Deadly wildfires have been blazing through the entire Northwest United States for weeks

Friend,

Oregon is on fire.

Deadly wildfires have been blazing through the entire Northwest United States for weeks. Over 1.1 million acres are burning, and already, dozens of homes have been destroyed. Firefighting resources are stretched thin — and the National Guard has even been deployed.

And yet, amidst all this destruction, Nestlé is still angling to bottle Oregon's fresh water and sell it for profit. Unbelievable.

With Oregon burning, we urgently need more people to speak out against Nestle. Will you help me raise the profile of this important issue by sharing on social media?

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Thanks for all that you do, 

Joseph Schommer,
SumOfUs member from Little Applegate Valley, Oregon  

P.S. Don't use social media? Forward the email below to 5 of your friends.

Email to share:

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Dear Friends,

I just signed the petition "Stop Nestlé from sucking my state dry" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.

Deadly wildfires have been blazing through the entire Northwest United States for weeks. And yet, amidst all this destruction, Nestlé is still angling to bottle Oregon's fresh water and sell it for profit.

This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://community.sumofus.org/petitions/stop-nestle-from-sucking-my-state-dry/

Thank you!

Antonio,

P.S. Can you also take a moment to share the petition with others? It's really easy – all you need to do is forward this email or share this link on Facebook or Twitter:

https://community.sumofus.org/petitions/stop-nestle-from-sucking-my-state-dry/

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More information:

Oregon legislators protest Nestlé water deal, Statesman Journal, April 23, 2015
Nestlé is closing in on privatized water in Oregon, AmericaBlog, May 13, 2015
Nestlé Bottled-Water Plan Draws Fight in Drought-Stricken Oregon -- Bloomberg, May 26th, 2015
The Proposed Nestlé Bottled Water Facility In Cascade Locks: A Preliminary Analysis of the Economic Issues -- Food and Water Watch, October 2011

 

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This is why the TPP needs to be transparent.

Friend,
Mass graves. Sex trafficking. Forced labor. Our government should want nothing to do with forging economic ties with countries whose economies run off modern day slavery.

But thanks to an appalling move by President Obama, the US is now on our way to signing the super-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership with one of the worst human trafficking offenders, Malaysia.

Congress was on track to ban the US from signing trade deals with the worst of the worst, including Malaysia. Then two days ago, the Obama Administration suddenly announced that Malaysia’s status in the human trafficking report would be “upgraded” in an effort to sidestep Congressional regulation. Meanwhile, almost nothing has changed in Malaysia for people subjected to obscene working conditions.

This is why the TPP needs to be transparent. How can we trust the President that he’s got all of our best interests at heart in negotiating this trade deal, when he pulls shameless ploys like this?

You are one of 150,000 people who've signed our petition calling for the TPP and other trade deals to be made public. Can you help us spread the word?

1. Forward this email to a friend, and direct them to http://action.sumofus.org/a/trade-transparency/.
2. Share the campaign on Facebook.

The TPP is almost certainly a disaster waiting to happen, but we don’t know the truth because everything is done behind closed doors. If you’re a corporate lobbyist, you’re invited in, while the rest of us are left in the dark. All we have to go on are the leaked chapters that Wikileaks has shared, which let us know that everything -- from our laws to our food to our internet to our medicines -- may be put at risk to maximize corporate profits.

President Obama wants us to trust him that this trade deal will be “the most progressive trade deal of all time.” But how can we, when he uses cynical maneuvers to push the TPP forward at the expense of Malaysian people forced to work in slave-like conditions? If he’s willing to do something this offensive, what else is happening inside those closed doors?

Negotiators are signaling that they will almost certainly finalize the TPP when they gather in two weeks at a swanky resort in Hawaii. After that, there’s no more opportunity to change the deal -- because our representatives voted to ‘fast track’ the TPP through Congress, they only gave themselves an up or down vote with no option to amend the agreement.

With so little time, and in light of this latest maneuver, we need to massively ramp up our pressure on President Obama and other world leaders to make the deal public.

Share this petition to help stop this deal.

Thanks for all you do,

Kaytee and the rest of us

P.S. Campaigners in Malaysia have been standing against trafficking for years. There are some signs of progress. But if the US goes into a trade deal without demanding fast progress and investment in real support for trafficking survivors, then it’s all too easy for the Malaysian government to take their foot off the gas again. Share this petition to help shine light on the TPP and stop this deal.

 

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Politicians funded by the telecoms industry are trying to gut the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

FRIEND, Right now, politicians funded by the telecoms industry are trying to gut the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prevent them from enforcing the Net Neutrality rules we won that guarantee access to a free, open internet. Our victory on Net Neutrality, which millions of Americans fought for, is being jeopardized by Time Warner’s donations to shadowy lobbying groups. So last week, at Time Warner Cable’s annual shareholder meeting, I confronted CEO Robert Marcus on his company’s attempts to undermine Net Neutrality. I brought 19,000 of your petition signatures asking him to disclose Time Warner’s political spending, and handed them directly to him in front of his shareholders. We’re pulling out all the stops to make sure big Cable doesn’t gut the FCC with sneak attacks through the budget appropriations process. Can you pitch in? Call your representative now to tell them to vote against backdoor attempts to gut the FCC. (We’ve got a sample script you can use) (19,000 petitions I delivered to Time Warner Cable’s multimillionaire CEO (On the right)) Our petition delivery definitely got the CEO’s attention, but without continued pressure, corporate money could still undermine our hard fought victory on Net Neutrality. Earlier in 2015, SumOfUs members played an important role in an historic victory on Net Neutrality. We can’t afford to let politicians play games in Congress that put the internet in danger again. Can you help make sure our victory is here to stay? Call your representative now to tell them to vote against backdoor attempts to gut the FCC. (We’ve got a sample script you can use) Please make a quick call to your representative to tell them to vote against attempts to gut the FCC. Thanks for all you do, Nick, Kaytee and the rest of the SumOfUs team ********** More information: Watchdog Calls For Time Warner Cable Lobbying Disclosures, Law 360, July 1st, 2015 SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 . Have a great idea for a SumOfUs campaign? Start your own petition and the best ones could be emailed to to the whole SumOfUs community.

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Speak up against the abuses lived by Qatar Airways’ employees.

I’m a football player who had the misfortune of living under Qatar’s brutal labour system. I'm using SumOfUs community to speak up against the abuses lived by Qatar Airways’ employees. The Barcelona Football Club is sponsored by Qatar Airways. Football should not be complicit in the abuse of workers -- will you join me in pressuring the Club to drop Qatar Airways?  Friend, The women who work for Qatar Airways face an extremely grim reality: cabin crew are being exploited, imprisoned without charge, forcibly confined on company premises and automatically sacked if they become pregnant. These abuses are an everyday event not only in Qatar Airways but in the Qatari national employment system. My name is Abdeslam Ouaddou. I am an ordinary person who had the good fortune to make a living as a professional football player. My last two years in Qatar were by far the worst of my career. My employer decided to end my contract without any valid reason and stopped paying me. Having refused to accept this, I was prevented from leaving the country. I was forced to train on my own, in temperatures of over 120 degrees, for several weeks. Eventually I was able to leave, but the migrant women who work for Qatar Airways don’t have that same luck, so I decided to use SumOfUs’ new community platform and speak up. Qatar Airways sponsors one of the biggest football clubs out there, the Barcelona Football Club -- and right now it is election season. If we come together now, we could get one of Qatar Airway’s most prominent business deals, Barcelona Football Club, to drop the airline as a sponsor over its mistreatment of workers. Sign my petition asking the Barcelona Football Club to drop Qatar as a sponsor Qatar’s national employment system, kafala, is cruel and brutal. Employers are allowed to prevent workers from leaving the country, even if they fail to pay wages and treat workers with dignity and fairness. The Qatar Airways CEO exploits this system for his own profit -- even saying publicly that he “doesn’t give a damn about workers rights”. Barcelona’s millions of fans see the team as “more than a club”, revered not only for the quality of its players -- like Neymar, Andrés Iniesta and of course, Lionel Messi -- but for its allegiance to ethics, fairness and social justice. That's why we're asking the world’s most respected football club to cut ties with the airline. My message to the sporting world, Barcelona and FIFA: we cannot legitimize a company that exploits thousands of vulnerable workers. It is against the values of the sport. We need to drop Qatar Airways as a sponsor. Join me asking the Barcelona Football Club to take action against Qatar Airways’ working conditions now! Thanks for standing with me, Abdesalam Ouaddou SumOfUs member and former Nancy Football Club player SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 .

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CVS : Stop selling Antarctic krill oil

Dear Friend, Whales. Penguins. Seals. These are just some of the creatures that could be in serious danger if pharmacy giant CVS doesn’t stop selling Antarctic krill oil as a health supplement. We made our own cute little video to tell CVS to put our environment over its profits and ditch krill oil for good.  Click here to watch the video and then share it with your friends. Thanks for all that you do, Paul, Kat, Hannah, Nick, and the team at SumOfUs.org P.S. Websites like Facebook and YouTube let people promote videos to users who are likely to be interested -- but it costs money. Can you chip in a few dollars to help us pay for ads to make sure more people hear about endangered krill? SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3

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Scheduled a vote for today on Fast Track, even after last Friday's clear defeat of a package including Fast Track

Friend,

House Republicans just won't quit. They've scheduled a vote for today on Fast Track, even after last Friday's clear defeat of a package including Fast Track. It's all a sneaky series of maneuvers by Speaker Boehner to eke out a victory for his corporate backers. Scarier still, there's a real chance he could succeed this time.

Your representative voted for Fast Track last week, in a vote that clearly put corporate profits over everyday people. But at least last week's package included protections for workers displaced by trade. Those worker protections have been stripped from the package being considered before Congress today, and all your Representative has is the word of Speaker Boehner that he'll add worker protections back in later. Do you think that's good enough? I certainly don't. 

Even if you've called before, your calls are urgently needed now, in the next few hours before the vote happens.

• Rep. Peters - (202) 225-0508

Here's a script you can use to make your call:

I am calling to express my concern about Fast Track, and to encourage Rep. Rep. Peters to vote against Fast Track today. Speaker Boehner's promises that he'll include vital protections for workers whose jobs are displaced due to trade deals later aren't good enough. The only option that's fair to workers is a 'no' vote on Fast Track. Thanks for passing along my message.

Once you've called, let us know how your call went.

Fast Track is an agreement to speed passage (or ‘fast track’) the TPP through Congress if it comes for a vote. Our elected officials will have no opportunity to amend or fix the deal. It’s the ultimate anti-democratic move, and something our representatives should want no part in.

Needless to say, there are a lot of powerful interests who are counting on the TPP to pad corporate profits at our expense. And since Fast Track needs to happen for the TPP to pass, the Obama administration, House Republican leadership and mega-corporations (talk about strange bedfellows!) are piling pressure onto our representatives to pass Fast Track ASAP.

But with every major corporation you can think of lined up in support of the bill, our Members of Congress know that their reelection coffers will be looking much more full if they forfeit their duty and grant the President Fast Track Authority. We need to stand up to mega-corporations and stop Fast Track in its tracks.

Even if you’ve called before, can you call your representative again? 

Thanks for all you do,
Kaytee and the rest of us

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More Information:

House GOP Eyes Clean Fast-Track Trade Bill Without TAA Funding, Huffington Post, 16 June 2015

 

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Our medicine could kill millions because big pharma companies like Pfizer want to make a quick profit.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is buying antibiotics from dirty factories in China that breed killer "superbugs" -- risking the lives of millions. It's time this stopped. Drug companies must put public health above their corporate profits. Sign the petition Friend, We take medicine to get healthy. But now, our medicine could kill millions because big pharma companies like Pfizer want to make a quick profit. The story is this: Pfizer and other pharmaceutical giants source antibiotics from dirty, dangerous factories in China. These factories dump raw antibiotic waste straight into the environment. That creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic resistant "superbugs" -- which spread globally. These superbugs have been called a "catastrophic threat" to public health, and could kill millions. That's the revelation of a new SumOfUs report, which exposes big pharma's murky supply chain for the first time. We need to speak up now to get this to stop, and to put public health above corporate profits.  Sign the petition to demand that Pfizer stops buying antibiotics from polluting factories driving the rise of killer superbugs. Months of behind-the-scenes digging into big pharma's secretive operations has revealed these links for the first time. Pfizer and others are putting their profits ahead of our health, by buying cheap antibiotics from dangerous factories with a string of serious environmental and safety violations. These factories are dumping raw antibiotic waste straight into rivers and waterways, in breach of even China's lax environmental regulations, and creating the perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant superbugs. As these superbugs spread globally, the World Health Organization is already sounding the alarm. The UK's Chief Medical Officer has called antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat" that could set modern health care back 200 years, and kill millions globally. The spread of superbugs means that infectious diseases like gonorrhoea and pneumonia could become untreatable, and we could return to an era when a simple cut could kill. Overprescription of antibiotics and widespread use in factory farms are two of the known culprits behind antibiotic resistance. But pollution generated by the massive antibiotics production industry is an overlooked hidden killer. By dumping antibiotic waste into the environment, these factories create huge breeding grounds for superbugs. Concentrations of antibiotics in polluted waterways can be as high as in the bloodstream of someone on a full strength dose of antibiotics. And these are the factories that Pfizer, McKesson, Teva and other Western pharma giants are buying from. This isn't just a problem for China or for Pfizer customers. Modern air travel and trade mean that the rapid spread of infectious diseases is the new reality. Infectious superbugs that thrive in the waste dumped by these polluting factories in China quickly find their way into the bodies of children, adults and the elderly around the world, with fatal consequences. The reason this happens is simple -- Pfizer and other big pharmaceutical corporations make more money by relying on cheap, mass-produced antibiotics without strong environmental and safety procedures in place. And until now, no one has known. If we can change that, by generating a global outcry, we can get big pharma to stop buying from these dangerous factories. Click here to tell Pfizer to stop fueling the rise of killer superbugs, and take immediate action to clean up its supply chain. This is a waste pipe from one of the factories producing antibiotics for Western pharma corporations.   Seeing this, it's no surprise that big pharma works hard to keep their supply chain out of public view. The industry has a shocking lack of transparency given that our lives are at stake with the drugs they produce. But through painstaking work connecting the dots on the ground in China, SumOfUs' report documents hard links between Western pharma corporations and the dirtiest antibiotic factories in China. Pfizer has sourced antibiotics for human and animal use from NCPC, one of the Chinese company accused of discharging pharmaceutical waste into the environment and numerous other serious manufacturing deficiencies that put lives at risk. It's not the first time SumOfUs has helped produce groundbreaking reporting to expose corporate misconduct. Last year, SumOfUs helped produce an investigative report that showed that big garden stores were selling "bee-friendly" plants pre-treated with bee-killing pesticides! Since then, both of the companies have committed to phase out these pesticides from their stores. Bottom line: Shining public attention on dangerous corporate practices can really work.  That's why we need to speak up now and demand better. Sign the petition to demand that Pfizer stops buying antibiotics from polluting factories driving the rise of killer superbugs. Thanks for all you do, Paul, Carys, Katherine, and the rest of us More information: Bad Medicine: How the pharmaceutical industry is contributing to the global rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, SumOfUs report, 10 June 2015 Indian Woman Being Treated in U.S. for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, New York Times, 9 June 2015 Watch Antibiotic Resistance Surge in One Stunning Chart, Bloomberg Business, 10 June 2015 Chief Medical Officer: Resistance to antibiotics risks health 'catastrophe', Independent, 11 March 2013 SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3.

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