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President of the United States: Let us keep our American dream

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United States
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Jess Serrante, Rainforest Action Network …. PepsiCo uses massive amounts of palm oil


Rainforest Action Network
PepsiCo_logo.jpgPepsiCo continues to use massive amounts of palm oil linked to rainforest destruction.Join RAN today to elevate the pressure on PepsiCo to change its destructive ways.donate_button.png

Wow! Thanks to you, the PepsiCo Global Call-in Day was tremendous. The stories are still rolling in, but we know the action generated thousands of calls to PepsiCo and activists around the global took the lead in organizing Call-In Day events.

The timing of this global escalation on PepsiCo couldn’t have been better. PepsiCo is still dragging its heels, and as we speak, one of the most important rainforests left on earth – the Leuser Ecosystem – is getting ravaged by bulldozers.

When you take action you are standing side by side with the communities who live on the frontline and are impacted by Conflict Palm Oil. Take the extra step today and make a donation to support our efforts demanding PepsiCo end its destructive ways.

The magical Leuser Ecosystem is among the most biodiverse places ever documented. It is like nowhere else on Earth. Scientists and conservationists consider the Leuser Ecosystem to be among the most important forests left in Southeast Asia, as it is the last place where Sumatran tigers, orangutans, rhinos, elephants, clouded leopards and sun bears can still be found together.

Make a gift today to support RAN in elevating the pressure on PepsiCo and ensuring the Leuser Ecosystem remains intact.

For our forests and our future,

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Jess Serrante
Rainforest Agribusiness National Organizer
Rainforest Action Network

P.S. Please chip in a $5 dollar gift today! Your gift will support our efforts to ramp up the pressure on PepsiCo to eliminate Conflict Palm Oil. Together, we can protect our remaining rainforests.

RAN
http://www.ran.org/
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Erica Lafferty, Everytown for Gun Safety … Forward this


Everytown for Gun Safety

Erica and her mother Dawn

Below is a note from Erica Lafferty whose mother, Dawn Hochsprung, was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary with 20 of her students and five other staff members. If you feel moved by Erica’s words, please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to be part of this movement.

 

Erica's powerful message

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Do you know who Ada Lovelace is?


The White House, Washington

A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit the U.K. Prime Minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street. During a tour of the residence, we were shown a painting of an elegantly dressed woman. “Of course, you know Lady Lovelace,” we were told.

Imagine our surprise to learn that we were staring at a portrait of the woman who is considered to be the world’s first programmer. Our group had never heard of her.

Ada Lovelace’s experience remains all too familiar: So many of the breakthrough contributions of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields continue to go untold, too often fading into obscurity.

Join us in doing something to change that: Listen to women from across the Obama administration share the untold stories of women who’ve inspired us.

Listen to the untold stories of women in STEM.

Then add an untold history of your own, and make a commitment to share these stories in any way you can to help inspire more young women and men to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Women were central in the early teams building the foundation of modern programming. They unveiled the structure of DNA. Their work inspired new environmental movements and led to the discovery of new genes. It’s past time to write their stories permanently into history, so they can stand side by side with the extraordinary men like them who have used their technical and innovation skills to bring needed solutions and discoveries to our world.

And here’s what’s worth noting: Telling and sharing these stories will actively help create more of them in the future.

Research shows us that a key part of inspiring more young people to pursue careers in science and technology is simply sharing the stories of role models like them in these fields who have had a significant impact on our world.

Stories like that of Rosalind Franklin, whose research was essential for revealing the structure of DNA. There’s Katherine Johnson, who calculated key flight trajectories during the Space Race. The ENIAC team — six young women “Computers” who were the first digital programmers in America. Or Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who first developed computer languages and a compiler to translate them into machine code.

If you don’t know those names, it’s time to learn: Take a look at our interactive audio hub — and then listen, share, add, and commit.

You just might inspire the next Ada Lovelace.

Thanks,

Megan

Megan Smith
U.S. Chief Technology Officer
The White House
@USCTO