Our friends at ACLU have put up a petition to Google to not enter into a data-sharing agreement with the military. Check out the interactive petition form here.

Last night, the U.S. Senate passed -- on unanimous consent and no recorded vote -- a measure to renew some expiring police-state provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act for another year. The U.S. House is scheduled to vote on the extension tonight. The White House has promised to sign the bill.

Call your Congressman's office (the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121) today and urge a NO vote.

Background here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR201002...

The following alert is from the Alliance of Natural Health.  Check out their action-alert contact form here: 

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.

UPDATE: The mother has backed off her claim the secret charges are directly related to the USA PATRIOT Act. The case is still sealed. MORE

The FBI is holding a 16-year-old North Carolina boy incommunicado in an undisclosed detention facility in Indiana. Details are sketchy, but the USA PATRIOT Act is being cited as a basis to hold Ashton Lundeby without any kind of public hearing. Presumably, this homeschooled student has been deemed an "enemy combatant." The available evidence indicates that the family's IP address had been hijacked to send threatening messages and the family is completely innocent. That young Lundeby is still being jailed without trial is completely outrageous.

Use this action alert form form ACLU.org:

From Natural Solutions Foundation:

Comments to the EPA Regarding Regulating Nano Silver as a "Pesticide"

Rep. Barney Frank has drafted a bill to make sure that the law passed against Internet gambling does not lead to widespread surveillance of online financial transactions. Pokernews.com describes it this way:

The bill, entitled the “Payment Systems Protection Act of 2008,” prohibits the U.S.