Obama's 170 degrees (going on 180) on Torture is a sad and scary spectacle

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18. What can we do? I was telling people to support the Community Rights Movement

Which is a bi-partisan, community based movement to bring about real and very needed change.

Among things that have taken place under that movement are these:

The banning (outright!) of the three fracking wells that would have been installed in Pittsburg PA had community rights people not gotten the ban put on the ballot and overwhelmingly approved by voters. Fracking is dead in Pittsburg.

In one other PA community -- The banning (outright) of corporate-industrial pig farming (and other industrial farming) through same tactics as described above about fracking.

Other communities are seeing to it that GM labels are now required on food sold in their communities.

Only big problem is that the judicial system is starting to overturn local initiatives. Sad case where in Longmont Colorado the judge upheld the Big Energy's interests in fracking, saying the people have no legislative rights! (Our inherent rights now - according to this fascist's reasoning - must come to us not by our taking back our power, but by the method of electing legislators who are very prone to monetary influence.)