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A mother orca carries her dead calf for seven days

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We must protect this orca family from oil tankers and all corporate polluters!

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Reading the story of the mother orca carrying her deceased newborn calf for the last seven days has been heartrending for me 💔.1

The baby orca, born into an endangered Salish Sea orca population, represented hope for the last 75 Southern Resident orcas that are left in the world — but in the end, it only lived half an hour. The Salish Sea, the waters including the Puget Sound that connects Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada, is one of the most biologically diverse inland seas in the world. A new tar sands pipeline could turn the home of its remaining orcas into a tar sands tanker superhighway.

In June, I spent a week aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise following the route of the tar sands tankers that are threatening these endangered orcas. I promise you I will do everything I can to stop the pipeline and protect these iconic creatures, but I can’t do it without you.

Please give today to protect these orcas and support all our campaigns to protect wildlife and the environment.

Greenpeace was born for moments like these and we’re working to protect these orcas and all marine creatures on several fronts.

  • For months we’ve been fighting tooth and nail to stop the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. If built, it would mean a seven fold increase in oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea. The endangered Southern Resident orca population could be driven toward extinction by the increased ship noise, and risk of oil spills, and ship strikes.2
  • The Trump administration wants to gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and make it harder to protect marine creatures like the Southern Resident orcas. But we’re already mobilizing tens of thousands of people just like you to protect the ESA.
  • We’re working to protect all marine ecosystems from plastic pollution by calling on big brands and supermarkets to stop producing and selling so much plastic.

We can’t do this work without you. Please help by making a generous donation to protect wildlife and power all our campaigns to protect the environment.

For the planet,

Rachel Rye Butler
Tar Sands Campaigner, Greenpeace USA

P.S. The threatened Southern Resident orca population could be driven toward extinction by a seven-fold increase in tar sands tanker traffic in the Salish Sea. We’re fighting to stop the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline and mobilizing tens of thousands of people just like you to protect the Endangered Species Act. Please give today to protect these orcas and support all our campaigns to protect wildlife and the environment.

[1] seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/orca-whale-continues-grieving-ritual-a-sixth-day/

[2] greenpeace.org/usa/reports/tanker-superhighway/?emci=fee778fd-f794-e811-80c2-000d3a12bbb1&emdi=29637c5e-fb94-e811-80c2-000d3a12bbb1&fn=Carmen&ln=Cc&em=ynative77@gmail.com&pc=&hp=&mp=&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180730_esa_appeal_ns___ez0zzzzzzzzz&sourceid=1004224

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What are republicans hiding from us? brett kavanaugh docs


Senators should review all of Kavanaugh’s records before a hearing is scheduled. Take action now!  

Dear Friends

What are they hiding?

There are over one million pages of documents from Brett Kavanaugh’s work in the White House that have yet to be released to the Senate. Over one million critical pieces of his record that could shed light on how he might rule if he gets a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court. Given everything at stake in this fight and the fact that anti-abortion and anti-ACA organizations placed Kavanaugh on a short list of possible nominees for Trump, it’s especially important that we see what else may be lurking in these White House documents. But the Trump-Pence Administration and its allies in the Senate are trying to keep those records hidden. Our generation and generations to come will be affected by this nomination. We need our Senators to get those documents so they can make fully informed decisions that serve all of our best interests.

Sign the Petition: Senate Must Have All of Kavanaugh’s Records Before Holding Hearings
Senators should review all the records before a hearing is scheduled.

Take Action

What we already know about Kavanaugh is disturbing enough:

  • He passed Trump and Pence’s litmus test as a justice who would gut and overturn Roe v. Wade and undermine the Affordable Care Act;
  • He voted to allow religious beliefs to override employee’s right to have insurance coverage of birth control;
  • He believes the president doesn’t have to follow any law that he believes is unconstitutional — even if no court has ruled so.

Based on this information alone, it’s clear Kavanaugh was strategically selected to serve Trump and Pence’s anti-woman, anti-abortion, anti-healthcare, and anti-worker agenda on the Supreme Court for an entire lifetime. We cannot let this happen.

Every member of the Senate — starting with the Senate Judiciary Committee — should be able to review all of Kavanaugh’s documents, emails, and paperwork before the confirmation process continues. Tell your Senators they should not hold any hearings until they have all of Kavanaugh’s records.

Sincerely,
Anna Chu
Vice President of Policy & Strategy
National Women’s Law Center

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