** Gay Men's Health Crisis **
More than a million people are now living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. Half of those people are not in care. Another person is infected every 13 minutes. Infection rates have not fallen in more than 15 years. Clearly we need a plan.
While the U.S. requires other countries to come up with a National AIDS Strategy in order to receive our funding, we lack one of our own. Tell your Members of Congress to support a National AIDS Strategy today.
Tell Congress to Support a National AIDS Strategy
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** People For the American Way **
Repulsive Republican Pigs are in a panic about their chances this election year. And they're pulling out all the stops to keep voters away from the polls.
Their favorite vote-suppressing tactic of 2008? State laws requiring government-issued photo ID in order to vote.
Good thing we have champions in the states like Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who just yesterday vetoed a harmful voter ID law in that state correctly noting that it would "only work to disenfranchise many of the electorate and serve as a barrier to their participation in the democratic process."
And thanks to champions like Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, who worked tirelessly with voting rights advocates in Missouri to urge the legislature not to pass the voter ID bill it was considering. On Friday, defying previously-held expectations, that bill went down with the end of the legislative session.
Voters in every state deserve leaders like Gov. Sebelius and Secretary of State Carnahan who will stand up for their rights.
Please sign our petition right now urging YOUR secretary of state to fight burdensome voter ID laws in your state.
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** Securing America **
Senator Jim Webb's New GI Bill, which would give our returning soldiers the education benefits they need, is up for a Senate vote this week. We're so close to reaching that critical 60-vote majority to overcome unprecedented filibusters and the opposition of President Bush and John McCain, but we need your help. That's why VoteVets has just released a TV ad demanding that John McCain do the right thing and vote for the New GI Bill.
Click here to watch the new VoteVets ad that is airing across the country. Then email your Senators, demanding that they provide our troops with the education they deserve today!
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Your 5 Minute Activist Links for April 30, 2008
** Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance **
On April 9, Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT) introduced S. 2834, the Washington County Growth and Conservation Act of 2008. While in some ways this bill is better than Senator Bennett's 2006 version, which you helped to defeat, it still contains some of the same damaging provisions for southwestern Utah that would perpetuate bad precedents for all future public lands bills.
Once again we need your help! Please let your Senators know that S. 2834 is bad for Utah wilderness!
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** Gay Men's Health Crisis **
Once a year, hundreds of AIDS activists travel to Washington D.C. for the nation's largest advocacy event for HIV/AIDS: AIDS Watch. People living with HIV/AIDS, their families, friends, health care providers and AIDS activists meet with members of Congress to demand a solid federal commitment to AIDS programs.
You can participate, too! Send a message to your members of Congress asking them to support AIDS programs that work. Tell Congress to support AIDS programs that work.
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** Human Rights First **
Last week, African dock workers, trade unionists, human rights activists, and religious leaders joined together to stop the delivery of weapons from China to Zimbabwe.
As dock workers refused to unload the arms – China was forced to recall the ship carrying them because no country was willing to receive it.
This heroic stand by the people in southern Africa — they weren't going to allow arms into a country that planned to use them against its own people — sent a strong message to China that their weapons are not always welcome. Countries of the world, including the U.S., had no choice but to join the people and repudiate the arms shipment. And China had no choice but to yield to international pressure by recalling the ship.
We have seen what is possible when the people take action — leaders will follow. We need to do the same thing for Chinese arms going to Sudan.
In Zimbabwe, Chinese weapons are used by government forces to crush political opposition by terror. In Sudan, Chinese arms are used to kill civilians and destroy lives in Darfur.
Join us in telling the U.S. government to do for Sudan what they did for Zimbabwe: call on Beijing to halt arms sales to Sudan.
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** CREDO Action **
Old and senile McCain is blocking a vote on legislation to address widespread gender-based pay inequity because he thinks women only need more "education and training" instead of full equality under the law. We disagree, and so do our partners at CREDO Mobile.
Please sign CREDO's petition to urge old and senile McCain to quit making sexist statements and stop blocking a vote on fair pay for women.
On April 9, Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT) introduced S. 2834, the Washington County Growth and Conservation Act of 2008. While in some ways this bill is better than Senator Bennett's 2006 version, which you helped to defeat, it still contains some of the same damaging provisions for southwestern Utah that would perpetuate bad precedents for all future public lands bills.
Once again we need your help! Please let your Senators know that S. 2834 is bad for Utah wilderness!
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** Gay Men's Health Crisis **
Once a year, hundreds of AIDS activists travel to Washington D.C. for the nation's largest advocacy event for HIV/AIDS: AIDS Watch. People living with HIV/AIDS, their families, friends, health care providers and AIDS activists meet with members of Congress to demand a solid federal commitment to AIDS programs.
You can participate, too! Send a message to your members of Congress asking them to support AIDS programs that work. Tell Congress to support AIDS programs that work.
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** Human Rights First **
Last week, African dock workers, trade unionists, human rights activists, and religious leaders joined together to stop the delivery of weapons from China to Zimbabwe.
As dock workers refused to unload the arms – China was forced to recall the ship carrying them because no country was willing to receive it.
This heroic stand by the people in southern Africa — they weren't going to allow arms into a country that planned to use them against its own people — sent a strong message to China that their weapons are not always welcome. Countries of the world, including the U.S., had no choice but to join the people and repudiate the arms shipment. And China had no choice but to yield to international pressure by recalling the ship.
We have seen what is possible when the people take action — leaders will follow. We need to do the same thing for Chinese arms going to Sudan.
In Zimbabwe, Chinese weapons are used by government forces to crush political opposition by terror. In Sudan, Chinese arms are used to kill civilians and destroy lives in Darfur.
Join us in telling the U.S. government to do for Sudan what they did for Zimbabwe: call on Beijing to halt arms sales to Sudan.
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** CREDO Action **
Old and senile McCain is blocking a vote on legislation to address widespread gender-based pay inequity because he thinks women only need more "education and training" instead of full equality under the law. We disagree, and so do our partners at CREDO Mobile.
Please sign CREDO's petition to urge old and senile McCain to quit making sexist statements and stop blocking a vote on fair pay for women.
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