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Rally in D.C. and Email the FDA Update

— Congratulations petitioners, With your help, we have reached nearly half a million signatures! Pretty great stuff! During tomorrow’s event, Change.org will be live-tweeting the… Read more

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You won’t believe who is getting a “distinguished citizen” award!

03/25/2015 Nativegrl77

John Watson is NOT a
“Distinguished Global Citizen”

There are many ways Chevron CEO John Watson has “distinguished” himself to the global community, but none of them deserves praise. Environmental destruction, loss of life, public health crisis, abuse of power, undermining democracy, attacking concerned shareholders and trampling First Amendment rights have been “The Chevron Way” under his watch. Yet, the San Francisco Commonwealth Club has seemingly ignored John Watson’s record and on April 2nd plans to present him with a “distinguished global citizen” award.TAKE ACTION NOW

Send a message directly to the Commonwealth Club
saying that such behavior should be condemned, not rewarded.

Due to Chevron’s egregious actions last year, people in twenty nations on five continents protested against the corporation. Only a few weeks ago, Chevron won the Public Eye Lifetime Achievement Award for corporate abuse. Additionally, Watson himself has a formal complaint filed against him at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. His company, found liable for $9.5 billion for the worst oil-related disaster in history in Ecuador, continues to refuse to pay. Thumbing his nose at the courts, Watson’s strategy has been to attack the very people Chevron poisoned as criminals.

Such behavior is simply appalling. That’s why over 35 environmental and human rights organizations have denounced this award and are calling on the Commonwealth Club to rescind it. John Watson and Chevron must be called out for what they are: corporate criminals who abuse their massive wealth to harm people and planet with virtual impunity.

Please join us and let them hear your voice. Corporate criminals must be held accountable, not rewarded.

For justice,

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John Tye – Avaaz

03/24/2015 Nativegrl77

The Syrian air force just dropped chlorine gas bombs on children. But President Obama is considering a No Fly Zone that could stop these chemical weapon murders. He needs urgent public support to save tens of thousands of lives. Every signature makes a safe zone more likely:

SIGN NOW

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Children’s Advil

03/24/2015 Nativegrl77

Petitioning Pfizer

Remove Red 40 from children’s medicine

Petition by Sirisha Sinha

Fremont, California

5,022

Supporters

Sign Sirisha’s petition

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Brittney Berry: Low Pay Is Not Ok

03/23/2015 Nativegrl77

I’m Brittney Berry of the organization Low Pay Is Not Ok, and I started a petition to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez which says:

Four out of five fast-food workers have been burned on the job—most repeatedly, many badly.¹ To make matters worse, many fast-food restaurants don’t even have a properly-equipped and accessible first aid kit and try to treat workers’ injuries with mustard and other condiments instead of getting them the treatment they need. It is unconscionable that fast-food companies value their own profits over basic safety for their workers. I urge you to investigate the fast-food industry’s failure to provide safe working conditions or proper treatment for severe injuries.

Sign Brittney’s petition

An expectant mother is told by her manager to treat a bad boiling-water burn with mustard. Mustard.

A fast-food worker gets third-degree burns from a blisteringly hot, totally unsafe fry lamp.

A cook sears the entire palm of his hand on a too-hot grill—and his supervisor makes him work for hours before getting it treated.

This is the truth about the serious, painful and often permanent injuries that occur every single day in fast-food kitchens across the country. Dangerous conditions, insane “first-aid treatments” like mustard and butter on burns, and poor management have led to this: Four out of five fast-food workers have been burned, most repeatedly. That’s 2.8 million workers burned this year.²

Call on the Department of Labor to investigate an industry that is putting millions of fast-food workers’ health and safety at risk every day.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Brittney

Sources:

1. “Survey Of Fast Food Workers: Some Bosses Told Employees To Use Condiments As Medical Supplies”, CBS New York, March 17, 2015
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=303566&id=109984-17809870-sW0blux&t=1

2. Ibid.