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All because of You …BraVenew Foundation


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Brave New Foundation’s Cuéntame exists because of YOU! We are an independent, non-profit organization with NO corporate sponsors or funding. This has allowed us to fight for the most pressing issues within and throughout our community without any censorship or outside influence. 

But this also means we rely completely on the support of members like you to keep producing the hard-hitting, effective videos and actions like those we have done in the past year. We need to raise $25,000 by Christmas Eve. Please contribute $10 today!

During this past year, our work has reached millions of people and we’ve been able to take on critical issues like:

  • Exposing hateful Tea Party rhetoric.
  • Fighting the discriminatory Arizona law SB1070.
  • Pushing to enact a Dream Act.
  • Helping turn out the highest Latino vote in history.
  • Exposing racist electoral ads.
  • A music and film series to educate about the best of Latino culture and much, much more!

We greatly appreciate all of your involvement and helping us to become the flourishing community organization that we are today! With close to 50,000 members and over 30 million impressions on our campaigns, we’ve become the strongest Latino social network activists. We have been able to reach over a hundred million people through our media and press impact and now we are ready to take on even more battles.

Cuéntame was created for you and by you and now we need your support once again to keep fighting! This is the only way that we can keep producing these campaigns, daily videos and continue to get our community’s voice heard loud and clear.

We understand that times are hard for many of us, but it doesn’t take much to help out! A contribution of $10 will help us continue standing up against these injustices!

Can you donate and help Cuéntame stay free of corporate influence and be able to keep producing hard-hitting, informative campaigns that make a real impact for our community? Together we can make a difference. Click HERE to contribute.

Thank you so much for your support! See you on the Cuéntame page!

Yours,

Axel Caballero and Ofelia Yañez
and the Cuéntame team

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‘DROP DEAD’
That’s the message deficit hypocrites in Washington have for jobless Americans. They blocked action in Congress—and now more than 800,000 long-term job seekers have lost their emergency unemployment benefits. The total’s set to rise to 2 million by year’s end. 

See the human cost of hypocrisy—and tell your senators to open their eyes!

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Something in Washington reeks—and it’s not the dreary swamp the city was built on—it’s deficit hypocrites. You may have seen them on TV—folks who have no clue what life’s like for ordinary Americans. They are fighting for $700 billion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires but think maintaining emergency unemployment is “too expensive.”

These deficit hypocrites have basically told long-term unemployed workers to “drop dead.” Right now, more than 800,000 long-term job hunters have lost their emergency unemployment benefits. Every additional second of delay costs more than one worker his or her emergency lifeline.

We’ve updated our unemployment counter to track the ongoing cost of greed and purposeful, heartless delay in real time.(1)

Find out how many workers have lost emergency unemployment insurance—and tell your senators this is totally unacceptable.

Today—as you read this message—100 unemployed workers are in Washington, D.C., to lobby their lawmakers.

Their message is clear: We have an urgent jobs crisis. With five job hunters for every one opening, we need jobs now. And while jobs aren’t there, job seekers need a lifeline.

The unemployed workers on Capitol Hill today—and the 2 million workers around the country who will lose their benefits by January unless Congress acts—need your help.

See how many workers have lost their emergency unemployment—and urge your senators to act.

In solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

(1) Simulation based on the National Employment Law Project’s estimate of 2,013,058 workers who will lose benefits by Dec. 31, 2010.

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Stop the Drone Killings


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Drone strikes and other extrajudicial killings outside of war zones are skyrocketing under the Obama Administration–and U.S. citizens are on the kill list. 

That may sound too shocking to believe, but it’s true. It’s also completely unacceptable. Sign our petition urging President Obama to stop targeted killings beyond war zones and to demand transparency for how people end up on the kill lists.

These strikes are a real threat to your safety. Every time a civilian dies, we give al-Qaida a huge recruiting opportunity and validate their propaganda, and some estimates indicate that more than 90 percent of those killed are civilians. Because these strikes are carried out in secret, those who execute them do so with little or no accountability for the harm they cause to civilians and to our security.

Our new video shows the terrible impact of drone strikes and other extrajudicial killings, often taking place in support of the brutal, flailing war policy in Afghanistan. It shows that these strikes stoke popular anger against the U.S., and that extrajudicial killings without accountability are a basic threat to our democracy.

We’ve got to stop them.

Sign our petition and help us raise the alarm about the danger to U.S. citizens, at home and abroad, from unaccountable drone strikes and other extrajudicial killings.

Sincerely,

Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Foundation team

P.S. If you haven’t done so already, please join Rethink Afghanistan on Facebook and Twitter.

Donate here Donate today to help bring an end to this atrocious war that’s not making us any safer.


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Get your rainforest-safe gift guide


Rainforest Action Network

Don’t buy children’s books that destroy rainforests.

Books make incredible gifts for children. As the winter holidays approach, RAN and Tiki The Tiger want to help you make sure rainforest paper isn’t part of the present.

Shockingly, many U.S. publishers have released at least one children’s book that tested positive for paper fiber linked to Indonesian rainforest destruction. With one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, Indonesia‘s rainforests- and the communities and endangered wildlife that live there- are disappearing rapidly.

We want to make sure that you and your gifts don’t get wrapped up in rainforest destruction this holiday season. Introducing our new pocket-sized Rainforest-Safe Kids’ Books Shopping Guide….

Download the pocket guide Share the pocket guide online Sign up to handout guides in bookstores

Print out the guide and pop it in your wallet. Share it with your friends via Facebook, Twitter and email. You can also join RAN and Tiki The Tiger for our national Roar At The Store week of action where hundreds across North America will hand out rainforest-safe guides in front of their favorite bookstore.

Thanks for helping to keep Indonesia’s rainforests off your shopping list this holiday season and beyond.

Robin Averbeck

For Indonesia’s Rainforests,
Robin Averbeck
Forest Campaigner
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BoldProgressives.org


Progressive Change Campaign Committee

 

BREAKING: The “bipartisan” deficit reduction commission — appointed by President Obama and led by millionaires — just made their ideas public. And they are ridiculous.

They recommend to Congress cutting Social Security benefits and raising the retirement age. (Shockingly, the commission of millionaires didn’t focus on raising taxes on the wealthy.)

We need to respond fast to make sure this goes nowhere. House Progressive Caucus Chair Raul Grijalva (who we just helped re-elect) has boldly organized over 100 of his colleagues to fight this proposal.

We need to show they have grassroots support. Can you join over 31,000 others in being a “citizen signer” of Grijalva’s letter? Click here.

Then, share with others — including on Facebook or Twitter.

We’ll inform Grijalva of our progress, so he can work with us to inform the media of this grassroots support.

Just today, Talking Points Memo reported on a poll we commissioned asking voters their preference on how to reduce the deficit:

  • 43% say raise taxes on the wealthy
  • 22% say cut the huge military budget
  • Only 12% say cut Social Security

Yet this “bipartisan” commission of millionaires recommends the exact opposite? Nancy Pelosi calls it “simply unacceptable.”

Help House progressives declare loudly: Cutting Social Security is simply not an option. Click to be a “citizen signer” of Grijalva’s letter — then share this email with others.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

— Stephanie Taylor, Julia Rosen, Jason Rosenbaum, Forrest Brown, and the PCCC team

Save Social Security!