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But as he has also learned, time has a way of organizing events to his advantage and bringing new priorities to the forefront. And some goals that once seemed very far off for Ramos are now suddenly looking very attainable.
As he said triumphantly, “After this year, I’m going to buy myself a house.”
@gawki Thank you for helping to organize the art call to Stop Line 3! Here’s what I worked on tonight. If you’re unfamiliar with this long struggle that Water Protectors, environmental groups, and community orgs have been going through, please check out the SL3 website.
P.S. like all my activist art, this is creative commons, no attribution required, PLEASE feel free to distribute it to help raise awareness.
Reblogging again with links to help:
Sign a petition: StopLine3.org Petition 350.org Petition RAN Petition Sierra Club Petition (will need your address)
Contact the White House directly to ask Biden to stop Line 3. See here for a sample script, but as always remember to personalize based on who you are and what’s most important to you. See here and here for information on the pipeline to help script your call or write your email/letter.
Tell banks to stop funding Line 3. There’s an important loan renewal deadline for Enbridge on March 31st, 2021–use this form to email executives at the banks that are funding Line 3 to tell them to not renew their loans to Enbridge. The text of the letter can be edited, so please take advantage of that to rephrase and personalize the text. See here for an example of how to edit the letter text.
If you have money in a bank that funds Line 3 and other pipelines, strongly consider closing your account and moving your money to a credit union or smaller bank that doesn’t fund climate change. (Click here for a zoom-in-able version of the graphic if you’re having trouble reading it.) The list includes all the major US banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citibank, along with many international institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, and many more. Tips for moving your money out of these banks can be found here.
Donate: Honor the Earth (Indigenous activist group, founder of StopLine3.org) Donate to the frontlines (donate to those in northern Minnesota trying to stop construction; through StopLine3.org) Another way to donate to the frontlines
I have no practice writing calls to action, but no one else is coming forward and it’s almost too late, so here goes.
Indiana state senators have recently introduced a bill (sb389) that would repeal the Isolated Wetlands Program and strip protection for nearly a third of our scant remaining wetlands.
If this bill goes through (which it will in the next few days, without significant public pushback) it will be an enormous and irreparable blow to Indiana’s future, environmental stability, and natural resources. Wetland ecosystems are unparalleled in their biodiversity and home to countless rare and threatened species—and are also essential to floodwater mitigation, climate stability, and the filtration of contaminants from groundwater.
If you are an Indiana resident, please call your local representatives (find them here) and ask them to oppose SB389. If you are not an Indiana resident, please reblog and tell friends and family who might live in the state to speak up.
To learn more information before you call, visit these sites for additional context:
I just called the representative of my district and left a message with her receptionist. I wrote out a template that you can use if you're unsure of what to say when calling
"Hi my name is [your name], I am a [job title/student status] residing in [state reps name's] district.
I am calling to state my opposition to bill SB389, as the deregulation of Indiana's wetlands could potentially have catastrophic environmental effects. Our wetlands are home to several rare and threatened species, and this bill could pose a serious threat to these creatures. As well as this, the wetlands are instrumental in absorbing floodwater and act as a filtration system for groundwater. Without the wetlands, our rivers and lakes could become polluted by groundwater contaminants that otherwise would not have been a concern.
I ask respectfully that [state reps name] vote to oppose this bill, [and would appreciate hearing a response in regard to this matter. {Leave a phone number to call you back on}]
Thank you"
There is also a petition you can sign here, but I have to stress that calling your representative will be MUCH more effective. If they see many people caring enough to call them directly, it is much more likely to sway them than any petition would be.
Please share and call if you can! If this bill passes the house our only hope to save Indiana’s wetlands is to call Governor Holcomb and ask him to veto it—and I’m honestly not sure if that is even how it works.
For the record, this passed the Indiana Senate but still has to pass the House and be passed by the governor (as state legislatures do the thing). SO there’s still time for this to get public pushback. AND sharing DOES help. I went to college in Indiana so seeing this right off the bat I knew people I could share this with on Facebook, and they can make those calls and share it with other people they know in Indiana. And so on. Today’s date is February 12, 2021.
The day has come! Oh, yes, that day too. But also: you can now sign up as a creator for the 2021 Fandom Trumps Hate auction!
…But before you do, please be sure to read through this post, which includes all of the important details about this year’s auction, including the calendar, our supported organizations, and more.
N.B. If your heart sinks when you open the form and see “page 1 of 54,” don’t worry! Most of those are for managing sub-fandoms. Your signup experience will be more like 7-10 pages, some of which are very brief.
Boss Baby Bezos is at it again! Amazon opened a union busting website for people to report workers unions, so lets do the world a favor and waste Jeff’s time, money, and life energy (I hope) by spamming his website with bogus reports. Eat shit, Jeff.
A lot of people have been making the point that shitposting is useless because it’s certain that there are filters in place specifically to avoid this.
I said bogus reports, not Bee Movie scripts. Sure it’s ha ha funny but it won’t actually get in Amazon’s way. You’re probably going to want to use keywords that would prompt these emails to go through. Shit like “illegal unions”, “pamphlet”, maybe even “communists”. We want to hamper Bezos’ efforts, not our own.
If you want to, you can also just use the contact form to tell Amazon that it’s breaking the law. The National Labor Relations Act (also known as the Wagner Act) protects workers’ rights, including their right to organize, and states specifically that employers cannot interfere with their employees’ attempts to unionize. The NLRA states, in part:
RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES
Sec. 7. [§ 157.] Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3) [section 158(a)(3) of this title].
UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
Sec. 8. [§ 158.] (a) [Unfair labor practices by employer] It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer–
(1) to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7 [section 157 of this title];
(2) to dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute financial or other support to it: Provided, That subject to rules and regulations made and published by the Board pursuant to section 6 [section 156 of this title], an employer shall not be prohibited from permitting employees to confer with him during working hours without loss of time or pay[.]
Spamming Amazon with choice quotes from the NLRA should a) help in burying real reports, b) get past any spam filters, and c) maybe provide some useful info to whoever has to read these things.
If you live in Georgia, go to votesaveamerica.com/register to register to vote if you haven’t already. Then remind three friends to register or check their registration and VOTE AGAIN! The special election for both seats will be on January 5th.
Everyone else, get ready to organize/volunteer/call every single voter in Georgia! Let’s take back the Senate!
obsessed with the way epic manhood is defined as being remembered– doing great deeds that will be the stuff of song for generations to come, dying in glory and being memorialized by tombs that inscribe greatness on the physical landscape– and epic womanhood is defined as keeping memory alive– helen weaving the images of men about to die, penelope weaving laertes’s glory into his shroud, cassandra raising the cry and andromache the lament for hector–
something about manhood as passive and womanhood as active in relation to memory is just… such an incredible way of framing things
hmm male poets inherently aligning themselves with women by virtue of telling the story rather than being in it???
THE WEST WING 4.07 – “Election Night”
“Why We Build the Wall” is one of the few songs in my life that I wrote very quickly, almost before I understood what it meant. It was 2006 and I was living in Vermont. The song went into the first staging of Hadestown and then quickly became, at my songwriter shows, the one everyone wanted to hear. There’s much I could say about it—and how its meaning continues to change as the world changes—but I’d rather leave that conversation to the audience. It is, after all, a series of questions, and my guess is that the conversation it provokes is worth more than any statement I could make. Instead, here’s a little anecdote about the song’s language and where it may have come from. In college, I studied abroad in Cairo, Egypt. My Arabic Lit professor was an older woman with dark eyeliner who took it upon herself to introduce leftist, bohemian values to a generation of distracted young Egyptians. She barely concealed her disdain for then-president Hosni Mubarak, and expressed nostalgia for the 1960s and the populist president Gamal Abdel Nasser in particular. “What did Nasser call the citizens?” she asked the students, who remained silent, some gazing into mobile phones. “‘Brothers and sisters’!” she said. “And what does Mubarak call us? ‘My children’…“
–from Working On A Song: The Music and Lyrics of Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
From The Audubon Society:
“The Bureau of Land Management has issued a “call for nominations” to invite oil companies to drill in the sacred Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And, in an attempt to discourage public input, they will only accept mailed-in or hand-delivered comments (no electronic comments).
Please mail a letter to the Bureau of Land Management telling them oil development has no place in the Arctic Refuge. We will provide you with a sample letter and the mailing address. You provide the stamp! Comments must be received in Anchorage by December 17.”
Click here to go to the Audubon Society page. If you enter your first name and email they’ll give you a letter to print and mail with your own envelope and stamp.
If you can’t send a letter, submit your comment here and the organization Protect the Arctic will send a letter for you.
You can also hand-write or type your own letter. Send it to:
Bureau of Land Management, Alaskan State Office Attn: State Director Chad Padgett 222 West 207th Avenue, Mailstop 2013 Anchorage, AK 99513
Regardless of how you send a letter, please do so as soon as possible and include specific and substantive comments, not emotional appeals or opinions; the Bureau of Land Management disregards what it can classify as “opinion" rather than “comment.“ Both links above explain this well, and the Audubon Society letter is a great resource for specifics to mention, even if you want to compose your own comment.
Things aren’t over quite yet: Both Georgia Senate races are headed to a January 2021 runoff that could decide Senate control.
This is where we are: Democrats (including the 2 independent senators Sanders and King) currently hold 48 seats. Republicans currently hold 50 seats.
If Democrats gain the 2 seats from the runoffs (Ossoff and Warnock) we will be able to TIE the Senate 50-50. In which case, Kamala Harris, the VP, will tie-break votes in favor of the Democrats, therefore giving us a “majority” in the Senate.
I cannot stress enough how important this is for Democrats. We need to get both Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in, otherwise Biden will have a very difficult time getting anything done in office over the next 4 years.
DONATING
For those who can’t vote in Georgia, but still want to help with the Senate runoffs somehow, please consider donating to the following and/or encouraging your friends and family to do so:
The amount of money the GOP is going to spend on this election will be staggering, so even a dollar helps. If you’re not able to donate, even just sharing this with others makes a big difference!
VOLUNTEERING
If you can donate your time instead of money, please consider volunteering.
More good sources of volunteering opportunities, including opportunities to volunteer directly with/for Ossoff’s and Warnock’s teams can be found at the Read More at the bottom of this post.
If anyone has more helpful info, please reblog and add it or contact me. Info in this post will be updated, so please check the notes and reblog the latest version of this post if possible.
Minnesota is breaking treaties with Anishinaabe bands and building a pipeline
Are there going to be protests thus bail funds etc or something else that will help like calling offices etc?
article is from November 12, 2020!
At the Honor the Earth link above you can also find links to StopLine3.org, a website affiliated with Honor the Earth that has great resources for learning more about the pipeline, as well as a link to this list of banks that fund Line 3, DAPL, and other pipelines. If you have money in one of the listed banks (which includes Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Canada, and many more), now is a great time to divest from them and put your money in a credit union or another environmentally-responsible bank. (And they have resources to help you make the move here and here.)
“Zuber is also a master of using costumes to reveal character and situation. The dazzling descending entrance of Satine, who shimmers in a silver-on-black showgirl outfit is Zuber’s favorite moment. “She’s referred to as the Moulin Rouge’s ‘sparkling diamond,” says the costumer. “Her first costume needs to support that.” Beads, stones and appliqués lend sparkle to outfits throughout the show. Ditto Swarovski crystals. Zuber estimates that she used “about 30,000 of them.” Meanwhile, the ornate gown she designed for Satine after she becomes the Duke’s courtesan and enters his glittering world features a bodice that looks like a cage and three rows of lacing down the back. “It’s almost like she’s a prisoner,” Zuber says.”
My Favorite Designs → MOULIN ROUGE (Broadway 2019) Costume Design by Catherine Zuber ll Karen Olivo as Satine
Unregistered voters, including those about to turn 18, have until Dec 7th to register to vote in Georgia for the Senate runoffs. If we win those two seats and the WH, we take the majority in the Senate.
Online voter registration: https://registertovote.sos.ga.gov/GAOLVR/welcome.do#no-back-button
Please reblog widely! Tagging @fericita-s @the-spaztic-fantastic @broadwaybaggins @amarguerite @tortoisesshells @mercurygray to get it going…
you can check the status of your ballot online by entering the information associated with your voter registration to check if your ballot was accepted.
pennsylvania voters: check the status of your ballot here
michigan voters: check the status of your ballot here
wisconsin voters: check the status of your ballot here
nevada voters: check the status of your ballot here
north carolina voters: check the status of your ballot here
it is vital to the success of this election that you check to see if your vote was accepted, and especially important since it has come down to these six states. please take a few seconds to follow up to make sure your vote was counted!
every state will look different, but for example:
this is what it will say on pennsylvania’s ballot status site if your vote has been recorded. if the site does not indicate that your vote has been recorded, please consider following up with a phone call to your county election office or whoever your state dedicates to these issues. if not, keep checking periodically throughout the week to make sure your vote was recorded.
this is so important. there is a lot at stake here. so many people are vulnerable. we need to make sure every. single. vote. is counted to ensure a fair election. your vote matters! please don’t let it stop at just casting the vote, make sure it’s been recorded.
GEORGIA VOTERS, LISTEN TO ME.
Over 1,500 ballots in GA have been rejected and we are SO CLOSE to turning the state blue—every vote counts. If you did a mail-in or absentee ballot, go check that it was counted. If it’s been rejected, you can call the GA Voter Protection Hotline at 1-888-730-5816.
Right now, every single vote counts. Check on your ballot and make sure it was accepted.
“The recipe for Hartford election cake appeared in Amelia Simmons’s “American Cookery,” published in 1796 — the first known cookbook written by an American in the United States — though there are mentions of the recipe predating the Declaration of Independence. The story of the cake goes as follows: In early spring, elections for governor and other offices were held in towns around Connecticut, and in May, representatives from around the colony gathered for the ballot counting in Hartford, an event that often ran long into the night.“
