Ibrahim Parlak needs asylum, and the Bush administration wouldn't give it to him.

This is a man that my parents' know personally, who's restaurant they have eaten at. The Bush Administration has been trying to throw him out of the country and back to Turkey where he will likely be arrested and tortured. He came to this country in a better time, ( Read more... )

This is the kind of injustice we need to fight against! 

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SCHIP is the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, which as you can learn in the following video, saves children's lives.

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Right now it needs one more vote in the Senate to overcome a filibuster, we need to convince one Republican. Both of my Senators are Illinois democrats and are on board with this, so I tried to call them and they're busy ( Read more... )

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This why we win:

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