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Join us in a coordinated mass call-in to CNN on behalf of Leonard Peltier. Shut CNN down until they realize they have a story.
On Monday, July 11th, at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time), start calling with your statement. It is important that the calls to CNN start promptly at 10 a.m. Insist that they cover the injustice posed by the continuing imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. Advise them of Leonard’s current situation (see Leonard Peltier in the Hole), and tell CNN personnel that they should contact the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee at 701-235-2206 for information and referrals.
Then call back and ask for specific news anchors to cover/respond. Remember to be firm, but polite. Tell them freedom for Peltier is the only solution to this 35+-year injustice.
They may tell you that they get their stories from their affiliates (local) channels. While this is true, it is also true that they cover both whatever they wish and stories that demand coverage. We MUST demand coverage.
Call CNN at 404-827-1500 at 10 a.m., Monday, July 11, 2011.
On Monday, July 11th, at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time), start calling with your statement. It is important that the calls to CNN start promptly at 10 a.m. Insist that they cover the injustice posed by the continuing imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. Advise them of Leonard’s current situation (see Leonard Peltier in the Hole), and tell CNN personnel that they should contact the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee at 701-235-2206 for information and referrals.
Then call back and ask for specific news anchors to cover/respond. Remember to be firm, but polite. Tell them freedom for Peltier is the only solution to this 35+-year injustice.
They may tell you that they get their stories from their affiliates (local) channels. While this is true, it is also true that they cover both whatever they wish and stories that demand coverage. We MUST demand coverage.
Call CNN at 404-827-1500 at 10 a.m., Monday, July 11, 2011.
Senate Bill 159 could impact thousands of Ohio voters ability to make their voices heard in the upcoming election. There is still a possibility that the senate will try and pass the Voter ID Bill SB 159 on July 11th. To stop that from happening we're asking you to write to email the Senate President to let the senate know, we wont let them withhold our right to vote this November.
a href=http://tinyurl.com/VoteNoNiehaus>Let Senate President Niehaus know that you do not support HB 159, the Photo ID Bill
Please forward this message to anyone and everyone who will join us and take action today!
While some of you might know me, others probably don’t. My name is Will Klatt and I’ll be the Ohio Student Organizing Coordinator through the 2011 election as part of the We Are Ohio campaign. I’ve been involved in the student movement since 2005 and since graduation in 2009 have been working on a number of union and community organizing drives. I’m excited to be working with you to make sure youth in Ohio have a voice and making sure that SB 5 is repealed.
a href=http://tinyurl.com/VoteNoNiehaus>Let Senate President Niehaus know that you do not support HB 159, the Photo ID Bill
Please forward this message to anyone and everyone who will join us and take action today!
While some of you might know me, others probably don’t. My name is Will Klatt and I’ll be the Ohio Student Organizing Coordinator through the 2011 election as part of the We Are Ohio campaign. I’ve been involved in the student movement since 2005 and since graduation in 2009 have been working on a number of union and community organizing drives. I’m excited to be working with you to make sure youth in Ohio have a voice and making sure that SB 5 is repealed.
Fifty years ago, freedom riders traveled by bus into the U.S. South. Now American freedom riders are joining their allies from around the world on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The U.S. ship is called The Audacity of Hope.
The heroes on this ship have pledged to sail unarmed and to refuse to use violence. The Israeli military, which continues to illegally blockade Gaza, causing endless suffering to the Gazan people, has pledged to use violent force to prevent the ships getting through.
Last May, the Israeli military, in international waters, illegally boarded another ship on a similar mission, the Mavi Marmara, killing nine people, including one American, and wounding dozens. Israel claimed, in its defense, that the Mavi Marmara carried no humanitarian aid, that all such supplies were on other ships in the flotilla.
The 36 American passengers (plus 4 crew and 10 members of the press) on board The Audacity of Hope have publicly stated that they will carry only letters: "thousands of letters of support and friendship from people throughout the U.S. to the women, children and men of Gaza."
The heroes on this ship have pledged to sail unarmed and to refuse to use violence. The Israeli military, which continues to illegally blockade Gaza, causing endless suffering to the Gazan people, has pledged to use violent force to prevent the ships getting through.
Last May, the Israeli military, in international waters, illegally boarded another ship on a similar mission, the Mavi Marmara, killing nine people, including one American, and wounding dozens. Israel claimed, in its defense, that the Mavi Marmara carried no humanitarian aid, that all such supplies were on other ships in the flotilla.
The 36 American passengers (plus 4 crew and 10 members of the press) on board The Audacity of Hope have publicly stated that they will carry only letters: "thousands of letters of support and friendship from people throughout the U.S. to the women, children and men of Gaza."
Keep EON on the net and catalyzing effective grassroots action. We’re not called ‘C-Span for the grassroots’ for nothing. If you’re on this list, you know how hard we work to keep a steady stream of citizen voices and useful information in a variety of media coming your way. EON is also an official party in California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Smart Meter Opt-Out proceedings in your behalf. Since 2000, we’ve organized and informed locally and globally about the dangers of wireless RF radiation. We’ve been working for clean renewable energy and a nuclear-free world for decades. [ see: Norman Solomon Interviews EON Founders on the TV series 'Making a Difference in Marin.' ]
Our increasingly popular blog – Eon3EMFblog.net – covers both wireless and nuclear issues. For example, check out our recent posts Paradigm Shift Happens – EON E-Smog Digest and Dead End for Nuclear Power?
Our increasingly popular blog – Eon3EMFblog.net – covers both wireless and nuclear issues. For example, check out our recent posts Paradigm Shift Happens – EON E-Smog Digest and Dead End for Nuclear Power?
Americans count on the Environmental Protection Agency to identify the largest threats to clean air and clean water, and act to make sure they are protected.
But thanks to the work of Vice President Dick Cheney's secretive energy task force, since 2005, the EPA has been handcuffed from doing anything about one of the fastest growing threats to our waters supply: High Pressure Hydraulic Fracturing (or Fracking).
The method of drilling for natural gas involves pumping huge quantities of water and a secret mix of chemicals, including known toxic and carcinogens, deep underground, directly into or adjacent to our dinking water supplies.1
Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) has introduced a bill "The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act" (S.587), which would allow the EPA to regulate Fracking, and force companies to disclose the list of chemicals in the toxic Fracking fluid.
Your Senator, Sen. Sherrod Brown, has not yet co-sponsored the bill. So we've set up a meeting at Sen. Brown's office so you can ask him to do just that.
But thanks to the work of Vice President Dick Cheney's secretive energy task force, since 2005, the EPA has been handcuffed from doing anything about one of the fastest growing threats to our waters supply: High Pressure Hydraulic Fracturing (or Fracking).
The method of drilling for natural gas involves pumping huge quantities of water and a secret mix of chemicals, including known toxic and carcinogens, deep underground, directly into or adjacent to our dinking water supplies.1
Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) has introduced a bill "The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act" (S.587), which would allow the EPA to regulate Fracking, and force companies to disclose the list of chemicals in the toxic Fracking fluid.
Your Senator, Sen. Sherrod Brown, has not yet co-sponsored the bill. So we've set up a meeting at Sen. Brown's office so you can ask him to do just that.
The Media Action Grassroots Network is asking you to sign our petition to stop the AT&T and T-Mobile merger.
If AT&T takes over T-Mobile, it will be a disaster for all mobile phone users -- especially people of color and low-income rural and urban communities. Sign our petition telling the FCC and Department of Justice to block this takeover
The takeover will stifle information, choice and innovation, and lead to higher prices and fewer jobs nationwide. Our communities cannot afford higher prices and fewer choices. We need the FCC and the Department of Justice to block this takeover! The loss of a low cost wireless carrier like T-Mobile will limit affordable mobile broadband access, threaten the openness of the mobile Internet and stifle competition in the broadband market. Our communities cannot afford these outcomes!
If AT&T takes over T-Mobile, it will be a disaster for all mobile phone users -- especially people of color and low-income rural and urban communities. Sign our petition telling the FCC and Department of Justice to block this takeover
The takeover will stifle information, choice and innovation, and lead to higher prices and fewer jobs nationwide. Our communities cannot afford higher prices and fewer choices. We need the FCC and the Department of Justice to block this takeover! The loss of a low cost wireless carrier like T-Mobile will limit affordable mobile broadband access, threaten the openness of the mobile Internet and stifle competition in the broadband market. Our communities cannot afford these outcomes!
The nuclear crisis in Japan has raised alarming questions about the safety of nuclear power plants in our own backyard. There's good reason for all of us to be worried.
Reduce the Risks
U.S. policymakers must make securing spent fuel and eliminating crowded pools a top priority.
According to new analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Project On Government Oversight, our nation's stockpile of radioactive spent fuel is stored in such unsafe conditions that the lives of millions of people who live near nuclear reactors in this country are at risk.
Act now! Tell your member of congress to secure our nuclear fuel.
In a worst case scenario, a catastrophic fire at a nuclear plant could cause untold cancer deaths and render uninhabitable an area 60 times larger than the area affected by the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear accident of all time.
Reduce the Risks
U.S. policymakers must make securing spent fuel and eliminating crowded pools a top priority.
According to new analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Project On Government Oversight, our nation's stockpile of radioactive spent fuel is stored in such unsafe conditions that the lives of millions of people who live near nuclear reactors in this country are at risk.
Act now! Tell your member of congress to secure our nuclear fuel.
In a worst case scenario, a catastrophic fire at a nuclear plant could cause untold cancer deaths and render uninhabitable an area 60 times larger than the area affected by the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear accident of all time.
The House and Senate Energy Appropriations Committees are beginning to work on the FY 2012 federal budget. And that means they are beginning to decide the fate of the loan guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction. We are expecting the first vote in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy before June 2--within the next three weeks.
As you probably know, President Obama has asked that this program be increased by $36 Billion. That's on top of the $10.2 Billion already in the program and the $8.3 already promised to Southern Company for construction of the Vogtle reactors in Georgia. Plus there is money for uranium enrichment plants in Idaho and Ohio.
Meanwhile, the world's third and fourth largest economies--Japan and Germany--are marching ahead with new energy policies that will focus on clean and safe renewable energy and energy efficiency. It's time the U.S. march ahead in that direction too. And it's time the U.S. end the nuclear loan program. This is the time to act and here are the actions to take now:
As you probably know, President Obama has asked that this program be increased by $36 Billion. That's on top of the $10.2 Billion already in the program and the $8.3 already promised to Southern Company for construction of the Vogtle reactors in Georgia. Plus there is money for uranium enrichment plants in Idaho and Ohio.
Meanwhile, the world's third and fourth largest economies--Japan and Germany--are marching ahead with new energy policies that will focus on clean and safe renewable energy and energy efficiency. It's time the U.S. march ahead in that direction too. And it's time the U.S. end the nuclear loan program. This is the time to act and here are the actions to take now:
"There is no doubt grassroots organizing and advocacy is helping to lay the groundwork for a path to end the war in Afghanistan. The American people are calling for an end to the war, and that begins with the President immediately announcing a significant and sizeable start to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military contractors by no later than this July."
-- Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
For many years, the answer has had little to do with our national security interests and everything to do with domestic political considerations and a lack of political will from our elected representatives.
The death of Osama bin Laden deep within the borders of Pakistan during a covert operation carried out by a few dozen elite soldiers underscores how little the continued occupation of Afghanistan makes sense.
But bin Laden's death has also radically changed the political environment we're in and given President Obama significant political cover to bring the war in Afghanistan to an end.
Now, more than ever, we need to speak out to make sure he does so.
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
For many years, the answer has had little to do with our national security interests and everything to do with domestic political considerations and a lack of political will from our elected representatives.
The death of Osama bin Laden deep within the borders of Pakistan during a covert operation carried out by a few dozen elite soldiers underscores how little the continued occupation of Afghanistan makes sense.
But bin Laden's death has also radically changed the political environment we're in and given President Obama significant political cover to bring the war in Afghanistan to an end.
Now, more than ever, we need to speak out to make sure he does so.
Public Citizen reacts to tragedy in Japan
The whole world is horrified and saddened at the death and destruction wrought by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. But the events following at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor in northeastern Japan have reminded us of the folly of investing in nuclear power. Despite the assurances of our elected officials and the industry, there is no way to guarantee the public’s safety when a natural disaster or terrorism strikes commercial reactors. And in the event of a nuclear disaster in the U.S., taxpayers — not the industry — would be on the hook for the cleanup.
Email President Barack Obama and urge him to end taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear industry
The Nuclear Information Resource Center Urgent sign-on to support people of Japan, expand evacuation zone
The whole world is horrified and saddened at the death and destruction wrought by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. But the events following at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor in northeastern Japan have reminded us of the folly of investing in nuclear power. Despite the assurances of our elected officials and the industry, there is no way to guarantee the public’s safety when a natural disaster or terrorism strikes commercial reactors. And in the event of a nuclear disaster in the U.S., taxpayers — not the industry — would be on the hook for the cleanup.
Email President Barack Obama and urge him to end taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear industry
The Nuclear Information Resource Center Urgent sign-on to support people of Japan, expand evacuation zone