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liberaldemocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:06 PM
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A progressive agenda for America.
A progressive agenda for America.


I demand that the Republican Party hold a press
conference and accede to these demands. Until such a
press conference happens and the legislation and/or
actions gets passed I will boycott products from
Republican contributors Dell Computers, Walmart,
Wendy's, Outback Steak House, Dominos Pizza,
Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Eckerd, CVS and Walgreens,
Curves for women health clubs, General Electric and
Exxon/Mobil.

I demand that congress pass legislation ending the war in
Iraq and withdraw the troops and arrange with the
United Nations to replace US troops with UN troops to
defend Iraq until The Iraqi army can defend Iraq.

I demand that the Republican party end their aggressive and
hateful action to end a woman's right to choose
abortion or not.

I demand that the Republican party end their aggressive and
hateful action to harrass immigrants to this country.

I demand that the Congress of the United states and the
president of the United States enact a law to increase
the minimum wage to TEN dollars an hour and also to
extend unemployment benefits to a year or more for all
people whose unemployment benefits expired after 6
months even though they still seek work.

I demand that the Congress of the United States to not
privatize social security benefits in any form
including taking a percentage of the social security tax
and placing it in private accounts. People can
already create their own pensions with money after
taxes in the private sector.

I demand that the congress make all of a person's earned
income taxable for social security FICA tax purposes
and remove the 88,000 dollar taxable income limit. This
will make social security solvent for many years to
come.

I demand the congress increase the payroll tax in order to
make social security solvent as well.

I demand congress and the president enact a prescription
drug benefit under Medicare Part B which covers 80
percent of medication cost, with no extra premium, no
extra deductibles, no means test and no coverage gaps,
and no penalties for signing up in a succeeding year.

I demand congress repeal the faulty Medicare law HR 1 / S 1
passed by congress in Nov 2003 which includes repealing the means
test for Medicare Part B.


I demand the congress roll back the Medicare Part B monthly
premium to 78 dollars a month.


I demand congress enact single payer universal health
insurance for every citizen as minimum coverage.

I demand that congress and the president enact universal
vote by mail throughout the 50 states of the United
States of America with paper ballots easy to fill out
and difficult to change or invalidate by Republican
Party officials. This will prevent Republicans from
vote suppression by skin color and political party
which happened electronically and in person in the 2000
and 2004 elections.

I demand that congress and the president enact that civil
servants on every state payroll keep track of voter
registrations and vote counting of mail in votes in
each precinct and not companies such as Choicepoint. We
need to take the Republican Party out of the business
of keeping track of voter registration and counting
votes.

I demand that congress and the president ban the secretary
of state in each of the 50 states from engaging in
politics especially acting as a campaign official for a
presidential campaign.

I demand congress enact legislation protecting private
pensions from corporations deliberately declaring
bankruptcy or ending pensions outright.












boycott travel to South Dakota and Louisiana and their products as best as you can unless you reside in these states and will call or send email to the governor of Louisiana and South Dakota and tell them that unless they get their legislatures to repeal the abortion bans fully, you will not do business with them any more and that you will not do business with antiabortion and Republican Party supporting companies Dominos Pizza and Curves for women health clubs.








Copy the text above and place it in the text box of the

mail forms provided by these links.

You can send email to speaker of the House Dennis Hastert by clicking on this form link.

You need to use the ZIP code 60510 in order to write to the speaker.

http://www.house.gov/hastert/write1.shtml

You can contact Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist by clicking on this link.

You need to use the zip code 37205 in order to write to the Senate Majority leader.

http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm


You can contact Wendy's Restaurants at

http://www.wendys.com/contact.jsp

You can contact Outback Steakhouse at

http://www.outback.com/contactus/index.asp

You can email General Electric by going to the web site http://www.ge.com

or at their consumer electronics feedback page

https://www.home-electronics.net/CustomerContactUs/1,7315,CNUS-LNUE,00.html

or at their general feedback web page.

https://www.ge.com/ge/feedback.htm

You can contact Eckerd Pharmacies at

https://www2.eckerd.com/content.asp?content=help/postoffice

You can contact CVS Pharmacies at

customercare@cvs.com

You can contact Walgreens Pharmacies at

investor.relations@walgreens.com

You can contact Exxon/Mobil at

http://www.prod.exxonmobil.com/servlet/contactUsForm?formtype=0&Category=General%2520Comments&Email=1&Title=General%2520Comments

You can contact Red Lobster restaurants at

rlmedia@redlobster.com

You can contact Olive Garden restaurants at

ogmedia@olivegarden.com

You can contact Dominos Pizza at

http://info.dominos.com/dominos_pizza/contact.nsf/frmContact?openform

< Dominos Pizza claims that they no longer associate with the Republican Party and the antiabortion movement but the new CEO David Brandon, a high level Republican almost ran for the senate in Michigan as a Republican and their company PACs gave money to the Republican Party. Ignore their text about the former CEO. The current Dominos Pizza CEO David Brandon also opposes raising the minimum wage and on that issue alone should give you reason to boycott Dominos Pizza. >


You can contact Dell Computers at

https://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/site_feedback?c=us&l=en&s=gen

Important. Remove the referring url on the Dell computer web form. Thank you.

You can contact Walmart at

http://www.walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=221

You can contact Curves for women health clubs at

http://www.curves.com/contact_us/questions.php



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pooja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:26 PM
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1. Its going to take a boycott of much more companies than the few
you listed. Almost all of the listed companies are a subsiderary of Cendant corporation which includes hotels, travel web sites, hotels, and realastate listors. On top of that, most large corporations are donators. You would also have to stop shopping at all grocery stores... Find your closest freshmarket and local farmers stand. Also, you would have to stop driving, turn off your lights, turn off your phone, turn off your cell phone, hope you have a manual pump well to receive water, better have a charcoal grill of a fire place.

This society has allowed itself to become so completely dependant on industry and corporate conglomortes. Its impossible to effect change by boycotting just one place. Also, those restraunts places you listed do have employees, if a business in one location is not doing well, they fire employees and/ or close the doors.
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liberaldemocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:29 PM
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2. I beg to differ.
When the auto workers go on strike, they pick only one of the automobile companies to strike against and when it capitulates the other automobile companies fall in line.

We do not have to boycott every company, just some of the largest well known companies that give money to the REPUBLIKLAN Party.


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pooja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:32 PM
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3. That is different. We aren't workers and we don't belong to
a union. Half the people on here can't agree if the sky is blue? It won't work. These little pieces of companies are just part of the monopoly. Walmart is def. doable, but olive garden curves they are just part of the whole.
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liberaldemocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:38 PM
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4. I beg to differ again. We go on a purchasing strike.
Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 08:39 PM by liberaldemocrat7
And we form an ad hoc union where they cannot nullify a union election nor bring in scabs.

What CEO wants 50 percent of his customer base to disappear and go to another company?

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