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Breaking: Unrest in Southern Sudan

01/11/2011 Nativegrl77

IRC

Recent elections in Sudan could lead to a new outbreak of violence once the results are made public. I urge you to support the International Rescue Committee’s life-saving work today as they prepare to assist victims of the renewed strife. The IRC has been working in the area for over 20 years providing health care and emergency aid.

Don Hazen
Executive Editor, AlterNet.org

Unrest in Southern Sudan

Dear AlterNet Reader,

Another potential war is looming in Sudan — a country widely known for the brutal conflict in its Darfur region.

On January 9, voters in Southern Sudan went to the polls to cast their votes to decide whether they would secede from the north. While results won’t be known for a week, the outcome may heighten tensions in a decades-old conflict between the regions.

The International Rescue Committee is preparing to help innocent families, should violence and tribal strife suddenly escalate in the aftermath of the vote. We are preparing for an influx of people crossing the border from the north and those fleeing violence within Southern Sudan itself.

We have readied emergency supplies, including clean water, food and shelter materials and are distributing them across the region.

Right now, your donation to the IRC will enable us to deliver practical support and aid to people — like those in Southern Sudan — who are struggling to survive.

The IRC has worked in Southern Sudan for more than 20 years. In addition to emergency aid, our staff there — a majority of whom are Sudanese nationals — currently provide essential services like health care and education to more than 600,000 people.

While the political tensions between the north and south are vastly complex, one thing is simple. We must do everything in our power to protect innocent lives. That is why the IRC is providing critical aid to families in Sudan and in 40 other countries and 22 U.S. cities.

With your support, we can continue this important work.

Sincerely,

All of us at the International Rescue Committee

P.S. Ninety cents of every dollar we spend is used to support IRC programs all over the world. And we are proud to have earned four stars from Charity Navigator for four straight years.

IRC

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your health care

01/07/2011 Nativegrl77

Good grief. The new House Republican majority has already announced that they will vote to repeal last year’s health care bill. And the vote will happen next week!

Democrats want to offer amendments to save the most popular parts of that bill — keeping kids on their parents’ health care until age 26, ending discrimination against pre-existing conditions, and filling in the prescription drug “doughnut hole” that forces seniors to pay thousands.

But the Tea Party says they won’t allow any amendments — even to protect popular reforms that save lives.

If you or someone you love would be impacted if the reforms listed above were repealed, can you click here to tell us your story?

Yesterday, Adam and I, plus our Capitol Hill director Shaunna Thomas, talked to several Democratic members of Congress — and they are eager to highlight the real stories of people who would be impacted if Republicans had their way. So we’ll share your stories with them.

The House bill will go nowhere in the Democratic Senate, but next week’s debate is a valuable opportunity to show America just how crazy the Tea Party zealots are — and to show Democrats how to start swinging from day one.

If repealing the reforms listed above would impact you, please share your story here.

Please pass this email to others you know who would be impacted by Republican proposals. And thanks for being a bold progressive.

— Stephanie

P.S. A recent Associated Press poll showed that by 2 to 1, Americans think last year’s health care law didn’t go far enough — as opposed to thinking it was too much government. So this year, we’ll be pushing Democrats to give Americans a government-run, public, “affordable health insurance option.” But the best way to encourage Democrats to play offense in the future is to help them play good defense next week. That’s where your health care stories come in — click here to tell us yours.

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First Test …

01/05/2011 Nativegrl77

One week from today, the new Republican House Majority will attempt to take a giant step backwards for our nation by holding a vote to repeal the health reform law that protects Americans from insurance company abuses.

This is our first test of how grassroots Democrats will respond to the Republicans’ disgraceful attempt to roll back our progress for America’s middle class families. We must hold House Republicans’ feet to the fire for taking government funded health care for themselves while voting to deny it to American families.

That is why we urgently need your support to raise $100,000 in grassroots contributions to hold Republicans accountable before their shameful vote on Wednesday.

Contribute $5, $10 or more today to help us respond to the Republicans’ shameful vote to take away quality, affordable health care from the American people and put insurance companies back in charge.

In the weeks since last November’s election, grassroots Democrats have not missed a beat in our effort to regain the Majority in 2012. Thanks to you, we surpassed our December grassroots goal by raising over $250,000. I cannot thank you enough.

Now we need your continued support to hold Republicans accountable for their misplaced priorities by voting to repeal health care reform rather than focus on creating jobs for America’s middle class. Every dollar you contribute will be used to keep the pressure on Republicans through hard-hitting ads, fact-checks, petition drives, Rapid Response efforts, and so much more.

The world is closely watching our commitment to protecting all of our historic progress for America’s middle class families. Let us begin right now by holding the new Republican majority immediately accountable for trying to repeal health care reform.

Nancy Pelosi
Democratic Leader

P.S. We cannot remain silent as Republicans shamefully vote to take away quality affordable health care from the American people. Please urgently contribute before our Wednesday deadline to hold them accountable and send a powerful message of strength to the media.

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wicked Wednesday &some News …

01/05/2011 Nativegrl77

The New Republican members Congress, dang not even the old Republicans have talked about jobs, jobs, jobs seriously since the midterm elections placed them in the Majority in the House of Republicans.

So, is anyone else wondering when we all will be outraged enough to march on the Republican Tea Party because I sure am. The idea that there will be investigations of every nook and cranny especially if Obama had a hand in it sounds very expensive and though no cost estimates have been given spending money on trying to prove something or someone is guilty instead using that money to create jobs is outrageous. There will be new rules coming from the Republican Tea Party to be listed and rumors that they will vote against raising the Debt Ceiling and we may default on and could cause all kinds of issues

I am outraged that these people want to repeal and or privatize health care let alone what Republicans call Obamacare, which stands to save elder people, those with children under the age of 26 can stay on their parents health care while in College and if you have a pre-existing condition and you are a woman …we are considered a pre-existing condition. Though we all know the Senate will not repeal the new health care law the fact is repealing it would leave a lot of women with diseases at risk. I hope everyone is listening to what the Republican Tea Party is saying but unlikely to carry out … Lindsey Graham stated that if President Obama comes our way we will compromise? why would people vote for these people. John Boehner said, “That he is going to do whatever it takes to see that as he calls it Obamacare never gets implemented. I want everyone to watch listen and be aware that Mitt Romney created and implemented Universal Health Care in his own state of Massachusetts while telling Americans that we do not deserve it with a vote of no on the floor of Congress and while he has not said much watch to see if he has the courage to say repeal Obamacare when it is actually based on what his constituents have. While Republican Tea Party members of Congress try to repeal our new health care law Paul Ryan wants to Privatize Social Security, Medicare and Darryl Issa along with Michele Bachmann will start investigating everything in sight especially if it is related to Obama because like the old Congress …the Republicans of 111th had a goal – to ruin his Presidency and the new 112th Republican Congress will try but as Margaret Mead said …

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

It is time for the Democratic Party to Unite if not to protect everything that was accomplished over the last two years …to protect Americans from the hands of a Political Party, Republican Tea members that have a family values platform that will force their ideologies on the rest of us telling us what we can do or not. I want to know if anyone else thinks that is big Government at play.

Other News …

**President Obama signs the 9/11 healthcare bill

**Chris Christie still defending his vacation plans

**Flooding in Austrlia

**Cuomo plans to freeze state worker pay for a yr

**Debt limit fight is a sure thing

**Republican Tea Party promise to cut and investigate

**Seahawks win playoff bid

**Zsa zsa has to have a leg amputation

**Issa reveals his hit list -wikileaks, Afghanistan, fannie mae/freddie mac, FDA, President Obama, Financial crisis inquiry commission, the New Black Panther group?,

**Packers stay in the game and gain playoff berth

**Kent company recalls sprouts

**Tribal police,FBI and investigate shooting on Swinomish Reservation

CSPAN …

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Hold Republicans accountable for their health care repeal vote.

01/05/2011 Nativegrl77

CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement.

Make Republicans own their opposition to popular health care reforms.

Tell Dems: Use the repeal vote to send a strong message.

Clicking the text below will add your name to this petition to your Democratic Representative.

The health care repeal vote is an important opportunity to frame Republican extremism and opposition to popular health care reforms.

Please fight this repeal effort and force Republicans to go on the record against reforms that help millions of Americans.

Click here to add your name

In a tip of the hat to radical Tea Party extremists who helped elect them, Republicans in the House will vote next Wednesday to repeal President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

This symbolic vote has virtually zero chance of success, as it is unlikely to pass in the Senate. And even if it does, there’s no way Republicans could overcome Obama’s veto.

House Democrats should use this opportunity to send a strong message.

Click here to automatically sign the petition asking your representative to fight the health care repeal effort and force Republicans to publicly oppose popular reform provisions.

If Dems fight back fiercely against this inane repeal vote, they can force Republicans to publicly oppose the bill’s broadly popular reforms. Republicans who support repeal should be forced to vote in favor of denying insurance to children with pre-existing conditions or expanding health care coverage for young adults.

Republicans are already trying to shut down debate, and prevent Democrats from offering amendments to protect popular provisions of the bill. Republicans used such amendments successfully when they were in the minority, and now Democrats should follow suit and do everything they can to force Republicans to take painful votes.

At CREDO, we worked hard for a stronger health care bill and fought to the end for the public option. Our position has always been in favor of single payer health care and our members were deeply disappointed when Democrats caved on the public option, essentially compromising on a position which was already a compromise.

But repealing the bill won’t do anything to make it stronger — in fact it will reverse provisions that help tens of millions of Americans get affordable health insurance. And it will actually increase the size of the deficit.

If Dems fight back, they can seize the opportunity they failed to embrace before — clearly and powerfully framing this issue, as, in the words of Rep. Anthony Weiner:

“Republicans are against a lot of things, but they are for kicking young Americans off their parents’ insurance plans, for reinstating copayments for preventive measures like cancer screenings, and for denying children coverage based on preexisting conditions.”¹

If Republicans want shine a spotlight on their rejection of these popular health care reforms in order to pledge allegiance to Tea Party extremism (to say nothing of Big Pharma and the health insurance giants who would profit from repeal), that’s their problem — or it will be, if we make sure our Democratic representatives stand up and fight back against the health care repeal vote next Wednesday.

Click here to automatically sign the petition asking your representative to fight the health care repeal effort and force Republicans to publicly oppose popular reform provisions.

Thank you for fighting for affordable health care.

Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

¹ The Washington Post, January, 3, 2011