4-25-11 HEALTH, BUDGET, MEDIA, ENVIRONMENT, INTERNATIONAL, SPEAKERS EVENTS, EFFECTIVE ACTIVISM EFFECTIVE ACTIVISM

HEALTH

• Care2       Protect Food Safety from Corporate Interference

• Corporate Accountability  International         Tell Coca-Cola: Come Clean About the Source of Dasani

BUDGET

• Bernie Sanders     budget poll

• Credo      Tell Congress: End oil subsidies

• Leahy for Vermont    Help Obama stick with his pledge in end tax cuts for the rich

MEDIA

•  Free Press   Two months ago, the House passed a budget that cut all funding for public broadcasting. As the Senate considered compromises in its own bill, NPR and PBS came under relentless assault from partisan pundits and politicians.   Then, you and more than 100,000 Free Press activists made calls, sent emails, signed petitions and attended rallies to defend NPR and PBS against these shameless attacks.  You raised a ruckus, and it paid off. The budget compromise restored public broadcasting funding for the remainder of the 2012 fiscal year.

• Watch FAIR’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Live Online!  Thursday, April 28th at 7pm.    Renowned activist and scholar Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore are all coming together for a special evening to support FAIR.

• hearusnow.org     to senator   Support a strong online privacy bill!

• ACLU   Ask internet providers to tell you when the government is asking for your information so that you can protect yourself;    Disclose how often they share information with the government.   Stand up for user privacy in the courts and in Congress.   Advocate for an update to the outdated Electronic Privacy Communications Act (ECPA) which was passed in 1986, before the Internet as we know it today even existed.

ENVIRONMENT

• Save bio gems     Your message will be sent to: Your senators & representative    Protect our water Co-sponsor H.R. 1084/S. 587 and H.R. 1204 and close oil and gas loopholes in environmental laws

• Amersicas wildlife      Giving the Land a Voice     youth photography contest 15-24

• Oregon Conservation Network       Action Alert: to your state representative – Your voice is needed to stop a rollback of existing fish protection laws!

• Earthjustice    senators and representative    stop mercury pollution from Cement Plants

INTERNATIONAL

• FCNL    Urge Congress: Don’t Cut U.N. Funding     The money that the United States contributes to the United Nations is vital to global conflict prevention. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is preparing legislation to halve U.S. contributions to the U.N. unless the international body meets strict requirements that would undermine its effectiveness. Find out more about the proposed legislation and urge your representative to speak out against Rep. Ros-Lehtinen’s anti-U.N. bill.

SPEAKERS EVENTS

• Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecturer Frances Moore Lappé speaking Wednesday, May 4, 7:30 PM, LaSelles      Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and eighteen other books, will be the 28th Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecturer for World Peace.  She will be speaking on Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Auditorium of the LaSelles Stewart Center on the “Clarity, Creativity, and Courage for the World We Really Want”.  Ms. Lappé has notably widened the discussion of world hunger by focusing on its root causes in poverty and injustice.  These, in turn, she traces to our “thin democracy,” to which she offers the antidote of “living democracy,” that is, making conscious and informed choices about what we buy and how we live our lives.

• CASSE      5 May 2011     The Great Disruption — Discussion and Book Signing by Paul Gilding     Mercy Corps Action Center, Portland, Oregon

EFFECTIVE HOMECHAIR ACTIVISM

• FCNL      pdf of “lobbying” suggestions for activists re;emails, letters, faxes and phone calls

• theprogressiveslate   After taking 4 months off, the 2011 Refresh Everything contest is getting started in May and we’re giving it another shot! We have a ton of great new partners we’re working with (as well as some old ones!). We’ll be announcing the new list on Sunday and kicking off the new month of voting