Tag: dream act
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The ‘Team of Rivals’ road trip: change.org => change.gov
Executive summary If you were in the finals of the change.org Ideas for Change competition and have (or know of) an equivalent idea in the Citizens Briefing Book on change.gov, please leave a link in the comments — and look for opportunities to co-promote with other compatible ideas. Also please leave other suggestions for how…
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w00t, w00t! Get FISA Right finishes #5 in Ideas for Change! Congratulations and great job all!
With a late rush, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties squeaked into the #5 position in the change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition with 12285 votes! Alas, even though our other endorsement Bob Fertik’s Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration picked up over…
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Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America
DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years.  Scary stuff. 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…
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Apologies to DREAM Act advocates everywhere …
For the last six weeks of change.org’s Ideas for Change competition, I’ve been consistently impressed by the advocates for Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students. The network of activists promoting the idea are giving the rest of us lessons in how to do it effectively.*Â And they and their supporters…