Vacate The Siegelman Convictions !!!

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The Stevens Prosecution Was Not Politically Motivated, But The
Siegelman One Was

Former Senator Ted Stevens was allowed to just walk away from the
crimes he has still not been absolved from, because of prosecutorial
abuse. And yet those SAME prosecutors were the ones who cooked up the
framing of Alabama governor Don Siegelman on totally bogus charges,
now affirmed by a partisan all-Republican appellate court, despite a
brief filed by 54 former state attorneys general calling for reversal
of the convictions, and more than that have already written to Holder
calling for him to intervene.

Over the weekend the New York Times called for a "fresh look" at the
Siegelman case. We go further. Holder must immediately reverse the
government's position and ask the Court to vacate the convictions,
and failing all else Obama must pardon Siegelman to stop a gross
miscarriage of justice. Not only that, Congress must finally enforce
the subpoenas that Karl Rove has been thumbing his nose at for over a
year, and he must be compelled to testify about his role in the
politically motivated persecution of Don Siegelman.

Siegelman Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum979.php

The action page above will send your message to Holder at the DOJ,
and Obama, AND all your members of Congress on the subject "Vacate
The Don Siegelman Convictions, Make Rove Testify Before Congress".
This is a lot of impact from just one click of a mouse, so please
speak out for real justice and do it now.

Or for those of you who would like to speak out thru the new Twitter
channel, here is the form of the reply you can use to submit on this
issue from your own Twitter home page, and you can also add your own
comment to this if you like.

@cxs #p979

For Twitter newbies, or anyone who wants to know more about how to
configure and use the new Twitter option, here is a step by step
explanation of how to make it work.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php

The Real Issues Of Food Safety

We are well aware that various corporate nitpickers and astroturf
groups have tried to diminish your impact on the food safety issues,
but this is yet another huge win for the people.

Witness this affirmation from Mike Michaud, in RESPONSE to our
participants speaking out against HR 875, and who had the integrity
to listen.

"it lacks specific details for implementation and safeguards to
ensure that local and organic farmers are not hurt by legislation
meant to regulate agribusiness."

Witness this from Chellie Pingree in WITHDRAWING her sponsorship of
the bill

"Although I am an advocate for food safety, these bills that affect
small and organic farmers could have unintended consequences."

We were absolutely on the button loudly protesting the vagueness of
HR 875, NONE of this would have happened if we had not spoken out,
and we STAND BY the warnings in the alerts.

Indeed, one of the things we raised the alarm about, in calling for a
REAL food safety bill, instead of the corporate friendly shams being
pushed through Congress, was that the county sized cesspools that
pass for factory farms were BREEDING GROUNDS for the pandemics of the
future.

And lo and behold, as the corporate media this week goes apoplectic
over the prospect of a worldwide swine flu epidemic, we are hearing
reports that the epicenter of the breakout is a giant, poorly
regulated Smithfield (American company) hog facility in Mexico. Could
we have been any more right on target? A couple weeks ago certain
people were dismissive of internet so-called "alarmists". Today top
biologists all over the world are sweating bullets.

Moreover, we feel more strongly than ever that Congress must
immediately enact REAL food safety legislation, with the most
critical particulars being 1) strict new regulation of factory farms
and outlawing of their practices of breeding animals in horrifically
claustrophobic conditions, and forcing them to be accountable for
their massive quantities of animal excrement overflow, 2) banning all
GMO (Genetically Mutated Organisms) in agriculture until
affirmatively PROVEN safe, and full disclose of any such content,
including the use of rBGH (bovine growth hormone) in food labeling,
and 3) outlawing terminator seed technology.

We could add a great deal to this list, and in fact we call on our
participants to email us, ESPECIALLY if you are a food safety
activist, if you have a group that is already working on this, and
let's get our specific competing proposals on the table in fully
drafted form in front of Congress, so everyone can clearly see what a
REAL food safety bill is supposed to look like.

It is critical that we STAY on these issues in a proactive way, lest
the same bad statutory language from HR 875 be inserted into some
other bill.

By the way, has anyone else noticed that Norm Coleman has become the
political equivalent of a stalker? The guy who on election night
called on Franken to surrender for the good of Minnesota, is such a
drop kick hypocrite that he just won't take "No" for an answer. A
recount in such a close race is a right. That recount is done, and
was fair as any recount could be. And now, a strong majority in
Minnesota find Coleman's scorched earth litigation tactics to be
beyond spiteful, even those foolish enough to have voted for him in
the first place. Hopefully they will never make that tragic mistake
again in any race.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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