Urgent: Maintain IRS funding

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to urge
them to maintain the IRS funding. It is using that funding
to chase rich tax dodgers, and this reduces overall government expenses.

Urgent: Unionization at Whole Foods

US citizens: call on Amazon and Whole Foods not to oppose
unionization at Whole Foods
.

Here’s how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site’s nonfree JavaScript code.

First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.

I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true’ to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, “Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!”

They indeed won’t work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.

To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That’s how you say who’s sending the letter.

Then click the “START WRITING” button. That will take you to a page
that can’t function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn’t function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript.) You can finish sending without
that code By editing its URL in the browser’s address bar, as follows:

First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true’. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Enter the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the “SEND LETTER” button, and you’re done.

This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I’m sure you’ll agree it is a
small effort compared with the benefit of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.