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 <description>&lt;p&gt; From: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot;&gt;http://www.democratz.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hello &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I HAVE YOUR NON VIOLENT PROTEST HERE: Busting the power of the corporations and the conservatives in the Republiklan and Democratic Parties and My letter to President Obama. We do not need to go out in the streets. We merely decide to stop buying products from companies that give money to conservatives. We will not get arrested nor get ignored.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the end of this message I have a plan to destroy the power of the conservative coalition of Democrats and Republican members in congress. Conservative Democrats and Republicans have thwarted an increase in the minimum wage to $10 an hour, EFCA, Health care and more. I urge people to boycott consumer products from some major companies that contribute money to conservatives in both parties and pressure these CEOs with the potential huge loss of income and force them to go to conservatives in congress and get us progressives the legislation we demand. If you like this then please consider spreading the word. Yes, we need elections and getting progressives elected BUT look what has happened even with Democratic majorities in both house and senate and a Democratic President. We have gotten thwarted and we need a strategy that will get us progressive legislation between elections and this strategy needs to get considered. What has worked to get us needed legislation that hasn&#039;t gotten watered down or stopped? Do you have a better way? If not then consider this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I sent this letter to President Obama by fax the other day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear President Obama&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I come to you today to praise you and to criticize you and to petition you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want to tell you a true story which just happened a few days ago. I came into this world 4 years after World War II. When I grew up partly in New York City and Partly in Nassau Country New York, as a young boy I would watch Meet the Press.  I watched this show as a boy of 6 or 7. I watched the people of the era talk about the issues. I also watched Mike Wallace&#039;s You are there as well. I recall seeing other programs about famous people. I saw newsreels of a man who wore a white sheet. NO! not that kind of white sheet! Mohandas Gandhi, wore a white sheet of cotton. Why did Gandhi wear white sheets? He wanted to set an example for his people to make their own cloth and not buy goods from his oppressors who occupied his country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He appeared a modern day Moses, but of another religion. I have a number of heroes like Gandhi. Most of them died, except for Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Considering myself a Jewish person, I find that good that people from other religions and other people&#039;s can serve as examples for heroes as it tends to unite people of different backgrounds. Each of these heroes, Moses, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu eventually brought their oppressors down by not cooperating with their oppressors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other day, I spoke to the great grandson of Mohandas Gandhi. I had sought to speak to his father, the grandson of Mohandas Gandhi. I never expected to ever speak to anyone in this family of Gandhi. I told him that I thanked his great grandfather for his work and that he inspired me as I used to see newsreels of his great grandfather during the 1950&#039;s and 1960&#039;s and especially using boycotts to eventually uniting his people of India to eject their oppressors out of their country. I told Gandhi&#039;s great grandson of my electronic PAMPHLET on the web and again thanked him and said good day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, I say to you Mr. President, that I want a real populist President similar to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and I and other people will make you do it, just like FDR told his supporters to make him do what they wanted him to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So in the tradition and inspiration of Moses and Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu and their people I say to you again we will make you do it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How? By boycotting the products of those of your friends in corporations who donated money to you, and donated money to Republicans and to conservatives in the Democratic party who have led this country down a path to the second great depression. The only reason that we have not descended further appears that we had citizens back about 77 years ago who made FDR do it and had good  regulations in place today that the conservatives in both parties want to repeal. So from now on I will no longer donate money to the Democratic party although I remain a member. Again I will not buy products from major companies that donate money to conservatives in both parties and I will demand progressive legislation that really helps the poor and middle class people instead of the undeserving wealthy at this point of crisis in our country, of the CEOs that run those companies and until that happens they will lose business from me and many other people such that we will put pressure on those CEOs to help get us the legislation that we want.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I agreed with the bailout of the banks and the partial nationalization of GM and Chrysler but now it appears OUR turn such that we get a $10 an hour minimum wage, a passage of the employee free choice act, a passage of the women&#039;s freedom of choice act, a passage of a compromise SINGLE PAYER PUBLIC OPTION paid for by general taxes which will allow private health insurance but in which those who choose this new single payer public option will have no premiums, no copayments, no yearly deductibles, no recisions, no rejection for preexisting conditions and cover everything: doctors visits, surgery, hospital stays, abortion, dentistry, eye care, nursing home and hospice care and home care and it will serve as a health insurance EXODUS so that the private health insurance companies will let our people go. We also need to end the war in Iraq and a way to end the war in Afghanistan but we need to help build Afghanistan up so the Taliban and Al Qaeda will no longer get the favor of some people in Afghanistan. We need other legislation that helps those less fortunate in our country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Republicans only talk about freedom but they offer us no real solutions. These Republican corporate masters only offer us FIEFDOM and wage slavery and a kind of slavery to insurers where they exploit the economic conditions of those who don&#039;t have enough money to pay for their insurance and not freedom. These Republican corporate masters offer their middle class and even poor supporters FREEDUMB organizing them in a rabble of misnamed fake populist Tea partiers for which those Boston patriots of a few centuries ago would probably say, hey these Republican FREEDUMB lovers HAVE REPRESENTATION, so what excuse do they have for disrupting government town halls that we helped to establish?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Really Mr. President, those present day so called tea partiers appear a perversion of those real patriots that helped liberate our country a few centuries ago. Do these false tea partiers stand for a living wage? No. Do these false tea partiers stand for unions? No. Do these false tea partiers stand for helping those less fortunate in our country? No.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These Recruited Republican FREEDUMB lovers claim that they appear PATRIOTs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I say NAY, those Recruited Republican rabble appear as&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;stand PAT RIOTers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;disrupting government who attempt to help the less fortunate in our country. How many times have I seen or heard this Republican rabble express their contempt for the poor and less fortunate in the middle class? I have seen and heard such contempt by these conservatives for decades blaming most of the poor and less fortunate middle class for their own problems as an excuse to shift blame away from many corporations who disadvantage such people and also as an excuse to have government dissolve in the area of social justice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These Republican rabble stand PAT RIOTers want us to stand pat for their corporate masters to continue to profit on the suffering of people in many areas and not just health care. They want us to stand pat and yell no more higher taxes deliberately wanting the American people to not see the way corporate governors want to PRIVATELY TAX people with low pay aka Cheap labor aka wage theft not giving workers in many cases the worth of their work that they do and suppressing the organization of people in unions. These corporate governors also tax people privately with high prices in a cartel working with other corporate governors in fixing prices so even though you have a few companies in a sector of products you really have a polyopoly keeping PRIVATE TAXES high in a lot of product sectors. Yes high prices and low wages function as a PRIVATE TAXATION system run by private government which the Republicans support and come from and they have their stooges in the stand PAT RIOT movement to pose as as populists. NAY!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So next time Republicans criticize our party for taxation in their miscommunications at election time we Democrats will remind the people that the Republicans continue to tax us PRIVATELY and raise these PRIVATE TAXES through POLYOPOLY, DUOPOLY, MONOPOLY, cheap labor and high prices and that Republicans need to get relieved of their power in government which they deliberately sabotage social programs through deliberate deficit creation through oil wars, unjust tax breaks for the wealthy and cutting of social programs. This deliberate deficit creation has gone on for 30 years now started by Ronald Reagan the miscommunicator and it has to stop. The Republicans create a huge deficit so when they get relieved of power then the Democrat has to clean up the mess and cannot or will not continue on the path of social justice or water it down such that supporters of Democrats get angry as they did in Bill Clinton&#039;s time and now yours!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So Mr. President, we will make you promote real social justice and not catering to corporations in the quest for social justice and eliminate these so called public private partnerships that these corporations take too much money from the poor and less fortunate that the Republicans have done in the past years and until this day and create regular government programs that do not allow these corporations to leech upon the public and profit to the detriment of middle class and poor people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have seen this in Medicare Part D and Medicare Disadvantage and now thanks to conservative Democrats we face this in the new health insurance and Pharmaceutical company enrichment act of 2010.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No more Mr. President. No More.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Help the middle class and the poor and until then, the Democratic party gets no money from me and in 2010 and 2012 I will go to the polls and only vote on referenda, meaning I will not vote for anyone for representative, senator and President. I will stay in the Democratic party and do what I can to rid us these conservatives in OUR party from power by peaceful means through boycotts of consumers products of their contributors that give them money and convince other Democrats to also boycott these contributors to conservatives in both parties and force these CEOs to go to congressional leaders and tell the leaders that hundreds of thousands of people will no longer buy from the CEOs companies until congress passes real progressive legislation that citizens want and have petitioned the CEOs for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the end, Mr. President we will get this done peacefully and we will do everything peaceful to make you help us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the tradition of Moses, Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, we will get this done for social Justice for the less fortunate in our country. I encourage other people reading this open letter to the President to organize and petition the government and the CEOs of corporations that aid meanspirited conservatives in both parties to go to my electric pamphlet at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot;&gt;http://www.democratz.org&lt;/a&gt; and sign those petitions that you see best to accomplish social justice for the less fortunate in our country. Once you sign them, electronic letters will go out right away to congressional leaders and the Corporations that aid meanspirited conservatives. Do this for the less fortunate! Let our people grow and to meanspirited conservatives, let our people GO from your greed, high prices and wage slavery and private taxes and your religious oppression.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So let it get written so let it get done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot;&gt;http://www.democratz.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I created these petitions for social justice. These petitions appear different from regular petitions. These petitions allow people to boycott conservative contributors that give money to conservatives in both parties.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I enthusiastically voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Now I appear disappointed that President Obama made deals with Big Pharma and the health insurance industry. This administration looks like Clinton II.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please sign these NEW petitions for single payer health care HR676 as primary legislation or for HR676 as the public option.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/public_option&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/public_option&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/public_option&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/traitorjoe&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/traitorjoe&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/traitorjoe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/HR676&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/HR676&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/HR676&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_snowe&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_snowe&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/single_payer_snowe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_ross&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_ross&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/single_payer_ross&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_exxon&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_exxon&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/single_payer_exxon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_california&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/single_payer_california&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/single_payer_california&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/drug_benefit&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/drug_benefit&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/drug_benefit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also sign these petitions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/EFCA&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/EFCA&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/EFCA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/10_an_hour_min_wage&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/10_an_hour_min_wage&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/10_an_hour_min_wage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/women_freedom_of_choice_act&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/women_freedom_of_choice_act&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/women_freedom_of_choice_act&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://endthewars.democratz.org&quot; title=&quot;http://endthewars.democratz.org&quot;&gt;http://endthewars.democratz.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can stop the filibuster done by the Republiklan party and also get a bonus of the employee free choice act too enacted into law. You can help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It appears very simple. Since Senator Mitch McConnell has nothing much to lose directly by pressuring him, we go after Brown Forman corporation of Kentucky who distributes Jack Daniels Whiskey and Southern Comfort Liquor, who by the way gives money to Mitch McConnell, the senate minority leader for his campaigns.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/STOPFILIBUSTERS&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/STOPFILIBUSTERS&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/STOPFILIBUSTERS&lt;/a&gt; which link will take you to a petition demanding the passage of the Employee Free Choice act and also for Mitch McConnell to halt any filibusters. Oh and when you sign the petition, emails go out right away to Mitch McConnell and Brown Forman Corporation from Kentucky. If you can’t pressure McConnell directly pressure his friends at Brown Forman by telling them you will boycott their products until they get McConnell to comply with our demands.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Also call Brown-Forman at 502-585-1100 and tell the person who answers to get the CEO to GET Mitch McConnell to execute no Republican filibusters for the duration of the Obama Administration and enact the Employee free choice act into law or you don&#039;t buy Jack Daniel&#039;s whiskey and Southern Comfort anymore!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So if you want to end the filibuster by Republicans, sign the petition now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YOU HAVE THE POWER !!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:51:32 -0800</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Have you had enough of petitions, rallies, and protests that have not worked? The Republican party and their conservative members appears insulated from the public and unresponsive to the public. However their contributors do not appear insulated from the public and can collapse under pressure to a withering telephone campaign threatening mass boycotts of their products until they get their friends at the GOP to do what we want.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Would you consider joining these telephone campaigns and spreading the word? I have created these campaigns to peacefully take back America. After you have made these phone calls please send me email to &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:info@democratz.org&quot;&gt;info@democratz.org&lt;/a&gt; with the subject CALLED.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I plan to bring this message to as many Democratic Clubs around the United States of America as I can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot; title=&quot;http://www.democratz.org&quot;&gt;http://www.democratz.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get as many people to make these phone calls.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call congressional contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at 800 386 1215 or 203 373 2211 and tell the person who answers, that you want the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to get Bush to end the war in Iraq and then Bush resign with Cheney and until that happens you will not buy any GE products and that you will tell your friends about this. Then call a local appliance store that sells GE appliances and tell the person you will not buy any GE products from their store until they can convince the GE CEO to convince George W Bush to end the war and then resign with Cheney.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call congressional contributor Rite Aid Pharmacies at 800 325 3737 and tell the person that you want the Rite Aid CEO to get the congress and the President to enact HR 676 single payer universal health care and repeal Medicare Part D and place the drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of the cost of drugs with no extra premiums, no extra&lt;br /&gt;
deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, you won&#039;t buy ANYTHING from Rite Aid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call congressional contributor Wendy&#039;s restaurants at 614 764 3553 and tell the person in that you want their CEO to get the congress and the President to enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this happens you will not go to a Wendy&#039;s Restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call your local Exxon/Mobil gas station and tell the manager that you will not get your car repaired there, nor will you buy gasoline there until their parent company sets their price so that they can sell you gasoline for $1.75 a gallon. Then only do business with other gas stations. We will no longer stand for $3 a gallon gasoline.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kentucky Residents:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call General Electric Appliances Corporation in Louisville at&lt;br /&gt;
502 452 4311 and other appliance stores that sell GE products and demand that they get  Senator Mitch McConnell to get an end to the Iraq war and for Bush and Cheney to resign and until that happens you will not buy any GE refrigerators, stoves, televisions, dishwashers, ovens, lightbulbs, etc. Get as many Kentucky residents to make these phone calls.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After you make these calls you can also call Mitch McConnell&#039;s office and tell his office that you have called GE in Lousiville and won&#039;t buy their products until Mitch McConnell gets an end to the war and gets Bush and Cheney to resign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;General Electric Appliances&lt;br /&gt;
9500 Williamsburg Office Plaza&lt;br /&gt;
Louisville, KY 40222&lt;br /&gt;
USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;tel: 800 626 2000&lt;br /&gt;
tel: 502 452 4311&lt;br /&gt;
      502 452 4313&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I set up a progressives forum for progressives and liberals&lt;br /&gt;
only. Get as many progressives and liberals to join as you&lt;br /&gt;
can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://progressives.aceboard.com&quot; title=&quot;http://progressives.aceboard.com&quot;&gt;http://progressives.aceboard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I do not seek donations. You can use the board for free.&lt;/p&gt;
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