Posted on August 17, 2015
A New York Times article that every AT&T customer should read.
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a front page story about a special, decades-long partnership between the NSA and AT&T. AT&T customers in particular need to read about their telecom’s “extreme willingness to help” carry out unconstitutional surveillance …
Posted on August 11, 2015
Dazed and confused? Maine’s Tea Party governor writes me a letter
Earlier this year, over 1,200 CREDO activists in Maine signed a petition we had launched urging Governor Paul LePage to drop a politically motivated lawsuit against President Obama’s executive orders to keep immigrant families together. In response, the …
Posted on August 6, 2015
Introducing CREDOClimateHeroes.com
I’m excited to announce the launch of CREDO Climate Heroes, an activist grant program that will give $500 to 50 activists or small groups who are protesting, blockading and confronting the fossil fuel industry and the decision-makers who …
Posted on August 3, 2015
Video explainer: Preventing a war with Iran
CREDO members and our allies have signed over 223,000 petitions (which we recently delivered to Congress) and made over 43,000 calls to Congress asking Democrats to support diplomacy with Iran. Amazing. Our work opposing the deal was recently called out in a …
Posted on July 31, 2015
400,000 signatures against war with Iran
On Wednesday, we issued a powerful challenge to Democrats in Congress: Support the Iran nuclear peace deal, or prepare to answer to your constituents for sabotaging diplomacy and pushing for war. On Capitol Hill, Congressional Progressive Caucus members …
Posted on July 24, 2015
90,000 activists demand investigation of child imprisonment
Over 90,000 activists have urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate the practice of putting children in adult prisons! This miscarriage of justice has to end. We’re delivering our petition to the attorney general next week, and we …
Posted on July 16, 2015
Petition: The Monsanto Protection Act is back — and worse than before
The biggest threat to GMO labeling that we’ve ever seen could soon become law if we don’t act now. Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo, Monsanto’s hand-picked representative in Washington, has combined his anti-GMO labeling bill, the “DARK Act,” with …
Posted on July 10, 2015
Petition: Fix the Voting Rights Act now
Fifty years ago this summer, at the height of the civil rights movement, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act to prohibit racial discrimination in voting. The law wasn’t perfect, but it frequently …
Posted on July 7, 2015
Petition: Stop the sneak attack on Net Neutrality
On June 12, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order mandating the strongest Net Neutrality protections in history finally went into effect. It was a tremendous victory for the millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of …
Posted on June 29, 2015
The latest Republican attack on women
Here they go again. Republicans in Congress have introduced another bill to cut off women’s access to health care. This time they are trying to eliminate Title X, the only federal program devoted to providing low-income women with …
