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how do you mark a four-year anniversary


Four years ago this Monday, fast food workers with Working Washington walked out on strike for $15/hour. A year later we walked into history when the Seattle City Council passed the nation’s first citywide $15 minimum wage law.

From minimum wage and sick days to secure scheduling and paid family leave, when workers organize, speak out, and take action, we can change what’s possible. Invest in the next big breakthrough wins for workers — contribute to Working Washington today.

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Happy almost-anniversary!
Working Washington

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Why aren’t we talking about this? GEO Group … Private Prison and trump


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We’ve got a story to tell you . . .
Once upon a time (August 2016), Obama announced that the Federal Bureau of Prisons would phase out the use of private prisons. GEO Group, a multibillion-dollar for-profit prison company, saw their stock plummet 40 percent.

The very next day, GEO Correction Holding Inc. gave $100,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC. And when Trump won, GEO Group shelled out $250,000 to support his inaugural festivities.
 
Now, guess what? The Trump administration just awarded the GEO Group $110 million of our federal tax dollars and a 10-year contract to develop and operate a new immigrant detention center in Conroe, Texas. What is going on?
 

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The private prisons that bankrolled Trump are controlling policy to collect the returns on their investment; anti-immigrant policies mean big payoffs for private detention. It’s sickening. But we will not be silent. We will tell this story.

Earlier this month we launched our immigration campaign with the release of The Call to Sanctuary. We want to continue our immigration campaign with an investigation into immigrant detention, but we need resources to keep telling these stories.

Right now, the Trump administration is serving the interests of private prison pushers over the interests and safety of our communities. We will not be silent as immigrants are rounded up, removed from their communities, forced to detention centers and criminalized for profit.

detention?
 
Thank you for your support.
 
Jim Miller, Executive Director
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P.S. Would you like to screen our current films about immigration? To kick-off our immigration campaign we just released a curated collection of shorts and new discussion guide, Home is a Human Right: A Series on Immigration. To sign up to screen this with your friends or in your community click here.
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Everything you care about is gone: Trump vs Earth, Episode 2

Today we know it’s true. Trump’s budget robs from our kids in order to further enrich the super wealthy and destroys everything you care about.

If Trump gets his way, here are 16 of things that go:

  • Environmental education
  • Healthy school food for kids
  • Support for new forms of energy that don’t poison our planet
  • Support for fact-based scientific research
  • Climate science programs
  • Ability to protect clean air and clean water
  • Programs for the poor, including health care and disability payments
  • College loan programs for the poor and those who take jobs in nonprofit organizations
  • Protection for women’s health
  • Food assistance for older Americans
  • Nutrition programs for low-income women, infants, and children
  • Support for public libraries, PBS, and arts
  • Heating assistance for low-income people
  • Before and after school and summer programs for children in low-income communities
  • Emergency food assistance
  • Efforts to revitalize public housing

Help us keep fighting Trump’s policieis and building the environmental democracy we need to protect our future.

You’ve been helping us build the movement. Now we’ve got to stay strong, stand up for what we believe in and fight for our future.

PLEASE DONATE

— The Earth Day Network Team
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Stand in Solidarity With Persecuted Indigenous Peoples
When indigenous communities take to the streets to express their continuing opposition to destructive mining and oil drilling projects in their ancestral territories, the Ecuadorian government often uses the judicial system to persecute and prosecute them. Over 200 people – indigenous leaders, human rights defenders and environmental activists – are in prison or under investigation for their resistance.

But the Ecuadorian indigenous movement refuses to succumb to these attempts to silence them and have launched the Amnesty First campaign to demand amnesty and pardons for those who have suffered legal repression for exercising their rights. And now they are asking for your support.

The campaign is collecting petition signatures all around Ecuador, and on May 30th they’ll deliver them all directly to the newly-elected president, Lenin Moreno, and the president of Congress. They’ll also deliver our messages of solidarity at that time.

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