Your Fight the Right Activist links for June 11, 2008

** Natural Resources Defense Council **
Although lead causes brain, kidney, developmental and cardiovascular damage in children, the EPA has proposed new airborne lead standards that are weaker than scientists recommend. Send a comment by the July 21st deadline telling the EPA to strengthen the standards to levels that will protect children from this dangerous toxin.

Tell the EPA to protect children from dangerous airborne lead
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** Human Rights First **
Can you imagine the U.S. government leaving soldiers behind in Iraq, giving them little or no chance to return to safety?

That's not unlike U.S. treatment of thousands of Iraqi citizens who risked life and limb to act as translators for the U.S. military.

Thanks in part to the voices of concerned individuals like you, the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act became law earlier this year, making 5,000 special visas available each year for the next five years to Iraqi translators and other Iraqis who helped the U.S. And in May, Congress passed a second law clarifying that these visas should be made available immediately.

But while these translators struggle to stay alive, bureaucratic red tape - shamefully – is delaying the resettlement process.

Send a letter to be delivered to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff! Urge them to make the visas available without delay.
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** True Majority **
The Monkey King George Bush's self-styled junta will come to an end less than eight months from now. Unfortunately he still has the power to appoint federal judges -- who would serve for a lifetime, carrying out his right-wing agenda far beyond the end of his term.

One man can block these nominations: Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy.

Judicial appointments are subject to confirmation by the United States Senate -- so the Senate has the power to put an end to Bush's practice of stacking our nation's courts with ultraconservative ideologues. Our friends at Credo Action are running a campaign to simply say no to any more of his judicial nominations and they need our help. Can you take a minute to help them by sending a message to Senator Leahy?

Click here to tell Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy: No more Bush judges.
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** The PEW Environment Group **
Our oceans are in trouble. Fish stocks are being overfished to the point of collapse, runoff pollution is creating vast dead zones, and global warming is causing the death of corals. Now the Bush Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has proposed a rule that would gut the environmental review process for fishery management actions and limit the public’s right to participate in those decisions.

Tell the NMFS to go back to the drawing board! Our oceans deserve better.
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** Free Press **
Faux News owner and right-wing whore Rupert Murdoch launched a laughable attack against you, the media reform movement, and journalism itself.

His on-air bully, right-wing wacko whore Bill O'Reilly called us "crazy" and "fascist" --- you, me, and the millions of others who want media reform. These people are "doing a lot of damage to America," O'Reilly yelled. Our crime? Calling for journalism that's more honest, just and accountable to the public.

When Bill O'Reilly goes after you, you must be doing something right. So we've decided to return the favor, and tell him two things: (1) Thanks so much for the compliment and (2) please stop pretending to be a journalist.

Tell fascist pig whore Bill O'Reilly: Stop Pretending to Be a Journalist