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“Let’s leave the oil beneath the ground… the oil industry is destructive for indigenous society, non-indigenous society, the planet, and nature. It disrupts our indigenous worldview and destroys our ecosystems.”
– PatriciaGualingaKichwa leader ofSarayaku,EcuadorDear carmen,This week, world leaders are in Bonn, Germany for the latest round of climate negotiations. They are working on a draft version of a major United Nations agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions that are changing the Earth’s climate. But the fossil fuel industry and other global corporations that have a vested interest in stopping progress on climate policymaking continue to delay, weaken, and block climate policy at every level.

The only way we’ll get an international agreement to reduce emissions is to end the corporate interference that has derailed and watered down climate talks time and again.

Please join us, Corporate Accountability International and many other allied organizations to call on world leaders to kick big polluters out of policymaking. SIGN TODAY to join this call.

We are more than halfway to our goal of 250,000 signatures! They will be delivered in just a few days while the meetings are still under way. Sign today because if the United Nations is serious about finding real solutions to our increasingly urgent climate crisis, fossil fuels have to go.

For our global climate,

Paul Paz y Miño
Director of Outreach and Online Strategy

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Pass an Animal Rescuer Protection Law

06/03/2015 Nativegrl77

Petitioning Tennessee State House, Tennessee State Senate, Randy McNally, Harry Brooks, Ronald Ramsey

Pass an Animal Rescuer Protection Law

Petition by mike sullivan

knoxville, Tennessee

48,208

Supporters

Sign Mike’s petition

I am being punished for trying to save horses from slaughter.

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The key to saving the Amazon

06/03/2015 Nativegrl77

Dalia Hashad – Avaaz

Every 60 seconds, Amazon forest the size of 3 football fields disappears — thousand-year-old trees logged or burnt to the ground. Scientists warn that we must make a choice now: take action to save the Amazon or lose the fight in a generation. One untapped resource is the key to saving the Amazon: indigenous people who have called it their home for centuries. Like the jaguar or the giant kapok tree, these communities are not simply inhabitants of the forest, but rather part of the Amazon itself. Guardians of the forest’s hidden treasures, they are front-line experts on the plunder that threatens it and what preservation requires. But the 400 tribes don’t have resources to convert their knowledge into the political power necessary to save the Amazon.That’s where we come in.If we back indigenous communities with funds and a top-notch team of campaigners from around the world, we can make theirs the voice that saves the Amazon. We’ll train indigenous leaders in advocacy, campaigning, civil disobedience and provide them with the resources they need from media access to funded lobbying trips. Then we will set them up with satellite phones that can alert rapid response teams around the world to launch into action.

To save the Amazon, instead of leading, what we really need to do is join with indigenous communities and follow. With enough pledges now, we can combine the power of our massive global movement with the true guardians of the Amazon to do what we need to save us all.

Click to pledge now — Avaaz will only process your donation if we raise enough to ignite a global campaign

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Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon are Stronger with Our Support! ~ repost

06/03/2015 Nativegrl77

Português | Español | Deutsch | [+]The indigenous peoples of the Amazon have long known this simple truth: what we do to the planet we do to ourselves. That is why Amazon Watch directly supports communities challenging massive industrial expansion like the Belo Monte Dam Complex and the proposed dams on the Tapajos River in Brazil. And why we supported indigenous women at the COP20 Climate Conference last week in Peru – generating media and grassroots support to make their fight central to the climate change debate. Your donations made that work possible.Scientists have shown empirically that empowering indigenous peoples with the rights to their ancestral territories is the most effective way to preserve the Amazon rainforest. In fact, if indigenous communities successfully assert their land rights, over 200 million hectares of the Amazon could be protected.

The race to exploit the Amazon has already led to mass deforestation, sickness, death, the extinction of previously “uncontacted” communities, cultural disintegration, prostitution, and more. This is unacceptable. We need everyone to invest in the fight to end these abuses.

Amazon Watch will continue to advance the rights of our indigenous partners – the stewards of our planetary life-support systems. And you can directly help tip the balance in their favor for everyone’s benefit. Please support Amazon Watch today.