Please Email to ask for the release of Oumarou Keita and Mamane Abou:
Niger's Ambassor in the US: ambassadeniger@hotmail.com
Niger's National Radio and TV: ortny@intnet.ne and the Executive Director Amadou Harouna Yaye: amadouy@yahoo.com
Email a copy to Amnesty International: afrouest@amnesty.asso.fr
Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release of two journalists in Niger, who were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on 1 September 2006 for spreading false news and defaming the state. Amnesty International considers journalist Oumarou Keita and publisher Mamane Abou from the weekly newspaper Le Republicain to be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
When the Levees Broke will be on HBO in its entirety on August 29th. Organize family and friends to watch it and then commit to do something about it from your own living room. Please download the KIN list of 5 simple things you can do.
Sign our petition to incumbents and candidates for Congress. The petition urges your members of Congress and candidates to strengthen Social Security, rather than privatize it, and to oppose cutting benefits, running up huge new debt or raising the retirement age to pay for privatization.
Farm workers who pick tomatoes for McDonald's sandwiches earn 40 to 50 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they pick. Workers who toil from dawn to dusk without the right to overtime pay or any benefits must pick two tons of tomatoes to earn $50 in one day. As a major buyer of Florida tomatoes, McDonald's high-volume, low-cost purchasing practices place downward pressure on farm worker wages, putting corporate profits before human dignity.
Sojourners and Jobs with Justice coalitions are standing with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and allies across the country to call on McDonald's to do the right thing: Follow Taco Bell's lead and work with CIW to establish fair wages and working conditions for the farmworkers who pick its tomatoes.
Jobs With Justice: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/mcdonalds06
Sojourners: http://go.sojo.net/campaign/Fair_Wages
Join Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and let the New York Times know that that you would prefer journalism that challenged corporate claims rather than just repeating them. And ask the Times why it referred to Democrats worried about criticizing Wal-Mart without naming or quoting any of them.
email: public@nytimes.com
A bill, HR-676, has been proposed in Congress that outlines a national health care program that will provide guaranteed affordable health care and prescription drugs to everyone in the country. Join Health Care Now and sign the petition online, and print out more petitions to circulate.
This Progressive States Network LegAlert is designed to give details on the legislative models currently being debated, key resources available to use supporting them in your state, and talking points on responding to common arguments by opponents. Broadly, the key Fair Share models fall into four groups: the Maryland model applying almost exclusively to large companies like Wal-Mart; the New York City/Suffolk County model applying exclusively to larger grocery stores; the Massachusetts model covering almost all employers, but with weaker health care mandates for firms than the other models, and the New York State model covering most employers with one hundred plus employees and requiring robust health care benefits for employees.