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May 5, 2020

Bulletin Board: “Sen. Ron Wyden and Alyssa Milano invite you to a panel on HBO’s Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections”

  Please join us for a Facebook Live panel discussion of the HBO documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, now available free to view on YouTube through May 25. Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections uncovers previously unreported weaknesses in today’s election technology, exposing just how fragile …

May 4, 2020

America has the Ventilator Blues

America has the Ventilator Blues Ventilator Blues America’s small businesses, our machinists, die-casters, plastic injection molders, electronics parts suppliers, and others are eager to get to work providing the medical equipment the nation needs but the companies that hold the patents and process patents for this equipment need to open …

April 22, 2020

Update Three: The War on Small Business Escalates Via the CARES Act

In the my past two blog posts[1] on the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), which was signed into law on Friday, March 27th, I focused largely on the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP” program) and the greatly expanded Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (the …

April 22, 2020

Hate Gun Violence, Live in CT? Calls to Action from CT Against Gun Violence to Pass “Red Flag” Gun Laws in Your State

Many communities are struggling with how to find a way to balance the Second Amendment rights claimed by gun owners, with the kinds of safeguards that many on both sides of the issue call “common sense gun control.” Though we rarely hear about policies that are not at the extremes …

April 16, 2020

Planet Coronavirus: Survival, Resistance and Regeneration

By Ronnie Cummins, author of Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal, and originally appeared on the Organic Consumers Association website. It has been adapted for the web. “There are times in history when sudden events—natural disasters, economic collapses, pandemics, wars, famines—change everything. They change politics, …

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