** Save Our Environment **
http://www.saveourenvironment.org/
Last week, the House passed an Economic Stimulus Bill that includes critical clean energy and water initiatives. Now the bill has moved to the Senate, but these initiatives are at risk of being cut from the bill.
Please urge your senators to not only include these investments in green energy and clean water, but also to INCREASE them.
Send your message to your senators and help ensure that we make smart investments today that will protect and restore our valuable natural resources and set us on the path to a clean energy economy. Hurry! They'll be casting their votes on the stimulus bill this week.
http://ga3.org/campaign/green_stimulus/
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** National Parks Conservation Association **
http://www.npca.org/
Any day now the Senate will vote on the economic stimulus package. This package contains a number of job creating, economy stimulating projects, including ones for our national parks.
Unfortunately, the Senate proposal falls short of what the national parks need to get these ready-to-go, job creating projects off the ground while also addressing their almost $9 billion backlog-- and we need to act now.
If we cannot maintain the level of funding outlined in the House proposal our economy may be short-changed of thousands of jobs- and our parks will suffer too. Congress is moving fast and we can't let this opportunity slip by us.
Write your Senators TODAY and urge them to support a greater investment for job creating-projects that help our economy and our national parks. Take action!
http://act.npca.org/campaign/Senate_Package2009/
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008 -- Your Fight the Right-Wing Wacko Links of the Day.
** American Civil Liberties Union **
( 1 ) At the prison at Guantánamo Bay, convictions can be based on evidence derived from torture, hearsay and secret evidence. Many of the accused have been held in secret prisons, denied access to lawyers for years and even tortured.
The Guantánamo military commissions are a serious mistake. It's time to shut down Guantánamo Bay, and move proceedings to a civilian court of law or a traditional military court operating in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice where constitutional guarantees apply.
We must also end indefinite detention without charge. Detainees who are not charged or convicted must be sent to countries where they will not be tortured or abused.
Sign the petition: Close Guantánamo
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** American Civil Liberties Union **
( 2 ) In the ongoing fight over FISA, privacy and the rule of law are again on the line. That was the case yesterday when the House of Representatives caved and overwhelmingly passed a bill that creates loopholes for Bush to engage in unchecked spying on Americans and cuts off lawsuits against telecom companies that broke the law.
There's a deeply disturbing premise behind this dangerous FISA legislation: The president simply has to claim his request was legal for immunity to be granted to telecom companies that illegally handed over personal information to the government.
No matter how illegal, offensive or intrusive a company's invasion of your privacy has been, it won't make a difference if this legislation passes because if the president gave the company a note claiming their behavior was legal, they're completely off the hook.
The Senate is expected to be vote on the bill early next week. Don't let your senators cave in now.
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** National Parks Conservation Association **
( 3 ) For the past few years Congress and the Administration have steadily reduced the amount of money available for national parks from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is one key way the National Park Service acts to protect our national parks from private development—by acquiring land within park boundaries from willing private sellers.
Did you know more than 50 of our national parks are incomplete and have private land within park boundaries?
If we don't acquire these lands soon, there is very little we citizens will be able to do to prevent homes or commercial development from being built—right in the middle of our national parks!
Please sign this petition to Congress now — to tell them to step up and fund these critical land purchases!
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** Human Rights First **
( 4 ) On June 4, 2008, famous Burmese comedian and renowned human rights activist Zarganar was detained by ten officials from Burma's State Peace and Development Council at his Rangoon home. Zarganar's arrest came just hours after he appeared in a BBC report about public anger over the military junta's handling of humanitarian aid to cyclone victims.
In the month since Cyclone Nargis brought devastation to the Irrawaddy delta, Zarganar has mobilized hundreds of Burmese volunteers to bring aid to 42 devastated villages. Zarganar's continuing arbitrary detention by the Burmese junta is in violation of international law and directly threatens such relief efforts.
Demand that the Burmese government immediately release human rights defender Zarganar in conformity with both international and domestic law. Burma must also stop hindering the work of private citizens trying to bring relief to victims of the cyclone.
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** League of Conservation Voters **
( 5 ) In a misguided attempt to address rising gas prices, some Members of Congress beholden to Big Oil are adding amendments to bills that call for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, off our coasts, and other pristine areas. Instead of drilling for dirty energy we should be promoting efficiency and clean, renewable energy to address our nation's growing energy crisis.
Tell your Members of Congress to resist calls for drilling and instead promote efficiency and clean energy solutions!
( 1 ) At the prison at Guantánamo Bay, convictions can be based on evidence derived from torture, hearsay and secret evidence. Many of the accused have been held in secret prisons, denied access to lawyers for years and even tortured.
The Guantánamo military commissions are a serious mistake. It's time to shut down Guantánamo Bay, and move proceedings to a civilian court of law or a traditional military court operating in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice where constitutional guarantees apply.
We must also end indefinite detention without charge. Detainees who are not charged or convicted must be sent to countries where they will not be tortured or abused.
Sign the petition: Close Guantánamo
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** American Civil Liberties Union **
( 2 ) In the ongoing fight over FISA, privacy and the rule of law are again on the line. That was the case yesterday when the House of Representatives caved and overwhelmingly passed a bill that creates loopholes for Bush to engage in unchecked spying on Americans and cuts off lawsuits against telecom companies that broke the law.
There's a deeply disturbing premise behind this dangerous FISA legislation: The president simply has to claim his request was legal for immunity to be granted to telecom companies that illegally handed over personal information to the government.
No matter how illegal, offensive or intrusive a company's invasion of your privacy has been, it won't make a difference if this legislation passes because if the president gave the company a note claiming their behavior was legal, they're completely off the hook.
The Senate is expected to be vote on the bill early next week. Don't let your senators cave in now.
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** National Parks Conservation Association **
( 3 ) For the past few years Congress and the Administration have steadily reduced the amount of money available for national parks from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is one key way the National Park Service acts to protect our national parks from private development—by acquiring land within park boundaries from willing private sellers.
Did you know more than 50 of our national parks are incomplete and have private land within park boundaries?
If we don't acquire these lands soon, there is very little we citizens will be able to do to prevent homes or commercial development from being built—right in the middle of our national parks!
Please sign this petition to Congress now — to tell them to step up and fund these critical land purchases!
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** Human Rights First **
( 4 ) On June 4, 2008, famous Burmese comedian and renowned human rights activist Zarganar was detained by ten officials from Burma's State Peace and Development Council at his Rangoon home. Zarganar's arrest came just hours after he appeared in a BBC report about public anger over the military junta's handling of humanitarian aid to cyclone victims.
In the month since Cyclone Nargis brought devastation to the Irrawaddy delta, Zarganar has mobilized hundreds of Burmese volunteers to bring aid to 42 devastated villages. Zarganar's continuing arbitrary detention by the Burmese junta is in violation of international law and directly threatens such relief efforts.
Demand that the Burmese government immediately release human rights defender Zarganar in conformity with both international and domestic law. Burma must also stop hindering the work of private citizens trying to bring relief to victims of the cyclone.
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** League of Conservation Voters **
( 5 ) In a misguided attempt to address rising gas prices, some Members of Congress beholden to Big Oil are adding amendments to bills that call for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, off our coasts, and other pristine areas. Instead of drilling for dirty energy we should be promoting efficiency and clean, renewable energy to address our nation's growing energy crisis.
Tell your Members of Congress to resist calls for drilling and instead promote efficiency and clean energy solutions!
Monday, May 5, 2008
Your 5 Minute Activist Links for May 5, 2008
** Public Citizen **
Legislation to protect us from defective and dangerous products is on the move.
With your help, we recently pushed the House and Senate to pass legislation that will make consumer products safer. Now we're heading to the finish line. Today, members of the House and Senate will begin negotiating differences in the legislation they passed and writing a final bill.
You can make a difference - by urging Congress to produce the strongest possible bill to protect consumers.
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** Center for Biological Diversity **
A February 2008 study funded by the National Park Service documented extensive chemical contamination in 20 western U.S. parks. Researchers found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like the pesticide endosulfan are threatening park ecosystems and wildlife health. Alarming levels of these chemicals were found in some of America's most seemingly pristine areas, including Rocky Mountain and Glacier national parks along with 18 other western parks from Texas to the far northern reaches of the Arctic.
POPs are among the most dangerous compounds ever produced. POPs persist in the environment, build up in body fat of animals (including humans), and travel the globe on air and water currents. Some of the human health effects now linked to POP exposure include cancer, learning disorders, impaired immune function, reproductive problems, and diabetes. Many POP pesticides, such as DDT and chlordane, have been banned for years in the United States.
Endosulfan is one dangerous POP pesticide still being used in this country, currently under review by EPA. Leaders in Congress should press for a ban of endosulfan and other POPs still in use that are contaminating national parks and threatening wildlife.
Add your name to the petition below to be delivered to the leaders of the committees in Congress charged with protecting our national parks and wildlife.
Tell Congress: Protect our Parks and Wildlife From Pesticides!
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** John Kerry **
Over a week ago, the New York Times published a major investigative article, detailing a secret Pentagon program the Times said was designed to recruit and cultivate the "military analysts" you see on the major news networks in an attempt to create coverage favorable to the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq.
The Times described an extensive program, with dozens of television analysts involved, some of whom had extensive business ties to the Defense Department -- in fact they called it "an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse -- an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks."
Since that story ran, there's been a virtual news blackout, and we haven't gotten any closer to finding out the real story.
You can change that. I sent a letter to the Government Accounting Organization requesting an investigation, and I'd like you to show your support by virtually "co-signing" the letter with me. Only with an overwhelming display of grassroots energy can we put this story in the spotlight and press for answers.
Click here to co-sign the letter with me:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pentagonpundits
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** ACLU **
In February, the House of Representatives heard the demands of voters like you and stood up to Bush administration demands for expanded surveillance powers and immunity for big phone companies that broke the law. But now, House leadership is on the precipice of caving in and handing over everything the President has demanded.
Your representative must hear that there will be a major backlash if he or she caves on FISA. Let your representative know you're watching.
Legislation to protect us from defective and dangerous products is on the move.
With your help, we recently pushed the House and Senate to pass legislation that will make consumer products safer. Now we're heading to the finish line. Today, members of the House and Senate will begin negotiating differences in the legislation they passed and writing a final bill.
You can make a difference - by urging Congress to produce the strongest possible bill to protect consumers.
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** Center for Biological Diversity **
A February 2008 study funded by the National Park Service documented extensive chemical contamination in 20 western U.S. parks. Researchers found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like the pesticide endosulfan are threatening park ecosystems and wildlife health. Alarming levels of these chemicals were found in some of America's most seemingly pristine areas, including Rocky Mountain and Glacier national parks along with 18 other western parks from Texas to the far northern reaches of the Arctic.
POPs are among the most dangerous compounds ever produced. POPs persist in the environment, build up in body fat of animals (including humans), and travel the globe on air and water currents. Some of the human health effects now linked to POP exposure include cancer, learning disorders, impaired immune function, reproductive problems, and diabetes. Many POP pesticides, such as DDT and chlordane, have been banned for years in the United States.
Endosulfan is one dangerous POP pesticide still being used in this country, currently under review by EPA. Leaders in Congress should press for a ban of endosulfan and other POPs still in use that are contaminating national parks and threatening wildlife.
Add your name to the petition below to be delivered to the leaders of the committees in Congress charged with protecting our national parks and wildlife.
Tell Congress: Protect our Parks and Wildlife From Pesticides!
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** John Kerry **
Over a week ago, the New York Times published a major investigative article, detailing a secret Pentagon program the Times said was designed to recruit and cultivate the "military analysts" you see on the major news networks in an attempt to create coverage favorable to the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq.
The Times described an extensive program, with dozens of television analysts involved, some of whom had extensive business ties to the Defense Department -- in fact they called it "an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse -- an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks."
Since that story ran, there's been a virtual news blackout, and we haven't gotten any closer to finding out the real story.
You can change that. I sent a letter to the Government Accounting Organization requesting an investigation, and I'd like you to show your support by virtually "co-signing" the letter with me. Only with an overwhelming display of grassroots energy can we put this story in the spotlight and press for answers.
Click here to co-sign the letter with me:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pentagonpundits
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** ACLU **
In February, the House of Representatives heard the demands of voters like you and stood up to Bush administration demands for expanded surveillance powers and immunity for big phone companies that broke the law. But now, House leadership is on the precipice of caving in and handing over everything the President has demanded.
Your representative must hear that there will be a major backlash if he or she caves on FISA. Let your representative know you're watching.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Your 5 Minute Activist Links for March 30, 2008
** American Civil Liberties Union **
Ongoing efforts by the ACLU and its members helped get the House of Representatives to do the right thing and stand up to the administration's fear mongering, including rejecting the Monkey King Bush's unconstitutional spying bill, and, just before Spring recess, passing the FISA Amendments Act -- a far cry from the blank check that the Monkey King Bush demanded so strenuously.
Tell your representative and Speaker Pelosi to stand strong against a spying bill that harms the Constitution.
** National Parks Conservation Association **
Any day now, the Senate could vote on a package of public lands bills that will greatly benefit our national parks and public lands. Some of NPCA's top priorities-- reauthorization of the Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, the Cesar Chavez Study Act, and the Acadia National Park Improvement Act to name a few--are all in the mix. These bills have strong bi-partisan support, and yet they’ve been held up for more than a year.
Write your Senators and urge them to vote in favor of S. 2739.
** Jobs with Justice **
In the tomato fields of south Florida, modern-day slavery still thrives. As part of the week of action, students across the country are demanding that Burger King and food industry leaders work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve the wages and conditions for the workers who pick tomatoes and join an industry-wide effort to eliminate human rights abuses from Florida’s fields.
Click here to sign the National Petition to End Sweatshops & Slavery in the Fields.
** Working Families **
Another petition to eliminate modern-day servitude in America produce fields.
** Sierra Club **
The good news is that thanks to the support of our Sierra Club members and supporters we were able to block a staggering 5,000-acre timber sale in the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
But the bad news is our fight to protect the majestic Giant Sequoias is not over. More than half of the remaining groves — located in Giant Sequoia National Monument — are in jeopardy because, despite being rebuked by the federal courts, the Monkey King Bush Administration is refusing to back off its plan to log this irreplaceable ancient forest. That’s why we are asking you to act now and sign our petition to Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell, asking her to implement the strongest possible protections for Giant Sequoia National Monument.
Ongoing efforts by the ACLU and its members helped get the House of Representatives to do the right thing and stand up to the administration's fear mongering, including rejecting the Monkey King Bush's unconstitutional spying bill, and, just before Spring recess, passing the FISA Amendments Act -- a far cry from the blank check that the Monkey King Bush demanded so strenuously.
Tell your representative and Speaker Pelosi to stand strong against a spying bill that harms the Constitution.
** National Parks Conservation Association **
Any day now, the Senate could vote on a package of public lands bills that will greatly benefit our national parks and public lands. Some of NPCA's top priorities-- reauthorization of the Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, the Cesar Chavez Study Act, and the Acadia National Park Improvement Act to name a few--are all in the mix. These bills have strong bi-partisan support, and yet they’ve been held up for more than a year.
Write your Senators and urge them to vote in favor of S. 2739.
** Jobs with Justice **
In the tomato fields of south Florida, modern-day slavery still thrives. As part of the week of action, students across the country are demanding that Burger King and food industry leaders work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve the wages and conditions for the workers who pick tomatoes and join an industry-wide effort to eliminate human rights abuses from Florida’s fields.
Click here to sign the National Petition to End Sweatshops & Slavery in the Fields.
** Working Families **
Another petition to eliminate modern-day servitude in America produce fields.
** Sierra Club **
The good news is that thanks to the support of our Sierra Club members and supporters we were able to block a staggering 5,000-acre timber sale in the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
But the bad news is our fight to protect the majestic Giant Sequoias is not over. More than half of the remaining groves — located in Giant Sequoia National Monument — are in jeopardy because, despite being rebuked by the federal courts, the Monkey King Bush Administration is refusing to back off its plan to log this irreplaceable ancient forest. That’s why we are asking you to act now and sign our petition to Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell, asking her to implement the strongest possible protections for Giant Sequoia National Monument.
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