Action Alerts

1Sky: Tell Congress to Fund Green Jobs & Grants
Congress is now deciding which federal programs will be funded in 2009. Among those programs are the Green Jobs Act, which would invest $125 million in green-collar job training programs, and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, which would authorize grants to local communities to help improve their energy efficiency and increase renewable energy.

DawnWatch: Circus cruelty lawsuit video on Las Vegas TV — 6/17/08
Ringling Brothers circus is in Las Vegas this week. Reporter George Knapp, from the I-team on KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate, has put together a two part series on the animal welfare battle against the circus. The segments aired Monday and Tuesday this week (June 16 and 17).

DawnWatch: “Food Crisis Solution: Go Vegan” by Peter Singer on NPR 6/17/08
The National Public Radio show “Marketplace”, Tuesday, June 17, includes a commentary headed, “Food crisis solution: Go vegan We grow enough food for everyone, but livestock are devouring our food supply. Commentator and bioethicist Peter Singer says unless we change, the dinner plate of the future will look far different.”

National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Protect the Polar Bears of Chukchi Sea!
Less than a month after listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to give oil companies legal protection to potentially harm the bears as they move forward with oil and gas exploration and development in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

Sierra Club: Drilling Our Coasts Won’t Help with High Gas Prices
Americans are fed up with runaway gas prices and bloated oil-company profits, but Senator John McCain and President Bush’s proposal to drill for oil along our coastline will only increase Big Oil’s bottom line. Their move to open up our coasts for Big Oil is making headlines all across the country today — I woke up to commentators on NPR talking about coastal oil drilling. The truth is that offshore oil drilling won’t help with high oil prices or ease the pain at the gas pump for American families.

True Majority: Don’t Let Oil Money Buy a Bad Energy Policy!
But how much does YOUR Senator get from oil and gas? Whose side will they vote on if offshore drilling comes up for a vote? Find out now with this cool tool. Then tell your Congressional delegation to fight for real energy independence.

United Poultry Concerns (UPC): Four Opportunities to Speak Up for Chickens and a Saner World
Chickens in the media!

Campaign Updates

United Animal Nations (UAN): Blog -> Cedar Rapids Flood
Stay up-to-date with UAN’s rescue efforts in the Midwest.

Newsletters

The Animals Voice eNewsletter, June 19, 2008
FEATURE — WHALES

Earthjustice e.Brief, June 2008
Hope for clean energy in the U.S. & more

Petitions

NRA Wants Loaded Guns in Parks. What Do YOU Want?

A DAY FOR SUFFERING ANIMALS ON OPRAH WINFREY

Protect Wildlife from Highly Toxic Chemicals

Introduce Kangaroo Safehavens

Upcoming Events

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): Chain Off 2008
June 27- July 7, 2008 – Chain Off has been held annually around the 4th of July since 2003, highlighting the reality that while Americans are celebrating their own freedom, there are tens of thousands of Man’s Best Friends in every state who are still not free: America’s chained and penned dogs.

Ocean Conservancy: Help cleanup our beaches
Each year, on the third Saturday of September, Ocean Conservancy and 350,000 ocean advocates like you meet on beaches and waterways the world over to gather, tally and report on the trash in our waters. This year’s event is on Saturday, September 20th in your community and promises to be even bigger than last year.

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