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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Doctor Critical of Baucus Promotes Single-Payer Plan

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Saturday, June 6, 2009. Doctor Critical of Baucus Promotes Single-Payer Plan. By Mike Dennison. Published on June 6 by  The Billings Gazette (Montana). Maryland psychiatrist Carol Paris is calling herself one of the "Baucus 13" these days - in other words, one of the 13 doctors, nurses and activists arrested last month while protesting before a Washington, D.C., health reform hearing chaired by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Single-payer advocates held rallies in six Montana cities on Friday. In an interview F...

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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Tap Water Worries Have You Buying Bottled? Safeway Loves You!

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Tap Water Worries Have You Buying Bottled? By Jonah Owen-Lamb. Published June 2 by the Merced (California) Sun-Star. And posted on Commondreams.org. Wells are drying up across the county from an overtaxed and sinking water table. Drought and climate change threaten the future of local water supplies. And Merced has been selling its tap water since 2002 to a water bottling plant, which then sells that water at rates far above what it costs the plant to buy it from the city. The Si...

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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Up in Smoke: Health insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks

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Monday, June 15, 2009. Up in Smoke: Health insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks. By Desiree Evans, published at Facing South. The Journal of the Institute for Southern Studies. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that major U.S., Canadian and British life and health insurance companies are investing billions of dollars in tobacco company stock. The report found that seven health and life-insurance companies in both the United States and overseas have nearly $4.5 ...

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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Single payer health care is the only way to control costs

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Monday, June 15, 2009. Single payer health care is the only way to control costs. By Dr Peter Mahr. Our current healthcare system is a mess for both those who carry health insurance and those without. Only a single payer national health insurance program that provides public financing for privately delivered healthcare services can clean up this mess and provide all Americans access to needed medical services regardless of ability to pay. Furthermore, a single payer system is the only reform proposal tha...

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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Peru Suspends Decree That Fueled Amazon Violence

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Peru Suspends Decree That Fueled Amazon Violence. Compiled from reports by Agence France Presse, Indymedia, and Democracy Now! Peruvian lawmakers suspended one of several controversial laws that eased restrictions on lumber harvesting in the Amazon rain forest, days after it sparked clashes between police and indigenous protesters, killing dozens of people. President Alan Garcia's APRA party. Angry legislators with the opposition Nationalist Party (PNP) called for the decrees to...

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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Fasting for our future, climate activist enter fifth week of hunger strike

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Monday, May 18, 2009. Fasting for our future, climate activist enter fifth week of hunger strike. A hunger strike for strong climate legislation has entered its fifth week just as a weak climate action bill begins its Congressional mark-up. Seven people—Kathleen Breault, SKCM Curry, Ted Glick, Jere Locke, Cathy Luna-Desaulnier, Vincent Pawloski and Diane Wilson, acting as part of Fast For Our Future. Posted by Alliance for Democracy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the real economy. Need strict re...

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Local Alliances for Democracy

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Local Alliance Chapters and Member Networks. To find out the latest on chapter actions at the Alliance for Democracy blog. In a larger map. Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri. Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio. South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon.

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Endorsements - Oregon Climate

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Salmon On The Square. The world thirsts for one nation, one state, to place a flat fee across all polluting carbon fuels. Oregon Climate just might lead the world toward that goal.". Former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Senior Policy Advisor at Climate Solutions and board member of 350.org, U.S. Climate Action Network, NW Energy Coalition, and Renewable NW Project. Yes, let Oregon lead the way on Fee and Dividend legislation. As President of Citizens' Climate Lobby who wor...

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Links

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New England chapters and member networks. Portland (OR) Alliance for Democracy. Defending Water for Life sites:. Move to Amend national website. Regional groups with Alliance for Democracy ties:. Portland, OR: www.movetoamendpdx.org. Oregon Fair Trade Coalition. Maine Fair Trade Campaign. Tapestry of the Commons. Presentation information and audio files. Community rights and rights-based ordinances. We Are All Farmer Brown". Facebook page in support of local agriculture in Maine. Food for Maine's Future.

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Afd - Campaigns

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Alliance Campaigns - Find Out What's Going on and Get Active. Defending Water For Life. 8195;  . Visit the national campaign page here. Learn about Alliance efforts to keep water resources in the public trust, and read about the history of the struggle to keep "Water for People and Nature" in the U.S. and around the world. This national campaign supports state-level work to protect water, including developing local resolutions against corporate personhood. Defending Water in Maine. 8195;  . Download how-...