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The Election Protection Wiki: A Dynamic Website Helps Safeguard America’s Right to Vote

Contact:
Conor Kenny, Managing Editor, Election Protection Wiki
Phone: (202) 277-6427; Email: conor@sourcewatch.org

The non-profit, non-partisan Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has launched a unique website to help safeguard the fairness and integrity of US elections, using the power of citizen journalism. The Election Protection Wiki is now online at http://www.EPWiki.org . It enables citizens, journalists and government officials to actively monitor the electoral process in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. CMD and its community of volunteer editors will continue to improve, expand and update the EP Wiki beyond the upcoming November 4th election.

The EP Wiki is part of CMD’s award-winning SourceWatch website and operates on wiki software which allows anyone who registers on the website to participate in creating and updating articles. SourceWatch contains in-depth articles on every member of (and most candidates for) the US Congress at http://www.Congresspedia.org . CMD employs both professional and volunteer editors who work together online to ensure articles are fair, accurate and fully documented.

British Shell Game on Carbon Emissions

Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on

According to documents leaked to The Guardian, the British government has been actively trying to undermine the European Union's proposals to drastically reduce carbon emissions in order to combat climate change. The UK wants to be able to count more imported carbon credits in order to meet pollution reduction targets.

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Main Source: 
The Guardian (UK), September 18, 2008
Topics: 
Climate Change
International
Politics

PickensPlan Pushed by Patton Boggs

Submitted by Bob Burton on

In July, oil industry figure T. Boone Pickens launched the PickensPlan to promote "energy independence" from "foreign oil" for the United States. In the plan, Pickens promotes the use of wind power to generate 20 percent of U.S. electricity, and natural gas and biofuels for transportation. Pickens now has business interests from funds management, water projects and the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.

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Main Source: 
O'Dwyers PR Daily (sub req'd), September 19, 2008
Topics: 
Environment
Lobbying
Politics
Public Relations

Former IndyMac Employees Go Swift Boating

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

Former employees of the failed California IndyMac Bank have hired the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's former public relations firm, Creative Response Concepts (CRC), in an attempt to hold Senator Charles Schumer responsible for the bank's collapse.

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Main Source: 
Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2008
Topics: 
U.S. Congress
Politics
Public Relations

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