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Keep Your Privacy Private

July 6, 2018 Comments Off on Keep Your Privacy Private

Californians are getting the power to protect themselves. What is your state  or country doing?

Starting in 2020, Californians will have the power to control whether or not online companies can keep or sell our data.  Currently, online companies collect all sorts of information about us and use it either to bombard us with advertising or profit from it by selling it to others who attack us with ads…and worse.

Although the new law isn’t as strong as the one in Europe, it’s the strongest in the U.S.

Start bombarding your lawmakers with demands that they enact similar legislation.  We all deserve to avoid giving up part of our private lives every time we search or buy on the internet, go  to a website,  or download a movie or e-book.

Remember: Their taking our data isn’t just a bother to us; their having our information can also endanger us, especially the most vulnerable among our family and friends.

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Nebraska, Death, and Shame

May 29, 2015 Comments Off on Nebraska, Death, and Shame

Nebraska lawmakers have banned the death penalty, even overriding their governor’s veto.  I congratulate them on realizing that the “eye for an eye” law was–listen up, Christians–the old law, replaced by a new Law of humanity and reason.  They came to understand that the death penalty, on the moral level, is unequally applied and too permanent in cases when guilt is later disproved; on the practical level, far too expensive; and, on the emotional level, seldom brings victims’ families the peace they long for.  Lawmakers saw that the practice was not justice but simple revenge.

Nebraska is state #19 (plus DC).  We’re well past 1/3 of our civilized nation’s ridding itself of the practice, as much of the rest of the major nations have done.  Yet we’re so far away from even 1/2.

I’m sad to say that my state, California, is on the wrong side of those percentages.  If you live on that side, urge your state’s lawmakers to do something about ending this national shame.

 

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Earth-Friendly Tip: Plastic Ocean

May 11, 2013 Comments Off on Earth-Friendly Tip: Plastic Ocean

How to save money (personally, as a community, and as a state) and help the environment: watch this two-minute video on plastic to find out and learn what can be done about marine plastic pollution  Then sign the petition and let your California lawmakers know you’re in favor of AB521.

 

 

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