Monthly Archives: June 2017

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The Senate is Acting Now to Repeal the ACA

Center for American Progress Action FundSenate Republican leaders and the all-male health care working group are meeting behind literal closed doors to continue negotiations on their version of Trumpcare. And guess what? It looks just like the House bill – the one that will strip coverage from 23 million Americans. We’ve also learned that moderate Republican senators—many of whom have promised to protect Medicaid coverage—are actually willing to strip Medicaid coverage from millions of people as long as it happens slowly.

The Senate is serious about voting on Trumpcare by the end of June. That means we probably have just two weeks to stop them.

Take action! Let them know we won’t sit by while they try to take health care away from millions of people.

  1. Go to TrumpcareToolkit.org to contact key Senators on the fence now
  1. Share this video of Joe, Senator Heller’s constituent, who’s only alive because of Medicaid and the ACA.

It’s go time. The Senate is holding the fate of millions of people in their hands. And, no matter how they spin it, all signs suggest they are drafting a bill as cruel as the version the House passed. We must stop them.
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Earthjustice lawyers are working to defend our cherished lands~ Bears Ears


Earthjustice

Meet some of the tribes, towns and organizations fighting to protect precious lands. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe celebrated a significant victory this week in its fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. People across the country are writing to Interior Secretary Zinke to protest plans to shrink Bears Ears National Monument. And Earthjustice lawyers are working to defend our cherished lands in court.

Valley of the Gods. Bears Ears National Monument. (Mason Cummings/TWS)

They started with Bears Ears. These national monuments may be next.
Politicians are keen to hand these national monuments over to industry. But they won’t get around the Antiquities Act without a fight.

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two weeks notice of … ~ Working Washington


We are Working Washington

Seattle’s strongest-in-the-nation secure scheduling law takes effect on July 1st — exactly two weeks from today. That means that if you work in Seattle for a large company or chain in coffee, food, or retail, you will have important new rights:

  • Two week’s notice of your schedule.
  • Predictability pay if the employer changes that schedule.
  • A right to rest — no mandatory clopening shifts.
  • Access to additional hours if you want them.
  • And more, including input into your schedule and a good-faith estimate of your hours.

We put together a page with the key information you need to understand how the law works and what your rights are. We’re asking members like you to help us test it out — and then help us spread the word far & wide.

Check it out, let us know what you think, and then help us make the page even better by asking us any questions you may have.

Whether or not you work in a job that’s directly affected by the law, you should be proud that your support is a big part of the reason that tens of thousands of fast food, coffee and retail workers in Seattle are two weeks away from a breakthrough that will change lives and set a new standard for the entire country.

And if you think that’s good news that ought to be spread far & wide, you can click here to add your thumbs-up in support.

Thanks you for everything you did to help make this happen!

Cheers,

Working Washington

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Is The Hilton building a hotel on a dolphin habitat?


Petitioning Mark Nogal

Prevent Hilton from building a hotel on top of a dolphin breeding ground
Petition by PLANET REHAB
41,669
Supporters
Sign the petition
Hilton, we’re breaking up with you, so that we can save the dolphins before it’s too late!

Hilton Hotels plans on building a large-scale Hilton Curio Botanika Resort and adjacent mega marina on top of a mangrove estuary in Costa Rica, on the Osa Peninsula. By building this resort here, they will fill in a precious river mouth and mangrove estuary degrading marine life and mangrove habitat that’s essential for the reproduction of many marine species, potentially destroying endemic dolphin breeding grounds and putting all aquatic marine life in imminent danger.

This large-scale Hilton Hotel Botanika Resort can only be stopped by an urgent appeal to the directors of Hilton Curio Worldwide, alerting them to the potential damage their project will cause in the already delicate mangrove coastal environment.

We need YOUR help to have our voices be heard, that way Hilton can hear us and know that they can still prevent this tragedy from happening. The aquatic marine life and endangered species in this region depend on your voice, so please help us today by signing this petition.