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Union Links
BMWED-IBT - Home of the Brotherhood of MW Employees
TEAMSTERS - International home page for our parent Organization
AFL-CIO - The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions. Also see TTD - Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO
Change to Win - Five unions and 5.5 million workers united in Change to Win to build a new movement of working people, which includes Teamsters
BLET - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
IBEW - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Railroad Division
BMWED Systems, Divisions, Federations & Locals
Northeastern System Federation - Representing workers maintaining right of way on Amtrak, CSX, Delaware & Hudson, New York, Susquehanna & Western, and Springfield Terminal railroads
ContactingCongress.org- a very up-to-date database of congressional contact information for the current Congress. As of June 28, 2010 there are 536 email addresses (of which 532 are Web-based email homepages), and 538 WWW homepages known for the 540 members of the 111th Congress. Traditional ground mail addresses are available for all current members of Congress.
Also see our tips on Communicating with Elected Officials
The United States Senate - Home Page including Floor Schedules, Hearings, Legislation, Records, History, a Public Disclosure area and a find your Senator search function.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe - The product of nearly 400 different railroad lines that merged or were acquired over the course of 160 years
Canadian National Railway - A transportation company offering integrated transportation services: rail, intermodal, trucking, freight forwarding, warehousing and distribution.
Conrail - Consolidated Rail Corporation, operating freight services across mid and eastern United States
CSX - CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., provides rail-based transportation services.
Norfolk Southern - operates approximately 21,000 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port in the eastern United States.
Conrail - Conrail restructured into a switching and terminal railroad that operates as an agent for its owners, NS and CSX, in the Shared Assets Areas of Northern New Jersey, Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit.
Union Pacific - covering 23 states across the western two-thirds of the United States
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Seek the Truth
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo
Open States is a collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to track what is happening in their state's capitol by aggregating information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. OpenStates.org
Facts are facts, the rest is opinion, spin, deception, and lie. When facts are important - get the facts, nothing but the facts from FactCheck.org
Every day, the political candidates unleash a torrent of words: speeches, TV ads, press releases, Web pages, letters to contributors, interviews. Together it forms a huge river of rhetoric that can be overwhelming. Who can you believe?
When you're done checking the facts, check out what others are saying at PollingReport.com, the public opinion online site
OpenCongress.org brings together official government data with news coverage, blog posts, comments, and more to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists already know what's really going on in Congress. We think everyone should be an insider.
OpenSecrets.org, the Center for Responsive Politics. OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use this free site to shine light on your government. Count cash and make change.
WashingtonWatch.com delivers the numbers behind proposed legislation and regulation. It is important to understand where these numbers come from and what they mean.
Based on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, LegiStorm's first information product was a database of congressional staff salaries but we have now added other valuable information, such as the most comprehensive database of all privately financed trips taken by members of Congress and congressional staffers.
GovTrack.us takes you inside the legislative process on Capitol Hill. We have a team of paid reporters going where no one has taken you before inside Congress, and we combine those reports with nonpartisan reporting from other sources.
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
NYC radical marching band… soundtrack to the revolution since 2004
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a 30-odd-piece New York City radical marching band and dance troupe. Through our music and performance, we strive to support people and communities working for social justice. We play protests, demonstrations, direct actions, picket lines, marches, benefits and events for good causes. We function as a democratic collective through consensus-based decision-making and we do not discriminate on the basis of musical ability.
Open States is a collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to track what is happening in their state's capitol by aggregating information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. 
