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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Forces of Light prevail over The DARK Act
...at least for the moment...
"Due to the thousands of phone calls and letters you've helped send into your senators' offices, the Senate did not get the 60 votes needed to move Monsanto's Dream Bill forward to a full vote.
However, we can't declare full victory yet labeling opponents are already scheming to bring this bill back up before the Vermont"
http://yubanet.com/usa/Food-Water-Watch-Applauds-Defeat-of-DARK-Act.php#.Vumik8eXd0c
Sign a Thank you card for the Senators who stood with the human beings against corporate secrecy and hegemony: http://act.foodpolicyaction.com/page/s/sign-the-card-thank-senators-for-blocking-the-dark-act
AxionExcel
(755 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)This is a significant political victory by the human being citizens of the USA and their dynamic activism. Worthy of note. Worthy of a toast.
As always, I like my beer without GMOs and glyphosate. Cheers!
AxionExcel
(755 posts)...he'll apparently have lots of time to once again thwart the will of over 90% of voters since the Republican Senate will sit on its fat ass and not #doitsjob around the Supreme Court.
Has America ever had a more shrunken sold-out soul in the Senate?