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A new bra … by Allana Maiden Richmond, Virginia

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                          I’m asking Victoria’s Secret to make a “Survivor Bra” to help breast cancer survivors who had mastectomies feel beautiful too.                       
      Sign My Petition

I was six years old when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. But my mom is one of the lucky ones, and she survived after undergoing a mastectomy — a procedure that removes one or both breasts — when she was just 36 years old.

Even though she’s been cancer free for over 21 years, my mom still struggles to find bras for women missing a breast that are not only comfortable and attractive, but affordable. I’ve been a Victoria’s Secret customer for years, and I know they’re outspoken supporters of women with breast cancer.

Now I’m asking them to act on their word by making a “Survivor Bra” for women who have lost one or both of their breasts due to cancer. I started a petition on Change.org asking Victoria’s Secret to be a leader for survivors of breast cancer by making a bra that is comfortable for women who have had mastectomies. Click here to sign my petition.

My mom is amazing. Even when she was going through exhausting chemotherapy — all while raising me — she never complained. Now, after years of being cancer free, my mom still has to drive to an expensive specialty store just to find bras and swimsuits that fit.

Cancer survivors, especially women who have had a mastectomy, often struggle with their image and self-confidence. With thousands of stores located across the country and online, Victoria’s Secret could provide breast cancer survivors everywhere with access to better bras.

Victoria’s Secret’s parent company has publicly said that “breast cancer is an issue close to many of us.” I believe that with your signature, they will do the right thing and become a leader in helping women with breast cancer feel beautiful again after a mastectomy. They’ve responded to public pressure like this before, and now you can help get them to respond again.

Click here now to sign my petition asking Victoria’s Secret to make a “Survivor Bra” for survivors of breast cancer.

Thank you for your support!

Allana Maiden Richmond, Virginia
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a Plan to Reduce Gun Violence

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President Obama Introduces a Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
 
President Obama puts forward a specific plan to protect our children and communities by reducing gun violence, introducing legislative and executive action that combined would close background check loopholes to keep guns out of dangerous hands; ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and taking other common-sense steps to reduce gun violence; make schools safer; and increase access to mental health services. January 16, 2013.
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Come see us when in Washington DC this weekend!


NMAAHC -- National Museum of African American History and Culture

WHAT TO DO IN WASHINGTON DURING
THE INAUGURATION WEEKENDBehind the Dream: the Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly

Saturday, January 19, 2013, 2:00 pm

Join us for a conversation between award-winning author and Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood and Clarence B. Jones, Dr. Martin Luther King’s personal lawyer and speechwriter.

National Museum of American History, Warner Bros. Theater
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Metro: Smithsonian or Federal Triangle

Free and Open to the Public. Seating limited.
RSVP requested Register at www.nmaahc.si.edu/events

Help us Celebrate History in the Making at an Open House hosted by the NMAAHC

Sunday, January 20, 2013, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm

 
  • Take a virtual tour of the Museum
  • View groundbreaking ceremony highlights
  • Meet museum staff and fellow Charter Members
  • Enjoy music and light refreshments
  • Show your membership card to receive a special photo (quantities limited)
  • Become a Charter Member

S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Avenue NW
Washington DC
Note: Copper-dome entrance kiosk located between Smithsonian Castle
and the Freer Sackler Gallery.
Metro: Smithsonian

Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963

On view now through September 15, 2013 in the NMAAHC’s temporary gallery on level 2.

National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Metro: Smithsonian or Federal Triangle

Guided exhibition tours offered Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 am, 12:00 noon, and 1:00 pm. Maximum group size for each tour is 15. Please meet in front of exhibition entrance.

For more information about Changing America, visit www.nmaahc.si.edu.
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Deadline Monday: Fight the largest coal export terminal in the country


If approved, the Gateway Pacific Terminal near Bellingham will be the largest coal export terminal in the United States. Right now, the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to decide which environmental impacts to take into account as it considers the permit proposal.

This decision could be a major turning point in the fight against coal exports. If the full range of potential impacts is considered — from supercharged climate change to toxic coal dust pollution and carcinogenic diesel fumes —it will be undeniable that the Gateway Pacific Terminal is a bad deal for Washington.

The Army Corps of Engineers is accepting public comments for the next few days on the scope of its review. Since it is considering a project that has the potential to do so much damage, Washingtonians deserve a review that fully considers all of the disastrous impacts before it is too late.

Deadline Monday: Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the full range of environmental threats posed by the Gateway Pacific Terminal and to reject the project. Submit a public comment now.

The factors the Corps decides to include in its environmental impact statement could end up determining whether or not the Gateway Pacific Terminal is allowed to move forward, so public comments today about the range of threats this project poses are crucial.

If approved, the Gateway Pacific Terminal would be disastrous for Washington. Many of the state’s major population centers, including Seattle, Spokane and Bellingham, would be subjected to clouds of toxic coal dust and dangerous diesel fumes generated by dozens of 1.5-mile-long trains each day.

Ramping up coal exports would also make Washington a major contributor to climate change by making Wyoming and Montana coal cheaply available to growing markets like China, India and South Korea.

Washington has a well-deserved reputation for sustainability and environmental stewardship, but if the Gateway Pacific Terminal moves forward that reputation and much more would be at risk.

The Army Corps of Engineers has a disappointing track record of rubber-stamping environmentally disastrous projects like the Gateway Pacific Terminal, so today we need to generate a flood of public comments the agency can’t ignore.

Deadline Monday: Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the full range of environmental threats posed by the Gateway Pacific Terminal and to reject the project. Submit a public comment now.

Thanks for fighting coal exports in Washington.

Josh Nelson, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets