Actions to defend elderly, handicapped, kids, women, et al :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Actions to defend elderly, handicapped, kids, women, et al:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9087
This petition on change.org: Act, defend nonrich:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-defend-nonrich?share_id=lmGeeIxveF&pe=pce
Sample talking points, letter: We can't allow dems to devolve back into dinos, democrats in name only, loyal republican pets, or allow Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security to have their funding cut, even by the scalpel-in-chief’s “thinning them“ to meet needs of political expediency; nor their coverage decreased- the cat food commission was wrong! Another example, the rem dictated, and dem leaning towards, “raising the retirement age in S.S.“, would be stealing from the elderly who were contracted to pay into it all their lives and retire at 65 years old; as well, middle-class to poor people’s life expectancy isn’t going up, and hasn’t been, only the upper-middle-class to rich’s is- in the future, with this coming bad economic decade, the same will be the case. Dems can’t destroy elderly, and future elderly, in order to give more extreme tax cuts to the extremely rich, and richest corps.. Society’s standing behind its elderly isn’t an "entitlement", which the rems and dems have been calling Medicare, Social Security, etc., for months, we give them, it’s a gift we’re returning; which should be returned in full- briefly, it’s a civil right. How have we gotten to the point where we must stand up to rems even if it means they may try and close down the federal gov’t by obstructing the raising of the debt ceiling; by the dems embracing the devolutionary direction of the corporate structure‘s convolution, as the rems do- manifesting political conning of the populace with delusional paradigms and constructs like, “we must avoid economic loses by conspiring with the rems gutting the weak”, all based on the delusional construct of duality, by which the dems may try and “get away with it”, conspiring with the rich and rems while making believe they had to. How are the delusional constructs, like ‘materialism, sides‘, etc., dispelled, for they don’t exist, simply, dualities’ supposedly enabling, division, its goal divide and conquer, only works on the divided, life is indivisible; as one’s potential is illimitable- Ghandi said, “we must be the changes we wish to see in the world“, through, “Abhaya, fearlessness“. How, addressing, not addressing injustices has costs, former is individual, the later is global, as well, if you don’t stand up for yourself, exercise your responsibility, you lose power, also, those real deficits (consequence of delusional gains), in lost power taken from us, or abdicated willingly to the Gov‘t, etc., individually, communally, globally, add up; manifesting autocratic power, which corrupts until it’s absolute power- that corrupts absolutely. Yet, one can’t abdicate their responsibility, therefore, one suffers the consequences of what those false, or misled leaders do, and don’t. That’s why “Abhaya”, is the only solutioning, betwixt one and reality; which, if continually concentrated, evolves one, all- if not you, then who, now, when, here, where, this, what? Don’t let dems cave at all. reality
Dear Mr. President- Do Not Yield:
Will You Join the Call for Shared Sacrifice?
Read Bernie Sander's letter to the president -- and add your name!:
http://sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=c1fd7f9b-abd8-4e7a-a370-1867881259d8
What are your budget priorities? Take a poll:
http://sanders.senate.gov/polls/index.cfm?uid=7f1106fe-a383-4473-8f0d-3ed108a86140
Back our champions today:
As we recently announced, Progressive Future is now Fair Share Alliance. And, while our name has changed our fight to defend Medicare and education funding in the current budget battle goes on.
As you read this President Obama has stepped in to lead negotiations and everything is at stake.
Republicans like Sen. Mitch McConnell want to cut Medicare and slash other critical programs. And, they won’t even discuss making millionaires and big corporations pay their fair share. In fact House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recently backed out of talks led by Vice President Biden over this point.
President Obama is working to craft a budget deal with Democratic and Republican leaders before July 4th. We need Democratic leaders Sen. Harry Reid (NV) and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (CA) to continue to stand strong against crippling cuts to Medicare and education funding, and press to raise needed funds by taxing millionaires and closing tax loopholes for oil companies and other big corporations.
So, now is our chance to make a difference by showing our champions that they have the public support to hold their ground.
Click here to send a message to Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi urging them to keep standing strong.
https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2407
Thanks for standing with us to make sure the rich and powerful pay their fair share, and the rest of us get a fair shot.
Sincerely,
Adam Lioz, Program Director
AdamL@FairShareAlliance.org
http://www.FairShareAlliance.org
Actions and alerts by, for, diffabled, on these issues :)
Boehner Protest Update:
Speaker Boehner's staff gave a vague statement to the ADAPTers assembled at the office. ADAPTers responded with a rousing version of "Put John Boehner in a Nursing Home". (See below for lyrics.)
The group has moved on to the Speaker's Country Club share the message that
there are better ways to reform Medicaid.
You can send an email message yourself to speaker Boehner at:
http://ly.adapt.org/z
FREE OUR PEOPLE!
Put John Boehner in a Nursing Home
ADAPTed by Bob Schoenfeld
Chorus:
Put JOHN BOEHNER in a nursing home
Put JOHN BOEHNER in a nursing home
Put JOHN BOEHNER in a nursing home
And leave him there to rot!
...
Join ADAPT in Washington DC on September 21st to Rally for Real Medicaid Reform!
NATIONAL ADAPT MAILING LIST - Adapt Community Choice Act List
http://www.adapt.org
When phone lines are busy, try the FAX:
If folks can't get through on the phones or want to send another message, they can FAX the office at (937) 339-1878. Here's a letter folks can fax...
June 27, 2011
Speaker John Boehner
12 South Plum Street
Troy, OH 45373
Dear Speaker Boehner:
In times of economic crisis in our beautiful country, ADAPT has a solution that frees our people and reforms Medicaid to benefit all Americans. Thousands of Americans with disabilities have no liberty because the current federal Medicaid policy does not allow flexibility for states to fund services in home and community-based programs. Rather, the federal Medicaid policy forces states to spend large sums of money into nursing and intermediate care facilities. The ADAPT Community has proposals for REAL MEDICAID REFORM.
Meet with ADAPT and back this reform to save billions and give disabled and older Americans life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Block grants are not the solution! Ending the institutional bias in federal Medicaid policy is! You must agree:
- Not to block grant Medicaid;
- To support Community First Choice Option;
- To not implement federal cuts to Medicaid; and
- To support a federal mandate to in-home and direct support services.
Please contact Darrell Price at 937-626-3247 to discuss this issue further.
Sincerely,
ADAPT Members From Across the Nation.
Urgent Alert: Call Speaker Boehners District and DC Offices Now As ADAPT Demands New Strategy for Medicaid Reform:
Twenty members of ADAPT, the national disability rights direct action
organization, are at the Troy district office of U.S. Representative John Boehner, demanding that Boehner set a date to meet with them on federal Medicaid spending strategy. Boehner and the Republican party want to make drastic cuts to Medicaid spending. ADAPTers say that money can be better saved by ensuring that a greater proportion of Medicaid spending be invested in home- and community-based supports.
Telephone Speaker Boehner at both his Troy, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
offices: Troy, Ohio Office: (937) 339-1524
Washington, D.C. Office: (202) 225-6205
This is the message: Speaker Boehner should meet with ADAPT because people with disabilities and seniors want to be able to live in our own homes, not nursing facilities and institutions. The strategy of investing in home- and community-based supports is a proven cost saving measure. For more information about ADAPT, please visit
http://www.adapt.org
.
ADAPT is also on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/nationaladapt
Open letter to Speaker John Boehner - the Pastoral Council at St. Maximilian Kolbe:
Released today
5720 Hamilton Mason Road
Liberty Township, OH 45011
June 26, 2011
To the members of the Pastoral Council at St. Maximilian Kolbe:
This morning, members of the national disability rights collective ADAPT visited your church for the purpose of bringing to your parish's attention the dire crisis facing Medicaid and the role of one of your parishioners, U.S. Representative John Boehner, in that crisis. As we peacefully said "good morning" to parishioners and passed out flyers, Father Geoffrey Drew came out to ask us to leave. Unfortunately, his tone was that of someone asking children to get off a lawn. He also stated that the church would close its non-profit status if we didn't leave, which we found odd, if not incorrect. Because local police were then called and we were asked to leave the premises, we did not have a chance to engage with parishioners on this topic, which we feel is a fundamental human rights issue. The events of this morning notwithstanding, Representative Boehner, in his capacity as Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives, has a key leadership role in figuring out how to lead America out of the fiscal crisis and towards sustainable economic health. Most people would not envy someone attempting
such a complex political task. However, we do feel that Representative Boehner does have the ability and responsibility to make good decisions about our country's fiscal health, and to make these decisions without unduly affecting the 49 million poor American children, seniors, people with disabilities and pregnant women who need Medicaid services because there is no other option. There is a way forward in Medicaid, but it is not about cuts. Instead, we
strongly believe that the way to save money in Medicaid is to spend less money on institutional and nursing facility long term care, and to invest those dollars in home and community based supports, which cost far less per person. The costs of institutional long term care drive Medicaid spending higher year by year, and we can keep this down by investing dollars to support more people in their own homes, which is where most people really want to be able to live. We want to be able to live with our families, and to age in our own homes.
Representative Boehner has an opportunity NOW to lead the way on this issue. We would ask that first, he focus on re-balancing Medicaid long-term care spending towards community supports and away from institutions and nursing facilities. Second, the idea of block granting Medicaid to the states should be dropped, because it will lead to inequities of resources across the states. Third, we would ask that he support every state applying for the Community First Choice Option, a new federal program that provides an enhanced federal Medicaid reimbursement match for states offering community
living service options. Fourth, we would ask Representative Boehner to support the introduction of a bill that would create a federal mandate requiring that states offer home- and community-based services and supports for Medicaid recipients. Taking action on all four of these points can, quite possibly, lead us away from Medicaid cuts and fiscal crisis, and give the country the room we need
to discuss how best to provide for health care and supports for everyone in our country. Our request for you is that we want to ask you to speak with Representative Boehner about these points, and to facilitate a discussion among the 3,194 families in your parish, about our concerns. We have noted that part of your mission is to "provide a safe and nurturing home for prayer, worship,
education and spritual growth." Certainly this matter seems to fall under, at least, the education of the parish. We look forward to your response on this urgent matter. Our local contact is
Darrell Price, who can be reached at (937) 626-3247. For more information about our organization, which has fought for disability rights for more than 30 years, please visit www.adapt.org.
Sincerely,
The People of ADAPT
Cc: Reverend Geoffrey Drew
Archbishop Dennis Schnurr
Carolyn Jurkowitz, Executive Director, Catholic Conference of Ohio
U.S. Representative John Boehner
Members of the press.
ADAPT Calls on Washington and the States to Endorse Real Medicaid Reform that Protects the Civil Rights of Seniors and People with Disabilities:
At the Strategy Meeting in Philadelphia this past weekend, ADAPT's leadership decided to organize a campaign to defend against the current round of attacks on Medicaid. June 22nd is the 12th anniversary of the Olmstead decision. We decided it was the perfect day to announce the campaign which includes a national rally in DC this September. Below is a media release that you can personalize for your group or organization. Please join us in calling for
responsible Medicaid reform, and send any media coverage you receive to Amber Smock at ambity@aol.com
FREE OUR PEOPLE!
Bruce
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 21, 2011
Contact:
Mike Oxford, 785-224-3865
Bruce Darling, 585-370-6690
Bob Kafka, 512-431-4085
ADAPT Calls on Washington and the States to Endorse Real Medicaid Reform that Protects the Civil Rights of Seniors and People with Disabilities-
June 22nd is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in
Olmstead, which applied the integration mandate of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) to long term services and supports. In that decision, the Supreme Court affirmed that people with disabilities have a civil right to live in the community in the most integrated setting. Twelve years later, members of Congress and state governments are trying to de-fund that right by cutting Medicaid and giving states flexibility to cut programs that assist people with disabilities and seniors to live in their own homes and communities. In response to these harmful federal proposals, ADAPT is launching a campaign for real Medicaid reform that protects peoples liberty in every state of the country. Over the next few months, ADAPT and other disability organizations are mobilizing their members to visit their Congressional and state representatives and organize events in Washington DC and every state. We need to remind these federal and state policy makers that de-funding Medicaid de-funds our freedom and that is not acceptable, said Rahnee Patrick, ADAPT Organizer from Chicago. While Congressional Democrats have vowed to protect seniors and nursing facilities, their current proposals also cut vital home and community-based services that allow seniors and people with disabilities to stay in their own homes. Congress and state governments need to recognize that the freedom of Americans with disabilities and seniors is a civil rights entitlement that
they shouldnt eliminate or diminish, said Bruce Darling, ADAPT Organizer from Rochester, NY. The campaign will be highlighted with a rally in Washington DC on Capitol Hill, Wednesday September 21st. ADAPT and the other campaign organizers are urging disability, senior and civil rights organizations in every state to hold their own events this summer and immediately begin working to bring people with disabilities and older Americans to our nations capital in September.
ADAPT continues to meet with Congressional representatives and identify ways to contain Medicaid spending that implement peoples right to live in the community and save taxpayer dollars at the same time. These proposals include:
Expand the use of community-based services. Studies have demonstrated that by reducing the over-reliance on institutions and nursing facilities and shifting toward more cost-effective community-based services, states can contain Medicaid spending. Despite the growing body of evidence showing that community-based services are more cost effective, the federal government still allows states to continue their wasteful, institutionally-biased practices. Demedicalize services. By reducing the reliance on costly medical personnel to provide assistance by allowing attendants to perform these tasks, states could use the same amount of Medicaid funding to support more seniors and people with disabilities living in their own homes. Changes in state Nurse Practices Acts could save millions of Medicaid dollars. Many of the long term services that are widely perceived as medical become a basic part of daily life to a person with disabilities. States continue to require that medical
personnel provide such services, unnecessarily increasing Medicaids costs. Expand consumer directed service options. By empowering people to manage their own services and reducing the need for administrative overhead, states can also reduce Medicaid expenditures. Many seniors and people with disabilities can manage their services and supervise the people providing the direct care, reducing the need for agencies to provide supervisory and
administrative supports like training and scheduling. Reorganize Medicaid services to eliminate wasteful bureaucracy. The current
system wastefully organizes services based on diagnosis and age even though people may have the same functional needs. By organizing services based on functional needs states can eliminate redundant and needlessly expensive bureaucracies and reduce Medicaid expenditures. A system based on functional needs also eliminates gaps in services and makes services easier to access, reducing the need for professional assistance in navigating the system we currently have in place.
ADAPT: http://www.adapt.org , is a national grass-roots
community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.
Act Now: Urge U.S. Senate and Congress to Reject Medicaid Cuts Take Action!:
Medicaid Cuts Are the Wrong Way to Balance the Budget-
With both the House and Senate in session this week, we expect the debate about how to reduce the deficit to be front and center. Advocates for older adults, people with disabilities, and children are organizing a massive effort to urge Congress not to balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens.
Negotiations are happening behind closed doors. Now is the time to weigh in with your Members of Congress. Tell them "DON'T CUT MEDICAID." Cuts to this vital program will only shift costs to states and transfer the burden to people with disabilities, seniors who depend on the program for long-term care, and children and their families.
Call or email your Senators and Congressional Representative this week and urge them to reject Medicaid cuts in any form.
If you prefer to email your message, click here, the Take Action link to email a sample letter that you are welcome to edit and personalize or send “as is.”
http://capwiz.com/rochestercdr/issues/alert/?alertid=50673586&queueid=7029927281
If you prefer to call to voice your concerns, use this toll free number: 866-922-4970. If you aren't sure who your Representative is, you can search for them by entering your zip code in the "Find your Representative" tool at this link:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/
You can find your Senator’s contact information at this link:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Sample telephone message: "I'm calling to urge the Senator/Representative to resist all efforts to undermine Medicaid through funding cuts, spending caps, or block grants. Cuts to this vital program will only shift costs to states and transfer the burden onto people with disabilities, seniors, children and their families. Medicaid is critical for the health care of eight million people with disabilities."
http://www.cdrnys.org/
Stop Balancing Budget on Women's Backs:
Urge those negotiating the debt ceiling to tax the wealthy and cut defense spending! As Vice President Biden's debt ceiling negotiations with Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders enters a critical phase, it's time that feminists speak out and be heard. Please tell the negotiators loud and clear to put increasing revenue on the table, increase taxes on the wealthy, and cut defense/contractor spending.
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1269/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4360
Right now, the Republicans are holding the lifting of the nation's debt ceiling hostage unless they win two trillion dollars in budget cuts at the same time. These are the same Republicans who made no big deal out of President Bush II's lifting of the debt ceiling, principally to finance the Iraq war and give tax cuts to the wealthy (or as Bush II said, his base: the haves and the have mores). This revenue slashing did not create jobs – it just created massive debt.
Tell the Republicans they can't balance the budget on the backs of women and children. It simply cannot all come from programs for women, children, health care, education. Nor are ideological cuts to domestic and global reproductive health really spending cuts. Every dollar of spending that enables a woman to plan her family SAVES the government four dollars in spending.
Nor can balancing the budget come from cutting Medicaid for the poor and the middle class. Yes, the middle class. Remember, Medicaid pays for the cost of 2/3rds of the people (mostly women) in nursing homes, most of whom were middle class. Medicaid also covers disabled children and adults, many of whom have parents who are in the middle class or working poor, but simply cannot afford health care costs. It's NOT time to throw tens of thousands of seniors out of nursing homes and it is NOT time to deny services to disabled children or adults.
And as far as Medicare goes, the government should be allowed to negotiate cheaper drug prices. We will not stand for eliminating persons under 55 years of age from Medicare coverage. Some politicians want us to think cutting Defense spending or repealing the tax cuts are politically impossible. But polls show the majority of Americans support doing these things rather than cutting crucial services. It's time to be heard– before it's too late. For women's lives and the nation's future,
Acts: http://feministmajority.org/action/index.asp
Eleanor Smeal
President
Feminist Majority
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801, Arlington, VA 22209 | 703.522.2214 | femmaj@feminist.org
AAUW Action Network: Social Security Matters for Women:
Tell Your Members of Congress that Slashing Benefits is Not an Option-
The American Association of University Women emphatically opposes slashing or means-testing benefits, raising the retirement age, toying with risky privatization schemes, or raiding the program in a misguided attempt to reduce the deficit. In AAUW's 2011-2013 Public Policy Program, we support strengthening Social Security while enacting common-sense reforms and improvements.
Social Security matters for women and girls. The program, which has over 70 years of successes, is one of our nation's best anti-poverty programs and provides critical benefits to millions children, disabled workers, surviving spouses, and retirees. Without Social Security, it is estimated that over half of elderly women would live in poverty -- after all, older women frequently don't have 401(k) accounts or sufficient retirement savings, have contended with a lifetime of pay inequities, and generally outlive their spouses and men in the workforce.
If you've been paying into the program, Social Security is there to help pay for necessary services and accommodations if you become disabled, just as it is for millions of Americans today. Social Security survivors' benefits are still the largest and most generous life insurance program in the country, insuring 98% of American children against the loss of a parent and caretaker. In short, Social Security is a national commitment through which we care for one another across generations.
Send this message to Congress. Tell your Senators and Representatives that Social Security matters for you, that it matters for your children and their children, and that it matters for all women and girls.
Take Action!
http://capwiz.com/aauw/issues/alert/?alertid=50812821&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]
To send a message to congress, click here, "Take Action" link in the upper right hand corner. Then, you'll be able to add your own story to the draft email provided.
Double your impact! Tweet, Facebook, and forward this action alert to friends and family.
Follow AAUW on Twitter, and read our award-winning AAUW Dialog Blog for discussion, information, and advocacy for women and girls!
Acts: http://capwiz.com/aauw/home/
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions :)
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Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9085
This petition on change.org: Indigenous; Green; N.A., acts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/indigenous-green-na-acts?share_id=JLfYcKoWPA&pe=pce
June 2011 E-newsletter: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes in Panama:
Panama Campaign Update: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes
After six years of protests against construction of the Chan-75 dam, including a case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the American engineering company AES and the Panamanian government closed the dam's floodgates on the Changuinola river. As the water rose forming the reservoir, the last remaining Ngöbe families were forced to abandon their homes on the riverbanks. Read more.
Mexico Campaign Update: Wixárika People Take Protests to Vancouver and New York City
Delegates from the Wixárika traditional authorities were in New York and Vancouver the third week of May, defending their right to protect their sacred lands from exploitation by a Canadian mining company.
In New York, the Wixárika delegates spoke out at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where more than 1,000 Indigenous people from all parts of the world were gathered to assess progress in implementing the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read more. TAKE ACTION.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico-stop-mining-protect-sacred-sites
2011 National Native Language Revitalization Summit
This year's summit, Promoting Indigenous Language Rights in Practice: Language Rights Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill aims to educate each member of the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees about Native American language leaders who are using extremely limited federal funding for urgent local tribal language revitalization projects. Summit registrants will meet with appropriators on Wednesday, June 22 throughout the day. Summit attendees are also invited to attend the National Day of Prayer for Sacred Sites in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Tuesday, June 21 on the U.S. Capitol Grounds. Read more.
Celebrating Native American Languages in Washington, D.C.
On June 21, 2011 join Cultural Survival and the Library of Congress in celebrating innovative tribal language programs, and the Native American language heroes revitalizing America's ancient linguistic heritage. Celebrate their efforts, learn about the challenges they face, and share in their successes. Library curatorial staff will point to resources within the institution's vast collections, with a focus on manuscripts, photos, and other archival material that tribal language programs can incorporate into local curricula. Read more.
The public is also invited to observe the 2011 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places in Washington, D.C. will on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 a.m. on the United States Capitol Grounds, West Front Grassy Area. Read more.
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Domestic Policy Implications of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On June 9, 2011, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs chaired by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawai'i), held an oversight hearing: Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples; Robert Coulter, executive director of the Indian Law Resource Center; and Ryan Red Corn, artist and filmmaker were among the people invited to testify. Watch the hearing here.
http://www.senate.gov/fplayers/CommPlayer/commFlashPlayer.cfm?fn=indian060911&st=1100
Tribal leaders are encouraged to submit written testimony and suggestions about implementing the UN Declaration to the Committee by June 23, 2011. Testimony and comments can be emailed to testimony@indian.senate.gov.
Creating Community Dialogue on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On May 20, 2011, at the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous People's Issues in New York, Cultural Survival hosted an official side event titled "Creating community dialogue on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media." Moderated by Suzanne Benally (Navajo/ Santa Clara Tewa), executive director of Cultural Survival, panelists included Cultural Survival staff member Cesar Gomez (Pocomam) of Guatemala, Cultural Survival board member Les Malezer (Gabi Gabi) of Australia, and Kenneth Deer (Mohawk) of Canada. Watch the session here.
http://vimeo.com/25113119
Guatemala Radio Project Updates
Cultural Survival at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
In the month of May, Guatemala Radio Project content production and training coordinator Cesar Gomez (Maya Pocomam), traveled to New York City to participate in the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous People's Issues. He presented at a side event hosted by Cultural Survival titled "Creating community dialogue on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media". Read more.
Station Listener Profile: Sergio Rojo
Sergio Rojo lives in a small town called Santa Maria de Jesús, on the slope of the long dormant Volcán de Agua just outside of Antigua, Guatemala. At 19 years old, he has finished his studies and now works in the field to help his family. Cultural Survival caught up with him on his way back from gathering wood to heat his mother's fire for the family's lunch. He carries the radio with him to the fields to pass the time. Read more.
Bangladesh Campaign Update: Action Alert is Published in Bangla Language
Bangladeshi organizations have translated the Global Response action alerts into the Bangla language, and they are urging Bangladeshi citizens and youth to write letters to the prime minister. The goal of the campaign is to stop construction of a huge open-pit coal mine on agricultural lands where Indigenous Peoples have lived for thousands of years.
Download the alert in Bangla here.
Learn More and Take Action
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/bangladesh-ban-coal-mine-save-forests-and-farms
Cultural Survival Bazaars: Summer 2011
The Cultural Survival Bazaars are a series of cultural festivals that provide Indigenous artists, their representatives, and fair trade companies from around the world the chance to sell their work directly to the American public. More information.
July 23 - 24 -- Falmouth, MA
July 30- 31 -- Tiverton Four Corners, RI
Cultural Survival Quarterly: Summer 2011
This issue features an article on Indigenous Peoples who are building their own city on the outskirts of an existing Peruvian city; a photo essay on the people of Pohnpei in the Pacific; and a piece about an Indigenous Rama environmentalist and his attempts to help his community protect their island home. There are also pieces on Alaskan communities that are reclaiming their food traditions, an Indigenous Australian woman who is working to revitalize Aboriginal languages, an article by one of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
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Âs Nutayuneân: WE STILL LIVE HERE, starring the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, to be featured Provincetown Film Festival June 16-19
WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân tells an extraordinary story of cultural survival and Indigenous language recovery among the Wampanoag Nation of southeastern Massachusetts.
Provincetown Film Festival
June 18 (Saturday), 6:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday), 11:30 AM in Provincetown, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday) at 4:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
For more information on the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, visit their website.
To purchase a copy of the film and for more upcoming screening dates visit Makepeace LLC online.
Conservation's Dirty Secrets
Conservation's Dirty Secrets, a documentary film by Oliver Steeds, will air on UK's Channel 4 next Monday, June 20, 2011. The film tells the story of conservation projects that have negatively affected Indigenous Peoples, including the Samburu people of Kenya. Steeds filmed the Samburu in Laikipia who were evicted last November to make way for an Africa Wildlife Foundation project. The film is to air on PBS in the coming months. Learn more.
Thank you for standing with Indigenous Peoples and for your ongoing support.
Sincerely,
Agnes Portalewska
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BREAKING: Mattel responding to pressure from you:
Wow! Activists like you have sent more than 45,000 letters telling Mattel to stop supporting deforestation in Indonesia, nearly 1,000,000 people around the world have watched our video of Ken and Barbie’s break up, and to top it off, two groups of Greenpeace activists unfurled two giant banners at Mattel’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
The pressure is working. Mattel has stated that they will take initial steps to address this issue, but without details or timelines their words alone are not enough.
Check out the incredible video of the protest and send a clear message to Mattel: we need action not vague promises to save Indonesia’s rainforests.
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=859
In response to the campaign, Mattel first announced that it would direct “packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from Sinar Mas/APP [Asia Pulp & Paper] as we investigate the deforestation allegations.” The company later also announced that it will develop a "sustainable procurement policy" for paper and other wood-based products.
This is encouraging progress, but it’s not enough. There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in Indonesia’s rainforests, and every day the destruction of their forest homes drives them closer and closer to extinction.
Without an actual written policy in place to protect rainforests, Mattel’s investigation has no teeth, and the problem has not been solved. We are willing to help them develop this policy and answer their questions, but until then, our campaign continues.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/
A storm is brewing, and thanks to you, companies are taking notice. Don’t let up tell Mattel to turn their words into deeds now.
We’ve got their attention but need to act right now while they know the world is watching.
Thanks for all you do,
Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Senior Forest Campaigner
P.S. Please forward this email on to your friends and help us reach 50,000 messages to Mattel CEO Bob Eckert by tomorrow!
Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 | 1-800-326-0959
Historic Battle Looming!:
Dear Virginia Conservationist,
While every General Assembly session is an important one, 2012 will go down in the history books as one of the most important ever. Why? Your Delegate and Senator's vote on uranium mining.
Given the overwhelming consequences of opening Virginia to uranium mining, we need all hands on deck now for this historic battle. Please visit the Keep The Ban coalition website to learn more about uranium mining and to sign our petition today!
Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element, U on the Periodic Table. It occurs naturally in the ground, but when exposed to air and water, radiation is released into the environment.
Large uranium deposits were discovered in Virginia during the 1970s and in the early 1980s uranium mining leases were executed on 40,000 uranium-rich acres in Southside Virginia and on another 16,000 acres in Fauquier, Madison, Culpeper and Orange Counties.
In 1982 Virginia considered the risks and benefits of opening Virginia to uranium mining and placed a ban on such activities due to the numerous health and environmental concerns. Now a Canadian company is lobbying for the ban to be lifted and Virginians are mobilizing for this historic fight.
Please visit the Keep The Ban website to learn more about uranium mining and sign our petition today!
http://keeptheban.org/?page_id=237
The Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (VALCV-EF) helps citizens and organizations concerned with conservation and Virginia’s environment to more effectively participate in their government. Make a donation today and help us continue this important outreach. Combined Virginia Campaign (CVC) # 3649.
530 East Main Street, Suite 410 - Richmond, Virginia 23219 - 804-225-1902
CNN can't hide on Facebook :
We've made a great start but CNN is still running Exxon's ad so we need to turn the pressure up a notch – will you help us catch CNN's attention by posting on their Facebook page?
It's easy – here's all you need to do:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/cnn and Like the page.
Post this message (or one like it – you can put it in your own words) on CNN's wall:
Why is CNN muddying the debate over hydrofracking with this misleading ExxonMobil ad? Don't news networks have a responsibility to keep their programming unbiased and fact-based (including the ads they run)? Please pull the ad from your network ASAP! http://bit.ly/lCJ2EX
Then forward this message to your friends and family! If enough of us draw attention to this deplorable ad, CNN will be forced to respond and we'll help educate their viewers in the process.
Thanks so much for your help!
– Mike
I was flipping through TV channels last night when I spotted this new ad from Exxon Mobil on CNN. By the end of the 30-second spot, I was so angry I could barely think straight. Check it out:
The ad features a smiling Exxon Mobil geologist who makes hydrofracking – a dangerous, destructive process used to extract natural gas from rock – sound like the most brilliant, safest idea ever.
Yet hydrofracking requires the use of nearly 600 chemicals (many of them toxic) that can leach into our drinking water, produces hazardous wastewater which can contain radioactive substances and toxic chemicals, depletes local water supplies, and can result in dangerous explosions.
Is all that really something to smile about?!?!
aThis ad needs to be taken off the air before it further distorts the public debate around hydrofracking. Send a message now urging CNN to pull this misleading ad from their lineups.
http://soe.salsalabs.com/o/1/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=222&autologin=true&track=2011_0615_FrackingAdFacebook
This would not be the first time Exxon Mobil's ads have been pulled from the air...
An Exxon ad claiming that the company's practice of burning algae removes carbon from the atmosphere (it actually adds carbon – oops!) was banned in England after citizens complained about its misleading nature to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.
Then please spread the word to your friends and family – with your and their help, we can raise the outcry needed to get the ad pulled.
Thanks for helping to keep the debate on fracking fair and honest.
Acts :)
http://saveourenvironment.org/
Sincerely,
Michael Town
Director, SaveOurEnvironment.org
info@saveourenvironment.org
Do you know about Indigenous rights?:
Want an simple way to support all of this good work? SwipeGood rounds up all of your debit or credit card purchases to the nearest dollar and allows you to donate the difference to Rainforest Action Network.
"We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism." —Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People has now been endorsed by 161 countries around the world. It is time for all countries to walk this talk. Here are some of the ways you can join RAN in doing just that.
Table of Contents
Stand for Justice
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Honor Sacred Sites
Respect Traditional Territories
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
Protect-An-Acre
RAN Recommends
Stand for Justice
Chevron’s massive oil disaster in the Ecuadorean Amazon has affected the health, culture and communities of five Indigenous nationalities: the Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Huaorani. Chevron has now been found guilty by a court of law but, unsurprisingly, is refusing to pay. Stand with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Stand up to Chevron. Join us.
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Right now the Indigenous people of Long Teran Kanan in Malaysian Borneo are standing up to the palm oil industry and its unchecked expansion into their rainforest home. After more than a decade of struggle, the Long Teran Kanan community peacefully reclaimed part of their ancestral lands from the palm oil giant IOI Group, one of Cargill's key suppliers.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3791&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Honor Sacred Sites
Rainforest Action Network's headquarters in San Francisco, CA is located on the traditional land of the Ohlone people. Segorea Te a.k.a. Glen Cove is a shellmound, a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, and it is currently being threatened by proposed development. The recreation department of Vallejo, CA wants to pave trails and parking lots over this sacred site. Tell City of Vallejo officials to respect sacred sites now.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4277&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Respect Traditional Territories
While Disney’s image is built on fairy tales, much of Disney’s manufacturing is built on nightmares. Lab results have shown that Disney, the leading publisher of children's books worldwide, uses paper created from the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests. The paper industry's destruction of rainforests causes Indigenous communities to be pushed off their land, and plant and animal species to be driven further towards extinction. This month RAN activists gave Disney execs a huge wake-up call. So can you.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4106&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
To many the World Bank is known as a human rights bulldozer, blindly implementing policies around the world that erode the rights, culture, ecosystems and economies of rural and Indigenous peoples. That’s why it may surprise some that the IFC, the private lending arm of the World Bank, recently announced revisions to its policy for projects proposed on Indigenous lands—the IFC now recognizes the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). Will the World Bank walk its talk? Will other banks follow suit? The world is watching.
Protect-An-Acre
Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-An-Acre (PAA) program has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to over 150 Indigenous-led organizations, frontline communities, and allies around the world working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories. PAA is one of the most direct and effective ways you can stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and contribute to the protection of our world’s forests.
Acts :)
http://ran.org/content/take-action-online
RAN RECOMMENDS
The Next Eco-Warriors
Edited by Emily Hunter
Critical Beats vs. Govinda
By Critical Beats for the Climate
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
Phone: (415) 398-4404 Fax: (415) 398-2732
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9085
This petition on change.org: Indigenous; Green; N.A., acts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/indigenous-green-na-acts?share_id=JLfYcKoWPA&pe=pce
June 2011 E-newsletter: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes in Panama:
Panama Campaign Update: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes
After six years of protests against construction of the Chan-75 dam, including a case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the American engineering company AES and the Panamanian government closed the dam's floodgates on the Changuinola river. As the water rose forming the reservoir, the last remaining Ngöbe families were forced to abandon their homes on the riverbanks. Read more.
Mexico Campaign Update: Wixárika People Take Protests to Vancouver and New York City
Delegates from the Wixárika traditional authorities were in New York and Vancouver the third week of May, defending their right to protect their sacred lands from exploitation by a Canadian mining company.
In New York, the Wixárika delegates spoke out at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where more than 1,000 Indigenous people from all parts of the world were gathered to assess progress in implementing the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read more. TAKE ACTION.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico-stop-mining-protect-sacred-sites
2011 National Native Language Revitalization Summit
This year's summit, Promoting Indigenous Language Rights in Practice: Language Rights Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill aims to educate each member of the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees about Native American language leaders who are using extremely limited federal funding for urgent local tribal language revitalization projects. Summit registrants will meet with appropriators on Wednesday, June 22 throughout the day. Summit attendees are also invited to attend the National Day of Prayer for Sacred Sites in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Tuesday, June 21 on the U.S. Capitol Grounds. Read more.
Celebrating Native American Languages in Washington, D.C.
On June 21, 2011 join Cultural Survival and the Library of Congress in celebrating innovative tribal language programs, and the Native American language heroes revitalizing America's ancient linguistic heritage. Celebrate their efforts, learn about the challenges they face, and share in their successes. Library curatorial staff will point to resources within the institution's vast collections, with a focus on manuscripts, photos, and other archival material that tribal language programs can incorporate into local curricula. Read more.
The public is also invited to observe the 2011 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places in Washington, D.C. will on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 a.m. on the United States Capitol Grounds, West Front Grassy Area. Read more.
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Domestic Policy Implications of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On June 9, 2011, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs chaired by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawai'i), held an oversight hearing: Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples; Robert Coulter, executive director of the Indian Law Resource Center; and Ryan Red Corn, artist and filmmaker were among the people invited to testify. Watch the hearing here.
http://www.senate.gov/fplayers/CommPlayer/commFlashPlayer.cfm?fn=indian060911&st=1100
Tribal leaders are encouraged to submit written testimony and suggestions about implementing the UN Declaration to the Committee by June 23, 2011. Testimony and comments can be emailed to testimony@indian.senate.gov.
Creating Community Dialogue on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On May 20, 2011, at the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous People's Issues in New York, Cultural Survival hosted an official side event titled "Creating community dialogue on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media." Moderated by Suzanne Benally (Navajo/ Santa Clara Tewa), executive director of Cultural Survival, panelists included Cultural Survival staff member Cesar Gomez (Pocomam) of Guatemala, Cultural Survival board member Les Malezer (Gabi Gabi) of Australia, and Kenneth Deer (Mohawk) of Canada. Watch the session here.
http://vimeo.com/25113119
Guatemala Radio Project Updates
Cultural Survival at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
In the month of May, Guatemala Radio Project content production and training coordinator Cesar Gomez (Maya Pocomam), traveled to New York City to participate in the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous People's Issues. He presented at a side event hosted by Cultural Survival titled "Creating community dialogue on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media". Read more.
Station Listener Profile: Sergio Rojo
Sergio Rojo lives in a small town called Santa Maria de Jesús, on the slope of the long dormant Volcán de Agua just outside of Antigua, Guatemala. At 19 years old, he has finished his studies and now works in the field to help his family. Cultural Survival caught up with him on his way back from gathering wood to heat his mother's fire for the family's lunch. He carries the radio with him to the fields to pass the time. Read more.
Bangladesh Campaign Update: Action Alert is Published in Bangla Language
Bangladeshi organizations have translated the Global Response action alerts into the Bangla language, and they are urging Bangladeshi citizens and youth to write letters to the prime minister. The goal of the campaign is to stop construction of a huge open-pit coal mine on agricultural lands where Indigenous Peoples have lived for thousands of years.
Download the alert in Bangla here.
Learn More and Take Action
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/bangladesh-ban-coal-mine-save-forests-and-farms
Cultural Survival Bazaars: Summer 2011
The Cultural Survival Bazaars are a series of cultural festivals that provide Indigenous artists, their representatives, and fair trade companies from around the world the chance to sell their work directly to the American public. More information.
July 23 - 24 -- Falmouth, MA
July 30- 31 -- Tiverton Four Corners, RI
Cultural Survival Quarterly: Summer 2011
This issue features an article on Indigenous Peoples who are building their own city on the outskirts of an existing Peruvian city; a photo essay on the people of Pohnpei in the Pacific; and a piece about an Indigenous Rama environmentalist and his attempts to help his community protect their island home. There are also pieces on Alaskan communities that are reclaiming their food traditions, an Indigenous Australian woman who is working to revitalize Aboriginal languages, an article by one of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
If you're not currently getting our magazine, Become a member or subscribe today!
Âs Nutayuneân: WE STILL LIVE HERE, starring the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, to be featured Provincetown Film Festival June 16-19
WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân tells an extraordinary story of cultural survival and Indigenous language recovery among the Wampanoag Nation of southeastern Massachusetts.
Provincetown Film Festival
June 18 (Saturday), 6:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday), 11:30 AM in Provincetown, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday) at 4:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
For more information on the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, visit their website.
To purchase a copy of the film and for more upcoming screening dates visit Makepeace LLC online.
Conservation's Dirty Secrets
Conservation's Dirty Secrets, a documentary film by Oliver Steeds, will air on UK's Channel 4 next Monday, June 20, 2011. The film tells the story of conservation projects that have negatively affected Indigenous Peoples, including the Samburu people of Kenya. Steeds filmed the Samburu in Laikipia who were evicted last November to make way for an Africa Wildlife Foundation project. The film is to air on PBS in the coming months. Learn more.
Thank you for standing with Indigenous Peoples and for your ongoing support.
Sincerely,
Agnes Portalewska
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BREAKING: Mattel responding to pressure from you:
Wow! Activists like you have sent more than 45,000 letters telling Mattel to stop supporting deforestation in Indonesia, nearly 1,000,000 people around the world have watched our video of Ken and Barbie’s break up, and to top it off, two groups of Greenpeace activists unfurled two giant banners at Mattel’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
The pressure is working. Mattel has stated that they will take initial steps to address this issue, but without details or timelines their words alone are not enough.
Check out the incredible video of the protest and send a clear message to Mattel: we need action not vague promises to save Indonesia’s rainforests.
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=859
In response to the campaign, Mattel first announced that it would direct “packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from Sinar Mas/APP [Asia Pulp & Paper] as we investigate the deforestation allegations.” The company later also announced that it will develop a "sustainable procurement policy" for paper and other wood-based products.
This is encouraging progress, but it’s not enough. There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in Indonesia’s rainforests, and every day the destruction of their forest homes drives them closer and closer to extinction.
Without an actual written policy in place to protect rainforests, Mattel’s investigation has no teeth, and the problem has not been solved. We are willing to help them develop this policy and answer their questions, but until then, our campaign continues.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/
A storm is brewing, and thanks to you, companies are taking notice. Don’t let up tell Mattel to turn their words into deeds now.
We’ve got their attention but need to act right now while they know the world is watching.
Thanks for all you do,
Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Senior Forest Campaigner
P.S. Please forward this email on to your friends and help us reach 50,000 messages to Mattel CEO Bob Eckert by tomorrow!
Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 | 1-800-326-0959
Historic Battle Looming!:
Dear Virginia Conservationist,
While every General Assembly session is an important one, 2012 will go down in the history books as one of the most important ever. Why? Your Delegate and Senator's vote on uranium mining.
Given the overwhelming consequences of opening Virginia to uranium mining, we need all hands on deck now for this historic battle. Please visit the Keep The Ban coalition website to learn more about uranium mining and to sign our petition today!
Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element, U on the Periodic Table. It occurs naturally in the ground, but when exposed to air and water, radiation is released into the environment.
Large uranium deposits were discovered in Virginia during the 1970s and in the early 1980s uranium mining leases were executed on 40,000 uranium-rich acres in Southside Virginia and on another 16,000 acres in Fauquier, Madison, Culpeper and Orange Counties.
In 1982 Virginia considered the risks and benefits of opening Virginia to uranium mining and placed a ban on such activities due to the numerous health and environmental concerns. Now a Canadian company is lobbying for the ban to be lifted and Virginians are mobilizing for this historic fight.
Please visit the Keep The Ban website to learn more about uranium mining and sign our petition today!
http://keeptheban.org/?page_id=237
The Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (VALCV-EF) helps citizens and organizations concerned with conservation and Virginia’s environment to more effectively participate in their government. Make a donation today and help us continue this important outreach. Combined Virginia Campaign (CVC) # 3649.
530 East Main Street, Suite 410 - Richmond, Virginia 23219 - 804-225-1902
CNN can't hide on Facebook :
We've made a great start but CNN is still running Exxon's ad so we need to turn the pressure up a notch – will you help us catch CNN's attention by posting on their Facebook page?
It's easy – here's all you need to do:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/cnn and Like the page.
Post this message (or one like it – you can put it in your own words) on CNN's wall:
Why is CNN muddying the debate over hydrofracking with this misleading ExxonMobil ad? Don't news networks have a responsibility to keep their programming unbiased and fact-based (including the ads they run)? Please pull the ad from your network ASAP! http://bit.ly/lCJ2EX
Then forward this message to your friends and family! If enough of us draw attention to this deplorable ad, CNN will be forced to respond and we'll help educate their viewers in the process.
Thanks so much for your help!
– Mike
I was flipping through TV channels last night when I spotted this new ad from Exxon Mobil on CNN. By the end of the 30-second spot, I was so angry I could barely think straight. Check it out:
The ad features a smiling Exxon Mobil geologist who makes hydrofracking – a dangerous, destructive process used to extract natural gas from rock – sound like the most brilliant, safest idea ever.
Yet hydrofracking requires the use of nearly 600 chemicals (many of them toxic) that can leach into our drinking water, produces hazardous wastewater which can contain radioactive substances and toxic chemicals, depletes local water supplies, and can result in dangerous explosions.
Is all that really something to smile about?!?!
aThis ad needs to be taken off the air before it further distorts the public debate around hydrofracking. Send a message now urging CNN to pull this misleading ad from their lineups.
http://soe.salsalabs.com/o/1/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=222&autologin=true&track=2011_0615_FrackingAdFacebook
This would not be the first time Exxon Mobil's ads have been pulled from the air...
An Exxon ad claiming that the company's practice of burning algae removes carbon from the atmosphere (it actually adds carbon – oops!) was banned in England after citizens complained about its misleading nature to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.
Then please spread the word to your friends and family – with your and their help, we can raise the outcry needed to get the ad pulled.
Thanks for helping to keep the debate on fracking fair and honest.
Acts :)
http://saveourenvironment.org/
Sincerely,
Michael Town
Director, SaveOurEnvironment.org
info@saveourenvironment.org
Do you know about Indigenous rights?:
Want an simple way to support all of this good work? SwipeGood rounds up all of your debit or credit card purchases to the nearest dollar and allows you to donate the difference to Rainforest Action Network.
"We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism." —Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People has now been endorsed by 161 countries around the world. It is time for all countries to walk this talk. Here are some of the ways you can join RAN in doing just that.
Table of Contents
Stand for Justice
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Honor Sacred Sites
Respect Traditional Territories
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
Protect-An-Acre
RAN Recommends
Stand for Justice
Chevron’s massive oil disaster in the Ecuadorean Amazon has affected the health, culture and communities of five Indigenous nationalities: the Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Huaorani. Chevron has now been found guilty by a court of law but, unsurprisingly, is refusing to pay. Stand with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Stand up to Chevron. Join us.
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Right now the Indigenous people of Long Teran Kanan in Malaysian Borneo are standing up to the palm oil industry and its unchecked expansion into their rainforest home. After more than a decade of struggle, the Long Teran Kanan community peacefully reclaimed part of their ancestral lands from the palm oil giant IOI Group, one of Cargill's key suppliers.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3791&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Honor Sacred Sites
Rainforest Action Network's headquarters in San Francisco, CA is located on the traditional land of the Ohlone people. Segorea Te a.k.a. Glen Cove is a shellmound, a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, and it is currently being threatened by proposed development. The recreation department of Vallejo, CA wants to pave trails and parking lots over this sacred site. Tell City of Vallejo officials to respect sacred sites now.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4277&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Respect Traditional Territories
While Disney’s image is built on fairy tales, much of Disney’s manufacturing is built on nightmares. Lab results have shown that Disney, the leading publisher of children's books worldwide, uses paper created from the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests. The paper industry's destruction of rainforests causes Indigenous communities to be pushed off their land, and plant and animal species to be driven further towards extinction. This month RAN activists gave Disney execs a huge wake-up call. So can you.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4106&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
To many the World Bank is known as a human rights bulldozer, blindly implementing policies around the world that erode the rights, culture, ecosystems and economies of rural and Indigenous peoples. That’s why it may surprise some that the IFC, the private lending arm of the World Bank, recently announced revisions to its policy for projects proposed on Indigenous lands—the IFC now recognizes the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). Will the World Bank walk its talk? Will other banks follow suit? The world is watching.
Protect-An-Acre
Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-An-Acre (PAA) program has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to over 150 Indigenous-led organizations, frontline communities, and allies around the world working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories. PAA is one of the most direct and effective ways you can stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and contribute to the protection of our world’s forests.
Acts :)
http://ran.org/content/take-action-online
RAN RECOMMENDS
The Next Eco-Warriors
Edited by Emily Hunter
Critical Beats vs. Govinda
By Critical Beats for the Climate
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
Phone: (415) 398-4404 Fax: (415) 398-2732
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions :)
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9085
This petition on change.org: Indigenous; Green; N.A., acts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/indigenous-green-na-acts?share_id=JLfYcKoWPA&pe=pce
June 2011 E-newsletter: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes in Panama:
Panama Campaign Update: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes
After six years of protests against construction of the Chan-75 dam, including a case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the American engineering company AES and the Panamanian government closed the dam's floodgates on the Changuinola river. As the water rose forming the reservoir, the last remaining Ngöbe families were forced to abandon their homes on the riverbanks. Read more.
Mexico Campaign Update: Wixárika People Take Protests to Vancouver and New York City
Delegates from the Wixárika traditional authorities were in New York and Vancouver the third week of May, defending their right to protect their sacred lands from exploitation by a Canadian mining company.
In New York, the Wixárika delegates spoke out at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where more than 1,000 Indigenous people from all parts of the world were gathered to assess progress in implementing the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read more. TAKE ACTION.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico-stop-mining-protect-sacred-sites
2011 National Native Language Revitalization Summit
This year's summit, Promoting Indigenous Language Rights in Practice: Language Rights Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill aims to educate each member of the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees about Native American language leaders who are using extremely limited federal funding for urgent local tribal language revitalization projects. Summit registrants will meet with appropriators on Wednesday, June 22 throughout the day. Summit attendees are also invited to attend the National Day of Prayer for Sacred Sites in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Tuesday, June 21 on the U.S. Capitol Grounds. Read more.
Celebrating Native American Languages in Washington, D.C.
On June 21, 2011 join Cultural Survival and the Library of Congress in celebrating innovative tribal language programs, and the Native American language heroes revitalizing America's ancient linguistic heritage. Celebrate their efforts, learn about the challenges they face, and share in their successes. Library curatorial staff will point to resources within the institution's vast collections, with a focus on manuscripts, photos, and other archival material that tribal language programs can incorporate into local curricula. Read more.
The public is also invited to observe the 2011 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places in Washington, D.C. will on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 a.m. on the United States Capitol Grounds, West Front Grassy Area. Read more.
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Domestic Policy Implications of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On June 9, 2011, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs chaired by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawai'i), held an oversight hearing: Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples; Robert Coulter, executive director of the Indian Law Resource Center; and Ryan Red Corn, artist and filmmaker were among the people invited to testify. Watch the hearing here.
http://www.senate.gov/fplayers/CommPlayer/commFlashPlayer.cfm?fn=indian060911&st=1100
Tribal leaders are encouraged to submit written testimony and suggestions about implementing the UN Declaration to the Committee by June 23, 2011. Testimony and comments can be emailed to testimony@indian.senate.gov.
Creating Community Dialogue on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On May 20, 2011, at the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous People's Issues in New York, Cultural Survival hosted an official side event titled "Creating community dialogue on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media." Moderated by Suzanne Benally (Navajo/ Santa Clara Tewa), executive director of Cultural Survival, panelists included Cultural Survival staff member Cesar Gomez (Pocomam) of Guatemala, Cultural Survival board member Les Malezer (Gabi Gabi) of Australia, and Kenneth Deer (Mohawk) of Canada. Watch the session here.
http://vimeo.com/25113119
Guatemala Radio Project Updates
Cultural Survival at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
In the month of May, Guatemala Radio Project content production and training coordinator Cesar Gomez (Maya Pocomam), traveled to New York City to participate in the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous People's Issues. He presented at a side event hosted by Cultural Survival titled "Creating community dialogue on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media". Read more.
Station Listener Profile: Sergio Rojo
Sergio Rojo lives in a small town called Santa Maria de Jesús, on the slope of the long dormant Volcán de Agua just outside of Antigua, Guatemala. At 19 years old, he has finished his studies and now works in the field to help his family. Cultural Survival caught up with him on his way back from gathering wood to heat his mother's fire for the family's lunch. He carries the radio with him to the fields to pass the time. Read more.
Bangladesh Campaign Update: Action Alert is Published in Bangla Language
Bangladeshi organizations have translated the Global Response action alerts into the Bangla language, and they are urging Bangladeshi citizens and youth to write letters to the prime minister. The goal of the campaign is to stop construction of a huge open-pit coal mine on agricultural lands where Indigenous Peoples have lived for thousands of years.
Download the alert in Bangla here.
Learn More and Take Action
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/bangladesh-ban-coal-mine-save-forests-and-farms
Cultural Survival Bazaars: Summer 2011
The Cultural Survival Bazaars are a series of cultural festivals that provide Indigenous artists, their representatives, and fair trade companies from around the world the chance to sell their work directly to the American public. More information.
July 23 - 24 -- Falmouth, MA
July 30- 31 -- Tiverton Four Corners, RI
Cultural Survival Quarterly: Summer 2011
This issue features an article on Indigenous Peoples who are building their own city on the outskirts of an existing Peruvian city; a photo essay on the people of Pohnpei in the Pacific; and a piece about an Indigenous Rama environmentalist and his attempts to help his community protect their island home. There are also pieces on Alaskan communities that are reclaiming their food traditions, an Indigenous Australian woman who is working to revitalize Aboriginal languages, an article by one of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
If you're not currently getting our magazine, Become a member or subscribe today!
Âs Nutayuneân: WE STILL LIVE HERE, starring the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, to be featured Provincetown Film Festival June 16-19
WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân tells an extraordinary story of cultural survival and Indigenous language recovery among the Wampanoag Nation of southeastern Massachusetts.
Provincetown Film Festival
June 18 (Saturday), 6:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday), 11:30 AM in Provincetown, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday) at 4:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
For more information on the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, visit their website.
To purchase a copy of the film and for more upcoming screening dates visit Makepeace LLC online.
Conservation's Dirty Secrets
Conservation's Dirty Secrets, a documentary film by Oliver Steeds, will air on UK's Channel 4 next Monday, June 20, 2011. The film tells the story of conservation projects that have negatively affected Indigenous Peoples, including the Samburu people of Kenya. Steeds filmed the Samburu in Laikipia who were evicted last November to make way for an Africa Wildlife Foundation project. The film is to air on PBS in the coming months. Learn more.
Thank you for standing with Indigenous Peoples and for your ongoing support.
Sincerely,
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival partners with Indigenous Peoples around the world to defend their lands, languages, and cultures.
Learn More
To read about Cultural Survival's work around the world, click here. To explore 40 years of information on Indigenous issues use our Search function.
Do More
For ways to take action to help Indigenous communities, click here.
Donate
We take on governments and multinational corporations-and they always have more resources than we do-but with the help of people like you, we do win. Your contribution is crucial to that effort. Click here to do your part.
Acts :)
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action
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BREAKING: Mattel responding to pressure from you:
Wow! Activists like you have sent more than 45,000 letters telling Mattel to stop supporting deforestation in Indonesia, nearly 1,000,000 people around the world have watched our video of Ken and Barbie’s break up, and to top it off, two groups of Greenpeace activists unfurled two giant banners at Mattel’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
The pressure is working. Mattel has stated that they will take initial steps to address this issue, but without details or timelines their words alone are not enough.
Check out the incredible video of the protest and send a clear message to Mattel: we need action not vague promises to save Indonesia’s rainforests.
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=859
In response to the campaign, Mattel first announced that it would direct “packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from Sinar Mas/APP [Asia Pulp & Paper] as we investigate the deforestation allegations.” The company later also announced that it will develop a "sustainable procurement policy" for paper and other wood-based products.
This is encouraging progress, but it’s not enough. There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in Indonesia’s rainforests, and every day the destruction of their forest homes drives them closer and closer to extinction.
Without an actual written policy in place to protect rainforests, Mattel’s investigation has no teeth, and the problem has not been solved. We are willing to help them develop this policy and answer their questions, but until then, our campaign continues.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/
A storm is brewing, and thanks to you, companies are taking notice. Don’t let up tell Mattel to turn their words into deeds now.
We’ve got their attention but need to act right now while they know the world is watching.
Thanks for all you do,
Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Senior Forest Campaigner
P.S. Please forward this email on to your friends and help us reach 50,000 messages to Mattel CEO Bob Eckert by tomorrow!
Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 | 1-800-326-0959
Historic Battle Looming!:
Dear Virginia Conservationist,
While every General Assembly session is an important one, 2012 will go down in the history books as one of the most important ever. Why? Your Delegate and Senator's vote on uranium mining.
Given the overwhelming consequences of opening Virginia to uranium mining, we need all hands on deck now for this historic battle. Please visit the Keep The Ban coalition website to learn more about uranium mining and to sign our petition today!
Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element, U on the Periodic Table. It occurs naturally in the ground, but when exposed to air and water, radiation is released into the environment.
Large uranium deposits were discovered in Virginia during the 1970s and in the early 1980s uranium mining leases were executed on 40,000 uranium-rich acres in Southside Virginia and on another 16,000 acres in Fauquier, Madison, Culpeper and Orange Counties.
In 1982 Virginia considered the risks and benefits of opening Virginia to uranium mining and placed a ban on such activities due to the numerous health and environmental concerns. Now a Canadian company is lobbying for the ban to be lifted and Virginians are mobilizing for this historic fight.
Please visit the Keep The Ban website to learn more about uranium mining and sign our petition today!
http://keeptheban.org/?page_id=237
The Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (VALCV-EF) helps citizens and organizations concerned with conservation and Virginia’s environment to more effectively participate in their government. Make a donation today and help us continue this important outreach. Combined Virginia Campaign (CVC) # 3649.
530 East Main Street, Suite 410 - Richmond, Virginia 23219 - 804-225-1902
CNN can't hide on Facebook :
We've made a great start but CNN is still running Exxon's ad so we need to turn the pressure up a notch – will you help us catch CNN's attention by posting on their Facebook page?
It's easy – here's all you need to do:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/cnn and Like the page.
Post this message (or one like it – you can put it in your own words) on CNN's wall:
Why is CNN muddying the debate over hydrofracking with this misleading ExxonMobil ad? Don't news networks have a responsibility to keep their programming unbiased and fact-based (including the ads they run)? Please pull the ad from your network ASAP! http://bit.ly/lCJ2EX
Then forward this message to your friends and family! If enough of us draw attention to this deplorable ad, CNN will be forced to respond and we'll help educate their viewers in the process.
Thanks so much for your help!
– Mike
I was flipping through TV channels last night when I spotted this new ad from Exxon Mobil on CNN. By the end of the 30-second spot, I was so angry I could barely think straight. Check it out:
The ad features a smiling Exxon Mobil geologist who makes hydrofracking – a dangerous, destructive process used to extract natural gas from rock – sound like the most brilliant, safest idea ever.
Yet hydrofracking requires the use of nearly 600 chemicals (many of them toxic) that can leach into our drinking water, produces hazardous wastewater which can contain radioactive substances and toxic chemicals, depletes local water supplies, and can result in dangerous explosions.
Is all that really something to smile about?!?!
aThis ad needs to be taken off the air before it further distorts the public debate around hydrofracking. Send a message now urging CNN to pull this misleading ad from their lineups.
http://soe.salsalabs.com/o/1/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=222&autologin=true&track=2011_0615_FrackingAdFacebook
This would not be the first time Exxon Mobil's ads have been pulled from the air...
An Exxon ad claiming that the company's practice of burning algae removes carbon from the atmosphere (it actually adds carbon – oops!) was banned in England after citizens complained about its misleading nature to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.
Then please spread the word to your friends and family – with your and their help, we can raise the outcry needed to get the ad pulled.
Thanks for helping to keep the debate on fracking fair and honest.
Acts :)
http://saveourenvironment.org/
Sincerely,
Michael Town
Director, SaveOurEnvironment.org
info@saveourenvironment.org
Do you know about Indigenous rights?:
Want an simple way to support all of this good work? SwipeGood rounds up all of your debit or credit card purchases to the nearest dollar and allows you to donate the difference to Rainforest Action Network.
"We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism." —Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People has now been endorsed by 161 countries around the world. It is time for all countries to walk this talk. Here are some of the ways you can join RAN in doing just that.
Table of Contents
Stand for Justice
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Honor Sacred Sites
Respect Traditional Territories
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
Protect-An-Acre
RAN Recommends
Stand for Justice
Chevron’s massive oil disaster in the Ecuadorean Amazon has affected the health, culture and communities of five Indigenous nationalities: the Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Huaorani. Chevron has now been found guilty by a court of law but, unsurprisingly, is refusing to pay. Stand with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Stand up to Chevron. Join us.
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Right now the Indigenous people of Long Teran Kanan in Malaysian Borneo are standing up to the palm oil industry and its unchecked expansion into their rainforest home. After more than a decade of struggle, the Long Teran Kanan community peacefully reclaimed part of their ancestral lands from the palm oil giant IOI Group, one of Cargill's key suppliers.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3791&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Honor Sacred Sites
Rainforest Action Network's headquarters in San Francisco, CA is located on the traditional land of the Ohlone people. Segorea Te a.k.a. Glen Cove is a shellmound, a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, and it is currently being threatened by proposed development. The recreation department of Vallejo, CA wants to pave trails and parking lots over this sacred site. Tell City of Vallejo officials to respect sacred sites now.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4277&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Respect Traditional Territories
While Disney’s image is built on fairy tales, much of Disney’s manufacturing is built on nightmares. Lab results have shown that Disney, the leading publisher of children's books worldwide, uses paper created from the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests. The paper industry's destruction of rainforests causes Indigenous communities to be pushed off their land, and plant and animal species to be driven further towards extinction. This month RAN activists gave Disney execs a huge wake-up call. So can you.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4106&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
To many the World Bank is known as a human rights bulldozer, blindly implementing policies around the world that erode the rights, culture, ecosystems and economies of rural and Indigenous peoples. That’s why it may surprise some that the IFC, the private lending arm of the World Bank, recently announced revisions to its policy for projects proposed on Indigenous lands—the IFC now recognizes the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). Will the World Bank walk its talk? Will other banks follow suit? The world is watching.
Protect-An-Acre
Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-An-Acre (PAA) program has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to over 150 Indigenous-led organizations, frontline communities, and allies around the world working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories. PAA is one of the most direct and effective ways you can stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and contribute to the protection of our world’s forests.
Acts :)
http://ran.org/content/take-action-online
RAN RECOMMENDS
The Next Eco-Warriors
Edited by Emily Hunter
Critical Beats vs. Govinda
By Critical Beats for the Climate
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
Phone: (415) 398-4404 Fax: (415) 398-2732
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Indigenous; Green; N.A.; etc., actions:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9085
This petition on change.org: Indigenous; Green; N.A., acts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/indigenous-green-na-acts?share_id=JLfYcKoWPA&pe=pce
June 2011 E-newsletter: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes in Panama:
Panama Campaign Update: AES Inundates Ngöbe People's Homes
After six years of protests against construction of the Chan-75 dam, including a case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the American engineering company AES and the Panamanian government closed the dam's floodgates on the Changuinola river. As the water rose forming the reservoir, the last remaining Ngöbe families were forced to abandon their homes on the riverbanks. Read more.
Mexico Campaign Update: Wixárika People Take Protests to Vancouver and New York City
Delegates from the Wixárika traditional authorities were in New York and Vancouver the third week of May, defending their right to protect their sacred lands from exploitation by a Canadian mining company.
In New York, the Wixárika delegates spoke out at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where more than 1,000 Indigenous people from all parts of the world were gathered to assess progress in implementing the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read more. TAKE ACTION.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/mexico-stop-mining-protect-sacred-sites
2011 National Native Language Revitalization Summit
This year's summit, Promoting Indigenous Language Rights in Practice: Language Rights Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill aims to educate each member of the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees about Native American language leaders who are using extremely limited federal funding for urgent local tribal language revitalization projects. Summit registrants will meet with appropriators on Wednesday, June 22 throughout the day. Summit attendees are also invited to attend the National Day of Prayer for Sacred Sites in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Tuesday, June 21 on the U.S. Capitol Grounds. Read more.
Celebrating Native American Languages in Washington, D.C.
On June 21, 2011 join Cultural Survival and the Library of Congress in celebrating innovative tribal language programs, and the Native American language heroes revitalizing America's ancient linguistic heritage. Celebrate their efforts, learn about the challenges they face, and share in their successes. Library curatorial staff will point to resources within the institution's vast collections, with a focus on manuscripts, photos, and other archival material that tribal language programs can incorporate into local curricula. Read more.
The public is also invited to observe the 2011 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places in Washington, D.C. will on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 a.m. on the United States Capitol Grounds, West Front Grassy Area. Read more.
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Domestic Policy Implications of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On June 9, 2011, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs chaired by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawai'i), held an oversight hearing: Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples; Robert Coulter, executive director of the Indian Law Resource Center; and Ryan Red Corn, artist and filmmaker were among the people invited to testify. Watch the hearing here.
http://www.senate.gov/fplayers/CommPlayer/commFlashPlayer.cfm?fn=indian060911&st=1100
Tribal leaders are encouraged to submit written testimony and suggestions about implementing the UN Declaration to the Committee by June 23, 2011. Testimony and comments can be emailed to testimony@indian.senate.gov.
Creating Community Dialogue on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On May 20, 2011, at the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous People's Issues in New York, Cultural Survival hosted an official side event titled "Creating community dialogue on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media." Moderated by Suzanne Benally (Navajo/ Santa Clara Tewa), executive director of Cultural Survival, panelists included Cultural Survival staff member Cesar Gomez (Pocomam) of Guatemala, Cultural Survival board member Les Malezer (Gabi Gabi) of Australia, and Kenneth Deer (Mohawk) of Canada. Watch the session here.
http://vimeo.com/25113119
Guatemala Radio Project Updates
Cultural Survival at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
In the month of May, Guatemala Radio Project content production and training coordinator Cesar Gomez (Maya Pocomam), traveled to New York City to participate in the 10th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous People's Issues. He presented at a side event hosted by Cultural Survival titled "Creating community dialogue on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through the use of community-controlled media". Read more.
Station Listener Profile: Sergio Rojo
Sergio Rojo lives in a small town called Santa Maria de Jesús, on the slope of the long dormant Volcán de Agua just outside of Antigua, Guatemala. At 19 years old, he has finished his studies and now works in the field to help his family. Cultural Survival caught up with him on his way back from gathering wood to heat his mother's fire for the family's lunch. He carries the radio with him to the fields to pass the time. Read more.
Bangladesh Campaign Update: Action Alert is Published in Bangla Language
Bangladeshi organizations have translated the Global Response action alerts into the Bangla language, and they are urging Bangladeshi citizens and youth to write letters to the prime minister. The goal of the campaign is to stop construction of a huge open-pit coal mine on agricultural lands where Indigenous Peoples have lived for thousands of years.
Download the alert in Bangla here.
Learn More and Take Action
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action/bangladesh-ban-coal-mine-save-forests-and-farms
Cultural Survival Bazaars: Summer 2011
The Cultural Survival Bazaars are a series of cultural festivals that provide Indigenous artists, their representatives, and fair trade companies from around the world the chance to sell their work directly to the American public. More information.
July 23 - 24 -- Falmouth, MA
July 30- 31 -- Tiverton Four Corners, RI
Cultural Survival Quarterly: Summer 2011
This issue features an article on Indigenous Peoples who are building their own city on the outskirts of an existing Peruvian city; a photo essay on the people of Pohnpei in the Pacific; and a piece about an Indigenous Rama environmentalist and his attempts to help his community protect their island home. There are also pieces on Alaskan communities that are reclaiming their food traditions, an Indigenous Australian woman who is working to revitalize Aboriginal languages, an article by one of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
If you're not currently getting our magazine, Become a member or subscribe today!
Âs Nutayuneân: WE STILL LIVE HERE, starring the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, to be featured Provincetown Film Festival June 16-19
WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân tells an extraordinary story of cultural survival and Indigenous language recovery among the Wampanoag Nation of southeastern Massachusetts.
Provincetown Film Festival
June 18 (Saturday), 6:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday), 11:30 AM in Provincetown, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
June 19 (Sunday) at 4:00 PM in Truro, Q+A with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Anne Makepeace, Director
For more information on the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, visit their website.
To purchase a copy of the film and for more upcoming screening dates visit Makepeace LLC online.
Conservation's Dirty Secrets
Conservation's Dirty Secrets, a documentary film by Oliver Steeds, will air on UK's Channel 4 next Monday, June 20, 2011. The film tells the story of conservation projects that have negatively affected Indigenous Peoples, including the Samburu people of Kenya. Steeds filmed the Samburu in Laikipia who were evicted last November to make way for an Africa Wildlife Foundation project. The film is to air on PBS in the coming months. Learn more.
Thank you for standing with Indigenous Peoples and for your ongoing support.
Sincerely,
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival partners with Indigenous Peoples around the world to defend their lands, languages, and cultures.
Learn More
To read about Cultural Survival's work around the world, click here. To explore 40 years of information on Indigenous issues use our Search function.
Do More
For ways to take action to help Indigenous communities, click here.
Donate
We take on governments and multinational corporations-and they always have more resources than we do-but with the help of people like you, we do win. Your contribution is crucial to that effort. Click here to do your part.
Acts :)
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/take-action
| Privacy Policy.
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BREAKING: Mattel responding to pressure from you:
Wow! Activists like you have sent more than 45,000 letters telling Mattel to stop supporting deforestation in Indonesia, nearly 1,000,000 people around the world have watched our video of Ken and Barbie’s break up, and to top it off, two groups of Greenpeace activists unfurled two giant banners at Mattel’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
The pressure is working. Mattel has stated that they will take initial steps to address this issue, but without details or timelines their words alone are not enough.
Check out the incredible video of the protest and send a clear message to Mattel: we need action not vague promises to save Indonesia’s rainforests.
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=859
In response to the campaign, Mattel first announced that it would direct “packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from Sinar Mas/APP [Asia Pulp & Paper] as we investigate the deforestation allegations.” The company later also announced that it will develop a "sustainable procurement policy" for paper and other wood-based products.
This is encouraging progress, but it’s not enough. There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in Indonesia’s rainforests, and every day the destruction of their forest homes drives them closer and closer to extinction.
Without an actual written policy in place to protect rainforests, Mattel’s investigation has no teeth, and the problem has not been solved. We are willing to help them develop this policy and answer their questions, but until then, our campaign continues.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/
A storm is brewing, and thanks to you, companies are taking notice. Don’t let up tell Mattel to turn their words into deeds now.
We’ve got their attention but need to act right now while they know the world is watching.
Thanks for all you do,
Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Senior Forest Campaigner
P.S. Please forward this email on to your friends and help us reach 50,000 messages to Mattel CEO Bob Eckert by tomorrow!
Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 | 1-800-326-0959
Historic Battle Looming!:
Dear Virginia Conservationist,
While every General Assembly session is an important one, 2012 will go down in the history books as one of the most important ever. Why? Your Delegate and Senator's vote on uranium mining.
Given the overwhelming consequences of opening Virginia to uranium mining, we need all hands on deck now for this historic battle. Please visit the Keep The Ban coalition website to learn more about uranium mining and to sign our petition today!
Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element, U on the Periodic Table. It occurs naturally in the ground, but when exposed to air and water, radiation is released into the environment.
Large uranium deposits were discovered in Virginia during the 1970s and in the early 1980s uranium mining leases were executed on 40,000 uranium-rich acres in Southside Virginia and on another 16,000 acres in Fauquier, Madison, Culpeper and Orange Counties.
In 1982 Virginia considered the risks and benefits of opening Virginia to uranium mining and placed a ban on such activities due to the numerous health and environmental concerns. Now a Canadian company is lobbying for the ban to be lifted and Virginians are mobilizing for this historic fight.
Please visit the Keep The Ban website to learn more about uranium mining and sign our petition today!
http://keeptheban.org/?page_id=237
The Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (VALCV-EF) helps citizens and organizations concerned with conservation and Virginia’s environment to more effectively participate in their government. Make a donation today and help us continue this important outreach. Combined Virginia Campaign (CVC) # 3649.
530 East Main Street, Suite 410 - Richmond, Virginia 23219 - 804-225-1902
CNN can't hide on Facebook :
We've made a great start but CNN is still running Exxon's ad so we need to turn the pressure up a notch – will you help us catch CNN's attention by posting on their Facebook page?
It's easy – here's all you need to do:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/cnn and Like the page.
Post this message (or one like it – you can put it in your own words) on CNN's wall:
Why is CNN muddying the debate over hydrofracking with this misleading ExxonMobil ad? Don't news networks have a responsibility to keep their programming unbiased and fact-based (including the ads they run)? Please pull the ad from your network ASAP! http://bit.ly/lCJ2EX
Then forward this message to your friends and family! If enough of us draw attention to this deplorable ad, CNN will be forced to respond and we'll help educate their viewers in the process.
Thanks so much for your help!
– Mike
I was flipping through TV channels last night when I spotted this new ad from Exxon Mobil on CNN. By the end of the 30-second spot, I was so angry I could barely think straight. Check it out:
The ad features a smiling Exxon Mobil geologist who makes hydrofracking – a dangerous, destructive process used to extract natural gas from rock – sound like the most brilliant, safest idea ever.
Yet hydrofracking requires the use of nearly 600 chemicals (many of them toxic) that can leach into our drinking water, produces hazardous wastewater which can contain radioactive substances and toxic chemicals, depletes local water supplies, and can result in dangerous explosions.
Is all that really something to smile about?!?!
aThis ad needs to be taken off the air before it further distorts the public debate around hydrofracking. Send a message now urging CNN to pull this misleading ad from their lineups.
http://soe.salsalabs.com/o/1/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=222&autologin=true&track=2011_0615_FrackingAdFacebook
This would not be the first time Exxon Mobil's ads have been pulled from the air...
An Exxon ad claiming that the company's practice of burning algae removes carbon from the atmosphere (it actually adds carbon – oops!) was banned in England after citizens complained about its misleading nature to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.
Then please spread the word to your friends and family – with your and their help, we can raise the outcry needed to get the ad pulled.
Thanks for helping to keep the debate on fracking fair and honest.
Acts :)
http://saveourenvironment.org/
Sincerely,
Michael Town
Director, SaveOurEnvironment.org
info@saveourenvironment.org
Do you know about Indigenous rights?:
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"We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism." —Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People has now been endorsed by 161 countries around the world. It is time for all countries to walk this talk. Here are some of the ways you can join RAN in doing just that.
Table of Contents
Stand for Justice
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Honor Sacred Sites
Respect Traditional Territories
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
Protect-An-Acre
RAN Recommends
Stand for Justice
Chevron’s massive oil disaster in the Ecuadorean Amazon has affected the health, culture and communities of five Indigenous nationalities: the Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Huaorani. Chevron has now been found guilty by a court of law but, unsurprisingly, is refusing to pay. Stand with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Stand up to Chevron. Join us.
Reclaim Ancestral Lands
Right now the Indigenous people of Long Teran Kanan in Malaysian Borneo are standing up to the palm oil industry and its unchecked expansion into their rainforest home. After more than a decade of struggle, the Long Teran Kanan community peacefully reclaimed part of their ancestral lands from the palm oil giant IOI Group, one of Cargill's key suppliers.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3791&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Honor Sacred Sites
Rainforest Action Network's headquarters in San Francisco, CA is located on the traditional land of the Ohlone people. Segorea Te a.k.a. Glen Cove is a shellmound, a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, and it is currently being threatened by proposed development. The recreation department of Vallejo, CA wants to pave trails and parking lots over this sacred site. Tell City of Vallejo officials to respect sacred sites now.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4277&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Respect Traditional Territories
While Disney’s image is built on fairy tales, much of Disney’s manufacturing is built on nightmares. Lab results have shown that Disney, the leading publisher of children's books worldwide, uses paper created from the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests. The paper industry's destruction of rainforests causes Indigenous communities to be pushed off their land, and plant and animal species to be driven further towards extinction. This month RAN activists gave Disney execs a huge wake-up call. So can you.
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4106&First_Name=james%20m&Last_Name=nordlund&Zip=58102-9999&Email=jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
To many the World Bank is known as a human rights bulldozer, blindly implementing policies around the world that erode the rights, culture, ecosystems and economies of rural and Indigenous peoples. That’s why it may surprise some that the IFC, the private lending arm of the World Bank, recently announced revisions to its policy for projects proposed on Indigenous lands—the IFC now recognizes the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). Will the World Bank walk its talk? Will other banks follow suit? The world is watching.
Protect-An-Acre
Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-An-Acre (PAA) program has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to over 150 Indigenous-led organizations, frontline communities, and allies around the world working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories. PAA is one of the most direct and effective ways you can stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and contribute to the protection of our world’s forests.
Acts :)
http://ran.org/content/take-action-online
RAN RECOMMENDS
The Next Eco-Warriors
Edited by Emily Hunter
Critical Beats vs. Govinda
By Critical Beats for the Climate
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
Phone: (415) 398-4404 Fax: (415) 398-2732
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Act and advocate on more issues
Act and advocate on more issues
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9084
This petition on change.org: Act on more issues:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-on-more-issues?share_id=SxOoNoevDm&pe=pce
Think about advocating and doing activism on more issues than you usually do; increase your empathy and compassion for others- do more than you usually do. You can do it, go for it. Here’s my latest petitions, etc., do as few or as many as you’d like:
These petitions on change.org:
Don't cut needed spending:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-cut-needed-spending
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-cut-needed-spending?share_id=JisJVqhJHE&pe=pce
Demand exit strategy for Afghanistan:
http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-exit-strategy-for-afghanistan
http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-exit-strategy-for-afghanistan?share_id=fyNJMHVaUY&pe=pce
No offshore drilling permits:
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-offshore-drilling-permits
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-offshore-drilling-permits?share_id=nZbJIYZWLn&pe=pce
Don't restrict international broadcasts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts?share_id=zyPfnFfCul&pe=pce
Don't restrict international broadcasts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts?share_id=zyPfnFfCul&pe=pce
Chemical testing and food:
http://www.change.org/petitions/chemical-testing-and-food
http://www.change.org/petitions/chemical-testing-and-food?share_id=sHDhREMcBx&pe=pce
No “privatizing” public housing:
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-privatizing-public-housing
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-privatizing-public-housing?share_id=bOKgKCUCpz&pe=pce
Aid International Criminal Court:
http://www.change.org/petitions/aid-international-criminal-court
http://www.change.org/petitions/aid-international-criminal-court?share_id=PdvxcMmbuU&pe=pce
This Father's Day, advocate/act for elders, all fathers:
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9082
This petition on change.org: Father's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact?share_id=GRPHZqrnof&pe=pce
Advocate/Act for elderly, handicapped, et al, or yours will be next :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9065
This petition on change.org: Act for elderly, handicapped, et al:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-for-elderly-handicapped-et-al?share_id=zWvCUuUDDp&pe=pce
Mother's Day, celebrate with advocacy and action :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9066
This petition on change.org: Mother's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/mothers-day-advocateact?share_id=gEcPUzLgYr&pe=pce
In Memoriam, good Memorial Day to All, Art/Act :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9079
This petition on change.org: In Memoriam, Art/Act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/in-memoriam-artact?share_id=BDbnCTdACv&pe=pce
My profile and actions on change.org:
http://www.change.org/profiles/reality
http://www.change.org/#started-by-me
Thanx for all you do :)
reality
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9084
This petition on change.org: Act on more issues:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-on-more-issues?share_id=SxOoNoevDm&pe=pce
Think about advocating and doing activism on more issues than you usually do; increase your empathy and compassion for others- do more than you usually do. You can do it, go for it. Here’s my latest petitions, etc., do as few or as many as you’d like:
These petitions on change.org:
Don't cut needed spending:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-cut-needed-spending
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-cut-needed-spending?share_id=JisJVqhJHE&pe=pce
Demand exit strategy for Afghanistan:
http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-exit-strategy-for-afghanistan
http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-exit-strategy-for-afghanistan?share_id=fyNJMHVaUY&pe=pce
No offshore drilling permits:
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-offshore-drilling-permits
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-offshore-drilling-permits?share_id=nZbJIYZWLn&pe=pce
Don't restrict international broadcasts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts?share_id=zyPfnFfCul&pe=pce
Don't restrict international broadcasts:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-restrict-international-broadcasts?share_id=zyPfnFfCul&pe=pce
Chemical testing and food:
http://www.change.org/petitions/chemical-testing-and-food
http://www.change.org/petitions/chemical-testing-and-food?share_id=sHDhREMcBx&pe=pce
No “privatizing” public housing:
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-privatizing-public-housing
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-privatizing-public-housing?share_id=bOKgKCUCpz&pe=pce
Aid International Criminal Court:
http://www.change.org/petitions/aid-international-criminal-court
http://www.change.org/petitions/aid-international-criminal-court?share_id=PdvxcMmbuU&pe=pce
This Father's Day, advocate/act for elders, all fathers:
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9082
This petition on change.org: Father's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact?share_id=GRPHZqrnof&pe=pce
Advocate/Act for elderly, handicapped, et al, or yours will be next :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9065
This petition on change.org: Act for elderly, handicapped, et al:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-for-elderly-handicapped-et-al?share_id=zWvCUuUDDp&pe=pce
Mother's Day, celebrate with advocacy and action :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9066
This petition on change.org: Mother's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/mothers-day-advocateact?share_id=gEcPUzLgYr&pe=pce
In Memoriam, good Memorial Day to All, Art/Act :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9079
This petition on change.org: In Memoriam, Art/Act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/in-memoriam-artact?share_id=BDbnCTdACv&pe=pce
My profile and actions on change.org:
http://www.change.org/profiles/reality
http://www.change.org/#started-by-me
Thanx for all you do :)
reality
Saturday, June 11, 2011
This Father's Day, advocate/act for elders, all fathers :)
This Father's Day, advocate/act for elders, all fathers :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
This Father's Day, advocate/act for elders, all fathers:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9082
This petition on change.org: Father's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact?share_id=GRPHZqrnof&pe=pce
My actions on change.org:
http://www.change.org/profiles/reality
Moveon.org: Medicare :)
http://pol.moveon.org/medicarehostage/?id=27845-1718406-c359Pux&t=2
W.A.N.D.: Vote for the America you want! :)
http://www.wand.org/2011/06/08/federal-budget-preference-poll/
CREDO: Tell Congress: Tax millionaires and billionaires :)
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/tax_millionaires/?rc=chaser&r=8063&id=22147-585348-xOzYB8x
A.A.P.D. Alerts for elderly, etc. :)
Remembering Helen Roth, Disability Rights Leader :)
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2011/06/disability-health-care-coalition-survey-need-your-participation-by-june-13.html
A System in Disarray: NY Times Expose on Failures of Institutions :)
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2011/06/a-system-in-disarray-mistreatment-and-mismanagement-at-ny-institutions-for-people-with-developmental.html
Don't 8 Million PWD Need Health Care? Tell Congress: Stop Medicaid Slashes!:
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2011/06/action-alert-tell-us-congress-again-no-slashing-of-medicaid.html
Honor Veterans with Disabilities: Strengthen Social Security Now!:
http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/action
Recent related advocacy/activism :)
Advocate/Act for elderly, handicapped, et al, or yours will be next :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Advocate/Act for elderly, handicapped, et al, or yours will be next:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9065
This petition on change.org: Act for elderly, handicapped, et al:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-for-elderly-handicapped-et-al?share_id=zWvCUuUDDp&pe=pce
Mother's Day, celebrate with advocacy and action :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Mother's Day, celebrate with advocacy and action:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9066
This petition on change.org: Mother's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/mothers-day-advocateact?share_id=gEcPUzLgYr&pe=pce
In Memoriam, good Memorial Day to All, Art/Act :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
In Memoriam, good Memorial Day to All, Art/Act:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9079
This petition on change.org: In Memoriam, Art/Act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/in-memoriam-artact?share_id=BDbnCTdACv&pe=pce
Other related change.org petitions :)
United keep your promises to retirees:
http://www.change.org/petitions/united-keep-your-promises-to-retirees
Defend Medicare from Republican Attacks:
http://www.change.org/petitions/defend-medicare-from-republican-attacks
United Farm Workers: Tell CA Gov. Jerry Brown to protect farm workers :)
http://action.ufw.org/page/s/sb104petition
Women Thrive Worldwide: Tell Congress: No Killer Cuts in 2012 :)
http://capwiz.com/womenthrive/issues/alert/?alertid=48015501
Thanx for all you do :)
reality
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
This Father's Day, advocate/act for elders, all fathers:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9082
This petition on change.org: Father's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact
http://www.change.org/petitions/fathers-day-advocateact?share_id=GRPHZqrnof&pe=pce
My actions on change.org:
http://www.change.org/profiles/reality
Moveon.org: Medicare :)
http://pol.moveon.org/medicarehostage/?id=27845-1718406-c359Pux&t=2
W.A.N.D.: Vote for the America you want! :)
http://www.wand.org/2011/06/08/federal-budget-preference-poll/
CREDO: Tell Congress: Tax millionaires and billionaires :)
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/tax_millionaires/?rc=chaser&r=8063&id=22147-585348-xOzYB8x
A.A.P.D. Alerts for elderly, etc. :)
Remembering Helen Roth, Disability Rights Leader :)
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2011/06/disability-health-care-coalition-survey-need-your-participation-by-june-13.html
A System in Disarray: NY Times Expose on Failures of Institutions :)
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2011/06/a-system-in-disarray-mistreatment-and-mismanagement-at-ny-institutions-for-people-with-developmental.html
Don't 8 Million PWD Need Health Care? Tell Congress: Stop Medicaid Slashes!:
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2011/06/action-alert-tell-us-congress-again-no-slashing-of-medicaid.html
Honor Veterans with Disabilities: Strengthen Social Security Now!:
http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/action
Recent related advocacy/activism :)
Advocate/Act for elderly, handicapped, et al, or yours will be next :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Advocate/Act for elderly, handicapped, et al, or yours will be next:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9065
This petition on change.org: Act for elderly, handicapped, et al:
http://www.change.org/petitions/act-for-elderly-handicapped-et-al?share_id=zWvCUuUDDp&pe=pce
Mother's Day, celebrate with advocacy and action :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
Mother's Day, celebrate with advocacy and action:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9066
This petition on change.org: Mother's Day, advocate/act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/mothers-day-advocateact?share_id=gEcPUzLgYr&pe=pce
In Memoriam, good Memorial Day to All, Art/Act :)
These actions on Disabled Greens News and discussion:
In Memoriam, good Memorial Day to All, Art/Act:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/9079
This petition on change.org: In Memoriam, Art/Act:
http://www.change.org/petitions/in-memoriam-artact?share_id=BDbnCTdACv&pe=pce
Other related change.org petitions :)
United keep your promises to retirees:
http://www.change.org/petitions/united-keep-your-promises-to-retirees
Defend Medicare from Republican Attacks:
http://www.change.org/petitions/defend-medicare-from-republican-attacks
United Farm Workers: Tell CA Gov. Jerry Brown to protect farm workers :)
http://action.ufw.org/page/s/sb104petition
Women Thrive Worldwide: Tell Congress: No Killer Cuts in 2012 :)
http://capwiz.com/womenthrive/issues/alert/?alertid=48015501
Thanx for all you do :)
reality
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