Boycott these companies who claim they can't afford healthcare #boycott4healthcare

Prior to the election certain rightwing employers, in an attempt to intimidate voters, were threatening their workers with layoffs if their chosen rightwing presidential candidate did not defeat our President.
Now, subsequent to the election, the rightwingers are continuing their scare tactics, threatening workers with reduced hours and even layoffs, claiming that without punishing the workers that way, they can't afford to provide their workers with healthcare insurance.
First Papa John's made such an announcement.
Now Olive Garden and Red Lobster and Applebees have followed suit.
I am going to boycott any companies making such, or similar, pronouncements, and will maintain a list here of all such companies, until they relent from their un-American, anti-social, anti-worker, anti-human, anti-healthcare policies, and will use the hashtag #boycott4healthcare on twitter to discuss such boycotts.
The List of Companies to Boycott:




Papa John's
Olive Garden
Red Lobster
Applebees
Denny's
Walmart
Dollar General

I will update the list as best I can. If you send me comments informing me of new companies to add to the list, and/or of companies to remove from the list because they have relented and retracted their anti-human position, I will incorporate the information as I update the list.

Video of touchscreen machine switching votes from Obama to Romney in #Pennsylvania

Action memo from the Other 98%

I'm not going to tell you who to vote for - but I am going to tell you how to make sure your vote counts, and how to make sure your community gets to vote alongside you.
If you do one thing ahead of time:

• Find out where and when you can vote with Rock The Vote.

If you want to vote smart:

• Take a moment to double-check your Voter ID with Advancement Project.
• See your ballot ahead of time with TheBallot.org.
• Consider sending a message with Hoodie Vote.

If you can help make sure everyone in your community can vote:

• Report voter suppression with 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
• Make sure your friends vote with Vote With Friends.
• Use your cellphone to report voter suppression with Video The Vote.

Don't let anyone take away your rights.
On Tuesday, we vote. But 364 days of the year, we push the system in other ways, and that includes mutual aid in the face of climate chaos. We are supporting Occupy Sandy, a volunteer-run project that is providing incredible relief in Hurricane Sandy's wake. Please consider joining us.
We'll see you after the election. Thank you so much for the work you do this week, and every week.
Sincerely,
John Sellers, The Other 98%

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Our website is http://other98.com/.

The system isn't broken; it's fixed

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The System Isn’t Broken, It’s "Fixed" Election Day is Tuesday. We need you now. Move to Amend has been invited to partner with our friends at No More Stolen Elections to safeguard this election. We need your pledge. In order for small “d” democracy to flourish, Americans must demand clean, safe and transparent elections. Currently, we have a corporate-controlled system where vote-rigging can easily be (and has already been) accomplished. Voter suppression campaigns are already underway and voters are being given incorrect information about when and how to vote and who is eligible to participate in the election. This cannot stand!  1) Take the pledge: No More Stolen Elections! 2) Join our briefing conference call on Sunday, November 4 at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern. Click here to register. 3) Forward this email to everyone you know! ~ PLEDGE OF ACTION: No More Stolen Elections! ~ WE REMEMBER Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, and Wisconsin 2011, and are willing to act this year if the right to free and fair elections is denied again. WE SUPPORT efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to Election Day. IF NECESSARY, WE PLEDGE to join nationwide pro-democracy protests starting on the next day, either in my community, in key states where fraud occurred, or in Washington, D.C., and if necessary, to demand a recount, investigation, and criminal prosecutions of those responsible. CLICK HERE TO JOIN US: Sign the Pledge of Action Initial signatories* include: Noam Chomsky, professor, MIT Thom Hartmann, author and journalist Medea Benjamin, co-founder, CODE PINK Jill Stein & Cheri Honkala, presidential ticket, Green Party Rocky Anderson, presidential nominee, Justice Party Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America David Cobb, initiator, 2004 Ohio Recount Ben Manski, founder, Liberty Tree Foundation Margaret Flowers & Kevin Zeese, It's Our Economy Laura Bonham, Justice Party USA Daniel Wayne Lee, Occupy LA Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers Karen Dolan, Cities for Progress Frances Fox Piven, professor, CUNY Nancy Price, co-chair, Alliance for Democracy Jerome Scott, co-founder, U.S. Social Forum Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, co-founder, Move to Amend Bill Fletcher, co-founder, Rainbow Coalition Tom Hayden, co-founder, Students for a Democratic Society Mimi Kennedy, actress Lee Camp, comedian John Matthews, Exec. Director, Madison Teachers, Inc. Sarah Manski & Adam Porton, co-founders, Wisconsin Wave David Swanson, author, War is a Crime John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies Jim & Rebecca Goodman, Family Farm Defenders George Martin, former co-chair, United for Peace and Justice * all affiliations for ID purposes only CLICK HERE TO JOIN US: Sign the Pledge of Action. ➤➤ And join our briefing conference call on Sunday, November 4 at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern. Click here to register.

MOVE TO AMEND PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502  |  (707) 269-0984  |  www.MoveToAmend.org We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

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Will they hack the presidential election? According to this week's Christian Science Monitor, "if someone could get a few minutes’ unattended access to a paperless machine, that person could install a software virus that could spread to other machines and switch those machines’ votes before deleting all traces of itself." Be prepared. Act now in three important steps: Sign the  Pledge of Action and forward it to everyone you know. Donate to our Rapid Response Fund. Organize a  Voter Assembly in your community for Nov 7th, the day after the election. With the clock ticking, every hour brings new reports of serious voting rights violations. From Ohio, today, came the news that experimental software patches were installed on vote counting tabulators in up to 39 Ohio counties.  The Free Press has found that an elections corporation, Election Systems and Solutions (ES&S), installed software patches that will impact 4,041,056 registered voters, including those in metropolitan Columbus and Cleveland. This software install violates Ohio law because this software has never been tested by public authorities. And this, just 5 days before Election Day. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely telling them they can vote early by phone and don't need to go to a polling place. In suburban Broward County, Fla., a handful of elderly voters who requested absentee ballots say they were visited by unknown people claiming to be authorized to collect the ballots. In 2004, we organized the first No Stolen Elections! campaign and launched the Ohio Recount. In 2008, 2011, and 2012, our No More Stolen Elections! efforts have exposed fraud, forced recounts, and built momentum for hand-counted paper ballots and other essential reforms. But we can't afford to rest now. We need the resources to keep moving forward. We must be ready on Election Day.  Please give now.  Two stolen presidential elections is two too many. The only thing that could be more true than that is that a third presidential election is being manipulated right now. Remember: Sign the  Pledge of Action and forward it to everyone you know. Donate to our Rapid Response Fund. Organize a  Voter Assembly in your community for Nov 7th, the day after the election. Yours for Democracy,     ~ Adam, Jolie and Sarah for the No More Stolen Elections! campaign P.O. Box 260217 | Madison, WI 53726-0217 US

Michael Moore: 90 Million Are Planning Not to Vote – Your Mission: Take Just One of Them to the Polls

90 Million Are Planning Not to Vote – Your Mission: Take Just One of Them to the Polls

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Friends,

I have a personal favor I'd like to ask each of you. We all know the election next Tuesday is going to be very close. But I've got an idea that could help put President Obama over the top.

I want you – yes, YOU, the person reading this right now – to get ONE of your fellow Americans who would not otherwise vote to show up at the polls and support Obama.

Here's the math: there are upwards of five million of you seeing this, via email, on my website, on the Huffington Post and all over the internet. There are 1.2 million following me on Twitter. I've got almost 700,000 Facebook friends.

I want just one million of you to convince just ONE person each – one person who's planning NOT to vote – to go to the polls and vote for Barack Obama. That's it. And those million extra votes could make all the difference in what will be a very tight election – and it will save us from a tragic return to the Bush years.

Do you realize that there are 90 million people who are planning to NOT vote next Tuesday? That's according to a poll conducted by USA Today. 90,000,000!! It's a shocking number, isn't it? In the old days we'd just label these people as apathetic or stupid. Not anymore. They don't need our admonition – they need our empathy.

The non-voter today knows exactly what's going on, and he or she wants no part of it. They are discouraged, disillusioned, and have almost lost hope that things will change. Many are jobless or working for peanuts. They're angry, and we should tell them they have every right to be.

But here's something else about them: despite everything, they haven't utterly given up on politics. When USA Today asked the non-voters who they'd choose if they HAD to vote for someone in this election, 18% said they would vote for Romney – and 43% said they'd vote for Obama! That means there are nearly 40 million people who prefer Obama – AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE.

The other question they were asked was, what would it take to get you to vote? 85% of the pro-Obama non-voters said they would go vote IF they thought the election was going to be really close and that their vote would actually make the difference.

This is, for all its frustrating logic, incredibly good news. So our job for the next six days is clear: We – you and me – have to bring a little over 1% of the 90 million non-voters to the polls. If we do we'll send Romney packing back to New Hampshire/Massachusetts/California or wherever he's going to build car elevators next.

The time to convince undecideds to vote for Obama is over. All it's about now is whose supporters simply show up. The side that does the best job of literally dragging people out of their homes between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM on Tuesday, November 6th is the side that wins.

Each of us knows Obama-supporting non-voters. They're your cousin, your coworker, your friend from the choir at church. Identify just one of them (best of all if they're in a swing state) and pledge to get them to the polls. You can try to convince them with all the good arguments as to why they should vote for the O (click here), but I think the best way to do this is to ask them personally, just this once, to do this for you. Not for the country. For you.

Then, once they've committed to vote, make a commitment to them: that you are not going to be silent after Tuesday, that you are going to keep fighting like hell (including, when need be, fighting Obama) every single day after the election for them, for you and for all of us.

So, that is your mission – YOURS, the person reading this right this second. Bring just one non-voter to the polls. Easy! Do it and be known as part of the group that defeated Mitt "Bush #3" Romney and gave Barack Obama another term – and another chance to do what we sent him there to do.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com
@MMFlint
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. I'll be on Piers Morgan Tonight this evening on CNN for the full hour at 9:00 pm ET (6:00 PM PT) and repeated at Midnight ET (9:00 PM PT) and 3:00 AM ET (Midnight PT). Please tune in!


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