The Coffee Party helps you support the Shareholder Protection Act. I still can't find the bill on thomas.loc.gov, but the Coffee Party tells us that the Shareholder Protection Act would mandate that corporations inform shareholders of their political contributions, so that shareholders can invest their money elsewhere if they like. That's worth doing, but I don't know if the Shareholder Protection Act still requires a shareholder vote on campaign contributions. Certainly you could add that to the letter you write. I'm a two-thirds, no-proxy-vote man myself, but I do remember putting up with a Shareholder Protection Act that only mandated a majority vote and allowed proxy votes. Still, ask for what you will, not what you think you'll get. That's the American way.

Meanwhile, Verizon and Google seem to want to keep apps off the Android market. Now, that's not real "free market" of them, is it? Trouble is, Verizon might be breaking the law by blocking apps -- Verizon wanted access to public airwaves in order to expand its G4 network, but the FCC wouldn't let them have it unless they agreed not to block applications. So Free Press helps you demand that the FCC investigate Verizon's actions. Maybe Verizon wants us to think our government is discriminating against them, since several other providers have also blocked apps. And certainly our government should be stopping that, too! But Verizon uses public airwaves, so they have to play by the public's rules. It's really hard to feel sorry for a corporation -- especially these days, when they don't even try that hard to snow you.

As I mentioned Saturday, the Pennsylvania state Senate still hasn't voted on SB 1, the nefarious school-vouchers-we-can't-afford-because-we're-broke bill. But they're on a deadline: both Governor and legislature want to finish the budget by June 30 (before the legislature's summer recess), and since SB 1 spends money for public schools on private schools, it needs to be included in the budget, so we've got a good shot at stopping it. The Pennsylvania ACLU helps you oppose school vouchers in Pennsylvania. Feel free to put a phrase like "support the state constitution" in the subject header if you like, since Section III, Article 15 of the state constitution forbids funneling of public school money to private schools. Aren't Republicans supposed to be the "defend the constitution" guys? Or is that just what they want us to think?

Finally, if you missed Thursday's action alert demanding that the Washington boneheads start bringing our troops home so we can get some work done here in America, I've got a few more. Roots Action helps you demand that Congress cut off war funding, and Campaign for America's Future helps you demand that our government end the war in Afghanistan and use the savings to rebuild the economy. Also, Warisacrime.org (formerly After Downing Street) tells us that Reps. Kucinich (D-OH) and Amash (R-MI) will offer an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill that would end all involvement in the Afghanistan war by October 1 of this year; you may want to call your Reps and support that effort. Tools for contacting your Reps are, as always, in the upper left-hand corner of this page; the Capitol's toll-free line, at 202.224.3121, can also connect you to your Reps.