** Wilderness Society **
With gas prices at over $4 per gallon, every member of Congress is feeling the pressure to support more drilling. The risk to our sensitive public lands and offshore waters has never been higher.
This week Congress may vote to lift the decades-old ban on offshore drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, accelerate leasing in Alaskan waters, or sacrifice the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a quest for more oil. Some elected officials are also talking about rushing headlong towards an oil shale program that could spell disaster for up to two million acres of public lands in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
American consumers need a real solution. Despite a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign from oil companies to convince the nation otherwise, the public is increasingly in agreement with experts who assert that opening vast amounts of public lands and waters will not lower the prices we face at the pump.
The "drill everywhere" approach would, however, leave our lands irrevocably changed, prolong our nation's addiction to oil, and postpone critically important investment in alternative, clean energy technologies.
Your help is urgently needed. Tell Congress to reject this "drill everywhere" approach right now.
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** Center for American Progress **
Although a majority of the House voted for selling oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a narrow minded, short sighted conservative minority in the House was able to block this essential energy price relief bill just to keep prices high and oil companies rich. Their proposed solution to drill for oil in protected places is running on empty since this will not produce oil or ease economic suffering for a decade or more. That's not going to help anyone who really needs help.
But if you email your senators, you can persuade them to pass this needed relief when they take it up before the August recess.
Please email your senators to support selling oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve and using the profits to invest in low carbon energy solutions. Tell them not to let anyone block this effort to help hard working American families.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Your Fight The Right-Wing Wackos for July 22, 2008
** Human Rights Campaign **
It's time to remove the ban on gay, lesbian and bisexual troops that allow them to serve openly in the military. A measure to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", called The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, has been re-introduced in the US House of Representatives and has received critical support from your representative.
Tell Congress: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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** Send Karl Rove to Jail **
Karl Rove has made a career out of distorting facts to destroy political rivals. In the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, he went even further: he deliberately put a political opponent in prison based on trumped up charges. The GOP couldn’t beat the most successful Democratic politician in recent Alabama history at the ballot box. So instead, at Karl Rove’s direction, the Bush Justice Department used U.S. attorneys to cook up a false criminal case against Siegelman in order to hand the Governor’s Mansion over to the Republican Party.
It’s no surprise that Karl Rove puts politics before due process, democracy and civil rights. That’s why even when faced with a subpoena from Congress, Rove has refused to testify. Unlike Don Siegelman, Karl Rove is breaking the law.
Rove believes that he is not only above the law, but that he controls it. He’s wrong.
Sign our petition. Send Karl Rove to jail.
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** Food and Water Watch **
Whether it's tomatoes, jalapenos, or cilantro, we are in the midst of the largest Salmonella outbreak in the last decade, and the FDA still can't find the source of contamination. This is due at least in part to the inadequate systems FDA has in place for dealing with these sorts of large scale food safety problems.
FDA is currently taking comments on their Food Protection Plan, and we have some very specific suggestions for them. These suggestions include having more FDA inspectors on the ground, having control over where imported food comes from, and having mandatory recall authority.
Submit your comments and demand the FDA to fix their broken system.
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** National Audubon Society **
Each spring, millions of birds travel thousands of miles from Latin America and the Caribbean to their breeding grounds as far north as the Arctic. Months later, as the temperature drops and winter sets in, these migrants make the long trip back to warmer southern climates. These neotropical migrants face increasing threats—habitat loss, invasive species, disease, and a changing climate. Since its inception in 2002, the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act has provided millions of dollars for vital conservation efforts, including monitoring efforts, habitat restoration, education, and other projects in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But many essential conservation projects remain unfunded.
Please urge your U.S. Representative to cosponsor HR 5756, which will reauthorize this vital program with increased funding.
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** Center for American Progress **
Customs and Border Patrol at the Department of Homeland Security was just given the green light to search and seize laptops at the border, without probable cause, by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They can deny entry to anyone who refuses to give up their laptops and password. This is an affront to our progressive values of privacy and protection from unwarranted search and seizure.
Join us in demanding that Customs and Border Protection conduct and publish a Privacy Impact Assessment on this policy. People have a right to privacy.
It's time to remove the ban on gay, lesbian and bisexual troops that allow them to serve openly in the military. A measure to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", called The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, has been re-introduced in the US House of Representatives and has received critical support from your representative.
Tell Congress: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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** Send Karl Rove to Jail **
Karl Rove has made a career out of distorting facts to destroy political rivals. In the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, he went even further: he deliberately put a political opponent in prison based on trumped up charges. The GOP couldn’t beat the most successful Democratic politician in recent Alabama history at the ballot box. So instead, at Karl Rove’s direction, the Bush Justice Department used U.S. attorneys to cook up a false criminal case against Siegelman in order to hand the Governor’s Mansion over to the Republican Party.
It’s no surprise that Karl Rove puts politics before due process, democracy and civil rights. That’s why even when faced with a subpoena from Congress, Rove has refused to testify. Unlike Don Siegelman, Karl Rove is breaking the law.
Rove believes that he is not only above the law, but that he controls it. He’s wrong.
Sign our petition. Send Karl Rove to jail.
--
** Food and Water Watch **
Whether it's tomatoes, jalapenos, or cilantro, we are in the midst of the largest Salmonella outbreak in the last decade, and the FDA still can't find the source of contamination. This is due at least in part to the inadequate systems FDA has in place for dealing with these sorts of large scale food safety problems.
FDA is currently taking comments on their Food Protection Plan, and we have some very specific suggestions for them. These suggestions include having more FDA inspectors on the ground, having control over where imported food comes from, and having mandatory recall authority.
Submit your comments and demand the FDA to fix their broken system.
--
** National Audubon Society **
Each spring, millions of birds travel thousands of miles from Latin America and the Caribbean to their breeding grounds as far north as the Arctic. Months later, as the temperature drops and winter sets in, these migrants make the long trip back to warmer southern climates. These neotropical migrants face increasing threats—habitat loss, invasive species, disease, and a changing climate. Since its inception in 2002, the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act has provided millions of dollars for vital conservation efforts, including monitoring efforts, habitat restoration, education, and other projects in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But many essential conservation projects remain unfunded.
Please urge your U.S. Representative to cosponsor HR 5756, which will reauthorize this vital program with increased funding.
--
** Center for American Progress **
Customs and Border Patrol at the Department of Homeland Security was just given the green light to search and seize laptops at the border, without probable cause, by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They can deny entry to anyone who refuses to give up their laptops and password. This is an affront to our progressive values of privacy and protection from unwarranted search and seizure.
Join us in demanding that Customs and Border Protection conduct and publish a Privacy Impact Assessment on this policy. People have a right to privacy.
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