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If you want the data, support #FRPAA so you won't hit as many paywalls trying to read the research papers your tax dollars paid for:
Petition the white house

Petition the congress

Done. But /.ers are lazy:

Sign the petition(s) to the Congress
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb2/index.cfm/siteid/sparc

and to the white house
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/strengthen-public-access-publicly-funded-research-and-support-federal-research-public-access-act/jF4mxRc4

Funding for the physical sciences (among others) in the United States has been facing a lot of difficulties lately as well. Failure of the congress to pass the new budget has caused a crisis in science funding from agencies such as the NSF and NIH that supply much of the money for taxpayer funded research in the states. This threatens to close major facilities*, delay new projects and leave thousands of government scientists out of work.

Concerned citizens are encouraged to write to their congressmen to not forget the cause of advancement in the US. Instead of bemoaning the loss of the US edge in the sciences , speak up!

It seems hardly a coincidence that the US and UK are allies in the misguided Iraqi Invasion, as well as the fight against adequate science and research funding. With all the money diverted into these misguided efforts, no wonder science funding is suffering all over (There's only so much of it to go around!)

* Example from the nytimes.com article:
"Among the projects at risk is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, on Long Island. The $600 million machine -- 2.4 miles in circumference -- slams together subatomic particles to recreate conditions at the beginning of time, some 14 billion years ago, so scientists can study the Big Bang theory. It was already operating partly on charitable contributions, officials say, and now could shut down entirely, throwing its 1,069 specialists into limbo."

For those who live in the U.S.:

You can get your 5+4 ZIP Code:
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/

And then find those who work for you in D.C. and your State capital:
http://www.congressweb.com/

Cheers,
Tony

We can still voice our opinion to the people that make these decisions. Check these out to find out how to contact your Senator.
It's Our Net - Contact A Senator
Save The Internet - Sign The Petition

This guy is nothing more than a Joe Sixpack dressed up in a suit. He knows nothing more about internet than my grandma does. People have been screaming, running around with their heads cut off yelling "The internet's going to explode any day now!". Well, if it does, good. Serves those bastard ISPs right for not giving us what we paid for and what they explicitly promised. If you want to stop this crap, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Send an email by way of this page and even better, send a handwritten letter (on real paper) to your senator. We must protect our freedoms, the freedoms that the government (or more correctly, big corperations) are leaching away a little bit at a time.

There is a bill in Congress that would require a voter verified paper ballot for all voting machines. It also mandates a manual recount of the paper ballots in 2% of the precicnts choosen at random. That's to ensure the paper records and machine totals are counting the votes the same. The bill is HR 550. It currently has 156 cosponsors, but is stuck in committee. It needs your help to come up for a vote. Here's a link to make it easy for you to send an email to urge your Representative in Congress to pass this bill.

For those of you in Pennsylvania there is a similar bill stuck in committee in PA. To send an email to your legislators in PA. There is an action alert at votepa.us.