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Help me rescue my 7 year-old daughter

12/01/2014 Nativegrl77

Rick Scott: Help me rescue my 7yo daughter from the man who sexually abused her!

Karla Janine Sarmento Martins de Albuquerque
West Palm Beach, Florida

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Stand with Peggy Young and all Pregnant Workers

12/01/2014 Nativegrl77

A Better Balance The Work and Family Legal Center

Stand With Peggy Young and All Pregnant Workers

Dear friend,

This Wednesday, we’re rallying at the U.S. Supreme Court! In Young v. UPS the high court will decide whether a company policy that failed to provide “light duty” to pregnant workers, even though it provided light duty to other groups of workers, violates the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). This summer, ABB filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner, Peggy Young, explaining the devastating economic impact that such policies have on women and their families. For example, ABB client Lyndi Trischler from Florence, Kentucky lost critical income and benefits when she was pushed out of her job due to another discriminatory policy.

No pregnant woman should ever be forced to choose between her job and a healthy pregnancy.

That’s why A Better Balance is co-sponsoring a rally with hundreds of participants on the steps of the Supreme Court. We will be there to support Peggy with signs, speakers and the stories of other workers just like Peggy forced off the job when they needed economic security the most. ABB’s Elizabeth Gedmark will be the MC for this exciting event!

3 ways you can show your support for Peggy Young and all Pregnant Workers

1. If you’re in the DC area, we hope you’ll join us for the rally on the steps of the Supreme Court:

Supreme Court of the United States
1 First St NE, Washington DC
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:30-11:30 a.m. ET

2. Join us and our partners MomsRising and the National Women’s Law Center, Wednesday at 1pm for a #WellnessWed Twitter chat to discuss pregnancy discrimination, workplace accommodations, and the Young vs. UPS Supreme Court case.

We hope you will join us to ask questions with the #WellnessWed hashtag.

3. Join the #StandWithPeggy twitter rally on Wednesday at 2pm to show support for Peggy Young in her fight for fair treatment of pregnant workers. It only takes a minute to show your support:

1. Take a photo of yourself with a sign saying why you #StandWithPeggy

2.Tweet the photo using the hashtag #StandWithPeggy between 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Thanks for all you do to support our work.

The A Better Balance Team,

Sherry, Dina, Phoebe, Jared, Elizabeth, Risha, Morenike, Rachel, Jake, Molly & Lynn

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Lindsey Allen, Executive Director Rainforest Action Network

11/28/2014 Nativegrl77

Thank You.
That is what this email is all about. Simply: Thank You.After seven long years of campaigning against Cargill — the biggest privately held corporation in the US – we have seen a groundbreaking commitment from them along with a seismic shift in the palm oil sector to protect disappearing rainforests and to keep massive amounts of carbon in the ground and out of the atmosphere.

To mark this victory, our staff has compiled this photographic timeline of this wide-ranging campaign to keep Conflict Palm Oil out of our food and to protect our forests and the communities and wildlife that depend on them.

Of course, this fight is by no means over. But as the executive director of Rainforest Action Network, I want you to know that your support on this issue is directly responsible for this progress. Your support – from your emails, your signatures, your phone calls, your social media action and your donations to your presence at RAN nonviolent direct actions such as occupying Cargill headquarters, marching in the streets, and creating massive public demonstrations to bring the message directly to Cargill – has made this possible.
And as we enter into this season of gratitude and giving, everyone here at RAN would like to extend our deepest thanks to all of you for your support.

So, again: Thank You.

See a Photo Timeline of the Cargill Campaign.