Ban Genetically Modified Organisms Worldwide

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To: All Governments of All Nations, All Citizens of All Nations

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May 20, 2013 - Protect Papua New Guinea Indigenous Cave Dwellers from Rainforest Destroying Mafia

Notorious Malaysian illegal loggers Rimbunan Hijau have diversified into mining in primary rainforests, in East Sepik threatening unique nomadic cave-dwellers and their 20,000 year old ancient stenciled cave art. Support the local resistance and demand an end to indigenous genocide and rainforest ecocide in the name of false development that is little more than pillaging and plundering of cultural and biological diversity.

 Protect Papua New Guinea Indigenous Cave Dwellers from Rainforest Destroying Mafia

Greenpeace - Oh Canada, Protect the Arctic from Oil Spills!

Oil companies like Shell think they can buy anything, including influence with politicians, the right to pollute and destroy our water and air, and to threaten people’s traditional way of life.

The next power grab is about to happen at the Arctic Council (an international body representing all Arctic nations), where oil companies hope to sway these Northern countries towards dangerous Arctic oil drilling. They are risking oil spills in fragile Northern waters - with consequences are too horrible to imagine.

The Arctic Council’s new Chair, Canada, has a choice -- either to uphold the Arctic Council’s environmental agenda and protect the region from oil spills, overfishing and further climate change devastation, or to allow oil companies to drill and spill in these remote, fragile waters.

Together we are going to hold Canada accountable and make sure that it steps up to do the right thing and protect the Arctic from oil companies like Shell.

Take action today and join our campaign to protect the Arctic. Tell Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper to uphold the Arctic Council’s environmental agenda and choose people, animals and the environment over dirty oil polluters.

Greenpeace - Oh Canada, Protect the Arctic from Oil Spills!

Demand Government Protection For Sacred Sites in Belize - The Petition Site

• Target: The Hon. Dean O. Barrow - Belize Prime Minister.
• Sponsored by: James Howie -- C.O.P.E -- Carers Of Planet Earth

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project... We demand that the government make rules and laws that will stop this happening and protect these sacred land marks not only are these spiritual places and great places of importance to the world, but they are a link to our past that we can learn so much from...
This Mayan Pyramid was destroyed for greed and nothing more, it was there, it was cheap to destroy and use and we can get off with it and save money and it has to STOP, they need to be protected as historical landmarks and those who think of destroying them have to know that punishments will be severe, large fines plus prison time, loss of contracts and so on, more needs to be put in place to protect the history of humankind... The Belize community-action group Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological ... more

Demand Government Protection For Sacred Sites in Belize - The Petition Site

Investigate Monsanto's Takeover of USDA

Investigate Monsanto's Takeover of USDA:

Monsanto, the world's largest biotech corporation, has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture.1

Join us in demanding a Congressional investigation:

Avaaz - The plan to kill orangutans

Sign the petition! Avaaz - The plan to kill orangutans:

To President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, Minister of Forestry Zulkifli Hasan, and Governor of Aceh Zaini Abdullah:

As concerned citizens we urge you to reject the plan to cut down protected rainforests in Aceh. Indonesia’s majestic forests are a global treasure, and we encourage engagement with the local community to develop a plan that prioritises sustainable development, and that protects this fragile ecosystem and the animals that live there.

Write a letter for the Matsés - Survival International

There are around 2,200 Matsés living on the Peru-Brazil frontier in the Amazon rainforest.
In 2012, Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales began to explore for oil on land inhabited by the Matsés and neighboring uncontacted Indians.
The company’s oil block ‘135’ lies directly over an area that has been proposed as a reserve to protect the uncontacted tribes.
Though the Matsés have repeatedly opposed the company’s work on their land, their protests have been ignored.

How you can help

Please urge the Peruvian government to cancel Pacific Rubiales’s contracts by writing to the Peruvian president, S. E. Humala.


Write a letter for the Matsés - Survival International

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SignOn.org - Support Oregon SB 438 and HB 2427 to stop GMO crops being grown in Oregon.

http://signon.org/sign/support%2Doregon%2Dsb%2D438?source=mo&id=67698-9800644-pRVI0bx

Save Oregon’s Rough & Ready And Baldface Creeks From Destructive Nickel Mining

Rough & Ready Creek is a beautiful rare plant reserve and tributary of Oregon’s Wild and Scenic Illinois River. Baldface Creek is a pristine tributary of the Wild and Scenic North Fork Smith River. The creeks are home to wild salmon and trout and some of the purest water in the West.

This fragile wild landscape of pristine rivers, world-class fisheries, and rare plants is at risk of being turned into an industrial wasteland of strip mines, nickel smelters, and ore haul roads. Just some of the dangers of nickel mining include high chromium content smelter slag, naturally occurring asbestos, air pollution, and surface and groundwater pollution.
Action Alerts — KS Wild

Stop seismic airgun testing for oil and gas off the U.S. East Coast. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Stop seismic airgun testing for oil and gas off the U.S. East Coast.

According to your Department of the Interior, seismic airgun testing for oil and gas in the Atlantic will injure or kill 138,500 dolphins and whales, including endangered North Atlantic right whales.

Seismic airguns and offshore drilling threaten commercial and recreational fisheries as well as ocean-based tourism and coastal recreation from Delaware to Florida. 730,000 jobs in this region depend on a healthy ocean. Seismic airgun testing is the first step toward expanding deepwater drilling, the same practice that caused the well-known Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.

Offshore drilling is dirty and dangerous, and seismic airguns are an insult to ocean economies and ecosystems. With respect, we call on your administration to reject seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic.

Created: Apr 15, 2013 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-seismic-airgun-testing-oil-and-gas-us-east-coast/khpw6LCt

Stop California REDD Now! | Indigenous Environmental Network

 Citizens of the World,


Please sign this petition to Stop California REDD, which is the model for doing REDD throughout the world.
Make history by rejecting this market-based, land grabbing false solution to climate change which is bad for the planet, bad for people and does not really protect forests.

I urge you to reject the inclusion of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) in the State of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, AB32.
The four main reasons for rejecting California REDD are:
1. REDD is a false solution to climate change, which makes global warming worse.
2. REDD lets climate criminals like Shell and Chevron off the hook because it allows polluters to use forests as supposed sponges for their greenhouse gas and toxic pollution, instead of reducing pollution at source.
3. REDD lets polluters keep polluting and sickening Californians with asthma and cancer.
4. REDD has no guarantees to prevent human rights abuses. REDD is already causing social conflict and land grabs in Chiapas, Mexico, and violating Indigenous Peoples’ rights including the right to free, prior and informed consent.
California must not let climate criminals like Shell and Chevron off the hook, sicken its citizens, nor contribute to human rights violations. California must reject REDD now. Mother Earth depends on it.
CC:
Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Assistant Secretary for Climate Policy,
California Environmental Protection Agency
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95812
Arsenio Mataka, Subsecretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs,
California Environmental Protection Agency
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95812
Ronda Bowen, Ombudsman,
California Environmental Protection Agency
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95812
Jason A. Gray
Staff Counsel, California Air Resources Board
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95812

Stop California REDD! Stop REDD Worldwide!
Stop California REDD Now! | Indigenous Environmental Network:

Don't Outlaw Seed Saving #saveseed

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We don't accept this. Let us keep our seeds EU!
To: How many here know that the EU is preparing legislation that will make it illegal to grow crops that are not on a list of approved seeds?, Please sign EU have to stop this!

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Thanks so much,
Jessina

Save the Bees & Birds

Save the Bees & Birds: Don't Let the EPA Approve Another Toxic Insecticide
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10659

End Ecocide in Europe

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) is a direct democratic tool enabling EU citizens to propose EU legislation. Signing an ECI is like voting. When at least 1 million EU citizens from 7 different countries support it, the law will be discussed at EU level. Contrary to an ordinary petition, it has the legal authority to influence politics.
Take action now.
 End Ecocide in Europe

WISH20 – Eradicating Ecocide

Wish20 is a global citizens initiative that maps the growing support for the law of Ecocide and gives world leaders the mandate to make it an international crime.


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WISH20 – Eradicating Ecocide

PETITION: DENOUNCE THE GOP’S SHAMEFUL VOTER SUPPRESSION STRATEGY

Republicans in North Carolina are pushing outrageous legislation that would eliminate up to 95% of all early-voting locations in North Carolina's two largest Democratic-leaning counties – AND make parents pay a tax if their children register to vote at school.

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee