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Global Oneness Day 2013

http://www.globaloneness2013.org/

Today I'm celebrating the oneness of all life in the holler, y el mundo!

 

 

STOP CHASE FROM FUNDING THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA

Social Media Can Move Mountains, Or Keep Them In Place

Mountaintop removal mining at Zeb Mountain Mine, Campbell County, Tennessee [Photo: Doug Murray, Forest Watch]

What's in King Coal's wallet? Lots of money. And the biggest chunk of it comes from JP Morgan Chase, the largest financier of mountaintop removal mining in the United States.

That's why, today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is hosting a social media day of action to PUT CHASE ON THE RUN from coalfields of Appalachia. Without dirty money from Chase, corporate coal barons will have a harder time blowing up more mountains to dig out dirty coal.

Mountaintop removal mining has buried over 2000 miles of rivers and streams and destroyed nearly 1.2 million acres of the Appalachian mountains. This deadly practice contaminates air and drinking water, causing increased rates of death and disease for coalfield citizens in the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.

You can join dozens of organizations and thousands of online activists to convince Chase to stop funding destruction of people and nature in America's mountains.

Take a simple action on your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blog or email to end mountaintop removal in 2010.

Many of these actions will take less than a minute, but could add years to the life of people and communities in Appalachian coalfields.

Go to www.DirtyMoney.org for instructions and PUT CHASE ON THE RUN!

ACTION ALERT:Genetically Modified Alfalfa Threatens Organic Agriculture | Cornucopia Institute

Send Your Comments to USDA on Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Late last year, the USDA released a court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Monsanto’s new genetically engineered Round-up Ready Alfalfa. A federal lawsuit, led by the Center for Food Safety and joined by The Cornucopia Institute and other plaintiffs, was won in 2007 compelling the USDA to conduct their first-ever environmental impact statement on a genetically engineered (GE) crop, alfalfa.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the USDA’s assessment approves of releasing a new genetically modified crop into the environment, despite the known risks this version of alfalfa poses to organic livestock agriculture.

Public comments are being accepted until February 16. Please let the USDA hear your voice. A broad coalition, composed of both organic and conventional farmers, is opposing Monsanto’s RR Alfalfa and the USDA particularly needs to hear from those involved with organic agriculture.

via www.cornucopia.org

Cathie's Notes: For more details, including key observations by Cornucopia on the DEIS and a link to online submission of comments, visit Cornucopia Institute's website here.

To see the full draft EIS (a 6.4 megabyte pdf download), go here.

Follow the money, end secret payments

via www.youtube.com

This video is part of Oxfam's campaign to stop backroom deals and secret payments to foreign governments by U.S. oil, gas and mining companies. These practices keep citizens of other nations in poverty.

A current bill in congress would require these corporations to open their books to citizens in foreign countries where these companies operate. As you might imagine, lobbyists are in a major spin cycle to kill this bill.

To tell congress to end secret payments, take action here.