forest for the health and prosperity of the community. Over the course of this six-week project, the AmeriCorps NCCC team will be clearing garbage, overgrown vegetation, and invasive species to prepare spaces for Up With Trees to plant in future. Working with the organization’s crew, they added 37 trees in north Tulsa near Owen Park their first day here. The goal of their efforts is to improve the route from the airport to downtown Tulsa, welcoming all those coming into the city for work, to visit relatives, or to make Tulsa their new home.
PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet I am writing to you as a voter in your district. I urge you to vote "no" on cloture for S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act, on Jan. 24th. The PROTECT IP Act is dangerous, ineffective, and short-sighted. Supreme Court rules Georgia can’t put the law behind a paywall A narrowly divided US Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right to freely share the official law code of Georgia. The state claimed to own the copyright for the Official Code of Georgia Annotated and sued a nonprofit called Public.Resource.Org for publishing it online. Monday's ruling is not only a victory for the open-government group, it's an important precedent that will help secure the right to publish other legally significant public documents. "Officials empowered to speak with the force of law cannot be the authors of—and therefore cannot copyright—the works they create in the course of their official duties," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in an opinion that was joined by four other justices on the nine-member court. Everyone involved in the case agreed that the text of state statutes could not be copyrighted. But the state of Georgia argued that it could copyright annotations that are distributed with the official code.
Economic Justice Petition: Citizens of the USA: Petition to declare Congress a vegetable I just signed the following petition addressed to: The People of the United States of America. ----------------Petition to declare Congress a vegetable We, the people of the United States, recognize the importance of a balanced diet and proper nutrition as important aspects of a healthy lifestyle, and therefore declare Congress, including all current and former members, to be a vegetable,... We, the people of the United States, recognize the importance of a balanced diet and proper nutrition as important aspects of a healthy lifestyle, and therefore declare Congress, including all current and former members, to be a vegetable, granting immediately all legal status provided to these leafy greens for purposes of Food Pyramid placement, school lunch inclusion, FDA safety regulations, and so forth. Sincerely,
msnbc talking head Dylan Ratigan fomenting a movement to get money out of campaigning/lobbying by kathologist Oct 6