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Allow DNA Testing for Kirstin Blaise Lobato

03/02/2015 Nativegrl77

Please keep Kirstin in your thougts

Feb 20, 2015 — While we await the decision from the Nevada Supreme Court please keep Kirstin in your thoughts and prayers. Let the light of true Justice shine in their eyes. Thank you. Read more

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I’m 18, and I invented a cancer detection test

03/02/2015 Nativegrl77

When I was 15, I invented a new kind of cancer detection test. I’m asking Congress to pass the TALENT Act, which would help gifted kids in under-resourced schools achieve their potential.

Sign Jack’s petition

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My daughter is gay … a message from Dawn Bennet

03/02/2015 Nativegrl77

HarperCollins Publishers: Don’t sanction hostility toward LGBT youth and families.

Dawn Bennett
Nashville, Tennessee

Sign Dawn’s Petition

A branch of HarperCollins Publishers asked me to condemn my daughter’s sexual orientation as a shameful gay lifestyle.

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amazonwatch.org

03/02/2015 Nativegrl77

Victory!
Gas Project in U’wa Territory Dismantled

“TheU’wa people would liketoinform national and international public opinion that the Magallanes gas exploration block has been completely dismantled.Ecopetrol has removed all the machinery that had been found thereina demonstration of respect for our rights as an indigenous people.”What a difference a year can make! In early 2014, Amazon Watch began receiving urgent alerts from Colombia’sU’wa people about a new threat to their territory. In a public communiqué dated February 26th 2014, theU’wa Association denounced the Magallanes gas exploration project as “an imminent threat to the physical, social and cultural integrity of theU’wa indigenous people, along with [their] environment and ancestral territory.”READ THE REST ON EYE ON THE AMAZON

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Weekly Address: Ensuring Hardworking Americans Retire with Dignity

03/02/2015 Nativegrl77

In this week’s address, the President reiterated his commitment to middle-class economics, and to ensuring that all hardworking Americans get the secure and dignified retirement they deserve.

While most financial advisers prioritize their clients’ futures, there are some who direct their clients towards bad investments in return for back-door payments and hidden fees. That’s why, earlier this week, the President announced that he is calling on the Department of Labor to update rules to protect families from conflicts of interest by requiring financial advisers to put their clients’ best interest before their own profits.

The President emphasized his promise to keep fighting for this policy and for others that benefit millions of working and middle-class Americans.

Watch the President’s Weekly Address here.

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My Brother’s Keeper: A Year Later

“Helping more of our young people stay on track. Providing the support they need to think more broadly about their future. Building on what works, when it works, in those critical life-changing moments.”

That’s how President Obama explained the My Brother’s Keeper initiative a year ago when it first launched. And in the 12 months since, we’ve seen a tremendous response from people and organizations at all levels that are answering the President’s call to action.

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A Free and Open Internet

The FCC voted in favor of a strong net neutrality rule to keep the Internet free and open. That happened, in part, because millions of Americans stood up and made their voices heard — by adding their names to petitions, submitting public comments, and talking with other people about why this matters.