Yesterday, thousands of fast-food workers went on strike and organized rallies in more than 100 cities demanding a living wage, because, as New York strikers said, “We can’t survive on $7.25.” These efforts drew so much attention, even President Obama took notice, calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage in solidarity with “airport workers, […]
I’m Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and Cooked. For many years now, I’ve been passionately outspoken about the food justice movement, and low-wage workers represent a key front in the fight for fair and just food.
Auctioning off a permit to kill one of Namibia’s endangered black rhinos is THE WORST fundraiser for Namibia’s Black Rhino Conservation Fund.
Tony Rohr, the manager of an Elkhart, Indiana, Pizza Hut, was fired for refusing to force his employees to work on Thanksgiving. He had worked at Pizza Hut for nearly 10 years—but after he spoke up at a work meeting saying he wouldn’t open his restaurant on the holiday, he was asked to sign a letter of resignation. That’s why Elkhart resident Jeremiah Wade started a MoveOn Petition to Pizza Hut CEO Scott Bergren, telling him to give Rohr his job back.
When the Texas Board of Education started working on its once-a-decade selection of science textbooks for Texas classrooms, an anti-science faction tried to force it to give equal weight to nonscientific beliefs like climate change denial and the idea that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Kathy Miller and the Texas Freedom Network stepped up, creating a MoveOn Petition that asked the Board of Education to stand up for science.
After utilities companies botched repairs at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County, California, the plant closed. Unbelievably, the utilities companies demanded that their customers pick up the tab for the repairs—to the tune of $500 million. So California ratepayer John Mattes started a MoveOn Petition to San Diego Mayor Bob Filner and other city officials, asking them to intervene on customers’ behalf.
Radiation was leaking from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, and the company tasked with containing the leaks, Tepco, wasn’t telling the public. MoveOn member Harvey Wasserman, an anti-nuclear activist in Columbus, Ohio, was determined to shine a light on the precarious situation.
Apply to be one of 50 MoveOn #FrackingFighters and you could win $500, materials, and expert training for your campaign to end fracking.
We are just 18 votes away from being able to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the House.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democratic leader to come out in support of expanding Social Security benefits. Check out her brilliant appearance on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, then see MoveOn’s new polls showing deep support for Social Security expansion.