2003-07-11|11:12 a.m.
In better news:
�The troubled AmeriCorps program would get $100 million to restore 20,000 volunteer slots under a measure approved yesterday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.�
But it�s still important to send emails to the White House to urge Bush to save the program. He�s the final step in the measure.
I leave soon to go to my hometown to set up my party. It will be a lot of fun. College tends to keep you from those friends that you made in high school and any excuse to get back together again to see them is a good one.
I was thinking, since someone already asked from Diaryland for the information, that if anyone else was interested in donating to Adopt-A-Minefield (which clears minefields, raises awareness and funds to clear landmines, and rehabilitates landmine survivors), here is the information to do so:
Instructions:
Please, mail donations to:
Adopt-A-Minefield
UNA-USA
801 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Please make checks out to:
Adopt-A-Minefield
w/ 1000 dinners in the memo
Less than two dollars will clear more than a square meter of a field from landmines.
A full update is coming soon on the party (including pictures).
This is interesting:
The USA PATRIOT Act and related government actions undercut many important checks and balances on government law enforcement and intelligence powers.
Under this Act and other Administration actions that were taken without congressional involvement, the government can search your home without notifying you, can get a list of the books you have obtained from your library and your local bookstore and require your local librarian and bookseller to keep this hidden from you, can keep a file on how often you go to church, which churches you attend and the medications you use -- even if these activities have nothing to do with the fight against terrorism .
We should provide law enforcement with necessary tools to fight terrorism, but the USA PATRIOT Act and related government actions also gave the government many new powers that go beyond the fight against terrorism. Parts of the USA PATRIOT Act and other government actions take away checks on law enforcement and threaten the very rights and freedoms that we are waging the war on terror to protect.
To read more and/or send a letter to your congresspersons, click here.