Our internet is under attack!

President Obama is holding secret meetings in Asia to ram through the TPP's Internet censorship plan, which would force ISPs to monitor our Internet use, censor content, and remove entire websites. Click here to push back!  Share this action on Facebook  Share this action on Twitter This is urgent. An Internet censorship plan is being finalized in secret meetings right now. We need all hands on deck at this crucial moment.  Click HERE to learn more and  to join with RootsAction, OpenMedia, and other allies in speaking up. Here's the situation: President Obama himself is in secretive meetings with key political figures and lobbyists in Asia to lock the Trans-Pacific Partnership's Internet censorship plan into place.   We know from leaked documents that this secretive plan will censor your use of the Internet and strip away your rights.[1] If finalized, this plan would force ISPs to act as "Internet Police" monitoring our Internet use, censoring content, and removing whole websites.[2] It will give media conglomerates centralized control over what you can watch and share online. We urgently need your help to fight back. Add your voice right now and we'll project a Stop the Secrecy message on key buildings in Washington D.C. to ensure Obama, the media, and everyone else knows this censorship plan must be stopped. This is huge: covering 40% of the global economy, the TPP is being called a legal "blueprint" for the rest of the world.[3] Once key leaders finalize TPP Internet censorship plans, those plans will be used to globalize censorship. You will be affected and this may be our only chance to stop it. Our attention-grabbing message will shine a light on their secret plan and will make clear to Washington lobbyists that the Internet community will never accept the TPP's secrecy or censorship. The more who speak out, the larger our projection will become, and the more people we can reach. This is a decisive moment: we need to act right now. Join with hundreds of thousands of people all over the world to shine a light on the TPP's job-killing Internet censorship plan. Let's send decision-makers and the lobbyists pulling the strings a message they can't ignore: "Stop the secrecy now." Thank you for being a part of history, After signing the petition, please forward this message to your friends. -- The RootsAction.org team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others. P.P.S. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please donate. Footnotes: [1] WikiLeaks: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [2] Electronic Frontier Foundation: TPP Creates Legal Incentives For ISPs To Police The Internet [3] U.S. “Bullying” TPP Negotiators Amid Failure to Agree. Source: Inter Press Service News Agency. www.RootsAction.org

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Video: Deadly U.S. drone program continuing ANSWER West Coast coordinator Richard Becker interviewed on Press TV Below is a transcript of an April 23 interview Press TV held with Richard Becker, Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition.  Click  here to watch  the video Press TV: As the US is preparing for a possible true withdrawal from Afghanistan, what will happen to the drone program? I mean, how likely will that be scrapped too?  Becker: Well, it appears that the drone program, especially based on the events of the last couple of days, the drone program is unfortunately alive and continuing and maybe intensifying and so this represents a great danger to the population in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia as you mentioned. Press TV: And of course the fact that the drone program is internationally illegal and violates the sovereignty of the targeted nation and nations - including Yemen and Somalia and other nations - just how much can Afghanistan follow the case and sue the United States for this? Becker: Well, I think that we have seen that in the international bodies like the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, the latter the United States refuses to join stating openly that it won’t join because its military forces could be subject to criminal prosecution if it were a member of the court. Read Article  USAID plot to destabilize Cuba exposed Agency set up U.S.-funded “Cuban Twitter” to spread rumors and unrest Ever since 1959, U.S. imperialism has tried to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. The recently exposed ZunZuneo scandal, the so-called Cuban Twitter, is just the latest chapter in this ongoing effort. Read Article April and May actions across the country to demand an end to drone warfare End U.S. drone wars now! The ANSWER Coalition urges all its supporters to join these important actions against drone warfare. Read Article

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