Brian Sonenstein

Streaming by Ustream I’ll be broadcasting live at 3pm EDT as part of the #OccupyWallStreet movement moves its encampment to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village – a few miles away from the original site at Zuccoti Park. There will be an inaugural assembly followed by an acoustic set by punk legends Anti-Flag. Please chip [...]

Jane wrote yesterday about the launch of our Google Ads campaign to alert people in key election states that Social Security and Medicare are on the chopping block. She mentioned that we would also be running Facebook ads. I just wanted to pop in and give a quick update and let everyone know that the Facebook ads have now been approved, and are up and running.

President Obama Endorses Plansto Cut Social Security Donate $10 to help us run Google and Facebook ads targeted at retirees NOT to vote for anyone who cuts benefits. » Click here to donate. Now that President Obama has come out in support of the Gang of Six’s plans to cut benefits, there should no longer [...]

TAKE ACTION TODAY:Visit Your Local Congressional Office to Oppose Cutting the Social Safety Net RSVP to our National Day of Action to protect social security and visit your representatives to oppose President Obama’s plan to cut benefits. Over 2,500 activists (and counting) have formally RSVP’d to our National Day of Action to protect the social [...]

Ever since news outlets reported that the AARP will not oppose cuts Social Security, the group has been desperately churning out press releases, blog posts and tweets to try and spin their position as one of ardent defenders of the program. As Jane wrote yesterday, if AARP wants credit for ‘saving’ or ‘protecting’ Social Security, [...]

Tell AARP:Hands Off Social Security Sign our letter telling AARP that we will fight any attempts to make cuts to Social Security. » Read the whole letter The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the AARP has officially reversed its course and will be no longer working to protect Social Security. In a direct [...]

The media has been all over the launch of our transpartisan marijuana legalization campaign, Just Say Now. It’s a unique campaign that brings together law enforcement, doctors, teachers, parents and students to end one of the most destructive social policies in this country: marijuana prohibition. The best plug so far comes from the Huffington Post, [...]

Two weeks ago, a federally funded drug task force called WestNet seized 200 signatures in support of placing marijuana legalization on the November ballot in Washington State while conducting a raid on a medical marijuana dispensary. Early in the morning, drug agents entered the home of the family that owns a medical marijuana dispensary known [...]

At the moment, we have a House bill with a public option and individual mandate, and a Senate bill without a public option but with an individual mandate to purchase health insurance.  As we move toward the conference process in which both bills are merged, the Senate has made clear its expectation that the House [...]

We thought Bernie Sanders would be a Senator with more bite than bark on health care reform. Green Mountain Daily and FDL Action team up to challenge Bernie Sanders.