Save our shores — FOREVER: Tell President Obama to use his authority to permanently protect the Arctic and Atlantic oceans before Drumpf/Trump takes over 18NOV16

WE are not going to be able to stop all the environmental degradation drumpf/trump-pence and the republican congress will inflict on our nation and the world. BUT we can take action to save the most vulnerable areas, and this petition calls on Pres Obama to permanently protect the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from offshore drilling. Please sign and share. From +League of Conservation Voters .....

Arctic and Atlantic offshore drilling is OFF the table … but not forever. We need permanent protection before Trump takes office. Act now » Petition to President Obama: "Thank you for protecting the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from offshore drilling for the next five years! Keeping dirty fuels in the ground is essential to fighting climate change and accelerating our transition to clean energy, but with Trump about to take over we must go further. We must permanently protect these oceans." Add your name: SIGN NOW Huge news, Craig! President Obama just finalized the offshore drilling plan for the next five years, and Atlantic AND Arctic drilling are both off the table! LCV Members like you fought tooth and nail over the last year to protect these oceans, and President Obama listened. But the fight is not over. These protections only exist for the next five-years, and they are almost certainly going to be challenged by President-elect Trump. He could not only put drilling in the Atlantic and the Arctic back in the mix, but expand drilling beyond. We need PERMANENT protection for the Arctic and Atlantic, and we need it now, before Trump takes office. Save our shores — FOREVER: Tell President Obama to use his authority to permanently protect the Arctic and Atlantic oceans before Trump takes over » Between Trump’s administration — which could include names like Sarah “Drill, Baby, Drill” Palin and Big Oil billionaire Howard Hamm — and a Congress controlled by Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, it looks increasingly likely that Big Polluters will have free rein over our environment … unless we stop them. President Obama has the authority to establish permanent protections for the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. He can safeguard our climate and our coastal communities and bring America one step closer to a clean energy future. But he must act now. President Obama has taken historic action to address climate change. And he’s protected more lands and waters than any president in history. Now he has an opportunity to further cement his environmental legacy by taking the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans off the table for offshore drilling forever. For the last year, LCV members have joined our state partners, coastal residents, businesses, and elected officials in saying no to new offshore drilling. We can accomplish permanent protections for the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, but only with you on our side. Please, don’t put this off — tell President Obama to permanently protect the Arctic and the Atlantic from Big Oil while we still can. Craig — with Donald Trump and his anti-environment cronies headed to Washington, permanently protecting our oceans from offshore drilling has to be a huge priority. Thank you for speaking out, Kristin Brown Director of Digital Strategy League of Conservation Voters

8/20/15: Remembering Julian Bond, Social Security turns 80, A Year after Ferguson, The Most Important News from the Progressive Movement brought to you by the Agenda Project Action Fund 20AUG15

The Most Important News from the Progressive Movement brought to you by the Agenda Project Action Fund REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF JULIAN BOND -- Southern Poverty Law Center's first president and co-founder and longtime NAACP Board Member Julian Bond passed away Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock commended Bond's legacy: "The grateful citizen heirs of the civil and human rights legacy of Julian bond can neither be counted nor confined to a generation. Many of the most characteristically American freedoms enjoyed by so many Americans today were made real because of [...] Julian Bond." READ "Julian Bond: Race Man, Poet, Movement-Builder--and Friend" over at Campaign for America's Future.   HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOCIAL SECURITY! -- AFSCME, American Family Voices, Working Families, National People's Action and 13 Progressive organizations celebrated Social Security's 80th birthday with a petition to US Congress to protect and expand Social Security for millions of Americans. According to the Daily Kos, Social Security has cut the percentage of America's seniors living in poverty from 50% to 8%. SIGN the petition HERE and CHECK OUT Save Our Retirement, a website launched by AARP, AFL-CIO, Better Markets and Americans for Financial Reform HERE.   A YEAR AFTER FERGUSON -- The Economic Policy Institute released "The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles"--a report detailing the history of the ostensibly race-neutral public policies that disparately impacted Ferguson's African American residents--on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death. READ the full report HERE, CHECK OUT "Race and Beyond: White Privilege in the Age of Ferguson" over at Center for American Progress and SIGN a petition over at the ACLU demanding the Department of Homeland Security cease conducting surveillance on #BlackLivesMatter activists HERE.  THE CASE FOR DEBT-FREE COLLEGE -- According to a new report from Demos, while 96 percent of Americans believe it is important to have a college degree, almost 80 percent of Americans believe a college education is unaffordable to those who need it. READ "The Case for Debt-Free College" over at Demos and SIGN a petition over at the Daily Kos in support of free community college HERE.  COLOR OF CHANGE & PRESENTE AGAINST PRIVATE PRISONS -- Color of Change and Presente launched separate attacks against the private prison industry this week with petitions against predatory prison phone rates and private prison industry lobbyists. Presente called out Hillary Clinton for accepting almost $130,000 from Akin Gump, the primary lobbyist for the largest private prison company in the US. SIGN a petition demanding Hillary Clinton and the DNC cut their ties from the private prison industry HERE and SIGN a petition from Color of Change demanding an end to predatory prison phone rates HERE.   THE LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS AGAINST SHELL -- The League of Conservation Voters organized a petition to deliver to President Obama and the Interior Department expressing their disappointment in their decision to allow Shell to drill in the Arctic Ocean. SIGN the petition HERE.  MOVEON'S NO WAR WITH IRAN -- MoveOn is organizing a No War with Iran action on Wednesday, August 26 at 12:00 PM in front of local offices of Congress across the US. REGISTER to host an event at your local Congress member's office HERE.  FROM THE WONK WIRE ...  ... RIGHTEOUS REGISTRATION: Voter Participation Center Founder and President and Top Wonk Page Gardner calls on unmarried women to channel their inner Susan B. Anthony and register to vote.   ... CANDID CANDIDATE: Harvard academic and Top Wonk Lawrence Lessig details why a run for presidency might be his best shot at fighting money in politics.  ... WATCHFUL WOMEN: Demos President and Top Wonk Heather McGhee warns female voters about GOP policies.  ... NOT INTERESTED IN HIGHER INTEREST: Center for Economic Policy and Policy Research Co-Director and Top Wonk Dean Baker questions the need for an interest rate increase in light of China's currency devaluation.  Find out more at www.TopWonks.org. ... ON OUR AGENDA ... ...Visit our website at www.PracticalProgress.org and our Twitter @PractProgress. Like what you see? JOIN the movement by sending tips, news, and reactions to PracticalProgress@agendaproject.org...

Stop the Navy's war on whales -- NRDC BioGems News, March 2014

HERE is the NRDC's BioGems news with 2 calls to action. One is a petition campaign calling on Pres Obama to take action to protect Utah's Greater Canyonlands. The other is a e mail letter campaign to Sec of Defense Hagel calling on him to order US Navy explosives and sonar testing be move out of areas heavily populated by whales, dolphins and other marine mammals to prevent the deaths of approximately 1000 whales alone. Watch the video by Pierce Brosnan and click the link to send your letter.

March 2014 NRDC Takes Navy to Court to Save Whales We've filed suit in federal court to stop a reckless Navy plan for training with sonar and explosives that could injure or kill thousands of marine mammals over the next five years. We’ve also launched a powerful online media campaign, led by Pierce Brosnan, to mobilize public pressure on the Navy to end its senseless assault on whales. BioGems Defenders have already sent more than 193,500 messages to Defense Secretary Hagel. Make your voice heard now. It's Time to Protect Utah's Greater Canyonlands Located in the heart of Utah's Redrock Wilderness, Greater Canyonlands is truly one of America's last wild places. Its vast expanse boasts stunning plateaus and canyons, archeological sites more than 10,000 years old and habitat for a diverse range of wildlife. This irreplaceable landscape is threatened by potash mining, oil and gas drilling and potential tar sands development. This past week, President Obama took a bold step for wildland protection by adding Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands to the California Coastal National Monument. As the president continues to build his legacy on public lands, we are urging him to also permanently protect Greater Canyonlands. A Message from Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan is committed to fighting a Navy training plan that could kill nearly 1,000 marine mammals. Judge Kills Keystone Route In a victory for landowners in Nebraska, a court has ruled that a state law which fast-tracked approval of the Keystone XL pipeline route in the state is unconstitutional. The court ruling is a major blow to TransCanada's plans to build Keystone through Nebraska. Learn more. Tufted Puffins in Peril NRDC is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the tufted puffin as an endangered species. In the last three decades, these football-sized seabirds -- which sport red bills and yellow tufts -- have seen their numbers along the Pacific coast plummet from more than 30,000 to fewer than 4,000. Learn more. Shell Oil Abandons Arctic Drilling 13,000 likes, shares and comments! Like us on Facebook for more popular content! We now have more than 1,000 YouTube subscribers and nearly 1 million views. Please subscribe here to get the very latest video updates. BioGems Defenders sent more than 100,000 messages, calling on President Obama to stop the Pebble Mine by directing the Environmental Protection Agency to use its authority under the Clean Water Act. Our voices have been heard! The EPA has just initiated that process.