Today Our Revolution is calling for a Day Of Action by calling your Representative in Congress and telling them to put down, once and for all, the Corporate Coup named TPP.

I have reservations about OR - taking money from the moneyed makes me more than a little suspicious that there'll be "undercurrents" pushing this way and that instead of everything being above board. Having said that, this Day Of Action Against The TPP is certainly worthy of participation. Take a few minutes and phone-up your Rep. Mine is Eddie Munster Paul Ryan, so I have a two pronged message for him: "TPP is Treason" (hitting the TeaType/Randian in him) and "If you're certain you don't have the votes to pass TPP, why not bring it to a vote, let it lose and be done with it...unless you're working a backroom deal to pass 'Obama Trade' for the Democrats and the Corporations" (hitting the partisan in him*).

Greg Palast has a video and a petition on "Interstate Crosscheck" the 21st century version of Jim Crow - Palast calls it "Dr. James Crow, Systems Analyst."

This is the link to the petition: http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/petition/#pet-title
And this is the video:
[video:https://vimeo.com/180376253]

And from Greg's CrossCheck email, an offer to screen his new film:

For the full story of the investigation….
The Billionaires Behind the Ballot Burglary

The Crosscheck investigation is at the heart of my new film, premiering this month:

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits

We need 50 organizations or awesome individuals from around the country to sponsor — at zero cost to your group — a screening at a local theater. Our distributor will provide the theater for you at no cost. We just need you to make your best effort fill the seats. E-mail my co-producer Zach Roberts at zach (at) gregpalast(dot)com for details.

*I'm not altogether comfortable with the partisan pitch to Ryan; if I thought he'd listen to reason, I'd use that, and it ain't like my pitch could possibly make him more contemptible. I'm using Political Judo - using his own worse qualities against him for a more noble outcome. It's kinda ends-justifies-the-means, but I'm gonna let it slide this time.