1. Help Obama by doing NYC data entry of PA Voters (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
Help Obama w/Your Laptop: Data Entry of New Voters in Pennsylvania
The good news grassroots volunteers registered over 20,000 people in the swing state of Pennsylvania. But now all this data needs to be entered into VoteBuilder, so data e...
2. Help pass the "Clean Elections Act" (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
On July 23, the "Clean Elections Act" was introduced into the City Council. (Note: DFNYC's own Dan Jacoby wrote the bill.) It was given the number "Intro 803," and sent to the Governmental Operations Committee.
The next step is to convin...
4. Help NYC Keep Strong Recycling Regulations (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
A.11725/S.8643 (the Assembly and Senate numbers, respectively) is a bill
that would require retail stores greater than 10,000 sq. ft. to accept
for recycling any plastic bags they issue for customers to carry out
their merchandise, and t...
6. Help Turn All of NYC Blue (NY-13) (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
The most hotly-contested local congressional race for 2008 is the 13th CD, comprising all of
Staten Island and Bay Ridge in Brooklyn. It's currently held by
Bush water-carrier Vito Fossella. 2006 challenger Steve Harrison
is running again, and...
7. Help Stop Backdoor Zoning Rules Changes (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
UPDATE 1/7/2008: Councilwoman Dickens form e-mail response
(see below) is that, at her request, the City Planning Commission has
extended the official comment period on these amendments to 2/6/2008,
the day after the next CB7 hearing. ...
8. Help Protect the Right to a Trial by Jury (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
(a message from DFNYC members Dana Northcraft and Michael Minn)
Update 4/1/08: Although hearings were held earlier in the year and the
legislation did receive some publicity, the bills do not seem to be getting
any momentum, probably...
9. Hold Phone Companies Accountable for Illegal Wiretapping (Issues & Projects/Old Action Items)
Update 11/20/2007:
The fight over the FISA bill continues, mainly over whether to grant phone companies immunity for having violated the privacy of millions of customers. The House passed a bill without immunity. In the Senate, two committees...
