PETITION TO UNDAM THE KLAMATH RIVER

The Klamath basin is plagued by PacifiCorp's dams that block salmon from returning home to spawn and endanger community health. Right now, Congress is considering legislation that could un-dam the river, but they need to hear from you. With your support, we can push members of Congress to do what it takes to restore the Klamath!

Petition

to UnDam the Klamath River

OCA: Tell Burt’s Bees: Stop Consorting with the Bee Killers!

Tell Burt’s Bees: Stop Consorting with the Bee Killers!

It’s been less than two months since Burt Shavitz, nature-lover, beekeeper and co-founder of Burt’s Beesdied, at the age of 80. And even though Burt sold the company years ago to Roxanne Quimby, who in turnsold it to the Clorox Co. for a cool $925 million, Burt is probably rolling over in his grave to see his beloved company supporting an expensive, glossy, public relations campaign, paid for by Bayer CropScience, and aimed at obfuscating the fact that Bayer is one of the world’s most prolific killer of bees.

How could that “bee,” you ask?

Burt’s Bees is one of the companies signed on to the Pollinator Partnership, an organization that on the surface appears very concerned about the plight of honeybees. In fact, the Pollinator Partnership is a corporate creation whose primary purpose it is to shift the blame for Colony Collapse Disorder away from the real cause: Bayer’s (and other companies’) neonicotinoid pesticides. And right there on the Pollinator Partnership’s board of directors is Craig Stevenson, vice president and general manager of the Clorox Company, who is also responsible for the Burt’s Bees product line.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Burt’s Bees: Stop Consorting with the Bee Killers!

As Friends of the Earth revealed in its “Follow the Honey” report, companies like Bayer have engaged fancy public relations firms to help spin an alternative story about what’s killing the bees. These companies, whose profits depend on massive sales of neonicotinoid poisons, don’t like the conclusion most scientists have arrived at—that neonicotinoids are largely responsible for the mass die-off of the honeybee.

At the core of Bayer’s PR strategy are Bayer Bee Care Centers, touted as centers “for scientific exchange and communication, inviting discussions and joint projects with external partners.”

But Bayer is also a key player in the Pollinator Partnership, which is nothing more than a collection of corporations intent on protecting their profits, especially those derived from sales of bee-killing pesticides.  The Pollinator Partnership says its mission is to “promote the health of pollinators [that are] critical to food and ecosystems through conservation, education, and research.”

On paper, that looks like a smart idea, especially given the public’s intense and widespread interest in protecting bees and other pollinators. But with corporate sponsors like Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta (which make up nearly the entire supply chain of neonicotinoids, currently representing 25 percent of the global market for pesticides),  the Pollinator Partnership’s true motivation is highly suspect.

Or not. In fact, if you read this letter from the Pollinator Partnership, the group’s mission becomes much more clear: defend, deny, deflect.

Neonicotinoids come with a bee hazard statement on the label as they have been determined to have the potential to harm bees; but the question is, to what extent are these substances alone responsible for CCD?

The letter goes on to defend neonicotinoids “as a response to and as a replacement for previous chemicals that had proven risks associated with bee kills and human health concerns.”

In the letter, Executive Director Laurie Davies Adams also denies that neonics are the primary cause of CCD, and points instead to changing weather patterns, varroa mites and other threats to bees, totally overlooking the fact that neonics, a systemic pesticide, weaken the immune system of bees, making them more vulnerable to these other threats.

It’s a shame that Clorox now owns, and has corrupted the product—a fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by consumers who are asking to “change back” Burt’s Bees.

It’s an even bigger shame that Burt’s Bees is now supporting the very company that is killing off the bees.

OCA: Tell Burt’s Bees: Stop Consorting with the Bee Killers!

Petitioning American Employers, American Goverment: Make it illegal and classed as discrimination to not hire someone based on hair colour, haircut, tattoos, or piercings. · Change.org

Make it illegal and classed as discrimination to not hire someone based on hair colour, haircut, tattoos, or piercings.

Someone's hair colour, style, or body mods to not reflect who they are as a person, their capabilities, or what they will be like as an employee. Most places will not hire you if you have hair colour that looks unnatural, a haircut considered extreme (like a mohawk or a man with long hair), if you have visible piercings or tattoos. Why? For no other reason than it is unappealing to many people and because some people assume people that look like that are degenerates/delinquents with bad morals. That is discrimination. An obese person may not be appealing to many people, but that would be discrimination to not hire them for that reason. One may argue that customers won't shop where a person who has tattoos/piercings works. Well in this world some customers might avoid a place because an employee is gay. So why is one illegal to refuse a job to and not the other?

Appearance does not reflect character, capability, or morals. To not hire a person with piercings/tattoos or dyed hair for worry that they do drugs or might steal from the establishment and would scare away prejudiced customers is just as prejediced and discriminatory as not hiring a black person for the prejudice that they would steal and scare away prejudiced customers. It is discrimination and it is WRONG. 

We understand, a customer finding a dropped nose ring in their food can result in law suit. A piercing can be dangerous in certain jobs. I would understand certain industries wanting employees to remove piercings to remove health and safety risks or if a person had an offensive tattoo like a swastika or something witha swear on it and this tattoo is not covered by clothes. But hair style/colour and tattoos are in no way a threat to health or safety. Long hair can be tied up/netted. Dyed hair and tattoos do not affect anything other than appearance. Nothing about a person's physical appearance should be expected to change unless it is a health and safety risk. If employers want appearance changed for no other reason than for the appearance of the change, it should not be allowed.

Discrimination laws officially protect those of a certain race, religion, age, gender, marital status, family relation, and more recently sexuality has been added to that list. Let's add physical appearance to that list, including piercings, tattoos, and hair choice with the exception of threat to health and safety. 

Petition · Petitioning American Employers, American Goverment: Make it illegal and classed as discrimination to not hire someone based on hair colour, haircut, tattoos, or piercings. · Change.org

Help Save Oregon's Forests! - Defenders of Wildlife

Help Save Oregon's Forests!

Not only would this draft plan harm big trees as well as wild rivers that run through these forests, it would also allow for unnecessary road construction through precious habitat and valuable public land.

The future of Oregon’s healthy forests and streams, abundant wildlife and big trees depends on people like you standing up for it.

Tell the BLM not to destroy Oregon's forests – the deadline is this Friday, August 21st, so please take action today!

Help Save Oregon's Forests! - Defenders of Wildlife

MoveOn Petitions - Save the Proposed Crater Lake Wilderness from Logging

Save the Proposed Crater Lake Wilderness from Logging

To be delivered to Alice Carlton, Forest Supervisor for the Umpqua National Forest and James Peña, Regional Forester for Region 6 of the U.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service wants to log on 1,400 acres in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest. This includes critical habitat for Northern Spotted Owls to nest, roost, and forage, and 500 acres of old-growth forest eligible for wilderness designation that is part of the proposed Crater Lake Wilderness. Today, less than 10 percent of the West’s forests remain unaffected by logging, roads, livestock grazing, or other disruptive activities. Yet forests serve an irreplaceable role as sources of clean drinking water, habitat for wildlife, and places for recreational and spiritual renewal. Send the U.S. Forest Service a message that we need to protect our wild forests and the native species they shelter.

MoveOn Petitions - Save the Proposed Crater Lake Wilderness from Logging

Tell Congress it’s time to end the Social Security tax break for millionaires!

TAKE ACTION: SIGN THE PETITION TODAY!

On February 12th, those making a million dollars a year reached the annual tax cap. After that day, none of their income will be taxed to pay for Social Security. Meanwhile, 94% of Americans -- those who make less than $118,500 a year -- will chip in a portion of every single paycheck, all year long. That’s right. A single mother working as an ER nurse pays 6.2% of every paycheck toward Social Security, 12 months out of the year. Meanwhile, a wealthy investment banker on Wall Street isn’t paying a dime into the system for the rest of 2015. They say we can’t afford Social Security. No. We can’t afford to keep giving unfair tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires! Add your name. Sign the petition and tell Congress it’s time to end the Social Security tax break for millionaires!

Take action: Sign the Petition Today! | Signherenow.org

Tell the Airline Industry: Don't Fly Wild - The Humane Society of the United States

Tell the Airline Industry: Don't Fly Wild

With the death of Cecil the lion, a much-needed light has been shone on the devastation caused by international trophy hunting. Not only is the practice deadly for some of the world’s most majestic and endangered species, but it is also a drain on the natural and economic resources of the countries where it transpires.

 

Cecil the lion, pictured above, was widely photographed and somewhat habituated to a non-threatening human presence in Hwange National Park. Photo by Brent Stapelkamp.

Tell the Airline Industry: Don't Fly Wild - The Humane Society of the United States

Cecil the lion was murdered by a dentist from the United States | SumOfUs

Crack down on poaching facilitators the Bushman Safaris Zimbabwe and ban trophy hunting like Botswana and Zambia."

Cecil the lion was murdered by a dentist from the United States | SumOfUs

Fight For The Great Barrier Reef · Petitions · Australian Marine Conservation Society

Fight for the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the natural wonders of the world. A $6 billion tourism industry and 60,000 jobs depend on a healthy Reef.

But the Reef is under threat from the most widespread, rapid and damaging set of industrial developments in Queensland’s history.

The Queensland Government is fast-tracking mega port developments, dredging and dumping of millions of tonnes of seabed and rock, and encouraging a shipping superhighway.

The Australian Government has approved the world’s biggest coal port at Abbot Point, 50 km from the Whitsunday Islands.

Help us protect the Reef by sending our politicians the urgent petition below. It’s your Reef, but you’re going to have to fight for it.

Fight For The Great Barrier Reef · Petitions · Australian Marine Conservation Society

Say Thanks and Tell the EPA to Finalize "Exceptional Protections" for Alaska Salmon! - National Parks Conservation Association

Say Thanks and Tell the EPA to Finalize "Exceptional Protections" for Alaska Salmon! - National Parks Conservation Association







Lake Clark National Park and Preserve was created in 1980 to protect a portion of Bristol Bay’s wild salmon ecosystem and the Alaska Native cultures who depend upon the fish. The EPA has issued serious warnings about Pebble Mine, a massive copper-gold prospect that could be developed next to Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. The mega-mine “would cause irreversible damage” to the world’s most productive sockeye salmon fishery, worth $480 million each year in tourism and sport and commercial fishing opportunities. Pebble Mine “is likely to result in a mine pit nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon” and “cover an area larger than Manhattan.” Its mine waste “would fill a major football stadium up to 3,900 times.” 

We can't let this happen. Act now! Tell EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that you support “exceptional protections” for the wild salmon fishery of Bristol Bay, Alaska.

America Wants No Cuts!

I signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama which says:

"Don't make a grand bargain in exchange for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/america-wants-no-cuts?source=s.em.mt&r_by=863082

Thanks!

Don't Let Pesticide Profiteers Poison the Wild

Pesticides are contaminating our water, and this toxic pollution can mean sickness or death for fish and wildlife as well as for people. More than 1,000 waterways in the United States are impaired by pesticide pollution: In a nationwide study, the U.S. Geological Survey found pesticides or their byproducts in every stream it sampled.

These chemicals can cause severe reproductive and developmental deformities, cancer, and even death in fish and amphibians. And their poisons can move up the food chain -- potentially landing in people who eat tainted fish and drink tainted water.

Right now the petrochemical industry and agribusiness are pushing Congress to let sneaky backdoor riders on this year's farm bill gut the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. They want to weaken rules that help monitor and protect our rivers and creeks from unsafe levels of pesticides and trample on pollution controls that protect rare and vanishing plants and animals.

Please -- take action now to tell your senators to protect our wildlife and waterways from pesticides by voting against the dangerous amendments in this farm bill.

Take action here: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14642

Tell BLM to stop logging 300 Year old trees

I just sent a message urging BLM officials to stop logging old-growth trees.  We love big, old trees and we want to keep them wild! Please join us in doing the same by clicking on the link below!

http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5632/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15750

No Forests for Fuel - Take Action!: NRDC's Save BioGems

I am shocked that Enviva is using trees to produce wood pellets and chips that are then burned by utilities like Drax and Dominion to generate electricity. The destruction of forests to produce fuel is endangering our health, our natural heritage and our climate. 





I am equally outraged that Dominion Power and Drax Group continue to burn millions of tons of wood, supplied by Enviva from our southern forests, in power plants. These operations fuel climate change and plunder our irreplaceable native ecosystems.

Mounting scientific evidence shows that burning wood pellets made from trees will increase near-term carbon pollution and accelerate climate change. Enviva now says it will double production of wood pellets in the coming years, which will only hasten this senseless destruction.

I am not buying Enviva's latest claim that its practices are acceptable because they involve cutting down "crooked and knotty" trees that are "waste" which can't be used in sawmills. Our forests are not trash! It is unconscionable for any company to treat them as such.

Our southern forests are home to countless species of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. They provide communities with clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. These forests are already under significant stress from industrial logging for wood and paper production.

I call on Enviva, Dominion Power and Drax to stop turning our forests into fuel. You should immediately change course and lead the way by investing in energy efficiency and generating electricity from clean energy alternatives, like mill and agricultural waste for pellets and true renewables like solar, wind and geothermal energy. The future of our forests, climate and health depends on it. I will be counting on NRDC to monitor your operations and keep me up to date on your practices.

No Forests for Fuel [test] - Take Action!: NRDC's Save BioGems

Forever 21: Pay Fair or We Won't Wear! | Democracy For America

http://youpower.democracyforamerica.com/petitions/forever-21-pay-fair-or-we-won-t-wear?akid=3837.2355356.lRBY4O&rd=1&source=PO_EM3819_YPForever21_08212013&t=1

President Obama: Ban Fracking on Public Lands

Hi,

I signed a petition to Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior and President Barack Obama which says:

"I am calling for a ban on fracking on all federal lands.

This land is our land and should be managed for the good of the people, not corporate profits for the oil and gas industry.

The Bureau of Land Management's proposed rules for regulating hydraulic fracturing on Federal and Indian lands are not only weak, but they do not take into account all of the harmful processes required to frack for oil and gas.

The best way to protect our air, water, wildlife, climate and public health is simply to prohibit this inherently dangerous form of fossil fuel extraction on public lands."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obama-ban-fracking?source=s.em.mt&r_by=863082

Thanks!

Greenpeace - Tell President Obama to keep oil companies out of the Arctic

Tell President Obama to keep oil companies out of the Arctic

Right now, President Obama is considering whether or not to open up more of the Alaskan Arctic for oil drilling by launching a new round of lease sales for the Chukchi Sea.

What's at stake here isn't just one of the most beautiful, unspoiled places on earth. But the future of our climate. A few weeks ago the president made a bold climate promise to the American people, stating that he would not condemn our generation and future generations to a planet that is beyond fixing.

This Arctic lease sale could start any day now! In order to get the President's attention we need to flood the White House with urgent messages telling them to cancel this sale.

Take action today and join our campaign to protect the Arctic. Tell President Obama that we can’t stop global climate change by opening up more of the Arctic for oil drilling.
Greenpeace - Tell President Obama to keep oil companies out of the Arctic

Sign the Petition: Don't Frack Public Lands - Food & Water Watch

Sign the Petition: Don't Frack Public Lands

Delicate Arch, Utah
Arches National Park is part of the Colorado River watershed and surrounded by BLM lands being targeted by the oil and gas industry

One of the things that makes America great is our vast and cherished spaces. Millions of acres across our beautiful country are public, they belong to us — the American people. This land is your land! But this land, and many of our favorite iconic landscapes, are under threat from fracking.

The Obama Administration recently proposed new rules for oil and gas fracking on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) — including those in the national forest system, and federal lands that are nearby many treasured national parks.

The BLM's proposed rules are weak, at best, and pave the way for corporate profits at the expense of our American treasures and essential resources. The BLM is seeking public comments on the proposed rules. Tell them Don't Frack Public Lands! Deadline for comments is August 23rd.
Please fill out the form below and edit the message as you wish. We'll add your name to the petition and submit the additional message to BLM as a public comment.

Sign the Petition here: Don't Frack Public Lands - Food & Water Watch

Save the Cameroon Rainforest | Greenpeace Africa

Stop Herakles Farms' project

A US company is planning to tear down a huge chunk of Cameroonian rainforest for its palm oil project.

This particular area of forest is home to thousands of people who stand to lose their land if the project goes ahead. It is also home to endangered wildlife like African forest elephants and the chimpanzees.
Send an email below to the CEO of Herakles Farms, demanding that the company drops its palm oil plans in Cameroon.

Save the Cameroon Rainforest | Greenpeace Africa

Tell the EPA You Want Lower, Not Higher, Limits on Monsanto's Roundup!

Tell the EPA You Want Lower, Not Higher, Limits on Monsanto's Roundup!

When does one plus one not equal two? When mounting evidence says glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide, does more damage to our health and environment than we thought. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) responds by approving higher, not lower, allowable limits of the pesticide residue.

Please sign the letter below. Tell the EPA you want lower, not higher, limits on Monsanto’s glyphosate and Roundup!

This month (May 2013) the EPA announced a final ruling to increase, yet again, the allowed residue limits in food and animal feed of glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Under the ruling, the allowed glyphosate level in animal feed will rise to 100 parts per million (ppm) and 40 ppm in oilseed crops.

There is precedence for final rulings to be revisited, even reversed, if enough people voice their opposition. The EPA will take comments on the ruling until July 1, 2013.
The EPA ruling defies sound science and undermines public health. Peer reviewed studies show rats fed diets as low as 2ppm of glyphosate were 70 percent to 80 percent more likely to develop tumors. Infertility, affecting both the sperm and the egg, was documented in animals subjected to glyphosate residue levels as low as .05 ppm. Birth defects in frog and chicken embryos resulted after being subjected to glyphosate residues of just 2.03 ppm.

Yet the EPA claims glyphosate is only “minimally toxic” to humans, and 40 ppm is nothing to worry about?

The EPA’s decision is all the more unjustifiable in light of two recently published, peer reviewed studies revealing glyphosate to be a far greater threat to human health than previously determined.

According to a study published in the journal Entropy in April 2013, glyphosate is related to debilitating diseases like gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The study says the negative impact on the human body is “insidious and manifests slowly over time, as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body… it may in fact be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment.”

A 2012 study published in the journal Archives of Toxicology showed Roundup is toxic to human DNA even when diluted to concentrations 450-fold lower than used in agricultural applications. Industry regulators and long-term studies look at glyphosate in isolation, instead of looking at Roundup’s full formulation, which includes secret added ingredients. These “confidential” and unlabeled ingredients, when measured as a whole, affect all living cells, including human cells.

Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. According to the EPA, at least 208 million tons of Roundup were sprayed on GE crops, lawns and roadsides in the years 2006 and 2007. In 2007, as much as 185 million pounds of glyphosate was used by U.S. farmers, double the amount used just six years ago.

A 2009 study found that Americans use about 100 million pounds of glyphosate annually on their lawns and gardens. It’s safe to assume all these number are much higher now. Why? Because GE crops are now being invaded by new strains of herbicide-resistant “superweeds” requiring higher and higher doses of poison.

Beyond Pesticides has assembled extensive documentation of past research linking glyphosate to increased cancer risk, neurotoxicity and birth defects, as well as eye, skin, respiratory irritation, lung congestion, increased breathing rate, damage to the pancreas, kidney and testes.

Glyphosate also endangers the environment, destroys soil and plants, and is linked to a host of health hazards. The EPA’s decision to increase the allowed residue limits of glyphosate is out of date, dangerous to the health of people and the environment and scientifically unsupportable.

Please sign the letter below. Tell the EPA you want lower, not higher, limits on Monsanto’s glyphosate and Roundup!

Organic Consumers Association