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Saturday, May 7, 2022
The Continuous Action: Episode 3 out now!
fight Big Oil's profiteering
The Oil Giants have announced their profits for the first three months of 2022:
- Exxon made $5.5 billion.
- BP made $6.2 billion.
- Chevron made $6.3 billion.
- Shell made $9.1 billion — its best quarter ever.
That puts these four dirty energy companies on pace for $108.4 billion in combined profits this year.
On top of their $71 billion in combined profits last year.
Again, we’re talking about profits.
And it’s not like they’re using that windfall to invest in renewables. Instead, they’re using it to buy back their own stock.
Meanwhile, Big Oil’s greed and irresponsibility have brought us to the brink of climate catastrophe that threatens the continued viability of human civilization as we know it.
To hell with these guys.
Legislation has been introduced in Congress to tax the oil industry’s obscene windfall profits and return money directly to taxpayers.
Tell Congress:
It is long past time to give consumers a break and to take meaningful action to avert climate disaster. Pass legislation without delay to tax Big Oil’s windfall profits.
Add your name now.
Thank you for taking action.
For progress,
- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
You are loved and you are not alone
Content Warning: this email discusses miscarriage and pregnancy
Mother's day can be beautiful. It can be joyful. It can be painful. It can be full of grief.
Today I wanted to take a moment to drop a note to those who are struggling with pregnancy loss and infertility. Last year, Senator Tammy Duckworth and I introduced the Support Through Loss Act, to shed light on these common and often isolating experiences.
While often underreported, pregnancy loss is a common occurrence; it is estimated that miscarriage occurs in at least 10 percent of known pregnancies. Due to a lack of public awareness and cultural stigma, many people are unaware of how prevalent pregnancy loss is until their family experiences it firsthand.
Despite the fact that pregnancy loss is an experience shared across communities and backgrounds, and occurs for myriad causes, a lack of accurate information can often foster an isolating experience.
The Support Through Loss Act is a first of its kind bill that aims to shed light on these shared experiences and help ensure that those experiencing the loss of a pregnancy are fully supported with access to resources, workforce supports, paid leave, and patient centered care.
Will you call your Senator and Congressperson today and ask them to co sponsor this critical bill?
Thank you to everyone who has shared their story and helped shape this bill.
You are deeply loved and you are not alone.
In solidarity,
Ayanna Pressley
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RSN: FOCUS: 'Not Isolated Incidents': Amnesty Accuses Russia of War Crimes
07 May 22
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As war continues to rage in Ukraine, global rights group documents ‘numerous unlawful’ civilian killings near Kyiv.
Civilians have also suffered abuse such as “reckless shootings and torture” at the hands of Russian forces in the early stages of Russia’s invasion, the rights group said in a report published on Friday.
“These are not isolated incidents. These are very much part of a pattern wherever Russian forces were in control of a town or a village,” Donatella Rovera, Amnesty’s senior crisis response adviser, told a news conference in Kyiv.
Russia, which calls the invasion it launched on February 24 a “special operation”, denies its forces committed war crimes.
Kyiv and its Western backers say Russia’s claim that fascism is rampant in Ukraine is a false pretext for an unprovoked war of aggression.
Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating more than 9,000 potential war crimes by Russian troops. The International Criminal Court is also looking into alleged war crimes.
Amnesty is the latest human rights group to document alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces when they occupied an area northwest of Kyiv, including the town of Bucha, where Ukrainian authorities say more than 400 civilians were killed.
Moscow withdrew its troops from the area in early April.
’Unlawful killings’
The report concluded that Russian troops had committed a “host of apparent war crimes” in Bucha, including “numerous unlawful killings”, most of them near the intersection of Yablunska and Vodoprovidna streets.
A Reuters news agency investigation published on Thursday documented clues, including testimony and evidence focused on Yablunska Street, to the identities of individual Russian soldiers and military units present in Bucha.
The units included the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, which the Amnesty report also found was present in the town.
Amnesty said it had documented 22 cases of unlawful killings by Russian forces – “most of which were apparent extrajudicial executions” – in Bucha and nearby areas.
Russian air raids that hit eight residential buildings on March 1 and 2 in the town of Borodyanka, killing at least 40 civilians, were “disproportionate and indiscriminate, and apparent war crimes”, the group said.
“Russian forces cannot credibly claim to have been unaware that civilians were living in the targeted buildings,” it said.
Russia has regularly denounced reports of atrocities in Bucha as “fakes”, describing the footage of bodies in the area as “staged”.
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RSN: FOCUS: Oxana Lytvynenko, as Told to Weronika Strzyzynska | 'I Didn’t Believe Stories of Atrocities in Ukraine. But Then I Saw the Photos'
07 May 22
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Based over the border in Poland, one rights activist tells of her shock at hearing accounts of rape and murder in Ukraine
Then a woman in her 70s, who said she was from one of the occupied areas close to Irpin and Bucha, crossed the border with her daughter and great-granddaughter. They were being treated by medical volunteers at the French mission. The daughter, who was in her 50s, had cancer and was very sick. The medics could not believe that someone like this, with a hole in her stomach and no bandages, was so desperate to leave that she would risk travelling for so many hours with no medical support.
The woman told me that her grandson served in a military brigade that had been the first to go into recently liberated areas. She said he took photos of what he had seen. She showed them to me, and it was only then I understood it was worse than I could have ever imagined.
She said that after her grandson had returned from duty, he had come to her house and begged her to leave Ukraine. He told her that women were being raped and killed by Russian troops but she refused to leave. In desperation, he showed her the photos and she knew she had to flee.
One of the photos she showed me was the hanging body of a young girl. She couldn’t have been more than 14. She said her grandson told her he was walking through the woods looking for dead bodies left by the Russians and lifted his head and saw these girls strung from the trees, all of them very young. They were naked and torn up. She said he had passed on the photos to investigators in Ukraine who were gathering evidence of war crimes.
I was not ready to see something like this. In Ukraine now there are many photos of what happened in Bucha but in Poland these are not widely circulated. Since she showed it to me I think my brain has tried to blank it out because I can’t even recreate it in my mind. All I remember is a white blur in the top-left corner of a shattered phone screen.
She told me that after she had seen these photos she went to the hospital where her daughter was being treated in the oncology ward. She went in, took out her daughter’s intravenous drip and helped her walk to the car and they just took off.
When I met them on the border, the car they were driving was shattered. The lights were broken, they had foil instead of windows. They had driven all that way in a car where the wheels were still turning but that was about it. But this lady said that after she started driving she didn’t stop until she had left Ukraine.
Often when women first cross the border they’re elated, happy to reach safety. They start smiling, joking – you’d never guess they’ve had any sort of trauma. Since I have seen that photo, I keep thinking back to those other women I have met and wondering what they might have gone through.
There have been women who have been asking me about getting hold of pills that cause menstruation. At the time I didn’t understand what they meant.
There was another woman who came over with a 17-year-old daughter. The daughter would not stop crying. I asked her how I could help, and what was going on. She asked for thick menstrual pads, underwear and trousers for the girl. I remember her as she had the same name as my own daughter. That woman also told me that when she went through the last checkpoints outside Kharkiv, she kept driving without stopping.
It isn’t just the ones who talk about the violence they have faced or witnessed. You worry about all the women who make the crossing. There are many who just cannot deal with being this helpless.
There was one woman, you could tell that she was wealthy. Her clothes were very nice, her shoes were very nice. The children were dressed nicely. And from their manners you could tell they were well-off. And their older girl, about 10, sat at the table in the reception centre and said: “Well, here you have free soup.” And the little boy said: “I don’t want a free soup.” The mother sat not saying anything until she just exploded and yelled: “You’re refugees now, and you need to eat everything they give you.”
This was the change they experienced – that when they crossed the border, everything they had had before had stayed behind in Ukraine. Then they leave you and you never find out what happened to them next.
Special Coverage: Ukraine, A Historic Resistance
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