Mayor to Angle: Come to Dearborn (via Anderson Cooper 360)


Martina Stewart AC360° Digital Producer Editor’s Note: Watch Anderson’s interview with Dearborn Mayor John O’Reilly. (CNN) – Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle will soon receive a personal invitation to visit Dearborn, Michigan – and a bit of the history lesson in the process. Last week at a rally of Tea Party movement supporters, Angle said Dearborn and Frankford, Texas are subject to Sharia, or Islamic law. “We’re talking about a militan … Read More

via Anderson Cooper 360

CNN Hero: ‘We have to fight against this crime and protect the children from this.’ (via Anderson Cooper 360)


Anuradha Koirala is fighting to prevent the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Nepal’s women and girls.”] Programming Note: CNN Heroes received more than ten thousand nominations from 100 countries. A Blue Ribbon Panel selected the Top 10 CNN Heroes for the year. Voting for the CNN Hero of the Year continues through November 18th (6am ET) at C … Read More

via Anderson Cooper 360

Heroes


Anthony Weiner - Newsletter

Click here to sign our petition.When you hear the cough of someone in New York caused by toxic dust from September 11, everyone knows it. These are the people that rushed to the scene to help any way they could, and because of their heroic actions, too many of them are now sick or even dying.

After political back-and-forth, we finally passed a bill in the House to pay for the healthcare these people need. Now we need the Senate to do the same thing. We have an obligation to step up for these Americans the way they stepped up for us.

I’m asking you to do one thing: sign my petition to put pressure on the Senate to pass our House bill quickly. We can’t let first responders go another day without the healthcare they deserve.

Click here to tell the Senate to swiftly pass our bill to fund healthcare for September 11 first responders. We made a commitment that we would never forget that horrific day nine years ago, and this is how we can show them we have not.

The House’s passage was a long-awaited first step towards getting heroic Americans the care and support they undeniably deserve. Now, we need to make sure it sees the light of day in the Senate.

We’ve seen the Senate become a final resting place for too many good bills recently, and we need to band together to make sure this bill becomes law.

Click here to send a clear message to your senators: if you’re a politician who stands up each year in remembrance of September 11, now is the time to follow through on your word. First responders are counting on us in the same way we counted on them.

After nearly a decade passed, the House did the right thing — but it’s not enough. We need the Senate to pass this crucial legislation to provide treatment to over 71,000 people exposed to dangerous toxins on the scene.

Thanks,
Anthony

RE: The Choice


I need you to make a choice today — a choice to help finish what we started together.

Voters go to the polls just three weeks from today. If we let up now, we’ll wake up on Election Day wishing we did more to fight back against the tea party mob and their corporate special interest backers.

That’s why I am writing with a very specific ask today — to own a piece of this campaign. If you could give $28 today, it would cover a grassroots organizing kit for one volunteer, if you gave $35, it covers an actual radio ad in one of our too-close-to-call districts, and $144 covers the cost per point of television in another tough district for us.

We are in 75 make-or-break districts and with 8 more states starting early voting this week, we must raise an additional $500,000.

Please rush an urgent gift today before Friday’s deadline to wire money to campaigns.

Together, we can be the difference between victory and defeat on Election Day.

Onward to Victory,

Jon Vogel
Jon Vogel
DCCC Executive Director

PNC: The Mountaintop Removal Bank


 

Rainforest Action Network

Tell PNC CEO James Rohr to stop financing mountaintop removal.
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Wall Street doesn’t like King Coal anymore. In the last two years, the biggest banks in America have adopted policies to phase out financing of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal.

Unfortunately, PNC didn’t get the memo.

Send PNC CEO James Rohr an email and tell him to stop financing MTR now.

Since 2008, PNC has provided over $130 million to six of the eight largest MTR coal mining companies, including the worst of the worst- Massey Energy. PNC Bank is now the largest financier of mountaintop removal in the US.

While boasting to be the “greenest bank in the business,” PNC continues to bankroll the wholesale destruction of the Appalachian Mountains. Too bad the “greenest bank” is focused solely on greenbacks.

Tell PNC’s CEO to put his money where his mouth is and protect America’s mountains from MTR.

PNC has not made a single attempt to stop financing mountaintop removal. But we want to change that.

RAN and our allies have convinced much larger banks like Chase and Wells Fargo to move away from backing mountaintop removal mining. PNC is next.

We’re not stopping until there isn’t a bank left in the biz willing to finance the flattening of Appalachia and the poisoning of her people.

Thank you for taking action to save America’s mountains!

Scott Parkin

For the mountains,

Scott Parkin
Global Finance Campaign