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The Return of the Public Option.

Joseph Raglione
February 02, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, many of you who read these words are Republicans, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a U.S. Republican if you also believe in doing good for your fellow human beings. The "Public Health Insurance Option" is a good thing to do for your fellow human beings. It may sound Leftist but it is basically an insurance policy created by the government to protect all U.S. citizens. Every other civilized country on Earth has some form of public health insurance simply because it works! Public health insurance provides a basic security to the poorest citizens and that translates to a better country for everybody. Now is the time to do good for your fellow citizens...>

Joseph,

This past week, progressive heroes in Congress worked together with grassroots groups to create huge new momentum behind the public option.

First, 225,000 people signed a petition telling Democrats in Congress to pass the public option through "reconciliation," which only needs a simple majority to pass the Senate.

Then, freshman Reps. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Chellie Pingree (D-ME) embraced our cause in a bold letter to Sen. Harry Reid. A whopping 94 House Democrats signed this letter so far -- after getting thousands of calls from constituents. MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Huffington Post, and others reported on the momentum.


Can you help us continue this momentum by adding your signature to the petition today? Copy and Past this Url..> http://act.boldprogressives.org/cms/sign/reconciliation2/?akid=315.226301.s1uV64&rd=1&source=e1-pet-non&t=3

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) boldly helped us deliver the first batch of petitions to Sen. Harry Reid and other senators, resulting in even more media momentum.

(To see Grayson join the PCCC, Democracy for America, and Credo Action for the delivery, check out the video here.)

The more people sign our petition, the more our progressive heroes in Congress will feel empowered to fight for us.

Can you help us continue the momentum by signing the petition today? Click here.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Adam Green, Max Berger, Natasha Patel, and the PCCC team

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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!