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Tell Chevron to Clean Up Its Toxic Mess in Ecuador




Demand that Chevron to take responsibility for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater.
 Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects.

The tragedy in Ecuador is so profound, it has been compared to the Exxon Valdez spill and called the “Amazon’s Chernobyl.”

In spite of the tremendous suffering caused by this toxic pollution, Chevron has refused to clean up the catastrophe.

Demand that Chevron take responsibility for its actions now >

Within the next year, the outcome of a court case sixteen years in the making will be determined by a court in Ecuador.

Chevron has pledged that even if it is found guilty in court the company simply won’t pay to clean up the site or provide health care, potable water and compensation to affected communities.

Chevron needs to take responsibility. But the company won’t unless it feels pressure from its American customers and the general public.

Send a letter to CEO John Watson and tell him he needs to clean up the toxic legacy in Ecuador >

And tell Watson that Chevron must shift to clean sources energy and adopt sound human rights policies so that what is happening to the people of Ecuador and the rainforest never happens anywhere else.

Thank you for lending your voice,

– The Change.org Team in partnership
with Rainforest Action Network

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Personal thoughts 1yr later …


Today …

we have two wars, people in the private and or public sector are not hiring, or limiting the work available, Democrats are the majority, yet they don’t act like it. We have far too many public servants with personal agendas, a new party,called Tea Party or Teabaggers, who, i have had experience talking with, were only a small group, seemed to have put a guy in Congress who states he is a liberal in public but …his website clearly points out his alignment with ultra-conservatives.

An earthquake rocked Haiti and human beings all over the world have come to help, big banks have apologized in public and gave big..big huge bonus money to their people, have been flexing muscles and refusing to lend money to the everyday people that hire folks, insurance companies are inserting millions to fight HCR for all, credit card companies are bashing people with fees, our Supreme Court has caused a problem for our Democracy, reports of at least 12terrorist  attacks have been waged on the US, republicans have held up the Presidents TSA nominee for at least 8months. recently, we came close to having a plane bombed, yet republicans stated days afterward that the nominee has issues, did things that cannot be ignored? twenty years ago, he did something, said he was sorry, DeMint and the rest of the republicans are obstructionist,  democrats have to rise up against this behavior.

i still support the President:  yet, i have some doubt he gets it, actually im willing to say his handlers have been keeping him in the background, letting Pelosi/Reid do somethings, yet those of us on the ground heard the talk, though he says he gets it? does he? the mood around the country is bad, people want bold action, progressives, libs, democrats voted him in because he seemed to want to do some things, your base will be there if you have the courage to move boldly as you campaigned, translate those words into reality, move forward on the rest of the campaign promises that are bold, drastic, transparent and with verve.

Again, it’s definitely time for a change … when will our President get it Repubs want you to fail and have no intention of being bipartisan…

Seven Months ago …

someone decided to throw a verbal teabag at me so i responded …

the teabag crowd was of varying ideals,some good,bad and then the ugly,which is what stood out to me,i am a Obama supporter and have faith that he will get us out of the ditch the house of bush left,it takes dollars,it will go back to the same capitalistic label when it all gets fixed, what i want to know is where were y’ll when the house of Bush sent over 10mil a month off the financial books,our ruined econ happened under the Bush admin, yet everyone out at this march charge Obama? this is a strange response to me and something more is going on,how do they expect to get us out the hole the house of Bush put us in,that wall street,aig and the housing creeps all participating in? i respect freedom of speech but what i saw was fear mongering and hate.  I heard the ppl who were in charge state they want to go back to how things were 100 years ago? that should scare ppl because minorities and women were treated very poorly… ask AL Gerhart what he meant by that?

Four Months ago …

someone said the sky was falling that Marxism was coming to America and we will loose our freedom  …

i find it amusing to see how easy folks seem to throw out labels to describe President Obama’s actions in a time when the jig is up so to speak …
with Wall Street’s creative accounting procedures finally coming to an ugly head … the show.. House of cards by David Faber on CNBC was a cruel reminder and awaking at how greed affects the mind … a truthful documentation of the nasty journey our economy took … by who, for who and how it brought us all down …
and —    if we have to subscribe to labels … call me a Marxist who believes in Socialism at this time ….. We need someone who cares, who is socially responsible and who believes the gap between the haves and have none needs to shrink … school me …what can be wrong with caring for all the people of the US … not just the 2% … especially since that one percent has been wheeling and dealing starting from the house of bush and trickled down to main street … gotta admit it’s time for a change.

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Washington State … Repower America:: tell your Senator:: Don’t mess with the Clean Air Act


As early as tomorrow, your Senators could vote to block the Clean Air Act’s protections against carbon pollution, carving out a loophole that hands the biggest polluters a clear path to spew dangerous emissions into our air and water.

And, unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that this so-called “Dirty Air Act” was literally written by fossil fuel industry lobbyists.1

We have less than 24 hours before the vote could happen — please help flood your Senators with urgent calls demanding that they vote “NO” on this attack on the Clean Air Act.

Senator Cantwell: (202) 224-3441
Senator Murray: (202) 224-2621

Let them know you’re a constituent and say:

“I urge Senator _____ to oppose any efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act’s ability to limit dangerous carbon pollution. Instead of taking our country a step backwards, I hope you will work to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.”

Please report your call.

This vote pits the profits of a few companies against the health and welfare of the American public.

The same lobbyist who was invited to help draft the amendment — former Bush administration official Jeffrey Holmstead — represents some of the worst of the worst, including the top three coal-fired sources of global warming pollution in the entire country. What’s more, his clients donated over $50,000 in campaign contributions to the Senator who introduced the proposal.2

This kind of pay-to-play politics must be rejected, and forcefully. Call today and tell your Senators: Don’t mess with the Clean Air Act.

Thanks,

Dave Boundy

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Dems United in Solidarity for Barack Obama ….sign your name


Tell President Obama we support him … we will still push for change we all voted for and believe in …

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Clean Energy initiative … introduced 1/8/2010 by President Obama


As we move into 2010 the percentage of jobs lost has not subsided and the stimulus package has not produced as many jobs as the Obama Administration had hoped,  the percentage, still in the double digits, 10%.  This slow turn around has the Obama Administration taking steps to increase job creation of 17thousand if not more jobs by injecting money and giving tax credits to green businesses. Tax credits were awarded to 183 projects in 43 states, which, hopefully will boost the economy.

As the President introduced the Clean Energy initiative, he promised that these green jobs will not be outsourced, he also reminded the nation that America started out being the number one in Energy Innovation and manufacturing. These jobs and others primarily held by Americans  have since been sent overseas, in my opinion because material and labor was and still is very cheap.

Today,  China is one if not the biggest manufacturer of solar panels, wind and other clean energy technology products; it’s obvious America needs to improve upon our status and production of green jobs, green products and innovation.

The Clean Energy initiative is a package of 2.3billion dollars to forge a future for Americans by starting  to manufacture solar, wind  and hopefully infrastructure projects, these projects must be in service by 2014, but approximately 30 percent of them will be completed by 2010, the administration estimated.  The money used will be coming from the stimulus package as well as an additional 5billion of private capital provided to the manufacturing sector to create thousands of additional jobs.