While more than 2 million people signed a petition that was delivered to President Obama today urging him not to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid and to abandon a "chained" CPI formula, hundreds more have left photo messages for the president. 

Dave Johnson, a fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, sends us this.

The Take Back the  American Dream conference opened Tuesday with a discussion on the “Contract for the American Dream.” Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change began by saying that there is a movement in America today and it’s not the tea party—it’s the American Dream Movement. People are working to build a huge movement that can meet this huge moment.

Tomorrow at noon, activists with a number of organizations, including our friends at MoveOn.org, are planning visits to congressional district offices all across the country to demand that there be no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and that Congress stop the partial shutdown of the FAA.

Click here to find information and join in a demonstration at your representative’s office.

As part of the Tax Day: Make Them Pay mobilization, the AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America is urging people to tell Congress to close the corporate tax loopholes that allow companies like ExxonMobil to rake in $19 billion in profits in 2009 and yet pay no federal income taxes—and instead, get a $156 million rebate from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). You can tell these corporate tax scofflaws to pay up—click here.

April 18 is the day this year we do our civic duty and pay taxes. But while you and I pay our fair share, some billion-dollar corporations do not.