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2. Drive your car to save gas or get a hybrid car 3. Lower the thermostat in your house and office 4. Adjust your refrigerator so it uses less energy. 5. Check all your other home appliances so they use less energy 6. Support green energy companies 7. Use recycled goods 8. Bring your own bag to the supermarket 9. Walk and bicycle more often 10. Be a minimalist. 
It includes budget and tax policies in which corporations and wealthy individuals pay their fair share, and which support good schools and childcare,
affordable healthcare and housing, retirement security, and a safety-net for those in need. It promotes the common good by funding public services. It means calling for new national priorities that reduce wasteful military spending and redirect tax dollars to helping our children, elders, and communities meet their needs. It includes notions of a social contract in which society and individuals fulfill their mutual responsibilities to each other.
Economic justice also embraces a vision of economic human rights.
- AFSC
Korten's Thesis: We face a defining choice between two contrasting models for organizing human affairs-- Empire and Earth Community. Facing the possibility of global chaos due to global warming, US debt, peak oil and extinction of many species we must make a choice if we are to survive the future. Korten's Thesis: We face a defining choice between two contrasting models for organizing human affairs-- Empire and Earth Community. Facing the possibility of global chaos due to global warming, US debt, peak oil and extinction of many species we must make a choice if we are to survive the future. Empire organizes by domination at all levels, from relations among nations to relations among family members. Empire brings fortune to the few, condemns the majority to misery and servitude, suppresses the creative potential of all, and appropriates much of the wealth of human societies to maintain the institutions of domination. Earth Community, by contrast, organizes by partnership, unleashes the human potential for creative co-operation, and shares resources and surpluses for the good of all. Supporting evidence for the possibilities of Earth Community comes from the findings of quantum physics, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, anthropology, archaeology, and religious mysticism. It was the human way before Empire. The choice is ours to make. "The Great Turning" is the action issue for UUJEC this year. Read the articles on this topic and send for our Great Turning packet. Email Newsletter Sign up for the UUJEC internet newsletter. It will come to your email address one or two times a month. It will contain the latest news on economic justice and UUJEC. Take Action to Stop Government Secrecy For seven years, the Bush Administration has put a lockdown on information about the federal government. From unfounded claims of "national security" and "executive privilege," the public has been given phony excuses for why we are denied information about our government. It is time to end this deception and restore transparency to our government. Join us, along with print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and individuals for Sunshine Week 2008 to raise awareness and demand a change to the status quo. Several important bills before Congress would create more openness and sorely-needed accountability--from protecting whistleblowers to releasing presidential records to ensuring that hard-won Freedom of Information Act reforms are fully implemented. Please take a minute to personalize PUBLIC CITIZEN'S letter and ask your members of Congress to return sunlight to our nation. 
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YOUR TURN
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Three UUJEC Board members Say Impeach NOW
A report from Marcia Meyers of Portland, Oregon, Michael Greenman of Columbus,Oho , and Carl McCargo of Springfield, MA Impeachment is an economic justice issue. Up to 3 trillion dollars may be spent on this illegal war. Money that could and should be spent on health care, housing aid, for improving our infrastructure and as a result providing hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs. We want all troops withdrawn promptly, and war funds redirected toward social needs at home and humanitarian aid in Iraq. The "Nixon (Bush/Cheney) Spring Flooding Plan" Flood Congress with Impeachment Resolutions Impeachment In Not Only Possible, It's Essential!! If Bush and Cheney are allowed to leave office without being impeached then a very dangerous precedent will be set! Future Presidents will be able to mislead Congress into costly wars, spy on millions of Americans, and torture prisoners who have never had their day in court. They will point to Bush and say "He did it. So can we." Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and never will. Find out what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglas Our purpose/Goal On Monday and Tuesday February 27th and 28th, three of us representing "We The People" (See Appendix-A) met with the offices of 32 Congressional Representative's to share with them the 1972-73 process that spelled the end of Richard Nixon's term in office. This process was named "Flooding" by Barbara Ellis of "We The People." What we accomplished We spoke to the office of 32 congress people. What we learned 1. Representative's offices informed us that impeachment is not moving because calls for impeachment from their constituents are not coming in at rates high enough to move congress. They need more calls for impeachment from their constituents before they will/can actively and aggressively move toward impeachment. 2. There is acute awareness and concern on capital hill about the actions of the Bush administration. The missing ingredient is the voices of the people. What do we do now We contact all our grassroots constituents. Inform them how the "flooding" plan works and ask them to petition their congressperson to implement the "flooding" plan. This is the most important step in the process of a successful impeachment. It is up to us. Memorize those words of Frederick Douglas above as our battle cry. Time Frame We must act fast. |