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Imagine a DNC that worked for us

December 19, 2015 By cos 35 Comments

Imagine if we had a Democratic primary debate every week or two through the fall and winter. Getting press coverage, focusing media attention on Democratic ideas and proposals, making people familiar with our candidates. Instead of limiting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-presidential-race, dnc, petition, president, primaries

Block the Partners deal

July 15, 2014 By donberwick 55 Comments

The Attorney General’s settlement allowing Partners Healthcare to acquire South Shore Hospital and two North Shore community hospitals is a great and lasting disservice to the future of high quality, affordable health care in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: attorney-general, don berwick, hallmark health system, martha-coakley, partners, petition, south shore hospital

Coakley channeling the NSA? New wiretapping bill would legalize mass wiretaps at switching stations

June 18, 2013 By marthews 35 Comments

At a time when rolling back federal surveillance programs seems particularly challenging, we can still have a major effect here at the state level. Recently, Attorney-General Martha Coakley proposed a new bill that would actually … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: article xiv, fourth-amendment, law-and-lawyers, martha-coakley, massachusetts, nsa, petition, politics, surveillance, wiretapping

How NOT to honor veterans this Veterans Day

November 9, 2012 By ACLUm blog Leave a Comment

By Raquel Ronzone, ACLU of Massachusetts communications content specialist As we pause to honor Veterans Day, ponder this: Boston Police officers assigned to the Boston Regional Intelligence Center---one of dozens of "fusion centers" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: activism, massachusetts, petition, surveilliance, veterans, veterans-day, veterans-for-peace

Congresswoman: Feds Could Shut Down Facebook

March 25, 2011 By demandprogress 2 Comments

Last month DHS and ICE accidentally seized 84,000 innocent sites.  Over the last several months, DHS has seized at least two dozen domain names on copyright infringement grounds. Earlier this month, DHS and ICE arrested Brian McCarthy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: brian-mccarthy, copyright, department-of-homeland-security, domain-seizures, internet-freedom, lofgren, petition, politics

KnowThyNeighbor.org Partners with WhoSigned.org in Washington State

June 1, 2009 By john-hosty-grinnell 9 Comments

Washington State's Ref. 71 Petitioners to Have Names Posted Online   OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Seattle, WA, June 1st, 2009 - WhoSigned.org, a grassroots organization of Washington State residents, announced today that it would make the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: equality, gay-marriage, glbt-rights, knowthyneighbor.org, petition

AG pressed to appoint torture prosecutor

April 29, 2009 By kirth Leave a Comment

Some of the groups petitioning Holder to appoint a special prosecutor: ACLU moveon.org FireDog Lake … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: holder, national, petition, special-prosecutor, torture

NAMES OF ARKANSAS ANTI-GAY PETITION SIGNERS POSTED ONLINE

April 29, 2009 By john-hosty-grinnell Leave a Comment

"This is about responsibility and dialogue," said Tom Lang, KnowThyNeighbor.org's director. "These petition signers need to stand behind their signatures and be responsible for this dehumanizing attack on the gay community. It's disgraceful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: arkansas, gay-marriage, glbt, knowthyneighbor.org, petition

Do you care about public education?

December 3, 2008 By keepin-it-cool 14 Comments

Please sign a petition asking President-elect Barack Obama to appoint Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education. Here's the link to the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/...   We in the US are always giving lip service to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: national, petition, public-education, schools

Is Passion Supposed to Replace Common Sense?

March 12, 2007 By kai 9 Comments

I think Know Thy Neighbor may need to be called into action again.  Once again a petition has been circulated and no one had any idea what they were signing.  Didn't make them any less eager to sign up though.  See for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chemicals, environment, petition, water

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