River Raisin Patriots: Action Alerts

Action Alerts

Defamation of Religions Resolution

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), an inter-governmental organization of 57 states with majority or significant Muslim populations, has been working for several years through the United Nations system to justify and advance the Defamation of Religions Resolution….

The Defamation of Religions Resolution] is a nonbinding but influential statement condemning, in the name of religious tolerance, words that denigrate any religion. In practice, the resolution provides cover for various laws in the Islamic World that restrict religious freedom and freedom of expression, such as Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. The resolution has been introduced and voted on in various forms and under various titles since 1999. It is expected to be proposed again in the UN General Assembly this fall….

Your voice is vitally important to protesting the Defamation of Religions Resolution. Please join the Open Doors advocacy team by signing up at http://www.opendoorsusa.org/

The Free Our Health Care NOW! Petition Now Represents 1.34 Million Americans!

If you have friends who haven’t signed the petition, send them to http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/.

Join the Light of Day Campaign! Go to the Free Our Health Care NOW! Action Army http://www.capitolconnect.com/freeourhealthcarenow/ and tell your Senators and House Member that you want the bill posted for 3 days before they vote – not after the vote!

One week after voting to pass complicated health care legislation, the Senate Finance Committee finally posted the legislative language for us to review. Americans deserve better than this! It is not acceptable for us to see the legislation AFTER it has been approved. The bill is over 1,500 pages, so check your toner cartridge before you print. Of course, Sen. Reid is writing a whole new bill at this point to combine the two Senate bills…. http://finance.senate.gov/press/Bpress/2009press/prb101909.pdf

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Is a Washington takeover of the Internet next?

http://americansforprosperity.org/102009-washington-takeover-internet-next

As important as all the fights are that we’re in right now, perhaps the biggest of all is the fight over whether the government will take over the Internet. That’s because as long as the Internet is free, we can use it to communicate, educate, and organize. Tea parties, townhalls, and AFP events would be very difficult to organize if government owned and controlled the Internet and chose to interfere with it. That’s what’s at stake this week as the Federal Communications Commission decides on Thursday whether to move forward with so-called “net neutrality” regulations.

It comes right from the top. President Obama himself said on the campaign trail: “I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to Net Neutrality.”

The FCC will vote Thursday on what it calls a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Net Neutrality. If it passes, it will start a public comment period and I’ll be emailing you again with instructions on how to file comments. But for the next couple days, we need to make our case against the FCC even taking that first step down the road to a Washington takeover of the Internet.

Here’s what you can do to help: The FCC created a website at http://www.openinternet.gov/ where you can comment on government regulating the Internet under so-called net neutrality rules. The left has been flooding it with comments. Please take a moment to head over to http://www.openinternet.gov/ and click on “Join the Discussion” to make your voice heard for keeping the Internet in private hands.

Thanks for all you do.
Phil Kerpen
Director of Policy, Americans for Prosperity
Chairman, The Internet Freedom Coalition

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