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ACA & Rachel’s Story … it’s real

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The results are different for everyone

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Only $58,999,753 more to go …

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Wouldn’t it be great if our schools had all the money they need and oil companies had to hold a bake sale to fund their tax loopholes?

Sen. Rodney Tom and his Republican caucus have refused to close the Big Oil tax loophole, so we decided to act. On Monday, we held a bake sale at the Capitol with a goal of selling 59 million brownies and cookies – enough to make up for the $59 million our schools lose to the Big Oil tax loophole.

The response from progressive legislators and activists at the Capitol was incredible. In the end, we raised $247 for the Education Legacy Trust Account, which unfortunately leaves our schools $58,999,753 short. We could bake a lot more cookies, but it would be easier for the Senate to close the Big Oil tax loophole and devote the funding to our schools.

Oil companies like BP and Shell are some of the most profitable in the world. They don’t need our taxpayers dollars. Our kids’ classrooms do. Will you share this graphic to spread the word about closing the Big Oil tax loophole?

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Stop Goldman Sachs ~~ Send a CAN

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“[Goldman Sachs] is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” – Matt Taibbi¹

Please click on Graphic and Send a Can

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Five Ways the CFPB Can Help You With Your Student Loans

03/13/2014 Nativegrl77

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a new government agency created after the financial crisis

– Their mission is to make markets for consumer financial products and services work for Americans

— whether they are applying for a mortgage, choosing among credit cards, or using any number of other consumer financial products.

Above all, this means ensuring that consumers get the information they need to make the financial decisions they believe are best for themselves and their families—that prices are clear up-front, that risks are visible, and that nothing is buried in the fine print. In a market that works, consumers should be able to make direct comparisons among products and no provider should be able to use unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices.

StudentDebtCrisis.org wants our members to know that there is help available for student loan borrowers. Here are 5 tools that can help you with your student loans, whether you are a first time borrower, or even if you’re in default. Check out these great tools provided by the CFPB to help you navigate your own loan situation:

1. If you are a new borrower, or you’re considering taking out student loans, check out the CFPB tool for New Borrowers – Paying for College.

2. If you already have student debt, use this tool for Existing Borrowers Repaying Student Debt.

3. Suffering in Student Loan Default? What are your rights as a defaulted borrower? Click here to find out.

4. If you are having trouble with your lender, or feel that something illegal has taken place regarding your student loan – Submit a complaint to the CFPB.

5. For general inquiries, check out the CFPB’s Q & A section Ask CFPB.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support!

Sincerely,

StudentDebtCrisis.org

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Greg Sutherland, via Rainforest Action Network

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Pledge of Resistance

Pledge of Resistance volunteers march to TransCanada’s office in Houston. September 16, 2013.

When the march began, I was nervous. I had never done anything like this before, but by the time we reached the Houston office of TransCanada, the company trying to build the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, my nervousness had washed away. I was resolved and ready to be arrested for blocking the entrance to TransCanada’s office. When the police came for me, my voice was hoarse from chanting for President Obama to stop the pipeline.
I decided to risk arrest because I don’t want to leave my four grandchildren with a hellish world of climate disasters and resource wars. I hate that they might have to live in a much more dangerous, polluted and inhospitable world when they are my age. To protect the climate and usher in the future they deserve, we must collectively take on hundreds of tasks to transition to a clean energy economy in next five years. And stopping Keystone XL is one very concrete thing that we can do to protect the climate RIGHT NOW.
Will you help me stop the pipeline by joining the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance?
The Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance is a project bringing together tens of thousands of people to risk arrest in peaceful civil disobedience, if necessary, to make it politically unfeasible for President Obama to approve the pipeline.
As for myself, I am organizing a Pledge of Resistance action in Atlanta because I want to demonstrate to the President that people all across the country are commited to fighting climate change, even in conservative Georgia, where I live. Hundreds of other volunteers are organizing actions in every part of the country. We need your help to make the actions as big as possible. If we do that, we can demand the President represent the people and not the corporations and reject Keystone XL.
Please join me in the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance and commit to participating in a peaceful civil disobedience action to call on the President to reject Keystone XL.
The bonds I formed with the twelve others arrested in Houston are some of the most powerful I’ve ever made in such a short time. Those bonds, along with the tens of thousands coming together in the Pledge of Resistance, have made clear to me that we are finally ready to take the urgent stand necessary to protect the climate. If we take that stand, President Obama will not be able to ignore us.
Join the Pledge of Resistance to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.