The Seventh Amendment right to an unbiased jury trial is as important as a citizen's right to vote. Yet, everyday working class citizens are denied this right when they level allegations of theft of their intellectual property against multimillionaire defendants. Government protection of the 99%, at our expense will no longer be tolerated!

There seems to be hope still … Although the President failed to show some backbone in vetoing the NDAA legislation!! Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees has joined Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and a bipartisan group of his colleagues in introducing the Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011, to clarify that American citizens apprehended inside the United States cannot be indefinitely detained by the military. http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/2011/12/16/udall-co-sponsors-bipartisan-bill-to-prohibit-indefinite-detention-of-americans-without-trial-or-charge/ To read more on this issue go to this blog: http://cyclicantidotes.blogspot.com/ Contact your Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Pass the Presidents tax cuts and unemployment for next year

Tumblr has become slowly and increasingly stingy recently with the amounts of daily and hourly posts and messages that it allows its' members to make. This is our way of getting our posting limits either raised significantly or back to unlimited.

To pass this resolution into law so that corporations will not be considered as people. This resolution was passed in Los Angeles. The People’s fundamental and inalienable right to self-govern, and thereby secure rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness is guaranteed in the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and;
 
 free and fair elections are essential to democracy and effective self-governance, and; 
 
 persons are rightfully recognized as human beings whose essential needs include clean air, clean water, safe and secure food, and;
 
corporations are not people....

bigotry, fear, racism, hate, stupidity

The corporate money unleashed onto our political process through the Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court is another nail in the coffin for our democracy. President Obama was right to call out The Court at the State of the Union address and Justice Alito was arrogant in his dismissal of it.

*Congressional Reform Act of 2011* 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. If each person contacts a minimum of ten people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time."You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

The D65 School Board will vote Monday, December 19th on whether to send referenda language to the Cook County Clerk for the March 20, 2012 elections. The referenda as drafted is for $48.2 million in capital building and improvements. Improvements to existing schools are blended with $20.1 million to build a new 18-classroom school in Evanston's Fifth Ward.

Colorado has seen a unprecedented boom in gas drilling, much of this using potentially risky production techniques such as fracking. Living communities all across the state have been significantly impacted and many heavily damaged by these activities. The North Fork Valley is famous for its agriculture, viticulture, cheese production and ranching, much of an organic nature. 30,000 acres are slated to be leased all around this beautiful valley, including in its vital watersheds and directly above many viable agricultural areas. We demand that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recognize the unique characteristics of this valley and place a moratorium on leasing in and around it at least until the BLM completes the full Resource Management Plan for the region.

It was a long forgotten '70s disco show, filled with a lot of clean disco dancing, which is good exercise to prevent health problems that occur in the world of today, hosted by the late Gerry Bledsoe, so we need all of you to bring all of the episodes back on DVDs for a cause. The reason why those people have to get the petition signed is because it should be part of Dance For The Cure.

Republicans in the Michigan Senate and the House of Representatives continued their assault against the public schools by passing a bill that will eliminate the caps on charter schools. There is no accountability in the bill for the charters. It is simply another raid on public school funds.