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Pepsi … SNL style

04/14/2017 Nativegrl77

don’t be tone … deaf

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No. No. No. Never going to let Trump privatize the VA

04/14/2017 Nativegrl77

In the last twenty-four hours, more than 20,000 veterans, military family members, and VoteVets supporters have signed our petition calling on Congress to oppose any effort that would privatize veterans’ health care.

That includes hundreds of individuals who currently use the VA for their health care needs. But there’s one name missing from our petition. And it’s an important one. Yours.

VoteVets Government Affairs Director and Iraq War Veteran Will Fischer recorded a video outlining the stakes here. Watch it at this link and add your name to our petition today.

When Congress takes up VA privatization, we want to come into the debate from a position of strength. Your signature on our petition right now ensures that we will. That’s why this is so important.

All our best,

– The team at VoteVets

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2017 will be a loud year (Get your voice)

04/14/2017 Nativegrl77

We will not shut up anytime soon. Right now, the most dangerous thing would be our silence. Can you imagine what would have happened if last month we had stayed quiet when Trumpcare threatened to take healthcare away from 24 million Americans? If on Tuesday we didn’t call out Spicer for his historically ignorant comments? If we gave up on transparency to our President’s potential conflicts of interest and remained silent when he refused to release his tax returns?

We will not be silent, and we’re not going away.

we are taking to the streets to #resist by participating in Tax Marches all over the country, and as documentary storytellers, we’re using our expertise to document and sustain this movement. Will you resist with us?

We just released Tax Dodge, to mobilize activists and educate audiences about Trump’s failure to hold his Wall-Street friends accountable while screwing the rest of us. We reached 180,000 people in the first 24-hours, and we need your help to continue this work.

Will you donate $5 a month to sustain the impact of our work? We’re well on our way to 1,000 monthly subscribers by Tax Day, and together we’re building a community of monthly donors using film to agitate audiences to action. Become an Agitator today with a monthly donation of $5, and you’ll receive a subscription membership to Brave New Films.

What does it mean to be an Agitator? It means you will be helping to produce compelling video campaigns that put a human face to policy, give a voice to the voiceless, and challenge silence by calling for action.

Campaigns like:
Tax Dodge: The Carried Interest Loophole. A short impact film that serves as a tool for organizing and agitating audiences to action. Exposing Donald Trump and the carried interest loophole, just another example of his hypocrisy and failure to hold his Wall-Street friends accountable while screwing the rest of us. This film is mobilizing activists for this weekend’s Tax March. Featured on Huffington Post, and Yahoo.

Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda. We are helping educate audiences with a step-by-step guide on how to take the most important actions and navigate the political world to make sure your voice is heard. 500,000 people have already downloaded this guide. This film was shown on CNN as part of a story on the movement.

Will you become an Agitator today and donate $5 a month? We’re building a community of monthly donors using film to agitate audiences to action.

Thank you for your support.

Jim Miller, Executive Director
Brave New Films

P.S. Find a Tax March near you by clicking here.

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TELL CONGRESS: NO CUTS TO FOREIGN AID

04/14/2017 Nativegrl77

International assistance makes up just about 1% of the federal budget, but it provides lifesaving aid to tens of millions of people worldwide. Stand up for families in need by telling Congress that any cuts to foreign aid are unacceptable.

SIGN THE PETITION ▸

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Eye on the Amazon

04/14/2017 Nativegrl77

Trouble for Oil in the Peruvian Amazon?

Reports of oil companies leaving the Peruvian Amazon made weekly headlines in March, providing encouragement to those of us who love the Amazon and know that humanity must move away from fossil fuels. In addition to the announcement by two oil companies that they will abandon drilling projects in important oil blocks, a Peruvian court annulled a controversial oil contract within indigenous territories for lack of proper consultation.

Of course, all this news comes on the heels of a disastrous 2016 for the Peruvian Amazon, dominated by repeated reports of oil spills along the Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline. The year culminated in three and a half months of indigenous mobilizations that forced an extensive series of agreement with the national government. At the same time, over the course of 2016 some fifteen oil block contracts ended. While oil continues to be a major threat to the Amazon and indigenous peoples, these developments might be indicative of a positive trend.