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• We just learned about a free event tomorrow (Tuesday, August 24) at the University of Minnesota that will feature FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Our friends at Free Press just sent out the following action alert about it, and we wanted to make sure you saw it.
• Tell Chairman Genachowski: Do Your Job. Save the Internet!
• Please attend if you can. Genachoswki is stalling under industry pressure and if net neutrality supporters don't hold his feet to the fire, he may sell us out. So it's important that we come out to make sure Genachowski knows he needs to act now to protect a free and open Internet.
• Franken: Net Neutrality “Biggest Issue Since Freedom of Religion”

Becky Bond, CREDO Action

Dear Friend,

Last week (August 15-21), 750 Minnesotans packed South High School to tell the FCC to do its job and protect the open Internet. Thousands more watched the event via the Web.

Now we've just learned that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is speaking tomorrow (Tuesday, August 24) at the University of Minnesota. The event is free and open to the public.

Show up to tell FCC Chairman Genachowski: Do your job. Save the Internet.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be joining Genachowski at Tuesday's event. We need you there, too:

Who:    Sen. Amy Klobuchar, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
When:  Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where: University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

3 New Items including:

• Bring the Troops Home Picnic
• The occupation of Iraq isn't over - it's being rebranded

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Bob Gorrell

Bring the Troops Home Picnic, Military Families Speak Out, Minnesota Chapter
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Coleen Rowley
Sunday, August 22, 1PM, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis

The occupation of Iraq isn't over - it's being rebranded, Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait

A deeply conservative panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the multiple victories we had in the lower court.

Bill Quigley, Center for Constitutional Rights

We have gotten some of our best feedback from friends and allies this year on our work defending ACORN, so I am sorry to have to pass along the news that a deeply conservative panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the multiple victories we had in the lower court.

The panel somehow found that ACORN was not being punished when Congress cut off its funding based on rightwing grandstanding, FOX news rants and a video that turned out to be a lie. The court did find that ACORN had standing to sue, just not on Bill of Attainder grounds, and they sent the case back to the District Court to look at possible First Amendment and due process violations.

The Bill of Attainder provision in the U.S. Constitution says that no person or organization may be singled out for punishment by the government without benefit of a trial. The appeals court turned our argument on its head and declared that since hundreds of unspecified allied organizations might be affected by the de-funding it was perfectly legitimate since Congress did not just single out ACORN!   

Join the campaign to Fight Washington Corruption -- sign the pledge today.

Charles Chamberlain, Democracy for America

It's no secret that lobbyists and the big corporations they work for have too much power in Washington today. We've seen them beat back progressive legislation over and over again these past two years.

The public option, climate change legislation, Wall Street reform -- these are just a few of the things killed or watered down by lobbyists and their corporate sponsors.

We're sick of it. That's why MoveOn, Democracy for America and a coalition of progressive groups have joined together in the Other 98% campaign. We're working to get members of Congress and candidates for office to pledge their support for breaking corporate control of Washington and building a better democracy.

Join the campaign to Fight Washington Corruption -- sign the pledge today.

Our campaign to beat back lobbyists and big corporations calls on Congress to: