Your Signature is Needed: Stop Trump-approved toxic plant in Cancer Alley

 

DONATE URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Donald Trump fast-tracked a toxic factory in CANCER ALLEY! Here’s how you can help stop it, Tony. >> Take immediate action! Formosa Plastics is building a Trump-approved toxic factory in a region of Louisiana so polluted that it’s known as Cancer Alley. The largely Black and low-wealth communities here already endure ASTRONOMICAL RATES of cancer and respiratory illnesses! To make matters worse, Trump has begun to offer greedy polluters like Formosa Plastics the chance to request exemptions from the Clean Air Act – allowing companies to VIOLATE pollution limits without consequences! A new toxic factory is the last thing Cancer Alley needs, let alone one exempt from pollution limits! But Formosa Plastics needs financing to build its new plant. That’s why local activists are calling on J.P. Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Bank of America to REFUSE FUNDING for Formosa Plastics’ Louisiana plant – and with enough pressure from environmentalists like you, we can help STOP this toxic factory! BLOCK the Trump-approved toxic factory in Cancer Alley before it’s too late! Tell Big Banks to defund Formosa Plastics! SIGN THE PETITION The proposed plant would sit right along the Mississippi River, DESTROYING WETLANDS that serve as critical habitat for fish, birds, and reptiles. And with lax environmental enforcement from the Trump administration, drinking water for millions of people and animals would be at risk – and all so a few greedy executives can line their pockets. Formosa Plastics already has a horrendous environmental track record. For years, it has been illegally releasing BILLIONS of plastic pellets into Texas waterways. But that didn’t stop Donald Trump from fast-tracking its permits. That’s why activists are targeting Formosa Plastics’ funding. If Big Banks refuse to finance this project, construction won’t be able to start. But it will require a lot of pressure – and we need your immediate action to help us make it happen! Stop Formosa Plastics from building its toxic factory in Cancer Alley! Add your name now! >> SIGN THE PETITION Standing with you, Paloma Henriques Senior Petrochemical Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Contact Us Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA PO Box 7010 Merrifield, VA 22116-7010 1-877-843-8687 Contact us   Learn More www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org

Trump Threatened as GOP Congressman Goes OFF THE RAILS

 

US NEWS offered a ranking of states - look at where LOUISIANA ranks - with MAGA MORONS like this, LOUISIANA will never progress! BIGOTS spend more time reinforcing HATE & BIGOTRY than working for their constituents. LOUISIANA's claim to fame is TEN COMMANDMENTS in classrooms instead of EDUCATING KIDS!

LOUISIANA RESIDENTS need to REGISTER & VOTE the RACISTS OUT! CANCER ALLEY is in LOUISIANA - surrounded by BLACK COMMUNITIES with HIGH CANCER RATES. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana THANK YOU REP. STEVEN HORSFORD (D-NEVADA) FOR SPEAKING OUT! THIS IS REMINSCENT OF MARTIN NIEMOLLER: "First they came ..." (‹See Tfd›German: Zuerst kamen sie ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the silence of German intellectuals and clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself—following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. It deals with themes of persecution, guilt, repentance, solidarity, and personal responsibility.

The best-known versions of the confession in English are the edited versions in poetic form that began circulating by the 1950s.^[1] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech:^[2][3]

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows:^[4]

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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Your Signature is Needed: Defund toxic plant in Cancer Alley

 

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Tell Wall Street not to fund a TOXIC FACTORY in Cancer Alley! >> Banking giant Citi might support a racist, toxic petrochemical plant that would be the size of 80 FOOTBALL FIELDS along the Mississippi River, threatening communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.  The region is known as CANCER ALLEY because of the nauseating level of chemical and toxic pollution in the region. These predominately Black communities already have more than 200 industrial plants and extremely high cancer rates – yet Citi could pave the way for them to get another. Please, take immediate action to FIGHT toxic pollution in Cancer Alley! Tell Citi to STOP funding polluting projects by 11:59 PM TONIGHT! Sign the petition Formosa Plastics, the company that wants to build this plant, has a track record of violating environmental laws and poisoning communities. Formosa ILLEGALLY released BILLIONS of plastic pellets into local waterways for years in Texas and has been fined tens of millions of dollars. Formosa Plastics can’t be trusted. Yet Citi might trust Formosa Plastics with millions of dollars and the lives of people living in St. James, Louisiana. Please, we need your help to push Citi to OPPOSE this catastrophic petrochemical factory before it’s too late.  The PLASTIC APOCALYPSE is getting worse every day. More plastic waste fills our waterways, killing wildlife, and contaminating our food and water with toxic chemicals. The communities where these plastics are produced face the most acute consequences, but the plastic crisis affects us all. Stand up to corporate greed and fight the Formosa Plastics plant in Cancer Alley by 11:59pm TONIGHT! >> Sign the petition Standing with you, Paloma Henriques Senior Petrochemical Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA PO Box 7010 Merrifield, VA 22116-7010 1-877-843-8687 Contact us Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect: