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What is SOPA/PIPA?
The video above discusses the Senate version of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.
PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill lets corporations and the
MYD 2012 Election Schedule
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Jan 2: Officer applications posted to goMYD.com
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Jan 9: Officer applications due to outgoing President
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Jan 10: All officer candidates’ applications posted to goMYD.com
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Jan 17: Officer Elections at first General Meeting of the year
Timing for Director applications and Issue- Oriented Committee elections will be finalized in the new year.
“In America, We Are Greater Together”
From WhiteHouse.gov
More than a century after Teddy Roosevelt outlined a vision for a “New Nationalism” in a Kansas town called Osawatomie, President Obama visited the same community to talk about what he called a make-or-break moment of the middle class.
He described how the world has undergone an economic transformation unlike any other in our collective history — and how that change has upended our expectations of social mobility in this country. Where professionals ranging from factory workers
Tagged economy, President Obama
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The Story of Broke
COMING NOVEMBER 8th, 2011: The Story of Broke
The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working. But rather than invest in something better, we continue to keep this ‘dinosaur economy’ on
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Reagan Calls for Closing Tax Loopholes for Millionaires
from ThinkProgress
In a June 6, 1985 speech at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia, then President Ronald Reagan explained that tax loopholes allowing a millionaire to pay lower taxes that a bus driver were “crazy,” because they allowed the “truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share”:
We’re going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in
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