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MercyCorps

05/17/2013 Nativegrl77

Double the difference you can make for children in need.

Photo: Gerry Ellis/Mercy Corps

Every gift before May 30th will be matched, $1 for $1!

In the packed refugee camps of the Democratic Republic of Congo, cholera spreads rapidly, and kills quickly. One sip of dirty water is all it takes for a healthy child to fall ill and die – often in just a few hours.

But we know how to stop a disease like cholera in its tracks. Through simple solutions like water-purifying tablets and clean, accessible latrines, Mercy Corps is working to save lives in Congo and around the world – and right now, you can help us reach twice as many children in need.

Every dollar we raise before May 30th will be MATCHED, up to $600,000 – which means your support today will go twice as far to deliver clean water, emergency food, and other help to families in need around the world.

Preventing deadly diseases like cholera is just one of the ways you can help families in the world’s most desperate places. Thanks to generous supporters like you, Mercy Corps is working to:

Rush emergency food assistance to families in Mali, where a devastating food shortage and violent conflicts have displaced more than 300,000 people. Your gift today will go TWICE as far to stop the hunger pains of a child in Mali.
Build wells and reservoirs in Niger and Ethiopia that will help crops and animals – and the farmers who tend them – withstand another dry season. You can help deliver TWICE the relief to hungry families who desperately need it.
Give children in South Sudan a safe place to learn, building temporary classrooms so they can get the education they deserve. Your matched gift today can give children a brighter future.

There’s never been a better time to give than right now – and every dollar counts. Your $75 becomes $150, $150 becomes $300, $250 becomes $500 – up to $600,000! That means that together, we can deliver over $1.2 million dollars in food, water, and other aid where it’s needed most – but we can only reach these families if people like you step up to help.

I’ve seen the difference Mercy Corps supporters like you are making around the world.

Please, don’t miss this chance to make that compassion go even further for suffering families – donate today to have your gift matched, dollar for dollar!

Your support today will truly change lives – thank you.

Sincerely,

Dan O’Neill Mercy Corps Founder

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Every 11 hours

05/17/2013 Nativegrl77

Ilyse G. Hogue President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

Every 11 hours we move closer and closer to a world without the rights we’ve fought so hard to preserve.

That’s because every 11 hours, another piece of anti-choice legislation is introduced somewhere in America. Nearly 300 anti-choice legislative attacks have been introduced in Congress and in states across the country this year — and the year isn’t even half over. That’s more than two anti-choice bills for every single day of the year so far.

But, before the next anti-choice legislative attack is introduced, you have time to make a difference by helping NARAL Pro-Choice America track and defeat anti-choice legislation — protecting women’s reproductive rights across the country.

Please make an urgent contribution to NARAL Pro-Choice America before another 11 hours pass.

We’re watching every single one of these legislative attacks. We’re fighting them in Congress. We’re fighting them in the states. We’re fighting for women. But the clock is ticking.

Before extreme anti-choice politicians have time to make another move, please stand with us.

Together, we can make choice real for all women. Are you with us? Tick, tock, tick, tock …

Ilyse G. Hogue President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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Top 3: The GOP’s Setback, Rape Culture, and Benghazi

05/17/2013 Nativegrl77

GOP HISPANIC OUTREACH SUFFERS MAJOR SETBACK

“RAPE” IS NOT THE SAME AS “SEX”

BENGHAZI EMAIL BLOWS HOLE IN GOP CONSPIRACY

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Bullied by Nestle

05/16/2013 Nativegrl77

There’s a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it:

Poland Spring and Nestle: It’s our water! Stop bullying my community!

By Nickie Sekera

Fryeburg, Maine

Sign Luke’s Petition

My name is Luke and I am 9 years old. I live in Fryeburg with my mom and our water comes from the Fryeburg Water Company. Nestle, the biggest food and beverage corporation in the world, is trying to bully our community into a 45 year long contract for our natural spring water in rural Maine. If Nestle is allowed to sign a 45 year contract with Fryeburg, they will bully other towns across the country in agreements like this, too.

I do not feel that the 45 year contract is a good idea for several reasons.

1) The Nestle corporation has caused grief in many other countries and I’m afraid they have already caused grief in our community. As Nestle takes our spring water, our town’s water must now come from an area where an old industrial site once stood. If we want to drink our town’s natural spring water, we have to buy it in the store.

2) Nestle’s water brand Poland Spring claims to be a good neighbor, but I think when they sued the town and its people for saying “no” to them, that is not a good neighbor. In school we learn a lot about not bullying, and this seems like bully behavior to me. We do not want to be bullied for the next 45 years.

I think we could have a reward system and have them as neighbors for five years at a time and make sure they stay a good neighbors and make sure our aquifer stays agreeably healthy.

If this contract is allowed to go through, I will be 54 when I have the next opportunity to speak about this – because that is when the 45 year contract will be done.

My children and grandchildren may not have a voice in this matter. I want them to be proud of me and I must speak for them.

That’s why my mom and I are asking the Public Utilities Commission to please not let Nestle take my community’s water and pride. Do not support the 45 year contract. Please protect us.

Sign Luke’s Petition

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