Oh no! Reuters, CBS, and other outlets are reporting that Twitter is going to start censoring tweets in certain countries:

“Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.”

Please click here to sign an open letter and urge Twitter to reverse its decision to start censoring:

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/twitter_censorship/?referring_akid=1181.45…

And this quote is just tragic, as Twitter tries to rationlize away restrictions on speech:

“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday.

>From the Middle East, to Occupy, to SOPA and PIPA, the importance of open platforms like Twitter couldn’t be more clear than it is today.

Will you help fight back, by signing an open letter to Twitter and asking them to reverse course? Just click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/twitter_censorship/?referring_akid=1181.45…

Thanks!
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A controversial proposed pipeline would carry oil from the tar sands in Alberta to a port at Kitimat, British Columbia. After travelling nearly 1,170km through pristine wilderness and First Nations homelands, tar sands oil would be loaded on tankers bound for Pacific markets. To get there, they must first navigate the perilous northern B.C. coast, travelling the same wildlife-filled waters where the Queen of the North ferry sank in 2006. Is this pipeline in the public’s best interest? If given a go-ahead, the pipeline project would:

– Fragment the boreal forest, home to birds and other wildlife, including Woodland Caribou and Grizzly Bears. – Expose the Great Bear Rainforest, home to wolves and the iconic Spirit Bear, and 30 internationally recognized Important Bird Areas teeming with marine birds, fish and other animals to potential oil spills and pollution from increased tanker traffic.
- Risk irreversible harm to the livelihoods of many coastal and aboriginal communities.

Our country’s wildlife is depending on us to speak up on their behalf and put a stop to the Northern Gateway Pipeline project before it’s too late. Add your voice and send your letter today!

To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
http://supporter.naturecanada.ca/site/Advocacy?s_oo=e6b92svM5q2ki2S_E0F86w&am… If the text above does not appear as a link or it wraps across multiple lines, then copy and paste it into the address area of your browser.
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proclus
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GNU-Darwin_org down due to winter power failure. Backups online shortly.

The Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court decision overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system.

Shockingly, the court came to this decision based on the notion that a corporation is legally a “person” entitled to First Amendment rights, and by equating a corporation’s right to spend unlimited amounts of money influencing an election with our right to free speech.

Tell your senators and member of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and end corporate personhood.

http://ping.fm/MbStN

I just wrote to the Department of Interior, urging them not to open new
areas of the Arctic Ocean to oil and gas drilling. I hope you’ll read
the action alert below from the National Audubon Society and join me in
submitting public comments.

Audubon Action Alert

The ocean waters along Alaska’s northern coast provide vital habitat
for extraordinary wildlife, including polar bears, walruses,
ice-dependent seals, endangered bowhead whales, and millions of
migratory birds. The Arctic Ocean can also be phenomenally harsh:
broken ice covers the water for much of the year, storms with
hurricane-force winds can whip up 20-foot seas, and it is entirely dark
for half the year. The federal government recently released a proposed
Five-Year Program (2012-2017) for offshore oil and gas leasing that
could open up pristine new areas in the Arctic Ocean offshore of Alaska
to oil drilling. The oil industry has never successfully demonstrated the ability to
clean up an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean.

Speak up for the birds and wildlife of the Arctic Ocean! Please tell the Department of the
Interior that the Arctic Ocean should remain off-limits to oil and gas
drilling:
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?id=1189

An oil spill in the Arctic Ocean could be disastrous for marine mammals
such as polar bear, Bowhead whale, walrus and seals. It would also harm
birds such as the Spectacled Eider, Steller’s Eider, and
Yellow-billed Loon, all three of which are on the Alaska WatchList.

Even without the threat of oil and gas development, the Arctic is
subject to rapid climate warming at a rate that is twice the rest of
the earth. Changes due to warming are already having significant
negative impacts on Arctic people and ecosystems. Additional oil and
gas activities in the Arctic would only add to existing impacts.

Please submit your public comments today. Comments are due February 8:
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?id=1189

To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
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On Wednesday, with the Senate poised to vote on legislation that would end the internet as we know it, hundreds of organizations in a one-day strike and day of action against internet censorship.

The results have been amazing. After the national day of action, 71 members of Congress came out in opposition to this legislation.

But we can’t stop fighting yet. Although this legislation has been tabled for now, we need keep pressure on the members of Congress who still support these censorship bills. They need to continue to hear that Americans want them to protect our free and open internet and come out in opposition to these bills.

Tell the remaining co-sponsors of this legislation to protect our free and open internet and drop their support of this censorship legislation.

http://ping.fm/81YUQ

That’s because any attempt to question fracking’s safety draws the ire of uber-lobbying group the American Petroleum Institute, one of D.C.’s most powerful industry associations and a big donor to political campaigns.

Ignoring the environmental hazards of hydraulic fracturing might be good for profits, but it’s bad for the environment and our health. So I just signed this petition calling for a ban on fracking. Can you do the same?

http://bit.ly/AyZVHU

Join me in pressing Congress to back peace talks to end the war.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/romneypeacetalks

Thanks!
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Today has been amazing, but there’s one thing that could completely stop SOPA and PIPA in their tracks: President Obama has expressed concerns about the bills, but hasn’t pledged to veto them.

Please urge President Obama to promise to veto SOPA and PIPA. Just click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/veto_sopa/?referring_akid=1149.45919.7qYH7…

Thanks!
Filed under: Uncategorized ]]> http://gnudarwin.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/veto-censorship/feed/ 0 gnudarwin http://gnudarwin.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/tell-president-obama-its-time-to-lead-on-climate-oil-keystonexl-tarsands-nokxl-bigoil-oilspill/ http://gnudarwin.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/tell-president-obama-its-time-to-lead-on-climate-oil-keystonexl-tarsands-nokxl-bigoil-oilspill/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:46:24 +0000 gnudarwin http://gnudarwin.wordpress.com/?p=3526 ]]> Dear Friend,

Six months ago, the Obama Administration was set to approve one of the single most environmentally disastrous fossil fuel projects imaginable.

Today, it’s dead.

But President Obama didn’t reject the Keystone XL pipeline because he wanted to. Or because he thought it was the right thing to do. Or because he thought it would help his reelection campaign. He rejected it because our activism made him do it.

But because the President rejected the pipeline on the narrow technicality of the Republicans’ 60 day timeline, in no way has he set down a clear marker against the pipeline or the carbon bomb that burning Canadian tar sands oil in China represents.

The time to lead us away from dirty fuels and prevent escalating global catastrophes from climate change is here. And President Obama still can.

Tell President Obama: It’s time to lead on climate. Make the case in your State of the Union Address. Sign the petition here:

http://ping.fm/bAmi7

I am taking action today in protest of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. These bills would allow corporations and government to control our ability to access information online.

Don’t let corporate interests censor the Internet. Please join me in taking action now.

Sincerely,

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Regards,
proclus
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