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Progressive Coders Network is a 501(c)(3) progressive community of tech and non-tech activists reducing the influence of big money in politics!

https://www.progcode.org/
Starbucks repeatedly has followed the counsel of its attorneys, and it repeatedly has lost in court. If the Department of Labor enforced its reporting rules, union busting employers would have less incentive to follow bad advice.
Lawyers, Not Persuaders
The anti-labor law firm Littler Mendelson’s reputation is a premier example of the limitations in existing labor law.
prospect.org
October 5, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Communities must be empowered to monitor environmental toxins, so that citizens can be informed and protect their communities against industries that profit at the expense of life.

ProgCode's EnviroTrack project can be part of the solution.
Oil Refineries Are Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Residential Neighborhoods
The EPA’s benzene monitoring and control program has failed to rein in the worst offenders.
truthout.org
September 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM
AMLO's implementation of universal reform policies measurably reduced poverty in Mexico. His only notable policy failure resulted when following piecemeal US solutions to healthcare.

Read Kurt Hackbarth's excellent analysis in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.
AMLO Is Reducing Poverty in Mexico
Since coming to office in 2018, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made tackling inequality a key tenet of his Fourth Transformation. Millions have been lifted out of poverty, and the...
jacobin.com
August 27, 2023 at 12:57 AM
The motivation behind book bans is always to keep a population ignorant and vulnerable.
‘Criminal liability for librarians’: the fight against US rightwing book bans
Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, which helped block a controversial Arkansas law, says attacks will continue
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Corrupt politicians don't care about biodiversity. They're compensated by the petrochemical companies and land barons who destroy life.
After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril
Fifty years after the US Endangered Species Act took effect, officials say 99% of the animals and plants it protects have survived.
apnews.com
August 5, 2023 at 4:07 PM
Captains of industry are too busy counting profits to notice the coming tidal wave.

Stop letting them control governments.
Big waves becoming more common off California as Earth warms, new research finds
Oceanographer Peter Bromirski at Scripps Institution of Oceanography used a unique approach to gather historical data from the past 90 years to track the increasing height of the surf.
apnews.com
August 5, 2023 at 4:03 PM
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Only votes in favor of Sanders's amendment to cut military spending by 10% (excluding health care, personnel, and Ukraine aid)

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)
July 27, 2023 at 9:06 PM
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Libraries close, books are banned, and knowledge becomes contraband. The system fights against its own destruction.

But educating ourselves and each other is the beginning of revolution.
July 29, 2023 at 2:00 AM
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July 27, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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New York Libraries are facing a $36.2 million budget cut.
Today is a day of action. This is a link to the social media tools page:
https://investinlibraries.org/dayofaction
Please post about it. Tell people. Make your voices heard.
#NocutstoLibraries
June 15, 2023 at 2:31 PM
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all damn day
July 26, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Consider the possible reasons that government leaders aren't talking to the public about this.
Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2023 at 12:50 AM
Government continues to ignore Science and bows to fossil fuel interests.

Precious farmlands and wetlands are wasted to produce the very fuels which push the planet temperature to unsustainable levels.
Lawsuit says US environmental agency ignores harm of biofuel production
New suit charges that the EPA disregards ethanol production’s impact on endangered species as it is directed to study under law
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2023 at 12:49 AM
"Voluntary safeguards" from an industry which influences government policy through campaign donations?

No profiteer invests millions in tech and then "volunteers" to cut the profits they intended to make from the asset.

Get money out of politics.
White House Deal for​ Voluntary AI Safeguards Called 'Great Step' But 'Not Enough'
Advocacy groups and experts are pressuring Congress and federal regulators to "put meaningful, enforceable guardrails in place."
www.commondreams.org
July 27, 2023 at 12:39 AM
This looks like a great place to create positive change!
July 26, 2023 at 1:12 AM