Thursday, August 15, 2013

Weekly Justice Highlights


Care of Earth: U.S. residents are invited to call Secretary Sally Jewell's office at 1.888.907.6639 (between 9 am and 5 pm EST) which after a brief message, individuals may provide the following message:  State your name and that you desire Secretary Jewell to act on climate change by stopping the coal leasing program and canceling the two upcoming lease sales.  

Trafficking:  The August issue of Stop Trafficking co-sponsored by the SCN's is located here.     

Immigration: The Interfaith Immigration Coalition invites you to join in the prayer, fasting, and advocacy for immigration reform. Please join us as an individual, family, congregation, or study group. Sign up at www.fastaction.us.  Individuals may urge House members to work for reform right here.

In the Spirit of St. Vincent:  Urge Congress to stop cuts to vital programs (i.e. SNAP) and require corporations and those wealthy enough to do so to pay their share by reducing unfair and unneeded tax breaks as well as make sensible Pentagon cuts that enhance security and end wasteful spending by clicking here.  

Challenging Unjust Systems: Urge Congress to bring transparency and accountability to the closed-door negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and to reject Fast Track procedure when the bill is introduced.   

Urge the Securities and Exchange Commission to enforce the Dodd-Frank's provision on disclosing CEO salaries.    

Urge the U.S. State Department and Honduran officials to protect the lives and human rights of threatened small-scale farmers working to protect their rights to land and to agrarian reform in the Honduras

Urgent Attention Needed on the Bluegrass Pipeline Issue:  Individuals from all over the U.S. are needed to urge KY Governor Steve Beshear ((502) 564-2611 OR  http://governor.ky.gov/Pages/contact.aspx) to address eminent domain in the special session of the 2013 KY General Assembly.     

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