Major coporate contributors to the Bush campaign:

Kraft - Parent Company Phillip Morris (new name: Altria Group, Inc) made a contribution of US$3,094,237 which represents 82% of their total contributions.
- View complete list of brands:
http://www.kraft.com/brands/namerica/us.html

Exxon Mobil - Made a contribution of US$1,226,331 which represents 89% of their total contributions.

Pepsico Inc. - Made a contribution of US$749,494 which represents 84% of their total contributions.
- View complete list of brands:
http://www.pepsico.com/company/brands.shtml

United Parcel Service - Made a contribution of US$2,072,468 which represents 71% of their total contributions.

Wal-Mart Stores - Made a contribution of US$610,748 which represents 88% of their total contributions.

Material referenced from: Center for Responsive Politics. Visit: www.opensecrets.org.

How many wars are we going to fight over oil before our politicians get a clue? Energy is at the heart of global security-in the broadest and most meaningful sense of the term. Without an intelligent energy policy, we will never have a clean environment, a strong economy, and peace.

There's an effort in the Senate to filibuster the Energy Bill, which was crafted behind closed doors without input from Democrats. By promoting oil and coal, as well as nuclear power, the current bill would set us on a path for more dirty air, war, and health problems, like asthma, for years to come.

To send a message (text below) to your Senator urging him or her to filibuster the Energy Bill, click here:

http://action.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=10097&ms=enfil1&ref=350200

Here are just three, among many, provisions of the Energy Bill:

* It opens up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling;
* It gives over $10 billion in tax breaks to big oil companies;
* It authorizes the Energy Department to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Senators successfully used their filibuster power earlier this year to stop extremists in Congress. The nomination of Migel Estrada to the federal bench was stopped thanks to a Senate filibuster.

More background on energy legislation from Citizen Action:
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/energybill/2003/

Also: "Stop the Iraq War Profiteering" Campaign from DissidentVoice.org

All About George Bush

Here's a short list of the top 7 reasons we're running this ad campaign against President George W. Bush and his administration. We hope this informs your own commercials, and inspires you to look further into the policies of the Bush Administration and their effect on the American public.

1. It appears that the Bush Administration has consistently misled the American public about Iraq , most significantly regarding Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction and his ties to al Queda and Osama bin Laden.
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/beyond-niger.html

2. The Bush Administration's regressive environmental policies have lowered cleanliness standards for our air and water while allowing utility companies (many of whom are Bush campaign contributors) to profit off of the weakened regulations. In 2002, the head of the EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement resigned, complaining that the agency was “fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the rules we are trying to enforce." (CNN, Aug. 22, 2002)
The Bush Record on the Environment for 2003:
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/2003.asp

3. Bush is underfunding education. The President cut $200 million from his own No Child Left Behind Act, eliminating crucial educational programs for lower income children and cutting professional training for more than 20,000 teachers.

Flawed from its very foundation, No Child Left Behind is based on then-Governor Bush's late-‘90s “Texas Miracle,”—a program of standardized testing designed to increase performance and reduce dropout rates--now recognized as a scandalous failure.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0338/schanberg.php

4. The Bush Administration's Patriot Act threatens our constitutional rights and civil liberties. Passed by a post 9/11 Congress, the Patriot act expands the ability of law enforcement to conduct secret searches, and engage various forms of surveillance, including internet monitoring and wiretapping. It gives the FBI access to American citizens' highly personal medical, financial, mental health, and student records without notification or permission, and allows them to investigate individuals without probable cause of a crime. Finally, it permits non-citizens to be jailed based on mere suspicion and held indefinitely in six month increments without meaningful judicial review.
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12126&c=207

5. Bush's Tax Cuts only benefit the rich. Bush claimed that his tax cut would “reduce tax rates for everyone who pays income tax.” He failed to mention that this “relief” program would put half of the tax cut's dividends into the hands of our nation's wealthiest 5%, while 8.1 million citizens in the bottom half of the income bracket receive approximately $300 a year.
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwbfinal.htm

6. 3.3 million jobs (93,000 in August of 2003 alone) have been lost since Bush took office--more than the last 11 Presidents combined. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2001-August 2003) Meanwhile, huge corporations are paying fewer taxes than ever:
http://www.cbpp.org/10-16-03tax.htm

7. Bush is underfunding homeland security : While energetic in waging war abroad, the Bush administration has been oddly lethargic in fortifying our defenses at home. Domestic security agencies have been neglected. Police and firefighters have been denied essential resources, and muddled public strategy has only spread alarm and confusion.
http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecid=900019&contentid=251895

Impeach Bush Campaign (http://www.impeach-bush-now.org)
(CIBCAR) is led by Professor Francis Boyle at the University of Illinois

More information on the issue of impeachment. . .

Vote To Impeach Campaign (www.votetoimpeach.org)

George W. Bush Must Answer to the People
- adapted from Ramsey Clark's address to the half a million demonstrators at the January 18th National March on Washington to Stop the War on Iraq organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism).

The U.S. Constitution provides the means for preventing George W. Bush from engaging in a war of aggression against Iraq, and from advancing a first strike potentially nuclear preemptive war. It's called impeachment.

High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.

A Constitutional Imperative
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.

Power Remains in the Hands of the People
Impeachment is the means by which We The People of the United States and our elected representatives in Congress can prevent further crimes by the President and the human catastrophe they threaten and force accountability for crimes committed.

Save the Constitution, the U.N., and Countless Human Lives
Congressional proceedings for impeachment can bring about open, fearless consideration of the most dangerous acts and threats ever committed by an American President. If courageously pursued, they can save our Constitution, the United Nations, the rule of law, the lives of countless people and leave open the possibility of peace on earth.

The Time for Action is Now
Each of us must take a stand on impeachment now, or bear the burden of having failed to speak in this hour of maximum peril.

Download, print out and get friends, family and strangers to sign the petition (PDF file)!

There's a wonderful nationally syndicated daily radio show called "Democracy Now" that more folks should be able to tune into. It's spearheaded by longtime activist, Amy Goodman. If you'd like to get it on the air locally, here's how you can help:

About the show:

Democracy Now! is a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country. We air Monday-Friday on over 120 stations including Pacifica radio stations, Pacifica affiliates, WBIX.org, public access TV stations, Free Speech TV (DishNetwork Channel 9415), and Shortwave Radio (Radio for Peace International). We are available to all stations. For more information on how you can bring Democracy Now to your community radio or public access cable TV station, CLICK HERE!! <mailto:outreach@democracynow.org>

Democracy Now! has just expanded to 2 hours. Due to popular demand, Democracy Now!'s War and Peace Report is now available from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. EST. Ask your radio station to broadcast both hours. New radio stations are picking us up every week. For more info, email: outreach@democracynow.org <mailto:outreach@democracynow.org>

For more information: http://www.democracynow.org/

>> Call or write Lane County's public radio station, KLCC & address Don Hein, Station Manager:

KLCC
4000 East 30th Ave
Eugene, OR 97405-0640

Email: klcc@lanecc.edu
Business Office: (541) 463-6000
Office hours 9 am - 5 pm PT, Monday through Friday
Fax: (541) 463-6046Mail:

Activist Training:

The Ruckus Society
Working with a broad range of communities, organizations, and movements - from high school students to professional organizations - Ruckus facilitates the sharing of information and expertise that strengthens the capacity to change our relationship with the environment and each other.
Ruckus Society Action Camp

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across the country.

also: from the children of former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila Wellstone: www.wellstone.org

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We need an impartial investigation of White House insiders and their treason!
http://www.moveon.org/intimigate/

The Apollo Alliance is building a broad coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities in support of good jobs and energy independence. The Alliance is developing public education campaigns and communications strategies to link allies and build a national constituency for a bold, broad-based, and immediate program of public policy.
http://www.apolloalliance.org/

Democracy USA is a national initiative to build a pro-democracy movement to protect, enhance and exercise the power of the right to vote: http://www.democracyusa.org/

Code Pink is Women for Peace
A new political movement calling for playful, passionate engagement shows its true colors.

The Campaign to Revoke Corporate Free Speech

Act for Change (Sponsored by Working Assets) urges you to support new legislation to fix the PATRIOT Act: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=15635

War Tax Resistance Made Simple By Matt Wheeland, AlterNet / April 9, 2003

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Paid? - Some insights intowar tax resistance.
BY Charles Gray / April 10, 2003 Eugene Weekly

Organizations:

National:
War Resisters League

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

Oregon:
Lane County War Tax Resistance: (541) 342-2914 (Peg)

Oregon Community War Tax Resistance: (503) 238-0605 (Portland)

Take Action!
Emergency Campaign on Global Warming
Become a Citizen Co-sponsor of the Climate Stewardship Act in Congress.
Sign The Petition Today!

World Hunger:
Fast For a World Harvest - the Thursday before Thanksgiving every year!
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/involved/art890.html