Senate plans to vote in amendment to health care bill, S 1796, preventing millions of women from obtaining insurance coverage for abortion under health care reform. Sign petition NOW!

When it passed a historic health care reform bill, the House also adopted the Stupak amendment, a dangerous piece of legislation that would ban abortion from private and public insurance plans for millions of American women. Fortunately, the fight for wo

Jill Pearson has been legally blind since she was eight. Despite this, she got a degree from the University of Miami in 1987 in biology. Jill is married to Kevin Morrill. Kevin got a degree in 1980 from Cal State in rehabilitative counseling.

Petition I urge you to support State Single Payer as part of the health reform bill. In the House, the "Kucinich Amendment" passed the Education & Labor Committee on July 17 on a bi-partisan 27-19 vote. Speaker Pelosi made an enormous mistake by

When Speaker Pelosi announced her "floor version" of the healthcare bill on Thursday, she made a critical mistake: she removed the "State Single Payer" amendment proposed by Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Tell Congress the "Kucinich Amendment" must be included!

Kudos to seven Board members for persisting in their efforts to protect the rights of people to open access of public records. From Reaching the Stars blog. Also links to the full story on the Chicago Tribune website.

Sharon McCaslin, prosecuting attorney for the United States Department of Justice, officially declared war on America's Veterans when she defiantly pronounced in federal court that it is "desecration" and a "crime" for a Veteran to hang the American...

A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war.....

500 people from various anti-war groups gathered on the sidewalk in front of White House. A few chained themselves to the fence, some lay down on the sidewalk as if they were dead, and others chanted, "Mourn the dead, heal the wounded, end the war."

10/15/09:With no cost-of-living increase expected in 2010, the president is calling on Congress to provide $250 each to about 57 million seniors, veterans and those with disabilities.