GREEN PARTY ALERTS FROM CARE2 -- Sewage in your Drinking Water? Urge Congress to Act!
There are two phrases you never want to see in the same sentence: drinking water and "sewage blending." And yet, that's the Bush Administration's new plan for your water supply! Take action: http://www.care2.com/go/z/24102

Incredibly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to relax restrictions on dumping sewage into our water ways. Their plan would allow water treatment facilities to release sewage filled with human wastes, toxins, bacteria, viruses, parasites and other pollutants into our drinking water. Common sense tells you that the EPA's plan poses a serious threat to both our health and our environment. Sewage that has not been fully treated carries diseases such as cholera and hepatitis, and spoils our environment in numerous ways -- from frequent beach closings to higher water filtration costs and devastating fish kills. This proposal is so outrageous, we've got to get EVERYONE to take action to defeat it. Urge Congress to support the Save Our Waters from Sewage Act (H.R. 1126) to protect our families and communities from unsafe drinking water!

ON FRIDAY, MAY 20TH, IN TIMES SQUARE [As Well As Across The US] AT THE ARMED FORCES RECRUITMENT CENTER ON 43RD STREET, MEMBERS of Not In Our Name, Code Pink New York, Campus Anti-War Network, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, NYC Chapter Veterans For Peace and the International Socialist Organization STOOD UP AGAINST THE ARMY

Yesterday the U.S. Army Recruiting Command was conducting an Army Values Stand Down Day across the Country. This so-called stand down follows a rash of complaints that recruiters are resorting to unscrupulous tactics to enlist new soldiers. A case in point was the threat by a Houston Army recruiter to arrest a local young man if he didn't report that day to the Army recruiting station. This is only the most recent case. The Army has investigated 480 allegations of impropriety by recruiters since Oct. 1, 2004. Some of these cases are still open while 91 of the 480 allegations have thus far been considered founded. To date, eight recruiters have been relieved of duty and another 98 have been reprimanded by their commands. According to the US Army, a Stand Down is a time when Recruiting Command takes a pause from the important task of recruiting. Yesterday the Army Stood Down But "We The People" Stood Up!

Stand UP Against Predatory Recruiters
Stand UP for Money for College, not Combat
Stand UP against War Profiteers
Stand UP for Paredes and Benderman
Stand UP for our Troops in Iraq - Bring Them Home Now