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Striving to close the deal on health care, President Barack Obama planned a trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge rank-and-file House Democrats to yield on key issues still standing in the way of a historic legislative achievement. Is there anyway we could have adapted bills from other countries that have had free health care for years?
The environmental group Amazon Watch is welcoming new Chevron Chairman and CEO John Watson to his new post with a video and petition campaign urging him to clean up massive oil pollution in Ecuador. Good luck!
President Obama on Thursday will call on Congress to tax the largest banks to ensure that U.S. taxpayers don't lose a penny from the federal bailout of the financial, auto and insurance industries over the past year. Estimated to raise $90 billion over 10 years. This should be interesting.
In 2005, Haitian-born and Brooklyn-raised musician Wyclef Jean created the grassroots charity organization Yéle Haiti. Within two hours of Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, Jean and Yéle mobilized on social networking sites to raise funds for disaster relief. Jean is encouraging people to text "Yéle" to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yéle Haiti Earthquake Fund. They raised over 40,000 the first day.
Haiti is a major concern for the world now and for the most part that is what is in the news. I am glad to see the world stopping to help their fellow neighbors. Stay tuned for ways that you can help out in Haiti...
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