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The Sumatran tiger is almost extinct … GREENPEACE


There are only 400 Sumatran tigersremaining in the world and they’re in serious trouble.Donate today!Help us raise $60,000 by June 8th to save the last Sumatran tigers and their forest homes.

Only 400 Sumatran tigers are left in the world.

Just 80 years ago, there were three unique subspecies of tigers found in Indonesia. Today, two of them are extinct — and now the last one is in serious trouble.

At these horrifically low numbers, every day counts for the Sumatran tiger.

They need our help now. Please make an urgent donation to help save them.

WWW.Greenpeaceusa.org

The Sumatran tiger is classified as “critically endangered” — on the brink of extinction and barely hanging on.

They’ve lost 93% of their habitat because companies like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) are destroying their forest homes. Tigers are left to roam landscapes where they are easily slaughtered by poachers for their body parts or shot by the people moving in.

How many more acres of destruction can the Sumatran tiger survive before its status moves from “critically endangered” to “extinct”? We have to act, and fast.

To fight back, we need your help to expose the massacre, pressure corporations like KFC to cut ties with APP and fight on the ground in Indonesia to save these last remaining Sumatran tigers.

We can’t wait another day. Not when we’re dealing with a population of only 400 tigers. If we don’t act now, these beautiful animals will be pushed to extinction — gone forever.

Since Greenpeace takes absolutely no money from corporations or governments, we depend entirely on you to power our independent and hard-hitting campaigns. Will you help save these 400 Sumatran tigers?

Please help us raise $60,000 in the next 9 days to make it possible. We need just 100 people from Washington to reach our goal.

Without you, these 400 tigers don’t stand a chance. APP will continue lining its pockets with profits, poachers will continue shooting these tigers and reselling their body parts in places like China, and these last Sumatran tigers will just be collateral damage.

Together, we can stop them.

Make a gift to Greenpeace today.

WWW.Greenpeaceusa.org

With the financial help of supporters like you, we’ve already put the squeeze on APP, convincing major companies like Nestle, Kraft and Mattel to stop buying products linked to rainforest destruction. And other companies have followed suit as well.

Over the past few weeks we’ve turned up the pressure on KFC to end their relationship with APP and to stop using rainforest fiber in its throw-away paper products. We’ve hit them in the press, at their corporate headquarters, on the web, over the phone lines and at stores around the world. We have plans to do even more — but we need your support to keep this work going and save the Sumatran tiger.

Please give a gift today to help give these last Sumatran tigers a future — before it’s too late.

Together we’ve rallied to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and won victories to protect the planet — and I know we can do it again to save the Sumatran tiger.

Together we are powerful, together we make a difference.

For the forests,

Rolf Skar
Greenpeace Forest Campaign Director

P.S. We need just 100 supporters like you to donate from Washington to meet our goal.

Please donate right now via our secure website or by calling 1-800-722-6995.

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so, Republican constituents don’t need Pay Equity


In America, women make 78 cents for every dollar men make for doing the same job. Sign the petition.

I can’t help but wonder what their constituents will say.

I just got back from the floor of the Senate, where Republicans yet again decided to put their own political interests ahead of the rights of women by blocking the Paycheck Fairness Act.

President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act nearly 40 ago, but loopholes still remain that have allowed women in America to be paid an average of 78 cents for every dollar men make doing the same job.

It’s an injustice. It’s unthinkable that there are elected leaders who think pay equity isn’t an issue and voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act today.

Join me in speaking out and voice your support for equal pay for equal work with the Paycheck Fairness Act.

When wage discrimination exists, working families are hit the worst with many dependent on a mother’s income. If we continue to do nothing, over the course of a lifetime, women in America will earn an average $434,000 less than their male counterparts.

That’s an average of about $10,000 per year, or about the same amount of money costs to feed a family of four for the year.

Sign our petition and share why you believe women deserve equal pay for equal work.

While conservative Republicans in the Senate have blocked the bill again (as they have for more than 10 years), our fight is not over. I am deeply committed to working with my colleagues on finally eliminating the wage gap between men and women.

Paycheck fairness impacts everyone. That’s why I ask you to continue to speak out and give voice to the Paycheck Fairness Act by sharing your story about why we need equal pay for equal work.

Share your story about why you support equal pay for equal work.

For me, I look at my three kids – Michael, Jack and Maggie – three equally incredible and bright children. I don’t want Maggie and girls like her across the country to grow up in a world where they’ll earn less if they choose the same career track as their brothers.

With paycheck fairness, we can make sure when all our daughters enter the workforce, they’ll receive the equal pay they deserve. We won’t let today’s vote stop our progress.

Best,

Chris Coons
U.S. Senator

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How to steal an election … Judd Legum from – TP


You don’t need a Ph.D. in political science to know that Florida could decide the election this November.

So it caught ThinkProgress’ attention when Florida Governor Rick Scott, a close ally of Mitt Romney, started a massive purge of registered voters from the rolls a few weeks ago.

The national media? They completely ignored it.

Not us. We broke the news that HUNDREDS of fully eligible U.S. citizens, mostly Democrats and Latinos, were being improperly targeted. We even identified two 91-year-old WWII vets who were about to have their voting rights stripped.

It’s not just Florida. We need to raise $30,000 by Monday to expand our coverage to other critical swing states where voting rights are under attack—Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia.

Please chip in $5—or whatever you can—right now so we can get to work before it’s too late. The outcome of November’s election could very well hang in the balance.

After ThinkProgress took the lead, the national media started paying attention. Our reporting was cited extensively on cable news networks like MSNBC and precipitated a powerful editorial in The New York Times.

Late last week, following extensive reporting throughout Florida by ThinkProgress, the Justice Department sent Rick Scott a letter declaring the purge illegal and demanding he put a stop to it.

We are making a difference.

But we can’t stop with Florida. This election, and our democracy, are just too important. We need researchers and reporters on the ground right now, reporting the truth.

Chip in $5 right now so ThinkProgress can investigate and expose voter suppression across the country.

Best,

Judd Legum
Editor-in-Chief, ThinkProgress.org

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Social Security … get the answers


How to Get Quick Approval for Certain Disability Claims

 The Social Security Administration provides long-term disability benefits to U.S. workers who are unable to work for more than 12 months due to a physical, mental or emotional medical condition.

Although evaluating each case might take several months or even years, Social Security can fast-track the process for some cases if they fall under its Compassionate Allowances Program.

Learn more about the Social Security Compassionate Allowances Program.