Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.
Known as "spent hen" meat, the poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.
I think it's time we appealed to our country's most powerful advocate for child nutrition. As first lady Michelle Obama frequently points out: Our kids need, and deserve, better.
Stop the Ticketmaster merger
Ticketmaster wants to merge with Live Nation (Ticketmaster's leading competitor), meaning that most of the tickets we could buy would be coming from the new mega-ticket conglomerate.
Ticketmaster
already adds around 30% to the cost of a ticket in junk fees. And from
past experience we know that the less competition, the worse these guys
get with their handling, processes and other nonsense fees.
Help us stand up to the merger. Please use the form below to send a message to Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, head of the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice. If you can, please add any personal experience you have had with over-priced tickets, or an inability to purchase tickets from alternative vendors.
Of the ten companies listed above, only Home Depot has not set up an offshore subsidiary to avoid paying its taxes.
They are truly in the minority. In all, 83
of the 100 biggest corporations in America have set up offshore tax
shelters, costing the rest of us as much as $100 billion a year!
President
Obama has proposed a budget that invests in many of America's
priorities, which includes education, health care, modern
infrastructure and middle-class tax relief. His budget will also close
the loopholes that allow corporations to set up offshore tax havens,
and now it’s in the hands of Congress.
Please sign our Tax Day Declaration telling Congress to close these loopholes.
TAX DAY DECLARATION
Dear Congress:
As
taxpayers, we foot the bill when large corporations skip out on their
taxes by setting up offshore havens in places like the Cayman Islands.
This tax day, we’re saying, “No more!”
The
president has proposed a budget that will close corporate tax havens.
The budget is now in your hands, and we call upon you to close these
offshore tax havens once and for all.
They're raising your taxes by $425
Did
you know that more than 80 percent of America's biggest banks and
corporations, including some of those we bailed out, don't pay their
taxes?
Instead, they park their money in offshore tax havens like
the Cayman Islands. As a result, the average New Hampshire household, a.k.a.
you and me, is paying $425 a year to cover for $100 billion they don't
pay.
Why should we have to pick up the tab for tax dodgers? Sign
our Tax Day Declaration and tell Congress to close the corporate tax
loopholes.
Petition Text:
Dear Member of Congress:
When large corporations skip out on their taxes by moving their “headquarters” to tax havens like the Cayman Islands or shifting profits overseas, we the taxpayers are the ones who pick up the tab.
Why should we have to cover the tax burden of tax-dodging banks and corporations?
Your colleagues, Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, have introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act -- S. 506 and H.R. 1265 -- to crack down on corporations that use tax havens. We call upon you to support this measure. The time for reform is now!
Apply To Activist Workshop
NHPIRG in
conjunction
with the Public Interest Network is organizing
an Activist Workshop on Tuesday, April 27th. Show up ready for action.
We will spend the day moving between large group overviews and small
groups to give people an opportunity to learn and internalize skills.
Apply to
attend for free using the form
below.
The skills we
are focused on are skills
passionate activists need to
know how-to-do.
Here's the
agenda: 6:00 – 3:15
Welcome/Introductions 6:15 – 6:30 Overview of Volunteer Recruitment 6:30
– 7:00 Small Groups:
Volunteer Recruitment 7:00 – 7:20 Overview of Coalition Outreach 7:20
– 7:50 Small Groups: Building a "Paper Tiger" Coalition 7:50 – 8:05
Break, Meet fellow area activists 8:05 – 8:30 Overview of Planning a
News Conference 8:30 – 8:55 Small Groups: Planning a News Conference 8:55
- 9:00 Wrap-up
The
trainers will be experienced staff
from NHPIRG and the Public Interest Network. It's a
chance to meet some of
the people behind the email addresses. This event is open to the public,
feel free to spread the word to other activists.
The workshop
will be held at our office in
Concord, 30 South Main Street, Suite 301. After you RSVP, Megan
Severson, the training facilitator, will be
in touch with directions and more details about the training. If you
have any questions, don't hesitate to e-mail
mseverson@publicinterestnetwork.org.
Safe Food, Healthy Kids
Dear USDA Secretary Vilsack,
More than 23,000 kids got sick from food served in schools between 1998 and 2007. We should make sure that our kids are getting safe, healthy food in school by:
· Requiring meat inspections before the meat is ground.
· Adopting science-based safety standards for all school lunch meat.
· Notifying schools directly about recalls, and creating a national database to help school officials avoid food companies with a history of safety problems.
Stop our tax dollars from subsidizing the BP spill.
BP announced $6.1 billion profits in April for its first quarter -- double last year's number and roughly six times the amount it has spent on the cleanup so far.
Over the next ten years, the oil and gas industry will receive $40
billion in subsidies -- courtesy of the American taxpayer.
By improving the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can stop sending our tax dollars to subsidize Big Oil's mistakes.
The Senate votes this week.
Sign the petition below to make sure that BP is paying for spill clean up.
Tell our senators to make food safer
Each year,
about 76 million Americans get sick from the food they eat. Each year
5,000 people die from foodborne illness. Recently, more than half a billion eggs
with a high risk of salmonella were only recalled months after people started getting sick.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) will give FDA the authority to recall unsafe food; to inspect food processing facilities; and to require imported foods to meet the same standards as food produced in the U.S.
S. 510 passed the House of Representatives in July 2009, but the Senate has not yet brought it to a vote.
Sign the petition below to urge our senators to support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510).
Dear Senators,
It took months before Wright County Eggs recalled their eggs, even as Americans were getting sick. That's because the FDA can't actually require food companies to recall salmonella-tainted food, regardless of the threat to public health.
Recalling salmonella-tainted eggs -- or any unsafe food -- shouldn't be voluntary. When you go back to Washington, D.C. in September, please pass the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510.
Sincerely,
Tell our senators to make food safer
Each year,
about 76 million Americans get sick and 5,000 die from a foodborne illness.
Recently, more than half a billion eggs
with a high risk of salmonella were finally recalled months after people started getting sick.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) will give FDA the authority to recall unsafe food, inspect food processing facilities, and require imported foods to meet the same standards as food produced in the U.S.
S. 510 passed the House of Representatives in July 2009, but the Senate has not yet brought it to a vote.
Sign the petition below to urge our senators to support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510).
Dear Senators,
It took months before Wright County Eggs recalled their eggs, even as Americans were getting sick. The FDA can't actually require food companies to recall salmonella-tainted food, regardless of the threat to public health.
Recalling salmonella-tainted eggs -- or any unsafe food -- shouldn't be voluntary. When you go back to Washington, D.C. in September, please pass the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510.
Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve. 
Did
you know that more than 80 percent of America's biggest banks and
corporations, including some of those we bailed out, don't pay their
taxes?
BP announced $6.1 billion profits in April for its first quarter -- double last year's number and roughly six times the amount it has spent on the cleanup so far. 