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ET Bureau Sep 23, 2011, 02.31am IST NEW DELHI: The Centre has urged the Supreme Court to stop monitoring the 2G spectrum case, as a chargesheet had been filed and the trial court had taken cognisance of the offence. However, CBI contended that its investigations in the 2G case was on and it could be monitored by the Supreme Court. CBI counsel KK Venugopal told a bench comprising Justice GS Singhvi and Justice AK Ganguly that investigations into the Essar-Loop issue and former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran's role in the Aircel-Maxis deal was underway. So there is no difficulty in the SC monitoring the 2G case on these two aspects, said Venugopal.
Centre urges Supreme Court to stop monitoring 2G spectrum case - The Economic Times
S. 743: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - POPVOX.com
Federal employees are best positioned to disclose wrongdoing in order to protect taxpayer dollars and the public trust, but the law to protect federal whistleblowers is broken—the WPEA will go a long way toward fixing that system. More Info: Protecting Whistleblowers This bill will restore and expand rights for federal employees that will free them to help expose fraud, waste and abuse. Court decisions and a flawed administrative process have eroded these rights over the years. Here are just some of the good points about the bill: it will provide access to federal district court to challenge major disciplinary actions, end the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals monopoly on appellate review, create specific legal protection for scientific freedom, and importantly, provide Transportation Security Administration Officers with statutory whistleblower protection for the first time.
By Alexander Howard | Friday, September 9, 2011 | 3:09 p.m. The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States protects the right of the people to "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." When the White House officially launches We the People next month, that constitutional right will be formally brought into the digital age. "When I ran for this office, I pledged to make government more open and accountable to its citizens," President Obama says at WhiteHouse.gov.
COMMENTARY: Got a Problem You Want the White House to Fix? E-Petition It! - Saturday, September 10, 2011
Special: The Billionaires' Tea Party | Link TV
In Summer 2009, something stirred in America. After Barack Obama and a Democratic congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, out of nowhere the emergence of a citizens protest movement called the Tea Party threatened to derail their agenda. Was this uprising the epitome of grassroots democracy?Sen. Dick Durbin calls the recent rash of state voter suppression efforts, "a threat to our democracy." Yesterday he held a hearing on this disturbing trend at which the ACLU submitted a statement for the record.
Fundamental Injustice: Voter Suppression Threatens Democracy » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
Friends Don’t Let Friends Stay Home on Election Day. Especially not girlfriends. | WIN Writing Group
photo from findingdulcinea.com Do you like living in a representative democracy? Do you like social safety nets like social security and medicare? How about the right to full reproductive health care including abortion? Or access to health care at all? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need to make sure to vote.We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Sign the Petition
"We the corporations" | Move to Amend
Thanks for your interest in We the People, a new tool on WhiteHouse.gov that allows all Americans to ask the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. The petition you are trying to access has expired, because it failed to meet the signature threshold. While you can’t sign this petition, there may be other petitions on We the People on a similar issue that you’d like to add your name to. Or, you can create your own petition.
We the People: Your Voice in Our Government | The White House
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Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons–and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing national and local newspapers in many ways, it’s probably never too early for a crash course in revenue models. Hence the new collaboration between digital subscription company Press+ and the Knight Foundation: Starting today, the first 50 college newspapers to sign up with Press+ will be able to install free meters on their websites, allowing them to collect donations and subscription fees from readers. Press+, which is owned by RR Donnelley (NSDQ: RRD) and already operates metered paywalls for “grownup” newspapers like the Baltimore Sun and many MediaNews Group and Lee papers , says it is “providing students with a sustainable way to target parents, alumni, and other engaged readers for donations or subscriptions.”
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Petition to Repeal the Patriot Act : progressive
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First published February, 2000 When American colonists declared independence from England in 1776, they also freed themselves from control by English corporations that extracted their wealth and dominated trade. After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation, our country's founders retained a healthy fear of corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to a business role.Chairman Schumer, Ranking Member Alexander, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on behalf of Demos for the record in support of the Democracy is... March 29, 2012 | Testimony | The Congressional Progressive Caucus Fiscal Year 2013 budget, Budget for All, offers an important alternative to both the Obama Administration’s budget and that presented last week by Paul Ryan and...
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Watch Congresswoman Donna Edwards discuss her new Amendment to overturn the Citizens United ruling and restore the people's power to limit corporate spending on elections.White House grapples with a flood of online petitions - Nextgov
The true test of We the People , the Obama administration's online petition site, won't be how many petitions are launched through the Web page, but how well the White House is able to respond to them, experts told Nextgov this week. If it looks as if federal officials are ignoring the site or only issuing pro forma responses, that could undermine the operation, they said, and make people feel more alienated from their government. The White House initially promised to respond formally to any We the People petition that received more than 5,000 signatures, but after nearly three dozen petitions crossed that mark in the site's first week, the administration raised the bar to 25,000 signatures within 30 days.Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.