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BioMarin said No to her friend with Cancer
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The first thing I have to say is thank you. More than 140,00 people — including you — have signed my petition to help save the life of my friend Andrea Sloan.
Andrea is in desperate need of a new cancer drug made by pharmaceutical company BioMarin, but they say she’s “not eligible” for any of their current trials. Andrea needs access to the drug under a “compassionate use” program, and because of our petition, it’s looking like that could really happen.
Just last week, a leaked internal email from BioMarin proved that they are taking this petition seriously and really considering helping Andrea.
We are so close to getting Andrea the medicine she needs. She has dedicated her life to helping others — I know we can do what it takes to help her.
Thank you,
Carol Carter
Lake Dallas, TX
P.S. Have you seen this video that Andrea made explaining compassionate use? Click here to watch, and feel free to share that as well!
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TransCanada’s US location and Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (Texas)
Yesterday, a group of courageous people just like you were arrested in the belly of the beast: TransCanada’s U.S. headquarters in Houston, Texas. These were mothers, fathers, grandfathers, great grandmothers, scientists, and teachers who staged a peaceful sit-in with a clear message: No Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
At RAN we have a policy never to ask you to take an action, online or offline, that we don’t believe will make a strategic difference and have an impact that is worth your time. What I’m about to ask you to do might be one of the most important political acts you take this year.
Right now President Obama and his State Department are weighing their decision on whether this disastrous dirty energy pipeline is in our national interest. Our job must be to show enough opposition to the pipeline to ensure the president stands on the right side of this historical moment. That’s why we need you to join those standing up against Keystone XL in protest.
More than 75,000 people, including many of you, have signed RAN, Other 98% and CREDO’s Pledge of Resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline—pledging to participate in peaceful civil disobedience, to risk arrest if necessary, to stop this dangerous tar sands pipeline.
This is our next big step in the Pledge of Resistance together. This summer, after months of hard work and organizing, more than 400 volunteers have stepped up to lead acts of dignified protest in towns and cities across the country.
Will you join them by signing up today to participate in a local protest in your hometown?
To be clear, this is a serious request of your time, your passion and, potentially, your liberty. We’re asking now because it’s critical.
These actions are coming together because of months of work by literally hundreds of people. A group of seasoned direct action organizers built a training curriculum and traveled to cities around the country to teach people like you how to plan and lead a safe, strategic sit-in. Hundreds of activists stepped up to attend these rigorous two-day weekend trainings, and then went home to put that training into action. Now we’re asking: Will you join them?
The dates for these local actions have not been set, but the dates of action trainings have. We’re asking everyone to get in touch with local action leaders so we can prepare for action now and are ready to respond if President Obama signals his intention to approve the pipeline. That is our most strategic window to have the biggest impact.
Find your nearest Pledge of Resistance action and sign up to be a part of it!
Soon after you sign up for an action, you’ll be contacted by your local action leader, who will send out a time for your group to meet in person, get trained up, and move forward to put together everything you will need for a local sit-in action. There will be roles for everyone: those risking arrest and those not risking arrest.
The location for these actions will be relevant to your town. Likely locations will be: Administration buildings like State Department, EPA and Federal offices, oil industry contractor offices, and branches of TD Bank, a major investor in tar sands development.
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P.S. Got questions? Check out http://nokxl.org/why-pledge-resistance/.
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Celebrating America’s Future
Only 6 Days left to get Early Bird Discount
On Nov. 6, join Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the Campaign for America’s Future to honor Margery Tabankin, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, and Leo Gerard in Washington, D.C.
Celebrating America’s Future: 2013 Awards GalaCampaign for America’s FutureWednesday, November 6, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)Washington, DC |
As a friend of Campaign for America’s Future, we’d like to offer the opportunity to you buy tickets at a substantial discount.
Don’t miss your chance to honor our progressive heroes and be in the company of actiivists, labor organizers and policy makers who are the future of our movement. As usual, there will be surprise guests.
Don’t hesitate. There are only six days left for discount tickets. We can’t wait to see you there.
Click here to purchase early bird tickets.
Sincerely,
Roger Hickey
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
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A Better Bargain …
Hello everybody —
The basic bargain of this country says that if you work hard, you can get ahead — you can build a secure life for your family, and know that your kids will do even better someday.
But for more than a decade, that bargain has frayed, and a devastating recession made it worse.
Over the past four and a half years, America has fought its way back, laying a new foundation for more durable economic growth. But many of the challenges that faced the middle class before the recession remain. And Washington has taken its eye off the ball.
Too many people in this town are focused on scoring political points or fanning phony scandals instead of finding ways to help grow our economy, create jobs, or roll back a 30-year trend of rising inequality.
It’s time for that to stop. It’s time for all of us to focus on our top priority as a country, and that’s reigniting the engine of our prosperity: a rising, thriving middle class.
That’s what I just said while speaking at Knox College, back home in Illinois, where I kicked off a series of speeches on what truly matters to the middle class.
This has been my North Star for as long as I’ve been in office, and it’s what will shape the time that I have left in the White House.
In the weeks ahead, in towns across the country, I’ll be talking about my ideas for building on the cornerstones of middle-class security: Good jobs with good wages. An education that prepares our children and our workers for a new economy. A home to call your own. Affordable health care when you get sick. A secure retirement even if you’re not rich. A better bargain for the middle class, and for all who are striving to join it.
This is the debate we need to have. And you can join me right now.
Let the country know that you believe that America works best not when it grows from the top down, but when it grows from the middle out:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/a-better-bargain/speak-out
Thank you,
Be a Seed for Change 
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