Standup to ALEC’s Anti-Immigration Agenda
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) doesn’t just put corporations before current Americans – they’re actually fighting to make life more difficult for the next generation of citizens by pushing anti-immigration laws across the country.
Again and again, they use pay-to-play politics to stall commonsense reform and divert critical law enforcement resources to unfairly target aspiring Americans. Today, I’m asking for your help to continue this work by contacting your state legislators to demand they stop working with ALEC behind closed doors to put corporate profits before the American Dream.
In state legislatures across our country, millions have worked to pass reform that gives aspiring Americans a chance at a better life. And yet in our statehouses, ALEC has put their extreme corporate agenda first.
We need you to fight back, today. ALEC-backed anti-immigrant legislation has been partially struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, and now it’s time to strike down the ALEC agenda.
Stand up for aspiring Americans everywhere, and the American Dream they work towards every day, by demanding your legislators oppose ALEC’s anti-immigration agenda.
Thank you,
Marisol Garcia
p.s. Hyperlinks above not working for you? Copy-and-paste WWW.STANDUPTOALEC.ORG into your browser’s address bar and make your voice heard!
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#NoKXL
Thousands Attend Anti-Keystone Pipeline Vigils
Last Friday, the State Department released its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) on the controversial tar sands pipeline. This is not the final step in the process and the decision ultimately rests with President Obama, but climate activists wanted to be sure their message was once again heard and loud: No KXL.
To that end, activists organized almost 300 vigils across the country. Thousands turned out in 48 states to make their voices heard.
Here are a few snaps from yesterday’s actions:
San Francisco, California
Washington, D.C.
Nashville, Tennessee
Chicago, Illinois
Lincoln, Nebraska
Vermillion, South Dakota
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Atlanta, Georgia(All photos taken from the nokxlvigils Flickr.)
BOTTOM LINE: Since we know this pipeline will significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution, we hope that President Obama will hold firm on the commitment he made in his climate speech and reject the pipeline.
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FDA to Teens …
02/04/2014 06:00 AM EST
FDA has launched its first public health education campaign, called ‘The Real Cost,’ to prevent and reduce tobacco use among young people ages 12-17 who are open to smoking or have started to experiment with smoking.
Mitch Zeller, director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, explains why the agency is undertaking this effort, and how it will work.
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Abusive & Racist Language Degrades Us All
I am taking a stand for civility.
In March of 2010, we saw people with signs acting as if not only had they lost their minds but were transported back to a time when no person of colour wants, will go or be forced to accept in the 21st century. There is no place in our political discourse for the abusive, derogatory and racist language used against or by our members of Congress yet since the overwhelming GOP vote in 2010 a group called the TeaParty has decided racial activism is the only way to win . We have seen a generation prove that primitive behavior that I call hate speech has been given a pass by judges on all levels the first amendment is being misused abused by those in positions of power. I want justice for what is clearly racist hate speech, that used to be treated and prosecuted accordingly. Now, we see those with privilege acting out and getting away with using nasty ugly words we all know are racist offensive threats to the lives of the President. There are folks making ugly threats, hopefully our secret service, FBI and CIA visit the homes of people who keep feeling their words of hate are covered by the first amendment … No one has the right to make threats of bodily harm to any human being no matter what race creed or ethnic origin
This sort of language degrades us all and undermines our democratic process.
Be a Seed for Change 
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