KICK BIG POLLUTERS OUT OF CLIMATE POLICY

Sign the petition to the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:

"We call on you to take immediate action to protect COP21 and all future negotiations from the influence of big polluters. Given the fossil fuel industry’s years of interference intended to block progress, push false solutions, and continue the disastrous status quo, the time has come to stop treating big polluters as legitimate “stakeholders” and to remove them from climate policymaking."

Today, we are facing the prospect of the destruction of life as we know it and irreversible damage to our planet due to climate change. Scientists are telling us with ever more urgency that we must act quickly to stop extracting fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But the world’s largest polluters have prevented progress on bold climate action for far too long.

We call on the Parties to the UNFCCC to protect the UN climate talks and climate policymaking around the world from the influence of big polluters. The world is looking to the next round of negotiations – in Paris this December – for decisive action on climate. This is a pivotal moment to create real solutions. We need a strong outcome from the Paris talks in order to seize the momentum of a growing global movement, and to urge leaders to take bolder action to address the climate crisis.

But the fossil fuel industry and other transnational corporations that have a vested interest in stopping progress continue to delay, weaken, and block climate policy at every level. From the World Coal Association hosting a summit on "clean coal" around COP19 to Shell aggressively lobbying in the European Union for weak renewable energy goals while promoting gas – these big polluters are peddling false solutions to protect their profits while driving the climate crisis closer to the brink.

A decade ago, the international community took on another behemoth industry – Big Tobacco – and created a precedent-setting treaty mechanism that removed the tobacco industry from public health policy. This can happen again here.

Corporate Accountability International will deliver this message and the list of signatures at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, the first week of June. We will do another delivery by the end of COP21 in Paris this December.
Participating organizations:
350.org
Amazon Watch
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Climate Action Network International
Corporate Accountability International
CREDO Action
Daily Kos
Environmental Action
Food & Water Watch
Federation of Young European Greens
Forecast the Facts
Greenpeace USA
League of Conservation Voters
Oil Change International
People for the American Way
Rainforest Action Network
RH Reality Check
SumOfUs
The Natural History Museum
CC: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Outgoing COP20 President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Incoming COP21 President Laurent Fabius

  


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Oppose the TPP and protect American jobs and standards.

There's no sugarcoating this: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will offshore American jobs and hurt environmental protections.
We need to stop this deal. And we're running out of time.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was created by corporate interests behind closed doors. Americans can't even read the deal.
But the House is about to vote on a bill that would give away Congress' oversight authority.
Tell the House to say NO to the TPP.
The history is clear. Every time we fast-track a trade bill, Americans lose. The North American Free Trade Agreement was supposed to be a job creator in the 1990s. But we've lost nearly 700,000 jobs as a result, 86,000 of them in California.
American jobs and our environmental laws are on the line. If Democrats in Congress stand together, we can beat the TPP.
Tell the House to oppose the TPP and protect American jobs and standards.
Peace and friendship,
John Burton
Chairman
California Democratic Party

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4 Ways Elevators Will Get Totally Insane In 2016

4 Ways Elevators Will Get Totally Insane In 2016 THE COMPANY BEHIND 1 WTC'S SUPER-FAST ELEVATORS TELLS US ABOUT THE STAR TREK ELEVATORS THAT WILL BE COMING AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR On May 29, the One World Trade Center Observatory in New York will open up to the public. To get passengers to the 102nd floor as quickly as possible, 71 elevators designed by the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp will ascend 1 WTC at a rate of 2,000 feet per minute, or more than three floors per second. That will make 1 WTC's elevators the fastest in the Western hemisphere. shared from The Midweek Pickup Top Stumble Science Has #$%& Amazing News for People Who Curse Psychology  | 59K Views View Page

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Turning Kids into Cash

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Turning Kids into Cash Steven Singer: Federal education policy – whether it be No Child Left Behind or Race to the Top – continually doubles down on privatization and standardization. READ MORE SHARED FROM

WEDNESDAY, 10 JUNE 2015 The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Turning Kids into Cash Steven Singer: Federal education policy – whether it be No Child Left Behind or Race to the Top – continually doubles down on privatization and standardization. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Four Decades in Solitary Larry Wines: The story of three black men held in solitary confinement for decades in a notorious Louisiana prison will shock you. READ HERE Are Jim Crow’s ‘Black Codes’ Still in Effect? David Love: Swimming while black is a crime? Or having a black pool party? Maybe the police in Texas have lost their minds. Then again, maybe the Lone Star state still denies black people the freedom to assemble, just like the black codes. READ MORE Fear and Learning in Kabul Kathy Kelly: A recently released Physicians for Social Responsibility calculated that since 2001 in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. wars have killed at least 1.3 million and quite possibly more than 2 million civilians. READ MORE Expanding the Reform Agenda in Higher Education Frank Fear: We presume Alma Mater always does the right thing and is socially responsible in its operations, but the record doesn’t support that belief. READ HERE

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Jewish Americans support President Obama's approach to keeping a nuclear bomb out of Iran’s hands.

Dear Friend, Just weeks ahead of the June 30 deadline for negotiations, this morning J Street released a new poll that confirms the majority of Jewish Americans support President Obama's approach to keeping a nuclear bomb out of Iran’s hands. In fact, the data prove yet again that the pundits and presumed Jewish communal representatives are flat-out wrong in assuming this community is hawkish on Iran or US policy in the Middle East in general. Download the full poll results American Jews express strong support for a final agreement with Iran that increases inspections in exchange for economic sanctions relief. Fifty-nine percent say they would support such a deal, compared to 53 percent of American adults in an April CNN poll that asked the same question. And the number goes even higher when the full terms of the proposal are described; fully 78 percent of American Jews would back an agreement that imposes intrusive inspections of Iran and caps its enrichment of uranium at a level far below what is necessary to make a nuclear weapon in exchange for phased relief from US and international sanctions. Another key finding? Overall, President Obama’s approval rating remains higher among American Jews than among Americans in general. Fifty-six percent approve of the way he is handling his job as president, compared to 45 percent of the general population, There's a lot more to learn from the data, but pollster Jim Gerstein laid out the big conclusion: “President Obama has often said that he has Israel’s back, and it is clear that American Jews have his back if he reaches an agreement with Iran. Jews support Obama’s efforts to reach an agreement with Iran, and they approve of the job he is doing as President of the United States.” We agree, and we're glad to count you among our supporters. - Jeremy Ben-Ami P.S.- With the Iran fight about to heat up in Washington, it's important that as many people as possible see these numbers. They need to know where American Jews actually stand. Can you help us spread the word and share the results with your friends, political and community leaders? © 2015 J Street

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A martial arts champion doesn't want to rescue kids. She's teaching them to save themselves.

A martial arts champion doesn't want to rescue kids. She's teaching them to save themselves.

Protect a child, you save her for a day. Teach her to kick ass, you save her for a lifetime.

These kids are in danger of being snatched on the street or even sold by a parent desperate to pay debts. Many organizations are working hard to prevent kidnapping and trafficking and to rescue those who've been sold.

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There's just simply no excuse for how this police officer responded to a call about a pool party.

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