Jill Stein Arrested 'Connecting the Dots' at Keystone Site

Stein Arrested 'Connecting the Dots' at Keystone Site

via (title unknown) by Abby Zimet on 10/31/12

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has become the 33rd protester arrested at the Keystone blockade in Texas when she brought supplies to treesitters who have spent two months trying to block construction of the pipeline. Stein connected Hurricane Sandy with climate change and criticized both Obama and Romney as "pipeline politicians."

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Show solidarity with striking #workers at #Walmart - #p2 #strike #opwalmart

It's Friday.

Dear Friend,

Walmart Stores Inc. - notorious for years for trampling the basic
rights of American workers - has become the focus of a historic strike
by its store workers.

In an unprecedented move, recently Walmart workers went on strike
across the country, informing Walmart management that the strikes will
spread throughout November if Walmart doesn't listen to their demands.

While Rob Walton - Walmart's chairman of the board - raked in at least
$420 million in Walmart dividends alone last year, low pay and
arbitrary scheduling force many of Walmart's workers to rely on public
assistance to make ends meet.

I just signed a petition to show solidarity with the Walmart workers
who are standing up to Walton, and rest of Walmart's management for a
safe workplace and a decent standard of living. Click below for more
information and join to the cause.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/walmart_strike/?r_by=49476-3052123-_PpQxV...

Tell the Maryland General Assembly: Ban fracking now

Dear Friend,

Fracking is headed to Maryland. The only way to stop it is to ban it.

Maryland has a de facto moratorium on fracking, but it could be lifted
anytime. Meanwhile, the industry is signing gas leases and state
regulators are reviewing permit applications. Maryland won't be safe
until it has a permanent ban on this toxic practice.

Tell the Maryland General Assembly: Ban fracking now. Click the link
below to view the petition.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/maryland_fracking/?r_by=49321-3052123-HU6...

Tell Darden to treat its workers with basic human dignity

Dear Friend,

Darden Restaurant Group, which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster,
LongHorn Steakhouse and countless other chain restaurants, has about
180,000 employees working at its nearly 2,000 restaurants nationwide

And while the company's CEO makes $8.5 million each year, many of the
company's employees are paid just $2.13 per hour, forcing them to live
on the tips you voluntarily pay them at the end of your meal.

Workers cannot sustain a safe, decent standard of living in our
communities at $2.13 per hour. We stand up against this economic
injustice today.

I just signed a petition telling Darden to stop exploiting its workers
and pay tipped employees at least $5 per hour. Click on the link below
to find out more and sign the petition.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/darden/?r_by=49276-3052123-mIkm6Bx&rc=paste2

Micahel wants you to take action on "Support a Strong, Scientific Safeguard Against Soot"!

Micahel L. Love has just read and signed the petition: Support a Strong, Scientific Safeguard Against Soot

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Help Defuse Utah's Tar-sands Carbon Bomb

Governor Gary Herbert wants to turn some Utah's most spectacular wildlands into an Alberta-style tar-sands disaster, and we need your help to stop him.

More than 140,000 acres in eastern Utah are already open to tar-sands strip mining, and regulators have permitted mining on nearly 6,000 acres; only an uphill court battle stands in the way of mining on the first of those lands.

Tar-sands mining would decimate wildlands, destroy sage grouse habitat and deplete and pollute Colorado River water desperately needed by endangered fish and millions of people. Once mining begins, it could catalyze a wildly inefficient cycle of energy and water use -- igniting a carbon bomb that will further dry the Colorado River, melt the Arctic and acidify our oceans.

Please take a moment to urge Gov. Herbert to abandon his disastrous tar-sands mining plans.

Take action by using this Web address: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY...

Protest against TV duel: U.S. police arrested presidential candidate of the ...

Protest gegen TV-Duell: US-Polizei nimmt Präsidentschaftskandidatin der Grünen fest

via SPIEGEL ONLINE - Schlagzeilen on 10/17/12

Ruhestörung - so lautete der Vorwurf der US-Polizei, als sie am Dienstag die Präsidentschaftskandidatin der Grünen festnahm. Jill Stein hatte in Hempstead eine improvisierte Pressekonferenz abgehalten, um gegen das TV-Duell zwischen Barack Obama und Mitt Romney zu protestieren.

BREAKING: Stein and Honkala Arrested at Presidential Debate Site

BREAKING: Stein and Honkala Arrested at Presidential Debate Site

via Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy on 10/16/12

Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala decided to show up to tonight’s Presidential Debate, which didn’t invite them. Both were prepared to be arrested, and it came to pass: Speaking earlier in the day to Philadelphia Weekly: “This is a great day for democracy,” noted Stein. “It’s a great [...]

Protect your water, stop pollution trading!

I just took action and hope you can too.

The EPA is considering rules that would legally allow polluters to "trade" pollution credits, allowing some people to pollute more, while outsourcing water pollution regulations to Wall Street.

Please join me in taking action to make sure the EPA keeps the Clean Water Act strong, and doesn't allow pollution trading.

To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
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I'm proud to vote for Jill Stein

Dear Michael L.,

We are at a critical point in our nation’s history. In the face of deep austerity measures, working and poor people are uniting. In the last few weeks alone, teachers in Chicago won a historic strike and Walmart workers walked out on the job for the first time. We must keep building the momentum.

And that is why I believe that Green presidential candidate Jill Stein has the most thoughtful and thorough platforms for the American people.

Can you pitch in $50 to Jill Stein’s campaign? If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to give, that time is now to show your support.

Ralph Nader puts it well:

“Jill Stein will ably carry forward the Green banner of majoritarian agendas in our country. Let us hope that the two-party duopolized media notices.”

A donation of $50 is critical in increasing our outreach to new voters seeking a change. Every dollar sends the message that status quo politics is not good enough. Together we will build the demand for Jill Stein’s Full Employment Program, breaking up the banks “too big to fail,” and a Green New Deal for all of us.

We have so much at stake. By uniting our forces we can create and build our own alternatives to a system that is only helping a select few. Together we can rebuild a healthier democracy.

Please show your support today.

Matt Gonzalez

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Please take an immediate step by making a donation: http://www.jillstein.org/donate

Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President
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Michael wants you to take action on "Tell Banks to Stop Investing in Mountain-top Removal"!

Michael Love has just read and signed the petition: Tell Banks to Stop Investing in Mountain-top Removal

You can view this petition at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/954/403/003/tell-banks-to-stop-investing-in-mountain-top-removal/

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Tell the Feds: Don't Rubber-stamp New California Mines

It's time to pick the most outrageous eco-villain of 2012 -- use the Web address at the bottom of this email to cast your vote!

The Center for Biological Diversity established the Rubber Dodo award in 2007 as a way to spotlight those who do their very best -- that is, their very worst -- to destroy wild places and drive species to extinction. The award, named after the most famous extinct species on Earth, is given out every year.

Cast your ballot by using this Web address: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/salsa/web/questionnaire/public/?quest...

Counting the Bodies in the Pakistani #Drone Campaign - #drones

Counting the Bodies in the Pakistani Drone Campaign

via (title unknown) by jon on 10/15/12

The US government must release its estimates of how many people are being killed in CIA drone strikes, to end an over-reliance on often scanty media reports, a new study on drone casualties says.

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Obama: stop the #tarsands! - #nokxl #keystonexl #kxlblockade

I've had it with the media blackout! Stop sacrificing our climate on the election alter! Stop the pipeline!

Oil companies want to build a huge pipeline from Canada to Texas to open up new markets for tar-sand oil, the dirtiest fossil fuel on earth. But Obama could refuse the permit -- and a wave of protests are trying to convince him to do the right thing. Sign the petition, and demonstrators will bring it to the White House on Saturday:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/obama_stop_the_tar_sands/96.php 

Here are more action items.

                     If Transcanada is chasing NYT reporters away from pipeline route, what does that tell you? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/keystone-xl-new-york-times_n_1959033.html?&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008 …

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Urgent: tell the @whitehouse and @BarackObama: stop the tar sands XL pipeline. #noKXL Sign the petition @avaaz here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/obama_stop_the_tar_sands/?twi …

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3h Tar Sands Blockade @KXLBlockade

.@democracynow continues coverage of determined blockade amid crackdown on journalists http://bit.ly/RlDgUZ  #NoKXL

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11m Michael L. Love @gnudarwin

The petition makes a fascinating point. #KeystoneXL is not in the public benefit, so that eminent domain was abused. #nokxl #kxlblockade

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16m Michael L. Love @gnudarwin

Demand justice for 78-year-old Eleanor Fairchild! >> http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AG6cY/zM2L/ATaVy … #nokxl #tarsands #keystonexl

Regards,

proclus

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Michael wants you to take action on "Don't Arrest Grandmas for Protesting Keystone on Their Own Land"!

Michael Love has just read and signed the petition: Don't Arrest Grandmas for Protesting Keystone on Their Own Land

You can view this petition at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/188/696/837/

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Tell Congress What the U.S. Ambassador Acknowledged on Drone Strikes

Until recently, U.S. officials have largely refused to engage, publicly and on the record, on specific criticisms of U.S. drone strike policy in Pakistan. But now, Acting U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Hoagland has gone on the record to defend the details of U.S. drone strike policy in a meeting with Just Foreign Policy and other U.S. peace delegates in Pakistan.

Urge your representatives in Congress to follow up on what has been acknowledged, like the fact that the U.S. could compensate civilian drone strike victims and their families.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/drones-congress

Thanks!

RT @wikileaks RELASE: 13,734 emails covering Mitt #Romney or the GOP from intelligence contractor #Stratfor http://bit.ly/SSoQdO

RT @wikileaks RELASE: 13,734 emails covering Mitt #Romney or the GOP from intelligence contractor #Stratfor http://bit.ly/SSoQdO

Donate to Wikileaks http://bit.ly/SSoNPk

 

Wonderful!

 

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proclus

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Halliburton lost what?

Dear Friend,

Unbelievable. For nearly a month, Halliburton lost a radioactive rod
used in the process of fracking wells in Texas after it apparently
just fell off a truck. That's right. Fell. Off. A. Truck.

What will it take for major corporations like Halliburton to stop
treating our safety like it was just a speed bump along their way to
obscene profits from fracking?

It will take levying major fines on a corporation, when it makes
reckless, unbelievable mistakes.

Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Hold Halliburton accountable
for its carelessness with radioactive material.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/halliburton_radioactive/?r_by=48435-30521...

#JillStein.org: 20 million dollars. - #GreenParty

Dear Michael L.,

We've been busy . . . Federal matching funds in the primary. Check! . . . Get on nearly 9 out of 10 ballots. Check!

Our biggest task is still ahead: Get 5% of the vote and unleash $20,000,000 for the Green Party’s 2016 presidential campaign. To stay on track for 5%, we must match our fundraising from the primary season by raising $500,000.

Can you pitch in $5?

Every dollar wins us more votes by increasing our media outreach and hiring more organizers to work on the ground in local communities. A win of 1% of the vote puts us firmly on the political map. A showing of 3% sends the message to any administration that serious momentum mounts for the Green New Deal. 

Winning 5% of the vote immediately translates to $20 million dollars in federal funding for our 2016 presidential bid.

Can you help by contributing today?

Thank you,

Jill Stein

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Pakistan's Imran Khan: If Elected, 'I Would Shoot Down US #Drones' #drone

Pakistan's Imran Khan: If Elected, 'I Would Shoot Down US Drones'

via (title unknown) by jacob on 10/5/12

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#Walmart Workers Strike at Stores Nationwide - #walmartstrikers

Hooray! I've been waiting for this moment for years! Good luck to the Walmart strikers!

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

Walmart Workers Strike at Stores Nationwide

via (title unknown) by beth on 10/4/12

Walmart workers at various stores around the country are on strike today, protesting poor working conditions and alleged retaliation for their attempts to organize.

The one-day strike was expected to culminate in a mass rally outside a store in Pico Rivera, Calif., this afternoon.

OUR Walmart, a coalition of Walmart workers and other sympathizers, organized the protest.

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Expanding the Debate Exclusive: Third Party Candidates Break the Sound Barri...

Expanding the Debate Exclusive: Third Party Candidates Break the Sound Barrier As Obama-Romney Spar

via Democracy Now! by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) on 10/4/12

As President Obama and Mitt Romney squared off for the first time on Wednesday night, Democracy Now! broke the sound barrier by pausing Obama and Romney’s answers to get real-time responses from candidates Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party. Stein and Anderson joined Democracy Now! for a live special just miles away from the Obama-Romney contest at the University of Denver. Many Obama supporters have expressed surprise that Romney was able to put the president on the defensive, while Obama failed to mention several of Romney’s potential weak spots, including including his record at the private equity firm Bain Capital, his vast personal wealth and offshore investments, and his recent remark that 47 percent of Americans are government dependents. Today, highlights from our "Expanding the Debate" special with the voices of all four candidates, showcasing the broadened perspectives on the critical issues beyond the Democratic-Republican political spectrum. [Includes rush transcript]

Google #bicycle maps - #biking #carfree

I'd just like to thank the Google bicycle mappers, who are contributing immensely to my health and sense of adventure. 

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Anti-#Drone Protesters Gather for Weekend March into Waziristan #drones

Anti-Drone Protesters Gather for Weekend March into Waziristan

via (title unknown) by admin on 10/1/12

Former US ambassador and peace activist Ann Wright – who has arrived in Islamabad to participate in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s peace march to South Waziristan. Wright and Imran Khan spoke to the media in Islamabad on Sunday, September 30, 2012.

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