Action

Please consider participating in these actions that support Green values -- and tell all of your friends!

• Coalition Against Nukes Rally for Nuclear-Free Energy: Oct.1, 2011, New York City and Nationwide
  
• 13-Day, 167-Mile Farm Worker March from Madera to Sacramento, CA, Aug. 23 - Sept. 4, 2011.

  Read daily updates at http://action.ufw.org/marchpage!

  Saying the time to act is now, farm workers have begun a 167-mile pilgrimage up California's Central Valley to Sacramento to press for enactment of the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act. The march began on August 23, 2011 in Madera, two months after California's Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 104, a bill that would have made it easier for farm workers to join a union. The "The Fair Treatment For Farm Workers Now" march will end on Sunday, September 4th, Labor Day weekend, at the State Capitol.
• Tar Sands Action: Washington, DC, Aug. 20 - Sept. 3, 2011

  TransCanada, one of the largest companies involved in tar sands exploration, has proposed a 1,661 mile, 36-inch extension of the newly built Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada to oil refineries of the United States. This "Keystone XL Pipeline" would expand the capacity for refining oil produced from Alberta tar sands by approximately one million barrels per day.

  The Tar Sands are the most environmentally devastating project on earth, involving extracting oil from a mix of clay and other materials, from underneath Canada’s Boreal forest. The refining process is complex and very energy intensive.

  President Barack Obama will decide as early as September whether to approve the pipeline.

  From August 20th to September 3rd, thousands of Americans -- including Bill McKibben, Danny Glover, and NASA’s Dr. James Hansen -- will be at the White House, day after day, demanding that Obama reject this tar sands nightmare.

  See www.tarsandsaction.org for full information. Go to www.tarsandsaction.org/sign-up/ to sign up.

  The Dene First Nation is fighting another proposed tar sands pipeline that would threaten their territory within the boundaries of Canada.

• Hunger Strike Solidarity, July 29, 2011

  For his birthday Dr. Kent P. Mesplay, candidate for President of the U.S., requests all people stand in solidarity with the activist prisoners working for humane treatment in California prisons! Although the hunger strike has ended we must continue to support them so that their needs are met by the Brown administration and his CDCR. Together we can remake America into a truly humane nation of people who put our people before the profits of the Prison Industrial Complex.

  http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/building-a-movement-to-end-solitary-confinement-against-imprisonment-2/