Urgent: The Senate will take up the
Bring Jobs Home Act
on Thursday that would stop allowing corporations to deduct their moving
expenses when they offshore good American jobs to other countries.
Call
U.S. Senators (1.888.659.9401; NO charges apply)
urging them to support Bring Jobs Home Act (S. 2884) Act today or early
Thursday morning.
Challenging Unjust
Structures:
This week is a National
call in (1.888.659.9401; NO charges apply) to U.S. Senators urging them to end
the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2% - those making more than
$250,000/year.
Also urge Senators to
oppose any extension of tax cuts –both temporary and permanent.
Tell them that with the current
U.S.
deficit, we cannot afford to give assistance to the richest 2%.
(People who earn over $1 million a year get
an average tax break of $143,000 from the Bush tax cuts.
People making about $50,000 a year get an
average tax break of about $1,000.)
Care of Earth:
The State Department is preparing to re-open its review of the environmental
impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline leg that runs from
Canada to
Nebraska.
The public has a chance to submit comments on
the scope of this review through July 30.
Urge the
Obama administration to fully review the climate consequences
of Keystone XL.
Climate change is not in
our national interest; neither is a pipeline transporting tar sand
material.
In the Spirit of St.
Vincent: Urge
U.S.Representatives to oppose cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) in the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (H.R. 6083).
These cuts would eliminate food assistance to
millions of low-income families with children and seniors.
Death Penalty:
Thank
Ohio Governor John Kasich who granted clemency and commuted the death sentence
of John Eley to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Demand that
Bahraini authorities protect free speech and release human rights activist Nabeel Rajab,
jailed for libel and "insulting a national institution" (exercising
his human right to free speech) on Twitter.
(International Action available)
Urge
U.S.
Representatives (1.202.224.3121; charges apply) to vote
NO on current proposed
FY
2013 Pentagon Budget unless it includes Lee amendments and
YES for Jobs Program, Federal Aid to
States and Vital Social Services.
Ask
that she/he vote for the Lee amendments and any others, which eliminate funding
for continued fighting in
Afghanistan,
for the use of drones and for expensive and unnecessary weapons systems.
Use the saved Pentagon money to adequately
fund domestic needs.
Jani Silva, a Columbian community organizer, states that 115
families from Perla Amazonica, Putumayo have joined the ranks of
Columbia’s 5.2 million internally displaced persons.
Those hundreds remaining in the communities within the region are
preparing to flee from the violence that the Columbian Armed Forces and the
insurgency continue to fight through civilians.
The 12
th year anniversary of Plan Columbia military package
is not leading to peace.
Send the
U.S.Congress and the U.S. Ambassador in Columbia a message in support of Perla Amazonica.
This is the third week of the first ever
Arms Trade Treaty and the U.S. is
demanding a vague, open-ended “escape clause” that would trump human rights
concerns – essentially giving weapons suppliers a free pass to continue
supplying weapons to countries with human rights abuses.
Urge
President Obama’s UN delegation that we
expect better.
American Airlines
just secured a baseless injunction to delay their employees’ right to vote in
protecting themselves as the airline attempts to gut their jobs, benefits and
working conditions through bankruptcy proceedings this month.
Urge
American Airlines to stop squashing their
employee’s right to vote.
A six minute film on the
plight of the undocumented by John X. Carey is
located here.
A
calculator compares your taxes under three different
proposals for
Bush Tax Cuts telling
you what percentile you fall into and how much of the tax cuts in a given
scenario will go to people in higher percentiles than you (i.e. people richer
than you.).
