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Help get junk food money out of school lunch
Support kids’ health, not junk food interests.

Guess who’s funding lobbyists to weaken school lunch?

The School Nutrition Association represents the school food professionals who feed our kids—but their lobbyists are contradicting the science, and trying to take fruits & vegetables off kids’ lunch trays. And guess who’s funding their efforts? Junk food companies.

ACTION ALERT
Support Kids’ Health, Not Junk Food Interests

Meet the School Nutrition Association (SNA), one of the main lobbying groups—funded in part by corporate junk food money—standing in the way of healthier school lunch for kids.

The SNA’s members are the school meal providers who feed children in schools across the country—but their lobbyists aren’t as concerned with the health of our kids as you’d think. Could it be because corporate junk food companies like Domino’s and PepsiCo fund about half of the SNA’s budget?

Shockingly, the SNA opposes improved nutrition standards that would keep fruits and vegetables on kids’ lunch trays. In fact, they’re actively trying to convince Congress that schools can’t make healthy foods work in cafeterias.

SNA nesting doll

But we’ve got what the opposition doesn’t have: evidence that the new nutrition standards—created by scientists and experts, not corporate interests—are working. Most schools have successfully implemented the standards, and studies show that kids are eating more fruits and veggies. UCS’s own analysis reveals that healthier school meals are a lifeline for many kids in a sea of junk food.

With an obesity crisis threatening our children’s future and driving up healthcare costs, the stakes are too high to roll back progress. Send the SNA a message: look out for kids, not the junk food industry.

Take Action

Sincerely,
Ashley Elles
Ashley Elles
Food and Environment Program
Union of Concerned Scientists
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Help the Duwamish River … Ms. Margie’s 4th grade class


WordpressduwamishI’m Ms. Margie, a teacher and MoveOn member in Wallingford, WA, and I started a petition with my 4th grade class to King County Executive Dow Constantine, which says:

Constantine, which says:

Make Seattle’s only river clean enough for locals to fish. Sign Ms.’s petition

We are a 4th grade class in Seattle, Washington. We are petitioning Dow Constantine, King County Executive, to give enough money to clean the Duwamish River for citizens to be able to fish safely. The Duwamish River is one of the most polluted rivers in the U.S. and the only river in Seattle.

The Duwamish River is affecting people’s health. Residents who live closer to the river die 13 years younger than others who live in Laurelhurst.1 There are three tribes that eat fish from the river. It’s in the tribes’ culture to fish in the Duwamish and we shouldn’t take that away from them, so we want King County to give enough money so that people can eat the fish without the risk of getting really sick.

The Environmental Protection Agency has already released a $342 million, 17 year-long cleanup plan to help.2 However, it is not removing enough toxins so that locals can fish from the Duwamish safely. Although it will cost King County a lot of money and time, people and animals around the Duwamish will be saved.

Our goal is to collect 3,000 signatures by June 1, 2015. June 2 we will be holding a protest and presenting our petition signatures. If you add your name, it will really make a difference to the people and animals that live or fish in the Duwamish River.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Ms. Margie’s 4th grade class

Source:

1. “The Duwamish: River of no return?” Crosscut, July 7, 2014
http://crosscut.com/2014/07/duwamish-river-no-return/

2. “$342 Million to Clean Duwamish River Superfund Site: EPA Finalizes Plan,” Indian Country Today, December 4, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=304554&id=117895-17809870-FDkiIDx&t=1

This petition was created on MoveOn’s online petition site, where anyone can start their own online petitions. Ms. Margie’s 4th grade class didn’t pay us to send this email—we never rent or sell the MoveOn.org list.

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Single father of drive-by shooting victim needs help making home ‘comfortable’ for daughter


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Bees are dying


Petitioning EPA, Environmental Protection Agency

Ban the chemical that’s killing our bees
Petition by Nancy Addison
Dallas, Texas
132,940
Supporters
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Please sign this letter… VoteVets


VoteVets.orgHere’s the letter we’re submitting the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the big oil giveaway currently being considered by the agency.

Read it, and co-sign the letter before we submit it. You can do that here: http://action.votevets.org/epa-letter
  

To: Environmental Protection Agency
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0111

Please preserve a strong Renewable Fuel Standard — one that puts our national security, our environment, and American consumers ahead of the interests of Big Oil.

As veterans, military families, and VoteVets supporters, we know the cost of our dependence on foreign oil. The Renewable Fuel Standard has fostered a homegrown fuel industry that lessens our dependence on oil — the rising prices of which pay for weapons used against our men and women in uniform.

More than that, investing in cheaper, cleaner-burning renewable fuels has strengthened our economy — creating new jobs inside our borders, and saving Americans money with every fill-up.

Don’t allow oil industry lobbyists to put their interests ahead of the nation’s. Save the Renewable Fuel Standard, and keep our country on the road to a transportation future that depends less on the Middle East, and more on the Midwest.

Thank you,

[[Your Name]]

 

Sign the Letter here:
http://action.votevets.org/epa-letter