Tell ExxonMobil and Chevron to take real climate action.

The fossil fuel industry has been manufacturing climate disinformation for decades. Business as usual isn’t the answer. Tell fossil fuel giants ExxonMobil and Chevron to stop spreading climate deception and start taking climate action.

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Keep the pressure on companies to stop climate denial and take climate action

Later this month Exxon Mobil and Chevron, two companies responsible for decades of heat-trapping emissions and deception on climate science, will be in the spotlight as they hold their annual shareholder meetings. These meetings are a critical opportunity to turn up the heat and demand that these fossil fuel giants stop blocking climate action.

Since the 1980s, these companies have hid behind trade associations and front groups, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, to oppose common-sense emissions reductions and confuse the public with manufactured dissent and debate on climate change. Many of ExxonMobil’s and Chevron’s own shareholders are calling on them to stop spreading climate deception and start taking responsibility for the damage they’ve done to our planet. We need your help to drive this message home.

Keep the pressure on: Tell ExxonMobil and Chevron to stop spreading climate disinformation and start taking climate action!

We cannot afford to let the fossil fuel industry continue “business as usual.” The safety of our communities depends on these companies facing reality and the global call to climate action. As they prepare for their shareholder meetings this month, they need to hear from you to be held accountable to supporting global climate action.

Act now: Tell ExxonMobil and Chevron to stop spreading climate disinformation and start taking climate action!

Sincerely,

Kathy Mulvey
Climate Accountability Campaign Manager and Advocate
Climate & Energy
Union of Concerned Scientists

P.S. Are you on Facebook or Twitter? Take an extra action to help flood ExxonMobil’s and Chevron’s social media with calls for climate action.

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Tell JPMorgan Chase: #DefundTarSands!

05/21/2017 Nativegrl77

Photo: Activists organized by Mazaska Talks and 350 Seattle shut down 12 JPMorgan Chase branches in Seattle to demand the defunding of the Keystone XL pipeline.]

Today, we showed up at the JPMorgan Chase shareholder meeting to send a message to the whole finance community: Stop Banking on Human Rights Violations and Climate Chaos.

We need your voice. Tell JPMorgan Chase to defund tar sands, one of the dirtiest forms of oil.

We delivered a letter on behalf of 20 Indigenous rights and environmental organizations directly to JPMorgan Chase leadership.

We are demanding that the finance community stop bankrolling projects like the Dakota Access pipeline, the KXL pipeline, and the pending Trans Mountain pipeline. These pipelines will wreak havoc on communities, pollute critical water sources, destroy our climate, and trample the rights of Indigenous communities and local residents across the continent. But massive energy giants such as TransCanada depend on banks to fund their disastrous projects.

Tell JPMorgan Chase to do their part to protect Indigenous rights and the environment.

Tell Banks to Say No to Tar Sands: More than 120 First Nations and Tribes have signed a treaty opposing all tar sands pipelines — one of the dirtiest forms of oil on the planet!

Tell Banks to Say No to Human Rights Abuses: The conflict over the Dakota Access pipeline resulted in despicable violence and abuses — and these will continue as communities fight for their clean air and clean water.

Tell Banks to Say No to Indigenous Rights Violations: These projects continue the shameful history of trampling on Indigenous land rights and broken promises.

We need your voice — today. Tell JPMorgan Chase that you expect banks to live up to their commitments to Indigenous rights and the environment.

For people and planet,

Ruth

Ruth Breech
Senior Climate Campaigner
Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/

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Mar-a-Lago Update

05/20/2017 Nativegrl77

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On this day … Star Wars:Episodes I & III

05/19/2017 Nativegrl77

1999 – “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” was released to theaters in the U.S. It set a new record for opening day sales at 28.5 million.

2005 – “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” opened in the U.S.Star Wars Quotes

“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one, a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. …Hmm? On what he was doing.”

“We would be honored if you would join us.”

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No rape survivor should ever be put in jail to be forced to testify.

05/19/2017 Nativegrl77

The New Orleans DA jailed rape survivors to force them to testify in court. He needs to go. Tell Orleans Parish DA Leon Cannizzaro to resign NOW.

TAKE ACTION

No rape survivor should ever be put in jail to be forced to testify.

But under Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s watch, his office had at least SIX rape survivors arrested to make them appear in court in 2016–and that’s not even the full extent of his office’s horrific practices.¹ According to another investigation by The Lens, his office has been issuing FAKE documents made to look like subpoenas to potential witnesses to try and force them to talk to prosecutors.² On top of this, his office goes after victims and witnesses with ruthless tactics such as charging them with perjury if they recant their testimony.

It’s clear: Cannizzaro is creating a dangerous culture of overzealous prosecution and he must resign before something tragic happens.

The DA’s office should be supporting and centering the needs of survivors, not treating them as a disposable means to an end–where that end is racking up convictions instead of seeking true justice. What’s scary is, this isn’t new. For decades, District Attorney offices across the country have engaged in these harmful practices. In Harris County, TX, former-DA Devon Anderson did the same thing.³ We called for her resignation and she was eventually forced out of office.⁴ If we can force Cannizzaro to resign, it will continue to send the message that the days of aggressive “lock em up” prosecution are over. Will you sign the petition?

Tell NOLA DA Cannizzaro: Rape survivors shouldn’t be put in jail. Resign immediately.

State law requires prosecutors to ask a judge to issue a subpoena if they want to interview a witness in private. Instead, the Orleans and Jefferson Parish district attorneys just sent out fake “D.A. subpoenas.” The law gives them no legal authority to do so.

One of the witnesses who was served one of these fake subpoenas just revealed that she was threatened with jail time TWICE if she didn’t come in for questioning.⁵ Fayona Bailey said that two representatives from Cannizzaro’s office showed up to her house questioning her about a case–and said she could be sentenced to jail if she didn’t come into their office. Then later they called her house harassing her and repeating the same lie on the day she was supposed to go into the office for questioning. NONE of this was legal.

This rogue prosecutor, Leon Cannizzaro needs to be stopped now. Demand he resigns now.

In a state with the highest Black imprisonment rate–but nowhere near the highest crime rate–Louisiana is a place where it’s even more imperative that we stop this type of dangerous and unlawful hyper-prosecution.⁶ When news broke about Cannizzaro’s horrific practices, his office tried to immediately make revisions to their policies–but that’s not enough. The entire culture of that office needs to change and Cannizzaro should be held accountable. People are outraged and deserve swift action. This week, local activists are gathering in Louisiana with the rallying cry to “Can Cannizzaro.” Will you join them?

Sign the petition.

Until justice is real,

— Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Clarise, Anay, Malaya, Enchanta, Katrese, and the rest of the Color Of Change team.

References:

1. “Court watchers demand New Orleans DA stop arresting accusers in rape cases,” The New Orleans Advocate, 4-11-2017
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7897?t=7&akid=7455.1174326.zFkf_P

2. “Orleans parish prosecutors are using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk to them,” The Lens, 4-26-2017
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7898?t=9&akid=7455.1174326.zFkf_P

3. “Texas Rape Victim Jailed for Fear She Would Not Testify, Lawsuit Says,” New York Times, 7-23-2016
https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7900?t=11&akid=7455.1174326.zFkf_P

4. “Kim Ogg ousts Devon Anderson in Harris County DA Race,” Click2Houston.com, 11-08-2016
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7901?t=13&akid=7455.1174326.zFkf_P

5. “Woman who got fake subpoena from Orleans D.A. says she was threatened with jail twice,” The Lens, 05-08-2017
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7902?t=15&akid=7455.1174326.zFkf_P

6. “Louisiana Number One in Incarceration,” Huffington Post, 05-10-2016
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7903?t=17&akid=7455.1174326.zFkf_P