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End Federal Funding for Corporate Charter Schools. Comments NOW due 4/18.

Action #1: Email the U.S. Department of Education to advocate for the end of corporate charter schools and support accountability and transparency for all schools taking our tax dollars.

How do I do this?

Action #2: Sign the Network for Public Educations’ petition here.

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Melissa Lucio needs a village right now.

The state that cares so much about motherhood that it puts bounties on women getting abortions, is now willing to wrongly execute one.

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California’s two main retirement systems are financing climate chaos. MAKE A CALL TODAY!

CalPERS and CalSTRS have an estimated $9 BILLION invested in fossil fuel production. For eight years, their members have called for their pensions to divest. The Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 1173) would require CalPERS and CalSTRS to divest from fossil fuels by July 2027.

SB 1173 will be heard TODAY, MONDAY, 4/4, in the Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee.

We need lots of supporters to call in with quick public comments like this one:

Pick your script!

  • “I’m [NAME] and I’m calling in from [WHERE YOU LIVE] to say that I strongly support SB 1173.”
  • “My name is [NAME]. I’m with [ORGANIZATION] and we strongly support SB 1173.”
  • “I’m [NAME], I’m a CalPERS/STRS member with [ORGANIZATION], and we strongly support SB 1173.”

HOW TO CALL IN ON SB-1173

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Seriously, CBS? Walter Cronkite must be spinning…

FOX CBS has actually hired one of Trump’s most venal shills. Make sure the home of Walter Cronkite hears our outrage.

Sample email/call: [email: Dear Mr. Cheeks, Wendy McMahon,]

It was journalistic malpractice to hire a treasonous extremist like Mick Mulvaney as an on-air contributor. Not only did this fanboy of Russian-style autocracy give cover to Trump’s Ukraine shake-down, he tried to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, provided security clearances to unqualified people and misrepresented the seriousness of the pandemic. Why are you aiding and abetting a GOP takeover in November by allowing this traitorous liar to provide toxic and slanted takes on the actions of Biden and Democrats? That’s FOX News’ job.

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Tell these 6 companies that they can’t claim to support women while donating to GOP legislators!

No more business as usual. We now have the tools to keep track of you.

There was once a line that the forced-birthers were traditionally reluctant to cross – their bills didn’t target women directly – instead they focused on onerous requirements for clinics and medical professionals. Texas then upped the ante by putting a bounty on those who aid women get abortions after 6 weeks. Missouri is now trying to extend the concept beyond their state’s borders and Idaho responded to the criticism of strangers suing strangers by allowing only family members, including those of rapists, to sue abortion providers. However heinous these bills are, they still concentrate on trapping women into carrying a fetus to term by removing their support system.

Texas has crossed that line with a bill targeting women directly – the logical extension of all GOP rhetoric. TX Rep. Bryan Slaton’s bill, filed last year, would “abolish and criminalize abortions, leaving women and physicians who perform the procedure to face criminal charges that could carry the death penalty,” with no exceptions for rape and incest. It’s only a matter of time before this becomes the model that other red states emulate.

Action – send six emails – Samples included

Judd Legum of Popular Information put out a new article about six companies who claim to be pro-woman while giving loads to money to lawmakers who’ve sponsored awful abortion bills in Idaho, Arizona, and Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, etc.

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Demand Biden and Congress wield their power to attack climate and fuel issues.

(Graph here.)

Action #1: Let’s Go, Joe! Ask Biden to use his executive powers to invoke the Defense Production Act.

Option #1: You can use this form from Indivisible National here: https://act.newmode.net/action/indivisible-project/email-president-biden-and-tell-him-declare-national-climate-emergency

Option #12: (indivisibles.f.) Sample email to Biden: We are united behind you in supporting Ukraine’s fight against Putin’s invasion, and applaud your bold action in getting our allies to join the US in releasing 60 million barrels from strategic petroleum reserves. Unfortunately, in spite of your direct appeals to oil company executives to help the world curb Putin’s aggression, oil prices at the pump continue to rise. 

It’s time to use your authority under the Defense Production Act to issue executive orders to address this crisis:

  • Bring down energy prices by declaring a National Climate Emergency and invoking the Defense Production Act to both increase the production of renewable energy and “combat and prohibit hoarding and price gouging with respect to those [oil and gas] resources” as the Trump administration did regarding PPE during the pandemic, and
  • Use the DPA to increase production of renewable energy, convert all federal vehicles to electric power, including postal vehicles, and steer the nation’s economy away from dependence on fossil fuels.
  • Save tens of thousands of lives annually by updating and strengthening clean air and water protections.
  • Require new residential and public construction to incorporate electric charging stations.

We also ask you to make additional releases from the strategic oil reserve to counter shortage-caused price spikes as needed. That’s the main purpose of the strategic reserve; now is the time to use it.

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Today is World Water Day! Tell your legislators that the time to plan for a water emergency is NOW!

How many people were alarmed by the story in the graphic? Rio Verde Foothills, an unincorporated area on the outskirts of Scottsdale, Arizona, near Phoenix, has NO water. ZERO. ZIP. The ground water in that area is tapped out. They were subsisting with the use of water haulers, but they are no longer allowed to make deliveries due to the Tier I water shortage on the Colorado River. Communities in CA and across the nation are more vulnerable that we think and 2.2 million people in the U.S. are currently living without access to running water.
  • Action #1: One minute challenge – #MyGroundwaterStory
  • Action #2: Pass H.R.1352/S.916 – Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2021 (WATER Act) for water justice.
  • Action #3: Pass H.R.7182/S.3886 – The Future of Water Act – stop Wall Street’s gambling with our water.

Action #1: One minute challenge – #MyGroundwaterStory

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3/21: Tell President Biden: No More Fossil Fuels near the Great Lakes! Deadline 3/22.

This is a great tutorial on Enbridge’s history with Line 5.

A written synopsis of Enbridge’s compliance issues and Line 5’s safety here.

Last January, President Biden committed to correcting environmental injustices and challenged the fossil fuel industry to stop exacerbating the climate crisis. Right now, in Wisconsin, he has the opportunity to follow through on this commitment.

Last month, hundreds of people took the time to protest the expansion of the Line 5 tar sands pipeline through Wisconsin, uplifting the threat it poses to tribal treaty rights, local waterways, and the Great Lakes.

Now, 35 organizations (28 from Quebec) including Équiterre, David Suzuki Foundation, Eau Secours, Regroupement Vigilance Hydrocarbures Québec and The Council of Canadians have sent a letter supporting the closure of Line 5 (attached). Their message is clear: this pipeline is too dangerous and those fighting to keep it open do not speak in our name. (Excellent report on alternatives here.)

 Now, we must join them to call on the Biden Administration to reject Line 5’s permit to drill under White River which would devastate the water quality of Lake Superior. 

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“Aid and Comfort” to an enemy of democracy – there is now a list.

Latest Updates: (MT) Johnson & Johnson, Decathlon Halt Business in Russia.

“All American companies must leave their market immediately because it is flooded with our blood.” – President Volodymyr Zelensky 

“There isn’t a both-sides anymore.” – Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management.

This CBS video is a good introduction to Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his list of U.S. corporations and their relationship to Russia.

Pulling the economic chair out from under Putin will take more than seizing yachts. Although Tucker-flavored propaganda and threats are still convincing to many Russians, fights over empty shelves in grocery stores are cracks in Kremlin control. Although Putin assures them that “we will solve all these problems while working in a calm fashion,” impromptu violence over shortages are warnings of larger-scale revolts which could engulf and distract Putin from his plans for a brutal “self-cleansing.” And the faster he runs out of money for soldiers and guns, the more people might survive in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, in shades of the Holocaust, there are news reports of assassination lists, the forceable deportation of thousands of Ukrainians “refugees” to Russia and according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Putin’s plans to saw Ukraine up into four powerless states: Crimea, New Russia, Little Russia, and West Ukraine.

UPDATE: Anonymous has entered the field, targeting companies that haven’t left Russia yet. Nestle, whose only apparent concession was to stop selling KitKat and Nesquik, has had a data breach of more than 50k business customers.

We have two missions:

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There are a lot of great options for federal judges. Jennifer Rearden isn’t one of them.

  • Action #1: Seriously. What the hell?
  • Action #2: Extra Credit – “Dear Joe…” Write to Biden to pardon Steven Donziger and withdraw his support of Rearden.

(Graphic source and story link here)

Action #1: Seriously. What the hell?

Truly, we have not missed writing negative reviews for fascist Federalist judical nominations. So we’re disappointed that this handmaiden for the oligarchy, originally nominated by Trump for the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, is a nominee now. Rearden has personally litigated cases defending housing discrimination, overturning worker protections, and challenging improved access to transportation for wheelchair users. She fought for Chevron to criminalize the lawyer who won a $9.5 billion suit against them for Ecuadoran farmers.

Her equally toxic firm, Gibson Dunn, has defended corporations for lying about climate science, obstructed measures to address systemic racism, opposed vital protections for workers, and violated human rights both here and abroad. In no way does she “represent the best of America” that Biden promised for his judicial nominees.

Minimal script: I’m calling from [zip code] to ask Senator [Feinstein, Padilla], as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to stop Jennifer Rearden from advancing further. It’s obvious why Trump nominated her – she’s worked against the interests of workers, the disabled, and the environment. Her law firm represents Big Oil and Gas, and has a history of suing environmental nonprofits and engaging in “legal thuggery.” It’s disappointing that Biden hasn’t removed her.

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