[mpen-dayton4] FW: "Invitations: Peace Walk & Peace Bridge" & "Defend women’s health care coverage" & "For the GOP, it's the billionaires' primary" and more
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Greater Miami Valley Local events:
· (May 2) FW: Walk Invitation
· (May 7) FW: Urgent Peace Bridge Registration Information
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Weekly MPEN e-Newsletter
· FW: Sign the petition: Defend women's health care coverage
· FW: VIDEO: Why Elizabeth Warren should run
· FW: Russ Feingold
· FW: Red State Utopia
· FW: Oklahoma's Mary Fallin acknowledges that fracking can cause earthquakes
· FW: Africa - The US Military's Battlefield of Tomorrow
· FW: deaths at sea
· FW: The Conference on the Israel Lobby » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
· FW: LA Times: For the GOP, it's the billionaires' primary
· FW: 20 years after Oklahoma City bombing, domestic terror threat remains
· FW: CBS inviting hate group to speak for Christians
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From: MARGARET PETERS
Subject: RE: Walk Invitation
I am honored to have been selected as one of the Dayton Peace Museum's 20102 Peace Heroes. Would you please share the email below. I hope you will be able to support this effort. Thank you.
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On Friday, April 24, 2015 4:26 PM, "rpbrame@earthlink.net" wrote:
Margaret Peters was selected as one of the Museum's 2012 Peace Heroes. The Museum is having a Peace Heroes Walk
on Saturday, May 2 at RiverScape in downtown Dayton. Registration for the walk begins at 8 AM, and Walk Send-Off at 9 AM.
This family-friendly, community-wide event has two walk routes to from which to choose, a short ten-block round-trip stroll
to the Peace Museum and a longer two-mile route.
We are looking for sponsors and walkers to show support for Margaret and for the work of the Dayton Peace Museum.
This year's beneficiary of the walk is the National Conference on Community and Justice (NCCJ) of Greater Dayton.
The fundraising goal set for each team is $750.00. Donations of any amount will be graciously accepted and appreciated.
Your donations may be online at the link below or by check payable to Dayton Peace Museum. More information about
the walk may be found at this site as well. We hope to have a great turnout. Please come and walk with us and invite
your family and friends to join us, too! If you are unable to take part in the walk, we ask you to support the Museum
in its fundraising effort to advance the work of the Museum and NCCJ.
https://ssl.charityweb.net/daytonpeacemuseum/walk/margaretpeters.htm
From: Crystal Walker
Subject: Urgent Peace Bridge Registration Information
Please share with your places of worship this weekend and the next weekend. Encourage everyone to register.
Any questions, feel free to call me at 937-789-9822
From: AlterNet --- Heidi Hessl; Campaign Manager, CREDO Action from Working Assets
Subject: Sign the petition: Defend women's health care coverage
This message was sent to you by AlterNet, on behalf of CREDO Action:
Republicans attacking women's health care coverage
Tell Republicans in Congress:
"Women deserve coverage for maternity care, birth control and preventive services and
to be protected from gender-based discriminatory pricing. Your relentless, partisan
attacks on the Affordable Care Act undermine women and their families. "
When Republicans legislate, women lose. From taking away abortion rights to blocking common sense legislation like equal pay and paid sick leave, the Republican party consistently panders to its extremist base at the expense of women and their families.
The latest attempt to repeal and replace President Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) proves again that women's health, both physical and financial, is of no concern to Republicans. Their proposal eliminates the ACA's historic expansions of coverage for maternity care and birth control. It also strips away protections designed to end decades of gender-biased pricing in the insurance industry.
Tell Republicans: Don't take maternity care away from women. Click here to sign the petition.
Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Orrin Hatch, and Rep. Fred Upton's replacement for the Affordable Care Act, the "Patient CARE Act," would significantly roll back the health coverage, guaranteed benefits, and protections women and their families enjoy under the ACA..1 Here are some of the worst elements of their plan:
· It would eliminate the ACA's requirement that insurance plans cover maternity care, birth control, and preventive care like cancer screenings and well-woman visits. While right-wing attacks on birth control coverage have been in the news more recently, Republicans have also lashed out at the idea that maternity care should be covered. They complain that pregnancy is a choice, and that not everyone gets pregnant. During one hearing, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was asked if she had ever heard of a man getting pregnant.2
· It would allow insurance companies to charge women more for health insurance. Before the ACA abolished the practice of "gender rating," women were charged approximately $1 billion per year in higher premiums. Insurance plans charged women up to 85 percent more than men for the same policy â€" even when maternity services were not covered.
· It would force women and their families to pay more for their health care. A portion of employer-covered health benefits would be taxed, impacting the 57 million women who have health insurance through their employer or a family member's employer. Working class families would lose some of the subsidies they receive to buy care, and low-income women would lose access to Medicaid expansion
It's outrageous that, in their zeal to score political points by repealing the ACA, Republicans are willing to do so much damage to women and their families. If enough of us speak out, Republicans will be forced to think twice before passing this bill. Click the link below to sign the petition:
http://act.alternet.org/go/60279?t=5&akid=13034.1147171.Gb4kt-
Thanks for standing up for women and their families.
Add your name:
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- "The Patient CARE Act - Second Verse, Same as the First," National Women's Law Center, 2/6/2015.
- "3 Male Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Obamacare's Maternity Coverage," Tara Culp-Ressler, Think Progress, 2/5/2015.
From: Lawrence Lessig; professor at Harvard Law School and a co-founder of Mayday PAC, which fights to get big money out of politics.
Subject: VIDEO: Why Elizabeth Warren should run
On Monday, I gave a speech in NYC about why Elizabeth Warren would be the best presidential candidate to take on big money in politics. Will you give it a watch and maybe share with a friend?
On Monday, I spoke with a room full of MoveOn members about the critical need to get big money out of our politics—and why I think Elizabeth Warren would be the best presidential candidate to take on this challenge today.
Will you watch me explain why and then share the video with friends?
We all know that there's a laundry list of issues that need to be addressed by our next president—climate change, Social Security expansion, and more. But I believe wholeheartedly that the root of corruption in our government and economic inequality in our country today is the rampant, unaccountable money in our politics.
Elizabeth Warren has consistently shown that she has the independence, passion, and commitment to tackle this problem.
That's why I hope you'll watch me explain why we need her voice in the 2016 presidential debate and then share my video with a friend or two.
We're part of a growing grassroots movement to convince Senator Warren to run for president.
Help build the momentum—start a monthly donation here or chip in a one-time donation here.
PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/.
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. 
From: Michael Langenmayr, Daily Kos
Subject: Russ Feingold
A new poll shows former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold thumping Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson by a whopping 16 points in Wisconsin.
Russ Feingold was a progressive champion in the Senate, writing an historic campaign finance law and casting the only vote against the PATRIOT Act. We need Russ Feingold in the Senate again.
Sign the petition: We want Russ Feingold to run for Senate.
Feingold lost to Johnson in 2010's GOP wave, but he's hinted at seeking a rematch more than once now. What's more, he recently resigned his job at the State Department, making himself free to pursue a campaign.
In a post-Citizens United world, we need a senator who can speak truth to power and can lead the fight to get money out of politics.
Sign the petition: Run, Russ, run!
From: albert baca
Subject: Fw: Red State Utopia
Must read if you want to understand what is happening in the red state utopia known as Kansas.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/16/new-law-life-just-got-lot-harder-poor-Kansas
We've driven across Kansas so many times it ain't funny. It is a hell of a long way across the state of Kansas. Over 400 miles. It is also a fir piece from KC to the OK line driving the Kansas Turnpike. Done that a time or two too.
The funniest of my Kansas trips is I thought I was driving east from some little hick town toward Liberal Kansas when I was actually driving south to Hooker, OK. Yes siree Bob. there is a Hooker, OK.
From: Andrew Tierman
Subject: Oklahoma's Mary Fallin acknowledges that fracking can cause earthquakes
Right-wing Oklahoma Governor acknowledges that highly increased rate of earthquakes could be caused by water-injection mining.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/21/oklahoma_acknowledges_earthquakes_link_to_drilling.html?wpsrc=slatest_newsletter&sid=5388f40ddd52b8e41100b30a
From: James Lucas
Subject: Africa - The US Military's Battlefield of Tomorrow
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/15/us-militarys-battlefield-tomorrow
The US Military's Battlefield of Tomorrow
2044 or Bust: Military missions reach record levels after US inks deal to remain in Africa for decades
By Nick Turse
For three days, wearing a kaleidoscope of camouflage patterns, they huddled together on a military base in Florida. They came from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, from France and Norway, from Denmark, Germany, and Canada: 13 nations in all. They came to plan a years-long "Special Operations-centric" military campaign supported by conventional forces, a multinational undertaking that -- if carried out -- might cost hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of dollars and who knows how many lives.
From: James Lucas
Subject: deaths at sea
End deaths on the sea by ending the wars around it
Global capitalism and global war have always driven large-scale human migration.
by Mark LeVine April 23, 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/04/mediterranean-carnage-harvest-empire-150422111228073.html
From: James Lucas
Subject: Re: The Conference on the Israel Lobby » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Hi Mohammad, Too bad that Nader could not win the U.S. presidency. My time here in Phoenix is mostly spent working as a member of Veterans for Peace and I am also a member of the national group Jewish Voice for Peace.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015, Mohammad Saklayen wrote:
Nader had been voice of conscience and truth for our generation
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/20/the-conference-on-the-israel-lobby/#.VTb956a9VH4.mailto
From: Ben Betz; Online Engagement Director, People For the American Way
Subject: LA Times: For the GOP, it's the billionaires' primary
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A great column this week by the LA Times' Doyle McManus does a fantastic job detailing just how outrageous the current dynamic is in the Republican presidential primary, as candidates line up to audition for billionaire ideologues like the Kochs and Sheldon Adelson.
He lays it out clearly:
The most important players aren't the candidates; they're the mega-donors.
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The Republican race has devolved into a battle among headstrong billionaires, each with a pet candidate.
David Koch, whose family made its money in coal, has Walker. (For all his protestations of neutrality, Koch sounded pretty smitten.) Norman Braman, who owns 23 car dealerships, has Marco Rubio. Robert Mercer, a New York hedge fund manager, has Ted Cruz. Foster Friess, an investment manager, has Rick Santorum. (Yes, Santorum is still in the running -- thanks in large part to the generosity of Friess.)
The biggest mega-donor of them all, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, is still playing hard to get. All the candidates, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, are courting him.
There's something grotesque about a process that requires serious politicians to hover anxiously around a few donors who can make or break a campaign at whim.
Hear hear.
On why the race for big money is bigger this year than in previous cycles:
Campaigns are still discovering how they can exploit the freedom from regulation that the Supreme Court has granted since its Citizens United decision in 2010.
On the rising tide of public concern with big money in elections:
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg says public alarm is rising, and he's advised candidates to put reform on their list of promises (as Clinton did last week).
On what that could mean:
If, however, voters demand change from the candidates, it's just possible that 2016 could be remembered as the year the tide of money crested, instead of just another campaign that saw the dollars rise.
You can read the whole thing here, and I encourage you to share it with others, especially on social media.
And take a few quick minutes if you can to email your members of Congress and tell them to cosponsor the Democracy For All constitutional amendment, which would overturn decisions like Citizens United>>
Thank you for fueling, through your support of PFAW, the movement to reclaim our democracy,
get big money OUT of elections and restore Government By the PEOPLE.
From: Morris Dees; Founder, SPLC; FIGHTING HATE // TEACHING TOLERANCE // SEEKING JUSTICE
Subject: 20 years after Oklahoma City bombing, domestic terror threat remains
… 168 people, including 19 children, killed
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From: Michael Sherrard; Faithful America
Subject: CBS inviting hate group to speak for Christians
With the Supreme Court about to issue a historic decision, CBS News is turning to an anti-gay hate group leader to speak for Christians.
This Sunday, Face the Nation is scheduled to feature Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. Perkins has repeatedly accused gay men of molesting children, causing the Southern Poverty Law Center to formally name FRC to its list of hate groups.
Perkins was once a regular on CNN and MSNBC, but those networks have increasingly abandoned him as mainstream Christians have challenged his decades-long record of spreading ugly misinformation about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. CBS News should do the same.
Tell CBS News: Cancel Tony Perkins. He doesn't speak for Christians.
For more information:
"Washington Update," Family Research Council, April 23, 2015
"How A Hate Group Lost Influence On (Most Of) Cable News," Media Matters, July 30, 2014
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