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  • FW: DACA (urgent)
  • FW: SHARE THIS: Your signature on DACA will be delivered soon
  • FW: Petition: Stand up to Trump's cruelty. Defend the DREAMers!
  • FW: Stephen Miller MUST be fired
  • FW: Common Cause on Pres Commn on Election Integrity
  • FW: Kobach's shockingly dishonest "leap of logic" - sign now!
  • FW: Donald Trump Is the First White President
  • FW: Trumka Talks Union Advantage at Christian Science Monitor Labor Day Breakfast
  • FW: Equifax Data Breach; Google Recordings; Keep Mobile Data in Check
  • FW: What you should know about the Equifax security breach
  • FW: There's a line in the new Equifax fine print that's raising eyebrows
  • FW: Help us stand with indigenous water protectors

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From: Juyeon Rhee, CODEPINK
Subject: I have relatives in North Korea
(Munsup's Note: My parents-in-law came from North Korea when the Korean war began in 1950.)

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As an immigrant from South Korea who has traveled to both South and North Korea to visit friends and families, the current crisis makes me profoundly sad and anxious. North Korea is not just one man, Kim Jong Un, but 25 million people who are at risk of annihilation, just like 50 million people are at risk in South Korea. About 100,000 of us in the Korean-American community have family members in North Korea. We worry about our family members on both sides of the border.

For us, the ONLY solution is dialogue, starting with a freeze for a freeze: North Korea would freeze its nuclear and missile testing in return for the United States and South Korea freezing their military exercises. Please join me in contacting our nation's top UN diplomat, Nikki Haley, and urge her to start acting like a diplomat. Stop threatening war with North Korea and starting negotiating.

As US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has been a disaster. Her statement that Kim Jung Un's "abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war" is appalling. North Korea has been saying over and over again that it might put its nuclear weapons and missiles on the negotiating table if the United States would end its own threatening posture. This fact has been completely obscured by US officials, as well as the mainstream media. I encourage you to read Tim Shorrock's excellent historical summary in The Nation, Diplomacy With North Korea Has Worked Before, and Can Work Again.

The U.S and South Korea just completed provocating war games simulating an attack that would "decapitate" the North Korean leadership. So it is logical that the North would respond with more weapons tests. This cycle must be broken. The next round of US-South Korean military exercises are not scheduled until March. This would give the US government six months to ratchet down the tensions.

Nikki Haley is being paid by us, the US taxpayers, to find peaceful solutions to global conflicts. Instead, she said that North Korea's actions are "quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution." The Trump administration has never even tried a diplomatic solution—it has only tried sanctions that hurt the lives of ordinary Koreans, war games, deployment of the THAAD missile system in South Korea and threats of a catastrophic war. These have not and will not work; they only embolden the North Korean leadership.

Can I count on you to act and show compassion for our friends and relatives on the Korean peninsula? Please send an email to Ambassador Haley telling her to stop escalating for war and start negotiating for peace. And share this message on Facebook and Twitter.

 

 

From: Javier Gamboa; Proud DREAMer, DCCC Director of Hispanic Media & Deputy National Press Secretary
Subject: RE: DACA (urgent)

The following sponsored email was sent to you by AlterNet on behalf of DCCC:
 

As a DREAMer, I'm in complete disbelief that Donald Trump just eliminated DACA.

By
ending this critical program, the livelihood of thousands of families like mine are now being threatened.

It's
a hateful reversal of President Obama's historic immigrant protections -- just to appeal to Republicans' bigoted base and dismantle the Obama Legacy.

I
remember the sense of belonging and relief I got when President Obama signed DACA five years ago. His action was clear: There's a place for my fellow DREAMers and me in America.

Now,
everything I've worked so hard for since I came to America could be come to an end because of Trump's cowardness.

That's why I need you to stand strong and denounce Trump's attacks on DREAMers like me. >>

Trump's
actions don't represent the America I love. The America I've called home for years.

Make
no mistake: Trump's heartless decision will break up families and destroy lives.

I'm
here to stay, and I am counting on you to help us win this fight to protect DREAMers.

Please, add your name next to mine. Condemn Trump for his cruel decision. >>

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From: Jo Comerford, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Subject: SHARE THIS: Your signature on DACA will be delivered soon

Thank you for joining more than 185,000 MoveOn members who have stepped up to reject the Trump administration's decision to eliminate DACA.

Next week, we're joining with allies and partners to deliver this petition—which includes your signature, Munsup—to members of Congress in Washington, D.C., to show that thousands of Americans stand with Dreamers and demand that Congress pass a clean Dream Act now.

Will you share the petition with your friends on Facebook to help reach 200,000 signatures before the big delivery?

Feel free to copy/paste this comment from a fellow MoveOn member to include with your post:
 

I stand with Dreamers! Congress must deliver a clean, stand-alone Dream Act to provide legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants so cruelly impacted by the Trump administration's decision to end the popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.


Together, we can stop 800,000 immigrant youth from facing the threat of deportation.


Even if you've already shared the petition once, spreading the word again with the news about the delivery and a personal note about why DACA matters to you could inspire more people to sign.

Can you share the petition now to help reach 200,000 signatures before the delivery? Click here to share the petition with your Facebook friends and ask them to add their names today.

Not on Facebook? Don't worry—just forward Corinne's original email below to five of your friends and ask them to sign the petition.



Emergency petition: 800,000 youth need your help urgently!

Congress must deliver a clean, stand-alone Dream Act to provide legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants so cruelly impacted by the Trump administration's decision to end the popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Sign the petition


Donald Trump just put more than 800,000 immigrant youth at risk by ending the popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.1

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke said in a statement that no people currently on DACA will be affected for six months "so Congress can have time to deliver on appropriate legislative solutions."2 That's why we need to reach lawmakers immediately.

Click here to sign our emergency petition: Demand that Congress deliver a clean, stand-alone Dream Act to provide legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.

DACA has protected young people who came to this country as children and have deep roots in our communities. Now, they are facing an uncertain future because of Trump's callous plan. 

The politics—not just the morality—are on our side. We can't let this opportunity to pass bipartisan legislation to protect immigrant youth slip away.

Trump is facing fierce resistance from immigrants, their families and allies, business leaders, and municipal leaders across the country.3,4,5 And now some Republicans—including House Speaker Paul Ryan—are starting to speak out.6

But speaking out is not enough. Congress must act.

Will you sign and share our emergency petition and stand up for 800,000 immigrant youth? Congress must use its power to stop Trump—now.

Immigration arrests have increased 38% in Trump's first six months in office, with more than half a million people in detention centers awaiting immigration hearings.7 These arrests and deportations rip families and communities apart, and Trump continues to use inflammatory, anti-immigrant rhetoric that is being repeated across the country.

Every member of Congress should act swiftly to pass a clean, stand-alone Dream Act. Inaction or opposition from members of Congress is unacceptable and will be viewed as support for Trump's cruel ending of DACA.

And any bill that uses immigrant youth as bargaining chips—putting more deportation agents on the streets to round up and jail Dreamers' parents, friends, family members or funding Trump's wasteful border wall—is a non-starter. Congress must reject those bills.

Only a clean, stand-alone Dream Act will do. We need courageous action by Congress to counter Trump's cowardice.

Hurry! Click here to add your name to the petition demanding that Congress take swift action, and then pass it along to your friends.

Sources:
 

  1. "Trump Moves to End to DACA and Calls on Congress to Act," The New York Times, September 5, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/13410?t=23&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh
  2. "Sessions announces end of DACA," Axios, September 5, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/13413?t=25&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh
  3. "The resistance is ready for its next big fight with Trump," Vox, August 30, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/13374?t=27&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh
  4. "Hundreds of business leaders call on Trump to protect 'dreamers,'" The Washington Post, September 1, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/13375?t=29&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh
  5. "Bipartisan Mayors to Trump: Protect Dreamers, Continue DACA Program," The United States Conference of Mayors, August 29, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/13376?t=31&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh
  6. "Paul Ryan, other GOP congressional leaders urge Trump not to terminate DACA," The Washington Post, September 1, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/13355?t=33&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh
  7. "Immigration arrests up 38% nationwide under Trump," USA Today, May 17, 2017
    https://act.moveon.org/go/11556?t=35&akid=189529%2E1195276%2EtCk8uh


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From: Katie O'Connell; Digital Communications Coordinator, People For the American Way
Subject: Petition: Stand up to Trump's cruelty. Defend the DREAMers!


Congress: Pass the DREAM Act!


Trump and Jeff Sessions announced earlier this week that they would terminate key parts of President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, upending the lives of 800,000 young people to fulfill their inhumane mass deportation agenda.

Here's what you need to know:
   

  1. DACA recipients -- often referred to as DREAMers -- registered with the government and passed background checks so they could work, pay taxes, and feel secure in their homes without the fear of deportation. They were brought to the US as children and for many of them this is the only country they've ever really known.
  2. Even though the program is set to expire in six months, the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients whose permits expire between now and March must file extension requests by October 5 -- in less than ONE month -- AND pay a nearly $500 application fee (an unaffordable amount for many, especially on such short notice).[1][2]
  3. Trump is now trying to hedge his bets by challenging Congress to "legalize" DACA before it fully expires in 6 months because he knows how popular the program is -- 76% of Americans (including 69% of Republicans!) support legal status for DREAMers.[3]
  4. Congress already has bipartisan legislation that would, in effect, make DACA the law of the land -- the DREAM Act of 2017 ... and nearly enough members of both the House and Senate to PASS this legislation have at some point expressed support for the DREAM Act and/or DACA.


It's urgent that as many Americans as possible speak out NOW and demand that Congress PASS the DREAM Act of 2017 without amendments and without delay!>>


We have a rare head start in this legislative fight ... we have bipartisan support for the bill and massive public support.

But the pressure on Republicans from the GOP's immigrant-hating right-wing base is going to be fierce, so we need to turn up the volume even louder.

Please sign the petition to tell Congress to pass a clean DREAM Act of 2017 right away>>

 

 

From: Katie O'Connell; Digital Communications Coordinator, People For the American Way
Subject: Stephen Miller MUST be fired

The number of Trump's group of visible white nationalist advisors has been whittled down with the departures of Steve Bannon and Seb Gorka from the White House. But one notable anti-immigrant ideologue, the architect of Trump's anti-Muslim ban, Stephen Miller, remains. His departure from the White House is long overdue, and your help is needed.

Act now: Stephen Miller must be FIRED>>

Stephen Miller is exactly what you would expect from a Trump advisor -- former classmates and friends have described him as openly racist and hostile towards non-white people. He was a longtime aide for Attorney General Jeff Sessions who has made a career attacking the rights of people of color and who just enthusiastically announced the end of the Obama-era DACA program. And when he worked for Sessions he was integral to the effort that blocked action on the DREAM Act in Congress.

So what else do we know about Stephen Miller?

He has been described as a mentee of Richard Spencer, a neo-Nazi who coined the term "Alt-Right."

Miller was a key part of Sessions' effort to kill the original DREAM Act and his animosity isn't just towards undocumented immigrants... he wants to curb immigration across the board.

He does not believe in accountability for the president, saying "the powers of the president [...] will not be questioned."

Miller regularly dog-whistles to Trump's nativist, bigoted base by using language (like "cosmopolitan bias") and arguments (like his argument that the Emma Lazarus poem was added as an afterthought to the Statue of Liberty) that can most easily be found on white supremacist websites.

The consequences of Miller's beliefs are clear -- he has made arguments attacking Islam since he was in high school and he wrote the Trump campaign's immigration platform which included ending DACA. Since Trump's campaign launch, he has levied one attack after another against immigrants. He encouraged Trump to enact an unconstitutional travel ban on Muslims, and to direct his team to end DACA and upend the lives of 800,000 young people.

Tell Trump -- racist, anti-immigrant Stephen Miller has GOT TO GO!

The end of Bannon and Gorka's time in the Trump administration is a good sign, but we can't ignore the fact that there are still white nationalists in the White House. As a prominent advisor to Trump, Miller's apparent white nationalist ideology is central to the policies of this administration.

But public outcry against white nationalist ideas and beliefs is critical -- which is why your voice and opposition to Miller in a position of extreme power can make a difference.


Add your name and demand Trump fire his advisor Stephen Miller>>

 

 

From: Andrew J. Tierman
Subject: Common Cause on Pres Commn on Election Integrity

Please see and distribute http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/pf/saving-in-your-20s/index.html
..a report on Trump's Commission to investigate election fraud, by Common Cause (which, in a nutshell, describes the Commission as "Flawed from the Start").

 

 

From: Ben Betz, Digital Advocacy Director, DISBAND Trump's Voter Suppression Commission! (PFAW)
Subject: Kobach's shockingly dishonest "leap of logic" - sign now!

The head of Trump's voter suppression commission, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, published an essay last night on the "Alt-Right" website Breitbart (where he is a paid columnist) claiming he had "proof" that thousands of out-of-state voters illegally voted in New Hampshire in 2016 and "likely" changed the results of the US Senate race there and possibly the outcome of the presidential race in that state.

As Miranda Blue at PFAW's Right Wing Watch points out, "Kobach has rarely let facts or logic get in the way of his long-running crusade against voting rights … but now, just days before his 'election integrity' commission is scheduled to hold its second meeting in New Hampshire, he may have reached a new low."

Kobach's so-called "proof?" New statistics from the secretary of state showing that 6,540 people who had taken advantage of the state's same-day voter registration used out-of-state drivers' licenses to vote (which of course is totally legal) and only 1,014 of those people later obtained a New Hampshire drivers' license within the time period new residents are supposed to get an in-state license. He concludes that this means that "5,313 fraudulent votes" were cast by non-residents in the New Hampshire election.

As Miranda writes, "the breathtaking, reckless dishonesty of this column is hard to overstate."

Those 5,313 voters Kobach is so concerned about are most likely college students with out-of-state licenses who are legally eligible to vote in New Hampshire, people who moved to New Hampshire who didn't know they needed to get a new in-state license within a certain time period … or who don't have a car … or who have residency in more than one state but vote in New Hampshire…

The explanations are so simple … and, in fact, Kobach could easily contact these people and find out for himself! But he didn't do that.

The Washington Post reports:
    

"Kobach apparently made no attempt to contact voters who'd cast ballots but held out-of-state IDs. Thursday night, The Washington Post asked voters who'd done so to tell their stories; three did so within 60 minutes -- college students, who were living in New Hampshire but did not change their licenses."


It's clearer than ever that Trump's commission will stop at nothing in its quest to justify the Right's voter suppression agenda with concocted wild tales of illegal voting.

Sign the petition now calling for the Trump voter suppression commission to be DISBANDED once and for all>>

Kobach's assertion -- which the Washington Post's Philip Bump rightly calls a "leap of logic" -- doesn't even come close to passing the laugh test. But as Bump writes:
    

"This isn't a game. Trump's commission seems clearly designed to present fraud as a significant threat to the electoral system, a claim that's belied by any number of studies, including one looking specifically at New Hampshire, and the lack of nearly any actual uncovered examples of it. (If millions voted illegally in California, as some have claimed, you'd have thought maybe one would have been caught.) The effect of the commission will invariably be to call for new legislation making it harder to vote. Such a law in Kansas meant that 34,000 fewer people voted in that state in 2012 than in 2008, with those affected skewing younger and less white. Read: More Democratic."


The right to vote is sacred in our democracy. Trump's commission represents a dangerous assault on that right and Americans need to speak out in unity and demand and END to the commission.

Sign the petition now -- DISBAND the voter suppression commission!>>

 

 

From: Judy Burnette
Subject: The Atlantic  I "Donald Trump Is the First White President": Ta'nahesi Coates


The First White President

Ta-Nehisi Coates


The foundation of Donald Trump's presidency is the negation of Barack Obama's legacy.

It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump's predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump's forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America's founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trump—a president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.
  

Continue Reading  here https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

 

 

From: Larry Turyn
Subject: FW: Trumka Talks Union Advantage at Christian Science Monitor Labor Day Breakfast

https://aflcio.org/speeches/trumka-talks-union-advantage-christian-science-monitor-labor-day-breakfast

 

 

From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Equifax Data Breach; Google Recordings; Keep Mobile Data in Check

How to Protect Yourself From That Massive Equifax Breach

Follow These Tips to Keep Your Mobile Data Use in Check

How Google is secretly recording YOU through your mobile, monitoring millions of conversations every day and storing the creepy audio files

 

 

From: Eric Kramer
Subject: What you should know about the Equifax security breach

You can find out whether or not your data has likely been compromised by clicking on the link contained herein. I've checked, and although they say that mine likely wasn't, Cheryl's probably was.  Either way, you'll be given the option to enroll in Equifax's TrustedID Premiere service.

https://www.techlicious.com/blog/equifax-data-breach-what-to-do/?utm_source=Techlicious+List&utm_campaign=abe693a04f-techliciousdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee95b0b14-abe693a04f-189105149

 

 

From: tbacane
Subject: FW: There's a line in the new Equifax fine print that's raising eyebrows


https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/09/08/theres-a-line-in-the-new-equifax-fine-print-thats-raising-eyebrows/23202094/


There's a line in the new Equifax fine print that's raising eyebrows

ETHAN WOLFF-MANN on Sep 8th 2017


Credit reporting agency Equifax reported a massive security breach on Thursday. The breach may have exposed Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and other important personal information that has left 143 million US consumers vulnerable to ID theft.

Equifax immediately offered a complimentary ID-theft monitoring program called TrustedID. However, blowback ensued quickly on Friday as the TrustedID terms of service require users to waive their right to sue or join a class action lawsuit to receive the monitoring.

An Equifax spokesperson said the waiver "applies to the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products, and not the cybersecurity incident."


'The language is broad'


However, that waiver may still limit the effectiveness of a new, multibillion-dollar proposed class action over the breach, or any other litigation stemming from the incident, according to F. Paul Bland, an attorney and executive director for Public Justice and an expert in arbitration cases.

"The language is broad," he said. "An arbitrator, not a court, will probably decide it. Defendants win most challenges to scope of clause." Bland said that he has lost many cases due to the generous scope afforded by arbitration agreements.

The broad language in the agreement makes it so that Equifax could change its mind down the road when facing severe legal liabilities, according to Bland. "Its lawyers may argue the opposite in a year and won't be bound by what its press people said," said Bland.

Even without signing up for TrustedID, consumers may not be able to sue if they've ever used Equifax's products, which include credit scores and reporting. Equifax'sown terms of service mandate that consumers pursue arbitration rather than class-action lawsuits if they have disputes over the credit-monitoring company's service.


'A gross insult to customers'


Bland sees the offer of a free service as a ploy to cover liability.

"Under the guise of offering a year of credit monitoring, they're trying to get consumers to sign or click something to get them to give up legal rights," Bland said. "[Equifax] is tricking people that it's helping them when they're signing up to steal rights from them. It's a gross insult to customers."

After a breach like this, many consumers generally spring into action to prevent damage, by freezing credit reporting or by taking the steps recommended or offered by the hacked party. Equifax established a website specifically to deal with the breach. The TrustedID service is prominently linked and portrayed as a "complimentary" service (Trusted ID is a subsidiary of Equifax.)


Even if this doesn't apply to TrustedID users, Equifax's Terms of Use does


If Equifax is correct that the monitoring waiver is unconnected with the cybersecurity breach, suing over the data breach might be a problem because of the company's own arbitration clause that relates to the use of Equifax's services.

According to Bland, forced arbitration clauses are generally enforceable and enforced, unless the terms drafted by the lawyers somehow contain an error. Instead of taking place with a court and a judge, arbitration is a private process with an arbitrator and is generally preferred by companies as it can require individuals to each pursue restitution individually instead of banding together as a group.

Like many terms of use in fine print, Equifax does have an option to opt out. However, a consumer is required to send a letter within 30 days of agreement to opt out, something that is extremely unlikely.


'The percentage of people who would get what it means is very small'


A day following the announcement of the data breach, the National Consumer Law Center called for Equifax to "immediately remove the forced arbitration clause and class action ban" from its terms of use.

In its 728-page 2015 report on arbitration clauses, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that the vast majority of people didn't comprehend the clauses. In one study, 668 people were presented in a contract with an arbitration clause bolded and in all caps.

Just 43% of respondents indicated they knew an arbitration clause was present when asked a close-ended question, but just 14% actually understood that it foreclosed the right to sue. It's important to note that these people had just read the terms, unlike many people who do not read the fine print.

"How many will click and find the arbitration?" said Bland. "Even if they did, the percentage who would get what it means is very small. They are trying to slip this by people."

Earlier this year, the CFPB issued a new rule to make it easier to mount a class action against banks and financial institutions by banning forced arbitration. However, it doesn't apply to credit reporting institutions, and is not in effect yet.

In a statement to Yahoo Finance, the CFPB said it was looking into the data breach and Equifax's response. "The CFPB has authority over the consumer reporting industry, including supervisory and enforcement authority. The CFPB is authorized to take enforcement action against institutions engaged in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices, or that otherwise violate federal consumer financial laws."

The Bureau also said that"it is troubling that Equifax is forcing people to waive legal rights in order to receive fraud monitoring after the company's breach put their personal information at risk. Equifax could remove this clause so that consumers can receive this service without condition."


Ethan Wolff-Mann is a writer at Yahoo Finance focusing on consumer issues, tech, and personal finance. Follow him on Twitter @ewolffmann. Got a tip? Send to: emann@oath.com.

 

 

From: John Sellers, Other98
Subject: Help us stand with indigenous water protectors

It might be the biggest pipeline you've never heard of: oil giant Kinder Morgan is trying to build an enormous expansion to their Tar Sands pipeline in Canada. Other98 is already training hundreds of new activists to beat it. Can you pitch in $10 or more so we can keep going?

Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion would be a disaster. It would violate the sovereign rights of dozens of First Nations, pumping millions of gallons of Tar Sands crude from Alberta to oil tankers bound for refineries and overseas markets. This uptick in Tar Sands extraction will result in an unthinkable 700% increase in oil tanker traffic in the Puget Sound.

Other98 is putting everything on the table to beat this pipeline. We've pulled off serious victories against Big Oil corporations before, so we have the blueprints for winning this — but we also know it'll take resources. Can you chip in $10 or more to power the movement that will defeat Kinder Morgan?

We're coming at Kinder Morgan with every tool in our toolbox. Remember the #ShellNo uprising in the Pacific Northwest and the kayakers who stopped Shell's Arctic drilling fleet? Our "kayaktivist" crew never went away: it's bigger and stronger than ever. Just this weekend, we hosted the Oil-Free Salish Sea Action Camp, where over 100 people — veterans, fisherpeople, indigenous tribal members, farmers, sailors and more —trained to confront Kinder Morgan where they've never been confronted before: on the water.

Back on land, we'll keep up our work to defund the pipeline by pressuring the major banks funding it, and work with our friends living in the pipeline's path to bring the heat to lawmakers too.

From strategic, peaceful direct action to petitioning banks and legislators, the tools we use to win these fights only work with your help. Will you make a donation today to stop Kinder Morgan's Tar Sands pipeline?

This fight is winnable. The newly-elected government of British Columbia has vowed to stop the pipeline; over 120 indigenous tribes from the U.S. and First Nations in Canada are leading the way. Trump has no jurisdiction in Canada, and he won't be able to un-do it when we win.

If you were inspired by Standing Rock, this is the way to keep that movement going. Please chip in whatever you can to support the resistance that will beat Kinder Morgan.

Thank you for all you're doing to make this world a better place — it's more important than ever

 

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