Category Archives: ~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Life in prison for one marijuana offense

01/01/2015 Nativegrl77

Eric H. Holder: Please grant Clemency to my father Antonio Bascaro

Aicha Bascaro
Lawrenceville, Georgia

Sign Aicha’s petition

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Jon Soltz, VoteVets.org

01/01/2015 Nativegrl77

Thanks to the generous contributions of veterans, military family members, and VoteVets supporters, we were able to cut a $25,000 check to Wreaths Across America last week.

What’s more, we connected the organization with former Congressman Patrick Murphy, who did his MSNBC Show, Taking the Hill, live from Arlington National Cemetery on the day volunteers laid wreaths across the country.

It was an amazing show – you can watch the first segment here.

Thanks for marking our participation a success for the second year in a row. We firmly believe that the holiday season is about giving, which is why we chose to raise money for other worthy groups like this, and not ourselves. We look forward to doing it against next year.

But first, we have a lot of work ahead of us after the new Congress is sworn in. We’ll have to work hard to avoid dramatic escalation in Iraq and Syria, while protecting the diplomatic progress with Iran. We’ll also have to fight to protect veterans’ health care, education, and job training from Tea Party cuts.

It will take your involvement – and we’ll be in touch soon.

Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets.org

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Image 12/31/2014 Nativegrl77 2 Comments

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Change.org

12/31/2014 Nativegrl77

Your lifesaving tax-deductible gift to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF will be matched $1-for-$1, doubling your impact that will help save children’s lives.

Donate $25 today.

Escalating violence in Syria and Iraq. Hunger and near-famine levels in South Sudan. Ebola still spreading in West Africa. This year’s emergencies are completely unprecedented, and there are countless children in peril.

UNICEF is racing to save them – but we need your help.

Thankfully, we have some good news: Until midnight December 31 every dollar you give will be automatically doubled, up to $1 million thanks to an anonymous group of donors.

It’s the single, largest matching gift this year, and it came just in time. Donate before midnight on December 31 and every dollar you give will be doubled – 100% of your gift is tax-deductible.

You + UNICEF = relief on a massive scale. UNICEF can deliver lifesaving relief, to any child, almost anywhere in the world, in just 72 hours. All that’s needed is your help, and UNICEF can rush:

Fortified food to children wasting away from hunger – therapeutic food can breathe life back into a severely malnourished child.
Blankets, winter clothes and shoes to refugees – kids who fled violence wearing only summer clothes don’t stand a chance against the winter’s frigid cold and freezing rain.
Clean water for sick, dehydrated children – nothing is more important to a child’s survival.
Vaccines to protect kids from killer diseases like pneumonia and measles – if all children were immunized with current vaccines, we’d save 25 million children by 2020.

Please donate now – help us rush lifesaving relief to desperate children this holiday season. Every gift will be MATCHED dollar for dollar – but only until December 31st.

You and other supporters like you have helped kids beat terrible odds like this before. When famine threatened countless children in the Horn of Africa in 2011, UNICEF treated 1 million children with therapeutic food. Those kids are alive today because you and others believed that we could make a difference – even when the odds felt overwhelming.

Let’s help kids beat the odds again this holiday season.

With gratitude,

Caryl M Stern
President and CEO, U.S. Fund for UNICEF

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

A Year in Review

12/30/2014 Nativegrl77

A responsible end to the war in Afghanistan. A historic agreement to combat climate change. A strong pace of job growth that we haven’t seen since the 1990s.

And those are just a few of the achievements for President Obama and the American people this year.

As 2014 comes to a close, we put together some highlights from the past year — historic accomplishments, economic milestones, and unforgettable behind-the-scenes moments. We even got Chief of Staff Denis McDonough to tell us his own favorite moments from the year.

Take a look at our year in review — and share these highlights with your friends and family.

The Faces of Health Care: Tricia T.

Tricia wrote the President to share the impact that the Affordable Care Act has made on her life. Read her story here.

On Christmas Day, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dropped in on service members in Kaneohe, Hawaii to thank them for their “extraordinary service on behalf of our country.”

In this week’s address, the President and First Lady wished Americans a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, and thanked our brave troops for their service.

READ MORE