[LAAMN] Fw: BREAKING: We're Prepared to Strike, Please Support
BREAKING: We're Prepared to Strike, Please Support Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear Romi, Yesterday, a group of warehouse workers in Southern California decided they will strike this week if the retaliation at the warehouse where they work does not end. You can support these brave workers. Sign our petition supporting all workers in Walmart's supply chain. Warehouse workers like David Garcia were terminated and others have been demoted or had their hours dramatically cut just for speaking up for a safe work place. There is good news: Since workers went on strike the first time this September, the company that operates the warehouse has been scrambling to rent fans, add water coolers and fix broken equipment. Now workers no longer have to pay for their own safety equipment. With your support, conditions are improving. Unfortunately, the workers who risked their jobs to win humane working conditions are still being punished and retaliated against. For this reason workers are prepared to strike again. Retaliation anywhere in Walmart’s supply chain should not be tolerated, but workers are speaking up despite the risks. Walmart workers announced they will make Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the biggest shopping day, a national day of action to end retaliation at Walmart. One way you can support workers in Walmart's entire supply chain is to sign our joint petition. Six members of the Walton family, who own half the company, have more wealth than the bottom 42% of American families combined. Walmart is the largest private-sector employer in the world. Walmart must ensure that all workers who help enrich the company are respected and not retaliated against for speaking up. Sincerely, Warehouse Workers United Southern California P.S. If you are in the Los Angeles are, please join us in person. Rally with Warehouse Workers to End Retaliation Thursday, November 15. Like on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Warehouse Worker Relief Fund follow on Twitter | like on Facebook | forward to a friend | Donate Copyright © 2012 Warehouse Workers United, All rights reserved. Final sign on letter list from strike. Our mailing address is: Warehouse Workers United 601 S Milliken Ave, Suite AOntario, CA 91761 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Fw: Breaking News: Trayvon Prosecutor foregoes grand jury
NAACP Romi, This afternoon, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey made a surprising announcement: She decided to forego a grand jury in the Trayvon Martin case. Her decision has put the responsibility of whether or not to prosecute George Zimmerman squarely on her shoulders, and hers alone. Thousands of NAACP members around the country have marched on behalf of Trayvon Martin and his family in the last few weeks. Thousands more have prayed and held vigils in his name. Tens of thousands of you have appealed to Florida State Attorney Corey, asking her to passionately pursue justice in the case. In light of today's news, we've got to redouble our efforts. Please sign the petition to Prosecutor Corey today - and when you are done, spread the word to your friends and colleagues: http://action.naacp.org/page/m/474a3436/79932a57/7d6b5d61/2f617041/308911330/VEsE/ From day one, Trayvon's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, have been pillars of courage. Even in their suffering, they have stood unwaveringly for justice. Their example has inspired a global movement for justice for Trayvon. Clearly, the Sanford police mishandled the investigation into Trayvon's death from the beginning. But we now have an opportunity to ensure that justice delayed does not become justice denied. Our most important task is to act now to make sure Prosecutor Corey handles Trayvon's case with an eye for justice. Join our call to Prosecutor Corey for justice for Trayvon--and all our children: http://action.naacp.org/sign-the-letter Thank you for your support. Together, we will continue our fight for justice. Ben Benjamin Todd Jealous President CEO NAACP PS: The NAACP recently held a rally for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Watch the video of highlights from our Justice for Trayvon Rally. Donate | Join the NAACP | Blog | Take Action | Find Your Local Unit [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Fw: BREAKING
Greenpeace Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser Romi, I just wanted to give you an update on our activities in North Carolina. Just minutes ago, activists greeted employees at Duke headquarters with a message: We’re not going away until you clean up your act. Duke its CEO Jim Rogers keep claiming they support using renewable energy, and yet they’re spending their time and money by investing in more dirty coal. We need to get 50,000 letters to Duke by tonight and we’re almost there. Send your message to Jim Rogers right now and tell him to dump dirty coal! Thanks, Robert If you can't access this link, go to https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=displaypage=UserActionid=1023 Activists have taken a stand at a coal plant in North Carolina to send a message: Dirty energy is not the answer. Help back up these activists by sending the same message yourself to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers right now. Just moments ago activists took a stand at a coal-fired power plant in North Carolina. Duke Energy is looking to acquire the company that owns the plant, Progress Energy. If the deal goes down, Duke will not only be the largest utility in the country but also one of the dirtiest. That’s because both companies rely on destructive practices like mountaintop removal for getting their coal and neither is making very much progress toward renewable energy. These activists are there to send a clear message to Duke: Dirty energy is not the answer. But you don’t have to be at a coal plant to send the same message yourself. Help back up the activists and help us reach our goal of 50,000 letters to Duke CEO Jim Rogers in the next 48 hours by sending the same message yourself right now. Companies like Duke know they can do better and have invested a lot of money in convincing the public they are. Jim Rogers himself recently acknowledged that his company and other utilities are in a “unique position...to deploy solutions, to raise the capital and not raise the national debt, to do it at scale...” Unfortunately, their behavior doesn't match that rhetoric. Duke continues to rely on dirty old coal plants like the one these activists are at today in North Carolina. Polluting the air, destroying mountains, poisoning the water and killing the climate in the process. And Duke’s planned merger with Progress Energy seems to only be leading them down more dead ends -- more dangerous nuclear plants, more dirty biomass, and more coal-fired power plants. In other words, more global warming. Duke can make a different choice if they want to. But that will only happen if we call them out. That’s why activists have taken a stand today at a coal plant in North Carolina today to get the message across, and it’s why you should take a minute to deliver the same message yourself right now. Quit Coal, Robert Gardner Greenpeace Coal Campaigner Click here to forward this message. Greenpeace 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 | 1-800-722-6995 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] FW: BREAKING: This Morning in New York City...
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:58:40 -0500 From: messen...@truthout.org To: coz42...@hotmail.com Subject: BREAKING: This Morning in New York City... Last night, I watched lower Manhattan turn into a militarized lockdown. The park known as Liberty Square was apparently cleared by force, though I arrived 20 minutes after the police barricades encircled a two-block radius, kicked out all media and prevented all foot traffic on public sidewalks surrounding the park. This was expected. The emergency text message went out at 1:00 AM and read, URGENT: Hundreds of police mobilizing around Zuccotti. Eviction in progress! prompting a mass mobilization of people like me, part-time protesters who signed up to converge on the park for the looming police raid on the physical heart of the Occupy movement. The police were prepared for this flood of bodies. Many subway stops were shut down, as was the Brooklyn Bridge. My go bag had been packed for weeks, waiting for just this moment. I laced up my boots, and spent an agonizing 20 minutes on the subway from Brooklyn. Upon arrival in lower Manhattan, I struggled for about two hours to get to a position where I could see into the park, to no avail. From a block away, I saw massive piles of what used to be supplies dumped into waiting trucks. People's major concerns were two-fold: first, the health and safety of the occupiers locked in the camp; and second, the 5,000 books of the Occupy Wall Street library. What a picture it would be (maybe it exists) of police in riot gear gathering boxes of donated books and loading them into garbage trucks. A perfect metaphor for what appears to be the intention of last night's raid: destroying the body of knowledge that had been collected by a movement just two months old, which was built by collective effort, literally from the ground up. After four hours of wandering in groups and alone on the dark, empty streets of lower Manhattan, Foley Square, a park rich with the history of labor struggles in New York City, became the rallying point. After a short discussion with the handful of police on hand, Foley Square was determined to be a safe zone - for the time being. Here I sit, watching the pulse of the Occupy Wall Street movement strengthen. Stories of arrests are being exchanged over a breakfast of apples and muffins. A sleepless crowd is beginning to be reinforced by New Yorkers from around the city as the morning news streams images of a camp turned back into a barren, soulless corporate park known as Zuccotti. But the drums are back. The spirit and the idea of the Occupy movement has only been strengthened. Today is the end of the beginning, and what has been built cannot be disbanded. Now, we stand at the beginning of the next phase, looking into the eyes of the people who created a new consciousness and a new politics. Today is November 15, 2011, a beautiful day tainted only by the physical harm of those who left their blood and sweat on the cement of Liberty Park. Please support Truthout as we cover this revolutionary history in the making. We're skating on the edge and we need you there with us. Can you make a donation so we can continue this vital coverage? Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 In solidarity, Matt Renner, Director of Development and Communications -- Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation by clicking here. To ensure you receive our messages please add the following address to your email address book: messen...@truthout.org Click here to Subscribe Our Privacy Policy Click here to Unsubscribe Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2:
[LAAMN] Fw: BREAKING: House votes to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding
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Dear Romi,
Minutes ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to bar Planned Parenthood
from all federal funding for any purpose whatsoever. That means no funding to
Planned Parenthood health centers for birth control, lifesaving cancer
screenings, HIV testing, and other essential care.
By far, this is the most dangerous legislative assault on women's health in our
history, and it cannot go unanswered. We need you to stand united with us now.
We need you to stand with Planned Parenthood and with the three million women,
men, and teens we serve, who are now at risk of losing access to basic care.
We've drafted an open letter to every single representative in the House who
voted for this cruel, unconscionable, unthinkable bill, and to every senator
who still has a chance to stop it. Will you sign it — and share it right now?
AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS
To the members of the House of Representatives who voted for the Pence
Amendment to H.R. 1:
How could you?
How could you betray millions of women — and men, and teens — who rely on
Planned Parenthood for basic health care?
How could you condemn countless women in this country to undiagnosed cancer,
unintended pregnancies, and untreated illnesses?
Your vote was not only against those who seek care at Planned Parenthood health
centers, but against every one of us who has ever sought care there, and
against every one of us who knows that when we are healthy, when we are in
charge of our lives, we thrive.
It was a vote against me.
To every senator who will soon consider this legislation:
I stand with Planned Parenthood to say to you: STOP THIS.
I stand with Planned Parenthood and the hundreds of thousands of people from
every walk of life and every corner of this country who join me in signing this
letter to tell you that we will fight this bill and we expect you to do the
same.
I stand with and for the millions of women, men, and teens who rely on Planned
Parenthood, and I expect you to do the same.
To every member of Congress, know that we stand together today against this
outrageous assault, and together we will not lose.
Romi, this fight will continue next week when our legislators return to their
home districts, and when the vote heads to the U.S. Senate the following week.
Your voice, your strength, and your unwavering support are absolutely critical,
now and in the weeks ahead. I am so glad to know you are with us during this
very challenging time.
Sincerely,
Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
P.S. Thank you also for your patience as these ongoing threats to Planned
Parenthood require us to communicate with you so frequently.
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[LAAMN] Fw: BREAKING: Fake photos on BP website
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Congress: We need an investigation to find out why BP posted a fake photo of
their crisis response center—and
what else they're hiding.
Sign the petition
Dear MoveOn member,
It's just been reported that BP posted a fake, Photoshopped picture of their
crisis response center on their website.1
This is hugely troubling. If BP doctored a picture on their website, what else
are they
lying about? And why did they fake this picture in the first place? What are
they hiding?
This also fits a pattern of stonewalling and misinformation by BP throughout
this crisis.
The public needs to know what's really going on—and a scandal like this can
really increase the pressure for
more transparency.
That's why we're calling on Congress to open an investigation into BP's faked
photo
and any other information they may have hidden or doctored. Click the link
below to add your name to the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/bpfakephotos/o.pl?id=21923-3339930-XCwW1rxt=3
The petition says, Congress: We need an investigation to find out why BP
posted fake
photos of their crisis response center—and what else they're hiding.
Then, please forward this email to your friends and post on Facebook and
Twitter so we can spread the news faster.
From the start of the disaster in the Gulf, BP has hidden information on key
issues. They refused to divulge the results
of tests on the health impacts of exposure to evaporating oil, blocked access
to the affected area, hid video of the broken
wellhead, and more.2
If the public doesn't have access to information, BP could be shielded from
accountability. And we know BP is preparing to fight tooth-and-nail in court
against claims made against them. Just last week, it was reported
that they've been offering huge signing bonuses to scientists at universities
around the Gulf Coast to help them fight lawsuits.3
Now that they've been caught actually Photoshopping a picture, the federal
government must stop trusting BP to share critical
information with the public. We need a full and thorough investigation into why
BP faked this picture—and what else
they're hiding.
Click here to add your name to the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/BPfakephotos/o.pl?id=21923-3339930-XCwW1rxt=4
Thanks for all you do.–Steven, Marika, Jeff, Duncan, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site,
AMERICABlog, July 20, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89585id=21923-3339930-XCwW1rxt=5
Altered BP photo comes into question, The Washington Post, July 20,
2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89584id=21923-3339930-XCwW1rxt=6
2. BP withholds oil spill facts—and government lets it, McClatchy Newspapers,
May 18, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89024id=t=6id=21923-3339930-XCwW1rxt=8
3. BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community,
Mobile Register, July 16,
2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89583id=21923-3339930-XCwW1rxt=9
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[LAAMN] FW: Breaking! UCSB Students Protesting Iraq Shut Down Highway 217! (Update 3)
Breaking! UCSB Students Protesting Iraq Shut Down Highway 217! (Update 3) by VoteHarder http://voteharder.dailykos.com Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 04:17:03 PM PST I just got back from the antiwar protest at UC Santa Barbara, where 3000 students took part in the rally coinciding with today's strike against the war in Iraq (see my last diary for details). Forgive me if this diary seems rushed and nonsensical but my head is spinning right now I'm so happy! The cops are currently blocking the freeway and 300 students are sitting there, waiting to be arrested (I left at 3:05 or so, so they might already be getting cuffed). The rally started at 1 on the west side of campus by the Pardall bike tunnel, as planned, as speakers took turns decrying the war in iraq, congress's total lack of SERIOUS action to stop the war, and the UC's role in the military-industrial complex among other things. A crowd of 2000-3000 students blocked the bike tunnel. Read More About This Event Here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/15/1958/15742 Untainted News on Real World Issues On 90.7 FM KPFK Or 98.7 FM Santa Barbara http://www.kpfk.org/ blocked::http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ blocked::http://www.commondreams.org/ Ara [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
