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The Public Option remains on the Table.

Joseph Raglione
January 30, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, can a phone call make a difference in Washington? Yes it does if it is multiplied by several thousand and counting! Want some proof? Read the following...>

Joseph -

Just two days ago, Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Polis stood up to demand the Senate pass a public option using "budget reconciliation." To make sure they're voices are heard with as much force as possible, they're asking House Democrats to join them by signing on to a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid demanding it.

Thanks to their leadership and the thousands of phone calls from members of Democracy for America, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and CREDO Action, now 64 House Democrats are demanding the Senate take action.

These 64 Healthcare Heroes are a powerful force, but we must not stop now. We need to call every single House Democrat and get them on board.

CHECK OUT THE LIST OF SIGNERS - AND MAKE YOUR CALL RIGHT NOW

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House Democrats don't have the votes to pass the Senate healthcare bill without changes. The media continues to report that Democrats in Washington can't figure out the way forward since the loss of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.

But these 64th House Democrats are fighting for a plan that would get the job done and deliver the votes needed to pass real reform. The strategy is working. This morning's 64 signer to the letter was Representative Scott Murphy from New York, who voted against the House bill last year, proving we're not just fighting for real reform -- we're delivering the votes to win.


MAKE YOUR CALL RIGHT NOW

We hear people all the time wondering if making a phone call even works. It's a good question; fortunately the answer is a resounding YES. Don't believe me? After California Congressman John Garamendi signed onto the letter, his office had this to say to the press:

"When the phone calls started pouring in, it helped alert us to this letter. Now it's yet another way for the Congressman to fight for the public option."

Spokesman for Congressman Garamendi

Our strategy is working. Keep building on the momentum. Please make your call now.

Charles

Charles Chamberlain, Political Director

Democracy for America

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!