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Please call your senators and representative IMMEDIATELY and ask them to support a final tax bill that includes the extension of the renewable energy tax credit program.

Call Your Legislators Today to Extend the Renewable Energy Tax Credits

You’ve probably heard that Congress is currently working on a bipartisan effort to extend tax breaks for U.S. families and businesses. Included in that process is the renewable energy tax credit program, which is set to expire this December. This grant program has been critical to the growth of the renewable energy sector and has supported the development of thousands of clean energy jobs over the past two years.

If this program is renewed, the wind industry alone is poised to create 20,000 new jobs in 2011. If Congress allows it to expire, Americans will be laid off, while we lose the clean energy manufacturing race with China.

Decisions on these critical clean energy tax credits could happen in the next day or so. Please call your senators and representative IMMEDIATELY and ask them to support a final tax bill that includes the extension of the renewable energy tax credit program.
Click here to find your legislators’ phone numbers, talking points for your call, and an easy form you can use to report back to us. Any information you provide will help us in our efforts.

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Sincerely,

Megan Rising
National Field Organizer
UCS Climate and Energy Program

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PASS The Dream Act …do it for Gaby

12/07/2010 Nativegrl77

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Do it for Gaby
A vote on the DREAM Act: this week

This week, Congress will vote on the DREAM Act & decide the future of millions of America’s youth.

Gaby Pacheco is one of those millions. Use our click-to-call tool below to make a phone call and listen to Gaby’s story. After you listen, we will connect you to your Senator to tell them the pass the DREAM Act.

Click here to hear Gaby’s story & call Congress

It’s important to remind Congress (and ourselves) that this fight is not about an abstract policy debate. This fight is about the lives of DREAM youth across the country. This is about Gaby and the millions like her.

Do it for Gaby.

Thank you,
Marissa Graciosa
Reform Immigration FOR America

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Does Monsanto tell you what to eat?

12/07/2010 Nativegrl77

CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement.

Fix our broken food system.

Stop Big Food.

Urge the Department of Justice and Department of Agriculture to break up the agribusiness giants.

Note: Along with our allies, CREDO has gathered over 240,000 comments against consolidation in the food industry. Our friends at Food Democracy Now! are delivering them at a special meeting with the USDA this week. As consumers, we have a vested interest in the future of our food system. Can you help us get to 250,000?

America’s supermarket bounty is deceiving. Of those hundreds of brands on grocery store shelves, the vast majority are owned by a handful of industrial food companies like Kraft, Conagra and General Mills.

This concentration of power in the hands of a few large corporations is repeated in all sectors of the food system — from Monsanto’s stranglehold on seeds, to Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America‘s control over our milk, to Smithfield, JBS and Cargill’s near total dominance of meat processing. But there was nothing inevitable about this kind of corporate control of our food. Decades of deregulation and governmental inattention to industrial consolidation brought us our broken food system, one that features non-stop food safety recalls, an obesity epidemic and the hollowing out of rural America as family farmers are forced to sell out to corporate interests.

It’s time to stop letting Big Food control what we eat. Urge the Obama administration to fix our broken food system.

The Departments of Justice and Agriculture have convened a set of “workshops” over the last few months to discuss potential antitrust practices by the agribusiness giants who control of the food industry. Family farmers were finally able to air some of their grievances against the abusive practices by large food corporations. Though only a baby step, these workshops represented one of the first admissions from the US government that its past policies have weakened, rather than strengthened, our food system.

Please sign the letter thanking Holder and Vilsack for the workshops and demanding they follow up with real action on antitrust enforcement. The era of Big Food must come to an end.

Thank you for working to break up the food monopoly.

Adam Klaus, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets