Sign The Petition: Baby sea turtles need you for World Oceans Day

 

WORLD OCEANS DAY ALERT: We must protect our oceans, marine animals, and coastal communities from rampant plastic pollution before it’s too late to stop the PLASTIC APOCALYPSE! Take action now! >> World Oceans Day is just 3 days away, so what better time is there for you to get involved and advocate for healthy and sustainable oceans? With summertime on its way, many of us are already daydreaming about sitting on the beach: toes buried under a layer of soft sand, watching the sunshine glisten on the waves while they peacefully crash upon each other as the refreshing ocean breeze grazes your toasty skin. Sadly, this picturesque tropical fantasy could soon be out of reach — because plastic waste is decimating our oceans, ruining our beaches, and killing some of our most beloved aquatic creatures like baby sea turtles, dolphins, and seals. We aren’t talking about small numbers here either. OVER A MILLION marine animals and seabirds are killed every year from plastic pollution.  Remember the tragic story of Gingerbread? Gingerbread was the baby sea turtle in Florida who died weighing only as much as a carrot when researchers discovered an alarming 24 pieces of plastic in the poor animal’s tiny stomach! Every day, harmless marine animals like Gingerbread are mistaking plastic debris for food, causing them to die from ingestion or entanglement.   If plastic pollution continues at this rate, not only will we lose critical marine species that contribute to healthy biodiversity, but our oceanic ecosystems could completely crumble: putting our entire Earth and all its living beings in danger.  Our planet cannot survive without clean and healthy oceans, so the plastic crisis impacts each and every one of us. In honor of World Oceans Day, we’re mobilizing environmentalists like you who will speak up against out-of-control plastic pollution that’s destroying our fragile oceans. Can we count on you to add your name right now?  SIGN THE PETITION 88% of the ocean's surface is already polluted by plastic. Imagine enough plastic to fill an entire dump truck every single minute, day and night, all year long: that’s the type of plastic crisis our planet is facing. At this rate, scientists are even predicting there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050!  While it’s true that our oceans serve as an epicenter of biodiversity, there are other ecological benefits to healthy oceans as well. We rely on the ocean to provide us with HALF of the world’s oxygen AND storing 90% of additional heat caused by global warming. Oceans act as a carbon sink absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere to help mitigate climate change.  For decades, our oceans have continued to suffer the devastating consequences of reckless plastic pollution. Now, life on Earth as we know it is on the line. Plastic is already infiltrating every aspect of our life and putting human health at risk by contaminating our food chain and degrading water quality — exposing us to toxic chemicals. Meanwhile, plastic production itself burns through excessive amounts of harmful fossil fuels and emits pollutants into the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming and harming the health of petrochemical workers and nearby residents.  Plastic is one of our ocean’s and our planet’s biggest threats, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a duty to protect us from it. But instead, the agency has FAILED to address the plastic crisis in any meaningful way, instead letting Big Plastic corporations and their friends in the fossil fuel industry recklessly put our oceans and our planet in harm’s way — all for the sake of profit. This World Oceans Day, we refuse to be silent and sit idly while Big Plastic and Big Oil’s corporate greed threatens our oceans and our planet. Will you take action today and stand with us to defend our oceans from rampant plastic pollution? Sign now to tell the EPA we demand federal solutions to the plastic crisis immediately! >> SIGN THE PETITION Thanks for having an impact with your voice today.  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:

Steve Bannon publicly threatens Dr. Fauci's family

 

It's Our Democracy!

Today’s Action: Spread the word about student debt relief!

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BREAKING: UN says world "nowhere near" hitting climate goals, predicts 4.5F deg warming by 2100

Today's Top Stories:

Steve Bannon vows Dr Fauci and his family will "suffer" and be ‘hunted’ after midterms: "Paybacks across the board"
Bannon, who was recently sentenced to six months in prison, incited violence against Dr. Fauci and his family on the latest episode of his War Room podcast. We need to get him behind bars as soon as possible.

Take Action: Tell Apple and Google to remove Steve Bannon's hateful, dangerously deceptive podcast!

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Bombshell: Top Republican candidate exposed with midterms only days away
NC GOP candidate Ted Budd tries to play himself off as just a regular business owner — but he's hiding some VERY dark secrets.

Take Action: Demand Justice Thomas recuse himself from democracy-destroying case!

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Democrats now in striking distance of a surprise Senate flip
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

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Progressive Democrats retract letter to Biden urging diplomatic end to war in Ukraine
After sparking hysterical blowback from the pro-war national security blob, progressive leader Rep. Jayapal blamed a staffer for releasing the letter before the Democrats involved retracted it entirely. There should be nothing controversial about calling for negotiations with the nuclear power we are currently involved in a proxy war with, but this is a spectacularly embarrassing unforced error.

Take Action: Demand Congress lower drug prices now!

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Mehmet Oz says abortion should be decided between "women, doctors, local political leaders" during debate with John Fetterman
We don't know about you, but we definitely want a hot tub salesman who got himself elected to the statehouse on a platform of eliminating witchcraft in schools and reviving the local racism factory to be personally involved in OUR reproductive healthcare choices.

Take Action: Protect renters from unfair evictions!

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Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks interviews with Jan. 6 committee
Hicks' testimony comes after the panel signaled in their Oct. 13 hearing that Trump's efforts to overturn the election and his actions on Jan. 6 will be the central focus of the final stages of their probe.

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St. Louis school gunman was armed with AR-15-style rifle and over 600 rounds of ammunition, officials say
Once again, an alienated and disturbed young man was able to get his hands on an arsenal worth of weaponry and commit horrifying acts with it. Probably not a coincidence that Missouri has some of the weakest gun laws in the country.

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McConnell's hand-picked Republican is still running elections in one of the largest BLUE cities in the South
Tina Ward-Pugh for County Clerk: Louisville, Kentucky, has just one citywide Republican elected official — a handpicked McConnell disciple who oversees — of all things — elections. This year she has a strong challenge from Democrat Tina Ward-Pugh in a race that could be a game changer for voting rights for years to come. Can you chip in to make sure Democrats in Kentucky can exercise their right to vote?

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Virtually all children on Earth will face more frequent heatwaves by 2050
According to Unicef, 559 million children currently endure at least four to five dangerous heatwaves annually, but the number will quadruple to 2 billion by 2050 – even if global heating is curtailed to 1.7 degrees, currently the best-case scenario on the table.

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California sheriff’s office stops Black drivers five times more often than white people, data shows
Institutionalized racism in a nutshell: instead of spending time, you know, helping people, California police were busy pulling over people of color for traffic stops, equipment issues, and other pedestrian nonsense at a ridiculously inflated rate. To make matters worse, LA sheriffs spent 89% of patrol hours on officer-initiated stops and just 11% on calls for service.

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Alaska GOP votes to censure McConnell for supporting Lisa Murkowski
In yet another display of how extreme the rank-and-file GOP have become, the Alaska Republican Party has issued a symbolic rebuke of Minority Leader McConnell for his support of another Republican just because she doesn't play nice with Trump.

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Only 5% of plastic waste generated by US last year was recycled
So much for the feel-good of plastic recycling programs; it turns out not a single type of plastic packaging in the US meets the definition of recyclable. Americans discarded 51m tons of wrappers, bottles and bags in 2021 – about 309lb of plastic per person – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere in tiny toxic particles.

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Nice going bozo

Kanye West no longer a billionaire after losing Adidas deal

Florida judge orders DeSantis to hand over migrant flights records

Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake airs an ad featuring a homophobic and extremist Pastor

9/11 conspiracist and lawyer from Long Island charged with six felonies for role in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

For the union makes us strong!

Yale graduate workers file petition with NLRB seeking union election

Netflix music supervisors file for union election

Gavin Newsom signs Teamster-backed bill cracking down on union busting

Home Depot workers in Northeast Philly allege ‘surveillance,’ other union-busting tactics ahead of election

Hope...

Federal court strikes down "dress code" ordinance banning "Bikini Baristas" in Washington for targeting women but not men

Gay couples begin getting married in Cuba

Native Americans and white farmers form unlikely alliance to oppose pipeline in the Dakotas

Emperor penguins get protection from the Endangered Species Act

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Today’s Action: Spread the word about student debt relief!

Despite a federal appeals court’s temporary and regressive order to stop processing debt relief, progressives are still intent on securing far-reaching relief for working Americans. The Federal Student Aid office is still accepting applications for relief with the expectation that they will resume reviewing applications as soon as possible, so there’s no reason to wait to find out your eligibility.

Individuals who made less than 125,000 and families who made less than 250,000 in 2020 or 2021 are eligible for up to $10,000 in federal loan relief. If you were a Pell grant recipient, you are eligible for up to $20,000! The application is open until December 2023 — but because of the influx of applicants and hang-ups in the Supreme Court, the earlier the better. Nearly 22 million people have already applied!

The federal student relief application is incredibly quick and accessible — so don’t wait! Check out the Federal Student Aid office’s form and see if you qualify. Take a couple minutes out of your day to submit your own if you’re eligible, and even if you’re not, tell your network to do the same on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition to arrest Steve Bannon for threatening Dr. Fauci and his family, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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