Monthly Archives: April 2017

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The Leuser Ecosystem: we all depend on it!


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Wow.   The “Love the Leuser Ecosystem” movement is receiving worldwide attention, thanks to you.Your messages, your Facebook shares, your Tweets, and your involvement has helped share this amazing place to thousands of people who never would have heard of it otherwise. Thank you!

This kind of exposure is key – if we want to protect this amazing place, we have to make it too famous for companies to destroy for profit. Help make the Leuser as famous as the Grand Canyon, the Amazon, and the Great Barrier reef – please share the campaign with your friends and family now

This week we’re focused on the importance of the Leuser Ecosystem for the entire globe. Because no matter where you live, the Leuser Ecosystem is providing you with a critical service: as one of the largest intact forests in Southeast Asia containing three of the planet’s most indispensable carbon-rich peatlands, the Leuser Ecosystem is vital for storing atmospheric carbon and preventing further global climate change. If the flap of a butterfly’s wing can trigger a tornado a thousand miles away, the health of the Leuser Ecosystem is connected directly to the air we all breathe and the health of our shared climate. In fact, the climate crisis simply cannot be solved without ensuring forests like the Leuser continue to thrive and hold their carbon underground.

Tell the world that you #LoveTheLeuser for protecting all of us – and future generations – from the destruction of melting ice caps, drought, fire, and rising sea levels.

Help us look back in a few years at a crisis averted through collective action. Help us make a household name out of this astounding rainforest providing the world with a more stable climate.

Help us elevate the Leuser Ecosystem into its rightful place among the Great Barrier Reefs and Grand Canyons of the world – a place so widely loved that no corporation can get away with destroying it without an overwhelming resistance rising to its defense.

And stay tuned! We’ll be in touch soon with more ways that you can plug in and help protect the Leuser.

For the Leuser Ecosystem,

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Forest Campaigner
Rainforest Action Network
lovetheleuser.org

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


VoteVets

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)


Brave New Films

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.

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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.